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Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard will be the keynote speaker at the The New Zealand Initiative’s annual retreat dinner in Auckland on 21 March. Mr Howard will speak about ‘Trans-Tasman Relations in the Pacific Century.’ “My talk will focus on some of the joint opportunities and challenges before Australia and New Zealand in a regional economy dominated by the continued development of China and many other Asian economies,” says Mr Howard Dr Oliver Hartwich, Executive Director of The New Zealand Initiative, says John Howard’s talk will be educational, inspiring, and enlightening. Read more

The New Zealand Initiative will be hosting one of Germany’s top economists on 13 February to talk about the lessons from bad policy making. Germany is Europe’s model economy. Read more

With the affordability of housing currently circulating the walls of parliament, it seems timely to ask, why are houses in New Zealand so expensive? Luke Malpass, Research Fellow at The New Zealand Initiative, who is currently conducting significant and intensive research in this area, will be presenting a talk to try and explain why housing is so costly. Read more

Dr Christian Sandström will talk in Wellington on 24 October, on Sweden’s economic position and whether the country really has a socialist economy. With taxes and labour market regulation the only exceptions, Sweden is today in many regards a capitalist economy. Read more

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New Zealand operates one of the most restrictive foreign investment regimes in the developed world, missing out on much needed investment, says a new Research Note from The New Zealand Initiative. In Verboten! Read more

Mondayising public holidays by Prime News on July 24. Featuring Luke Malpass from The New Zealand Initiative. Read more

Rachel Smalley from TV3's Firstline discusses asset sales with Oliver Hartwich, Executive Director of The New Zealand Initiative Read more

A new independent, non-partisan public policy think tank was launched today by Business Roundtable chair Roger Partridge and New Zealand Institute chair Tony Carter, following the merger of the two organisations on 1 April. The new think tank has been named The New Zealand Initiative. Read more