{"id":157818,"date":"2024-12-11T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T01:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=e9a6a4d2c653c5788ebec2819d2f4416"},"modified":"2024-12-11T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T01:04:08","slug":"three-big-issues-as-the-future-of-the-interislander-ferry-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=157818","title":{"rendered":"Three big issues as the future of the Interislander ferry services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year after\u00a0sinking KiwiRail\u2019s plans to get new larger ferries, it\u2019s decision time for the Government. Cabinet must decide what will happen to the Interislander.<\/p>\n<p>A decision on the future of the main Cook Strait connection could arrive within the next 24 hours, but the prime minister is remaining tight-lipped about key details &#8211; or even timings &#8211; for replacing\u00a0the ageing Interislander fleet.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition ministers met to discuss the Interislander issue on Monday, a year after Finance Minister Nicola Willis dramatically cancelled the multi-billion upgrade project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year after\u00a0sinking KiwiRail\u2019s plans to get new larger ferries, it\u2019s decision time for the Government. Cabinet must decide what will happen to the Interislande<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157819,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157818\/revisions\/157819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}