Voters are rightly worried about the cost of living. How can they balance the household budget? Should they move to Australia?<br /> <br /> It is a nationwide issue. After allowing for inflation, ...

When I first visited Sydney in 1999, what struck me most were the cranes. They stood over the city in every direction, building towers, stadiums and rail lines for the Olympic Games. The future was ...

INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY<br /> <br /> 1.1 The New Zealand Initiative (the Initiative) welcomes the opportunity to comment on ...

Greater Manchester's 2014 devolution agreement included powers over transport, housing and skills, with matching funding.<br />  <br /> That was my model for New Zealand two years ago, in a research ...

Last week, we co-hosted a dinner with the Selwyn Foundation. Its chair, former Labour health minister David Cunliffe, led the Government's aged care advisory group and presented their report, A place ...

Businesses need confidence in how governments are chosen and the policies they pursue. That makes an obscure MMP feature worth our attention.<br /> <br /> Te Pāti Māori wants supporters to vote for ...

We hear a great deal about the Bank of Mum and Dad. The Bank of the children gets rather less attention, although we have been drawing on it for years.<br /> <br /> The Bank's terms are simple. Voters ...

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 ...

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 ...