You must be talking about this?
"A government funding boost of $189 million was announced by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at the Labour Party's annual conference in Auckland yesterday."
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political...-is-so-far-off
Its a hopeful spark to get things going in NZ in the ECE sector and they may have sold at the low for the sector, but in general its not a lost if they can reuse the capital better in Aus.