2023 Insights Newsletter

31 December, 2023

Insights 47 / 15 December: | A year of new beginnings

Insights 46 / 8 December: | Daunting task ahead | Fuel tax alternative | Risk of lift in literacy

Insights 45 / 1 December: | Radical or conservative? | Regulatory Standards Act | Dutch courage

Insights 44 / 24 November: | Initiative applauds new coalition | Class Divides | Utopia

Insights 43 / 17 November: | Reform or transform? | Four-year terms | Eliminating human error

Insights 42 / 10 November: | Never again is now | Rule of two | Pay and dismay

Insights 41 / 3 November: | The road ahead | Engineering new outcomes | Heritage pipes

Insights 40 / 27 October: | Education: common ground | Learning about inflation | Census trouble

Insights 39 / 20 October: | REM political pause | Electoral quirks | Cup-winning formula?

Insights 38 / 13 October: | High Stakes | Unjustifiable Actions | Gdplive Update | Missing Markets

Insights 37 / 6 October: Legacy of government spending | "Man-Machine" learning | Praise Canada

Insights 36 / 29 September: Unrealistic promises | Of deficits and debts | The scourge of nutmeg

Insights 35 / 22 September: Palaeolithic walruses | Wellington's water woes | Politics, actually

Insights 34/ 15 September: It's the spending | Teacher education | Why we don't need languages

Insights 33/ 8 September: Business slams government | AI future | Utopia 2040

Insights 32 / 1 September: Beyond tax tweaks | Carbon dividends | Children's crusade 2.0

Insights 31 / 25 August: The future we envisage | Think locally to tackle national challenges | Polonium

Insights 30 / 18 August: Empower capable principals | The English lingua franca| Labour’s GST recipe

Insights 29 / 11 August: Healthy changes without government | Tunnel Vision | A rite of passage

Insights 28 / 4 August: From Blessing to Bloat | In praise of a kiwi iconoclast | Robertson’s truth in context

Insights 27 / 28 July: Reforming teacher education | Time for a new approach to FDI | 'Wellington' knows best

Insights 26 / 21 July: A Groundhog Day | Sweden steals Ukraine’s show | Pothole Paradise

Insights 25 / 13 July: Irish luck or Kiwi good fortune? | Ruling out a wealth tax | Not too excellent please

Insights 24 / 7 July: The stakes are too high | NZ invited to NATO’s party | Wot about Ireland?

Insights 23 / 30 June: Modern Learning Environments| When a Bill’s objective is vague| Solving the Mystery

Insights 22 / 23 June: Public service bloat | Labour’s “fix” | What really matters

Insights 21 / 16 June: Once were builders | Rates of Return and Rates of Exit | A defence of Comrade Rashbrooke

Insights 20 / 9 June: Beating Crime | “20 Hours Free Ece” | Surveillance Is Freedom

Insights 19 / 2 June: Taxpayers’ money is not free | University challenge | Kiwi diplomacy as clear as mud

Insights 18 / 26 May: Budget gets worse with age | Back to the farm | The spirit of forgetfulness

Insights 17 / 19 May: The ‘Yeah, right’ budget | With NCEA, nothing endures but change | Public health returns to form

Insights 16 / 12 May: Improving Accountability | The Map, And The Territory, Of The State Sector | A ‘third Way’ Approach To Truancy

Insights 15 / 5 May: The tax and spend issue

Insights 14 / 28 April: It doesn’t take academics to train teachers | When the OCR misses the mark | Three cheers for ditching The Nosy Parker

Insights 13 / 21 April: Supercharge New Zealand | Why Britain is in the Pacific | Blowin’ in the Wind

Insights 12 / 14 April: False security in high ratings | Reckless imperialism | Who needs reality, anyway?

Insights 11 / 6 April: Productivity growth | The key to helping children with dyslexia | The Great Harbour Crossing Announcement

Insights 10 / 31 March: Democracy undermined | Paying the price | The Vogon’s toe

Insights 9 / 24 March: Critical failure | Anecdotes don’t make for sound evidence | The war on cone-tamination

Insights 8 / 17 March: The initiative that has won over the nation | Monetary policy mess | Down the memory hole

Insights 7 / 10 March: Transport report leaving taxpayers in a jam | Turning the curriculum upside down | Growing the pie

Insights 6 / 3 March: Public service reboot needed | Policy Dominoes | The Retail Fortress

Insights 5 / 24 February: Not your average canape chat | Infrastructure Recovery | Risky Business

Insights 4 / 17 February: Re-reprioritising | In Praise of William White | Towards eliminating femtoaggression

Insights 3 / 10 February: Hipkins puts policy back on the agenda | Might the RBNZ overkill on inflation? | Cost of living absurdities

Insights 2 / 3 February: Why Hipkins should call time on RMA reforms | Shiny new things | On the spectrum

Insights 1 / 27 January: Priorities | Labour’s problematic new blasphemy laws | This one takes the cake

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