Every three years, this wonderful country with its friendly people goes nuts. It gets itself into a state of frenzy that it normally reserves for rugby world cups. Read more
Originally published in Seafood New Zealand, August 2017. Read more
Hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders fish each year. Fishing is integral to the Kiwi way of life. Read more
For some pundits, elections are magical times in which pundits’ favourite policy hobby-horses transform into the election-winning platform for any party that might listen. I will recommend something a little different for Labour’s incoming leader. Read more
You may not have read Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s The Leopard but you probably know the novel’s most famous line, “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” To change things so they can stay the same – that is the gist of our new fisheries report The Future Catch. We released it for consultation on Tuesday. Read more
We probably all remember those school exams in which we desperately tried to copy the answers from our much better neighbours. Ahem, I meant of course we all remember those school exams in which our struggling neighbours desperately tried to copy from us. Read more
With the selection of Jacinda Ardern as Labour's new leader, New Zealand's election has become more exciting and much harder to predict. But beyond our own domestic politics, it is not clear how it fits into the global state of Centre-Left politics. Read more
Research Fellow Randall Bess on the Breakfast Show discussing his latest report The Future Catch.
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The New Zealand Initiative welcomes the Government’s announcement to establish a pre-market approval system for smokeless tobacco and nicotine-delivery products. Policy Analyst Jenesa Jeram says it is a welcome development to the public conversation on tobacco control. Read more
Interview with Dr Randall Bess about his latest report The Future Catch on RadioLIVE. Read more
Hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders fish recreationally each year in inshore waters. Fishing is integral to the Kiwi way of life. Read more
The Government must take its head out of the water and urgently act to protect New Zealand’s recreational fisheries, before our fishing way of life is lost. Around 600,000 people fish each year in New Zealand, but this pastime is under threat with increases in New Zealand’s population and tourism numbers and increasing competition with commercial fishers for limited fisheries resources. Read more
Dr Randall Bess discusses his latest report The Future Catch on Newstalk ZB. Read more
The announcement of a new way of funding urban infrastructure is a bit like announcing a way of clearing that first big slip on the road from Kaikoura to Blenheim. It’s an important and necessary start but it is only a start. Read more
If you are a regular Insights reader, you will know that housing has been a key issue for the Initiative since we started in 2012. In our reports, speeches and opinion pieces we have repeatedly made the case for reforms to planning, local government and infrastructure finance. Read more