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Bill McKay joins Kathryn to look at the gap between the desire to build back after a natural disaster and the political will to do it.
He says a fundamental problem is the lack of a proper, nationally-agreed strategic direction - something that's going to be vital for a world with a changing climate where overseas-owned insurers, banks and credit ratings agencies won't be keen to invest here if New Zealand doesn't do things better.
Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland.
