The Starmer-Reeves Government plans to fund the concessions they made to their revolting caucus have been deferred to the end of the year. The hints are that there may be a tax increase. It is not ...

We should not assume that all adopted innovations are p. Jonathon Haidt’s ‘The Anxious Generation’ illustrates that sometimes ...

The asymmetry between borrower and lender is well illustrated by Keynes telling the New Zealand Minister of Finance, William ...

One option is to cut back on maintenance of your capital – say, to delay repainting the house or keeping the car in tip-top condition. The government does the same. Hence our three water systems ...

Do its Property Right Provisions Make Sense? Last week I pointed out that it is uninformed to argue that the New Zealand’s apparently poor economic performance can be traced only to poor regulations.

Underpinning the SNZ’s work is a comprehensive data base of every New Zealander. Our data base comes from a five-yearly census of population and dwelling. The last was held in 2023; the results are to ...

Michael Cullen set out his political philosophy in his autobiography . So has Chris Finlayson. His is having significant impact on Māori development.

As politicans break for the year, the clock is still ticking on the government’s 100 Day Plan. So what’s it delivered so far? And what’s it taught us about the new coalition?

Politics in New Zealand is presented to the general public as theatre or sport. What is really going on is often misunderstood. For the executive (the government) contains not only the politicians ...

As Lady Bracknell almost said, ‘to lose one may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.’ And so a second Government Statistician has made a hasty exit, The official reason in ...

Implementing the New Zealand Health and Disability System review not only involves major technical problems but creates fascinating political tensions.