Nick Mills: Winston Peters' Interisland ferry announcement told us very little - Wellington Mornings with Nick Mills

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After Sunday's very underwhelming announcement on supermarkets from Finance Minister Nicola Willis, I was a bit worried that yesterday’s announcement on the future of the interisland ferries would be much the same.

Lately the coalition government has made a bit of a habit of making announcements that mean very little.

And to some extent, that's exactly what we got from Rail Minister Winston Peters yesterday.

Now first; a bit of background.

Finance Minister Nicola Willis cancelled the brand new interisland mega ferries shortly after the election, pointing to the extreme cost blowout. She spent a year working on replacements and late last year we were told she was about to announce her bold new plan.

It turned out Winston Peters was made Minister of Rail and given until the end of March to devise a plan. Yesterday was the end of March and up steps Winston Peters.

And he seems to have done a good job.