Insights

Time for an Anzac travel area

If Australia and New Zealand agreed on a Common Travel Area, it would cut travel times significantly: Later check-ins, no more transfers between international and domestic terminals for connections, less hassle. […]

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The benefits of going local

It is high time we brought policy-making closer to local communities. Let’s follow the British example and end the love affair with centralised control. Let’s allow local councils to take charge of their own matters. […]

Business Spectator

The growing cost of Europe’s welfare trap

The challenge for Europe’s societies is to ensure that those migrants coming in will not remain welfare-dependent forever but find a way into productive society quickly. On that front, unfortunately, there is just not much reason for optimism. […]

Business Spectator

The migrant crisis threatens to topple Merkel

What would have been unthinkable even a few months ago now looks like a plausible scenario: Merkel’s chancellorship may be drawing to a close sooner than anyone imagined. And she would leave her country with a burden instead of a positive legacy. […]

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Zoned in

What if New Zealand’s towns and cities had the freedom to deviate from national legislation? […]

Business Spectator

Britain’s localist revolution

George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered nothing short of a revolution to the way that Britain is governed. A radical devolution of power and money from central government in London to the cities of the UK has begun. […]