The government has announced plans for light rail in Auckland, which looks to be New Zealand's most expensive public transport project so far.
It will link up with the City Rail Link in the CBD, head to the airport and extend to a future North Shore and northwest light rail.
It comes with the price tag of $14 billion, and National does not think it'll leave the station.
Jordan Bond has the story, and Lisa Owen talks to Transport Minister Michael Wood.

Auckland light rail plan revealed - how will it be funded?

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The 2024 NZ Children’s Music Awards have been announced with the NZ On Air Best Children’s Music Video awarded to a two minute ode to flatulence. 
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In early 2021 writer Stuart McKenzie and director Miranda Harcourt’s verbatim play Transmission opened to sell-out houses at Pōneke’s small, dynamic BATS Theatre. Fast forward three years and a sequel Transmission Beta is about to premiere. And it’s a quite different, more complex story. 
McKenzie and Dame Miranda joined Mark Amery on RNZ’s Culture 101.

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Festival Opera is celebrating 10 years of introducing, training and supporting young people in the opera through the Project Prima Volta community programme in Hawkes Bay.

Auckland light rail plan revealed - how will it be funded?

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