Architectural designer, Jade Kake, claims that ‘debt is a colonial construct – the implications of which continue to be felt in the colonies’.
Read MoreDebt is A Part of A Modern Economy. It Still Is, Even If We Call it ‘Colonial’
Congratulations to the real Team of New Zealand and farewell to the fakers
The Black Caps won the hearts of a nation this week with one of the great sporting triumphs. Another supposedly proud New Zealand sports team… not so much
Read MoreUnemployment Insurance
Providing for the redundantly unemployed is admirable but difficult and expensive to implement.
Read MoreHow Are We Progressing with the War on Poverty?
Child Poverty Levels Are only Slowly Coming Down, What Next?
Read MoreA Boringly Benign Economy or Going Through a Concerning Climacteric?
What was the big change the Treasury saw in its budget 2021 forecasts? (Treasury GDP graph Shown above.)
Read MoreDebt Dilemmas and Discussions
If you know the answer to how much public debt New Zealand should bear, you do not understand the issue.
Read MoreThe Class of Labour
Do some offshore trends presage the future of New Zealand politics?
Read MoreLabour gets to be Labour, delivering a step-change budget 30 years in the making
Join the dots from 1991 to election night 2020 to today… This is the day that Grant Robertson and Jacinda Ardern entered politics to deliver
Read MoreAre We Really Serious about Child Poverty?
The poverty indicators are coming down but, oh, so slowly.
Read MoreWhy Are We Moving to Auckland?
Might the drift to the north be resisted?
Read MoreCentralising the Public Health System
The proposed health redisorganisation seeks to markedly centralise the health system. Is this grab for power justified; will it work?
Read MoreDestroying Public Service Broadcasting
The recognition that there is a media problem is correct, but the chosen solution is likely to be disastrous.
Read MoreTaniwha New Zealand shows its foreign policy teeth to the world. But what does it mean?
Nanaia Mahuta’s speech on China used some pretty plain language, but the words that resonated were not just about our largest trading partner. Others about some of our oldest allies were just as controversial
Read MoreWill The 2021 Budget Be Focused on Wellbeing?
Now is about the time that the Government is getting its Budget Strategy together
Read MoreTrading Red Tape
Whatever the damage, especially to the British economy, Brexit has done us a service by illustrating the complexity of trade.
Read MoreTaxing Questions About Taxing Housing
The government’s recent housing package may work; will it do enough?
Read MoreOpen Modelling Climate Change Policies
The Climate Change Commission should immediately publish the details of its economic models and enable the public to access them.
Read MoreWhy Don’t We All Live in Australia?
Migration patterns provide further evidence that wellbeing is not simply measured by income.
Read MoreDo We Really Care about the Marginalised?
Social philosophy in New Zealand is muddled and incomplete.
Read MoreAre We Really Budgeting for Wellbeing?
How Can We Make Wellbeing at the Centre of Public Policy If We Dont Measure It?
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