It is election time in New Zealand and as such, political tragics like myself cannot have any meetings without the conversation turning to the question “And, who will win on 7 November?”<br /> <br /> ...
Here is a paradox that ought to trouble ministers more than any single threat named in the NZSIS’s 2026 Security Threat Environment report, released in August.<br /> <br /> The New Zealand Government ...
Our Senior Fellow Dr Bryce Wilkinson, a former Treasury director, joined Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB to make sense of the fiscal plans dominating the election campaign. He read National’s numbers as a ...
Virtuous and vicious cycles in policy are both entirely possible. Sometimes at the same time.<br /> <br /> Voting has long been heavily age-skewed, with greater proportions of older people voting.
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National’s proposed Foodstuffs split: would a written constitution better protect property rights?
Ten years ago, Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Andrew Butler asked me to speak at the Auckland launch of A Constitution for Aotearoa New Zealand, their first draft. They knew I would not endorse their ...
In this episode, Dr Eric Crampton talks to Nick Clark and new senior fellow Paul Melville about the two new acts replacing the Resource Management Act and what the new system gets right, including ...
In this episode, Oliver talks to Major General John Howard about Russia's escalating pressure on NATO, the diesel squeeze working its way through global supply chains and why New Zealand's ...
It matters in its own right, as part of the basic bundle of civic, economic, and personal freedoms that we all should be able to enjoy. The State has no place in the bedrooms of the nation, and it ...
Eric Crampton is Chief Economist with the New Zealand Initiative. He applies an economist’s lens to a broad range of policy areas, from devolution and housing policy to student loans and environmental ...
Roger Partridge is chairman and a co-founder of The New Zealand Initiative and is a senior member of its research team. He is a regular commentator in the media on public policy and constitutional law ...
Government touches most of what New Zealanders do. It taxes and spends more than a third of national income, employs hundreds of thousands of people and sets the terms on which the rest of us work, ...
New Zealand’s ministers answer to Parliament for departments they cannot control. They cannot choose, direct or remove the chief executives who run those departments. The Public Service Commissioner ...
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