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'...
Tuesday, 30 June 2026
Biosecurity as religion
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During the Commerce Commission's market study into groceries, Coriolis Consulting put up a chart with some thumb-suck order-of-magnitude...
Monday, 29 June 2026
Kalshi, and the case for bigger sandboxes
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I've been following Kalshi for a while. I remember back in the iPredict days, Matt Burgess figured prediction markets were a billion-do...
Friday, 12 June 2026
Levies as end-runs around the Generic Tax Policy Process
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A few years ago, Willie Jackson proposed levying tech platforms to fund news outlets. I'd warned that this kind of thing amounts to a d...
Thursday, 11 June 2026
Appropriation first, policy afterwards
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The government has not yet announced what it wants to do in the online child-protection space. There's a member's bill endorsed by L...
Tuesday, 9 June 2026
A weird way of slicing the stats
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Ages ago I supervised a superb Honours thesis, which turned into a Masters, looking at the lesbian wage premium. It showed up regularly in t...
Superannuation affordability options
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Lyric Waiwiri-Smith at The Spinoff asked me what I thought the options might be for dealing with rising superannuation costs. Her story...
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