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Dodging the lolly-scramble for power
As a kid, there was one word that always got your heart racing and your legs pumping at a community…
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Taxes, trust, and transparency
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” This, apparently, was economist John Maynard Keynes’…
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Funding roads in the electric future
In a recent blog, I made the case for regional petrol taxes, which would allow district and town authorities to…
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Our politicians must learn what actually makes a difference in education
I can clearly remember my favourite teacher. He was a jovial and portly history teacher, who would get incredibly excited…
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The battle lines for our votes
It’s the economy, stupid. This phrase, coined by one of Bill Clinton’s wily campaign strategists, has done a crude but…
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Supporting the village raising our children
An African proverb claims that “it takes a village to raise a child.” Labour’s School Leavers’ Toolkit Policy seems an…
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Election Panel – Live Q+A
What questions do you want answered before you vote? Hosted by Maxim Institute, in association with AUT Law School, this…
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Paying at the pump to revive our crumbling infrastructure
We hear a lot about Auckland’s infrastructure woes, but across the country there are regions desperately trying to fund their…
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Death to deciles
The Government is about to drive school deciles out of town. Good riddance. What will replace the much-maligned decile system?…
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The dangerous appeal of binding referendums
“Actually, when you drill into it, there are some big reasons to think twice before embracing binding referendums.” Click here…
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Honouring Sir John Graham
“We join many in New Zealand in remembering and honouring the life of Sir John Graham,” says Maxim Institute CEO,…
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Sir John Graham Lecture 2017 | Polls Apart
Reclaiming respect in a time of polarised politics Now the initial jolt has worn off from “shock” election results around…
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Youth UBI fails to focus on real need
Only a few years ago I would have been eligible for the $200 a week Gareth Morgan’s party just announced…
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Big questions for local councils
Do you expect your council to light your streets and fix the potholes? Do you think it should provide clean…
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The future is not (only) digital
“The Fourth Industrial Revolution” is upon us—the exponential rise in technology that is set to disrupt every aspect of our…
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Investing in people, regardless of return
Like the proverbial frog in the slowly heating pot, many of us are blissfully unaware of the change currently going…
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MIC 08 | The experts against euthanasia
With David Seymour’s End of Life Choices Bill up for a first reading in Parliament, legal assisted suicide is firmly on…
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The illusion of certainty in the End of Life Choices Bill
David Seymour is convinced his End of Life Choices Bill, drawn from the Private Member’s Ballot last Thursday, would be…
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Media Release: Euthanasia bill flawed from the start
“David Seymour’s private member’s bill is based on an illusion. It assumes that it’s possible to create safeguards around assisted…
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The State must serve
Is the government’s flagship Social Investment approach simply the “incremental privatisation of social services?” When journalist Richard Harman posed this…
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