While countries like Australia, Singapore, the UK and the US have long term coordinated manufacturing and industry four point zero strategies, New Zealand has shelved its industry transformation plans and still doesn't have a clear view of what kind of manufacturing base it wants in.
Without a coherent industrial strategy covering energy, skills, investment, and R and D, we're effectively putting headwinds in front of our most productive exporters rather than giving them a competitive advantage.
Singapore enacted policies to clean up their waterways, and they were really, really successful. So all of a sudden, instead of having waterways that were filled with filth, we had waterways that were filled with fish. And from the otters' points of view, they were feeding troughs.
When infrastructure doesn't work for people, it hurts the family. It hurts her home budget money out of her rent or child care. And so for me, it was that that moment where it really crystallized when the fundamentals aren't working. People on the margins pay the dearest price for it.
The speed of which AI is changing we're not adapting our society fast enough... the biggest issue confronting our country today and other countries is the speed of which this change is occurring is society moderating that fast enough?
