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Is the consequence of the Simpson Report proposals for restructuring the health system poorer accountability to people? Read More SIS raids on foreign embassies suggest New Zealand’s intelligence services are undermining the central plank of our foreign policy… and making hypocrites of us all. Surely it’s time our government stopped ignoring our history Read More Future or past? Merit or representation? This leader or one of the previous ones? National has been making some headlines this week and getting on the news. But not in ways that helps Todd Muller Read More Will the Covid Crisis lead to a dramatic redirection for New Zealand and the World? Read More It’s a shame that last night’s passage of the Electoral (Registration of Sentenced Prisoners) Bill got overshadowed by parliamentary shenanigans. But let’s pause and note what it all means, anyway. Read More The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. Read More Is it really true that the High Court is (partly) to blame for the recent decision to allow COVID-19 infected travellers out of quarantine? No. No it isn’t. Read More The rebranding of the Government’s “Unite Against COVID-19” campaign into “Unite for the Recovery” is probably unfair to the opposition. Does that matter, and what could be done about it? Read More The Government is spending like it was trying to win the election. The Opposition is trying to outbid it Read More Oliver Twist, famously asked for ‘more’. He did not challenge the system of workhouses – Dickens did – nor the authority of Beadle Bumble. He was only nine. Read More Last month I noted that the public policy debate was all about how we deal with covid-19. That’s changing now, and will change more over the next couple of months as the buffering impact of the wage subsidy disappears and we see starkly the economic hole out of which we are now going to have to climb. It is a deep hole for sure but not impossible. Read More Todd Muller’s first week as National’s leader made you want to look away in discomfort and raised the question whether National is entering the Shearer/Cunliffe phase of Opposition. Read More The ownership of newspapers and televison channels is in turmoil, and they want to redisorganise public broadcasting. Read More With popular support, a willing partner and many New Zealanders facing unemployment, now is the time for Labour to overhaul welfare. Instead, it has divided beneficiaries into the ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ Read More VE Day is 75 years ago this month; a victory in Europe that had profound implications for Africa. But we are still learning to grapple with ideas of racial superiority Read More Todd Muller was National’s inevitable leader who never was, until he became it, writes National Party insiderHamish Price. Read More A leadership coup so close to a general election isn’t the ideal situation for a party in freefall but by electing Todd Muller as its new leader the National party may see a positive turnabout in fortune writes John Elliot. Read More The media treat budgets as bit of a circus: lots of theatre and soon forgotten. For a serious economist they show how a team of economists is thinking about the wider economy. Read More Simon Bridges was never likely to be National’s next Prime Minister, but he had scrapped his way to within inches of a campaign. Then came a plague and he hadn’t built any political immunity Read More And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof (unless they want to go to a strip club, ‘cause that is OK). Read More

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