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Lead your own reform, or we'll do it for you. Or actually, never mind (opens the original)
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Last week Simon Watts pressed pause on Head Start, the Government's fast track for merging councils. Mayors were fuming. Porirua's Anita Baker called ministers cowards. Andrew Little said the Government didn't have the numbers around the Cabinet table. Labour, which had already called it a "false start", got it’s I-told-you-so moment. The easy read is that the Government got cold feet six weeks out from an election. It’s not that simple. What I’m interested in is what was the Government thinking
We can't explain the Super problem, let alone solve it (opens the original)
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I went to an event run by IDEA, the Institute for Democratic and Economic Analysis, called What should we do about the Super age? Good line-up. Cameron Bagrie, Managing Director of Bagrie Economics and former ANZ Chief Economist. Susan St John, Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Auckland. Bill Rosenberg, economist and former CTU Director of Policy. All experts, all different takes. I went because Super is one of those issues I have opinions on but don't feel I fully understand how
The tax shitshow (opens the original)
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Tax policy is the most important political statement. Everything else is downstream. It is also complex, boring and a nightmare to implement. Capital gains tax, wealth tax, land tax, income tax, inheritance tax, corporate tax, bright-line test, GST, blah blah blah. And then, ok, more tax, sure, but for what? Off we go into the endless list of possibilities, which is exactly why it is confusing and boring. So, it gets reduced in a way that removes the complexity and it gets oversimplified. The Le
The public service has a design problem, not a size problem (opens the original)
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The minister responsible for reforming New Zealand's public service currently holds 11 portfolios. Eleven. That’s too many. Paul Goldsmith is Minister for Defence, Justice, Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations, Arts and Culture, Veterans, Pacific People, Space, National Security, Media and Communication, Digital Government and drum roll: the Public Service. In what world? Goldsmith is not the point. The point is that we have designed a public service where one minister holds 11 portfolios, running fr
The state housing rabbit hole (opens the original)
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I am drowning in 7,078 New Zealand housing-policy documents published between 2000 and 2025. So, despite trying to engage with the current political news cycle: the Luxon-and-MMP debates, whatever Winston Peters said, Helen Clark weighing in, I could not look away from the data. So my obsession this week has been: how many public houses does New Zealand actually have? And trying to answer that basic question sent me down a very painful rabbit hole. The problem is that New Zealand has changed who
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