Reports & Media

I was nearly ready to blame the Government for all the things wrong with the country. But then at the weekend National kindly helped me to figure out which scapegoat deserves to be the target of my ire. Read more

In ancient Greek, a dogma was something that simply seemed to be true. Today, of course, it has a more absolute meaning. Read more

The Prime Minister had the “personality of a rock”. The Minister of Health was “Dr Death”. Read more

Elon Musk, of Paypal and Tesla fame, is boring a tunnel under Los Angeles. Musk believes he will be able to transport cars between L.A.’s West Coast and centre in five minutes. Read more

As loyal readers might be aware, The New Zealand Initiative has long been concerned that there is a real scandal in New Zealand education. Some of our most vulnerable kids are leaving school without the skills they need to get ahead in life. Read more

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

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