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Town planners will finally have to answer for land prices (opens the original)
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New planning laws put councils on the hook for land prices and housing costs. Photo / Getty Images What is politics? According to Max Weber’s classic definition, politics is “a strong and slow boring of hard boards”. Having worked around politics for over two decades has given me a good idea of what Weber meant by that. Achieving proper policy change is a tough business indeed. It is never good enough only to have a bright idea. You must also overcome the defenders of the status quo, build allia
A bad tax is not a down payment on a good one (opens the original)
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Capital gains tax debate divides Wellington panel ahead of election. Photo / Getty Images On Monday evening, I sat on a panel at Foxglove on Queens Wharf in Wellington, where I was expected to play the neoliberal villain. The Institute for Democratic and Economic Analysis is a think tank devoted to fighting poverty and political exclusion. It launched a new report on capital gains taxes, including the one Labour has proposed, and invited me to be one of the discussants. A centre-left think tank,
New Zealand ignores the Kiwi who saw the future coming (opens the original)
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Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg believes artificial general intelligence could arrive within the next few years. Photo / Getty Images In 1987, on a school trip to the German countryside, my maths teacher made a prediction. Dr Müller had worked at IBM before turning to teaching in our industrial city, Essen. One day, he mused, fast data connections would let him live in a place like this without giving anything up. I was 12 and had just unpacked my first computer, an Amiga 500 with 512 kilo
Getting better is not the same as keeping up with international competition (opens the original)
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New Zealanders work some of the longest hours in the developed world, yet the country's output per hour continues to lag many comparable economies. Photo / 123rf A fortnight ago, I wrote in these pages about the fall in New Zealand’s road toll, from 843 deaths in 1973 to a provisional 271 last year. I thought it was an achievement worth celebrating. But then my colleague Bryce Wilkinson and I put the same numbers beside those of 28 other countries. It puts this achievement into perspective. On t
Oliver Hartwich: NZ needs big, bold reforms to keep moving in the right direction (opens the original)
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New Zealand's road toll has fallen dramatically over the past five decades, illustrating how steady, incremental improvements can produce lasting change. Photo / Sylvie Whinray In 1973, 843 people died on New Zealand roads. Last year, with far more people driving far more cars, the provisional toll was 272. Nobody held a press conference, and why would they? The improvement stretched over so many decades that hardly anyone noticed it, and nobody could claim it as their own. The toll did not fall
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