Friday, 24 July 2026
Let them build: electricity and datacentres edition
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New Zealand's electricity companies know how to stick a pipe into the ground in the Taupo Volcanic Zone and generate electricity. They...
Just fix industrial allocations
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New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme includes industrial allocations of carbon credits aimed at avoiding inefficient carbon leakage. B...
Thursday, 23 July 2026
KiwiSaver needs guardrails
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A few weeks ago, I proposed some guardrails that I think would be needed if a future National-led government removes the option to opt-out o...
Wednesday, 15 July 2026
Canada stepping up
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The Wall Street Journal had an excellent two-parter on Mark Carney's handling of a rather difficult situation: a century-long ally and d...
Tuesday, 14 July 2026
Conference roundup
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My column at Newsroom last week gave a roundup of the sessions I attended at the NZAE meetings where the results might be of interest to a b...
Pronatal policies
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The Institute for Family Studies puts up a pro-natal proposal that I'd not seen before. Most of the literature I've seen on baby bon...
Wednesday, 1 July 2026
Refugee sponsorship
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About a decade ago, Canada's Counsellor for Immigration at the High Commission in Canberra came to Wellington to explain how Canada'...
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