The Australian
Voodoo economics guide NZ workplace relations
While Australia has now started the process of reforming its broken employment relations system, New Zealand has started to break its working one.
Month: August 2022
The New Zealand Herald
AI’s potential to polarise society
In a world increasingly shaped by AI, the value of our own intelligence and education does not diminish. Instead, the returns on human capital could well increase because of the presence of AI.
Newsroom
270,000 jobs in a better kind of Grexit
European monetary policy has previously smashed the fragile plates of the Greek economy to the floor; 12 years on, they’ve finally pieced it all back together
Insights
The curious Dr Wilkinson
We are lucky to have Bryce at the Initiative. As he celebrates his special day, we wish him many more years of economic curiosity.
The Australian
Lightweight Cameron the wrong role model for NZ’s National party
If New Zealand’s opposition politicians want to prepare themselves for the brutal and thankless tasks that lie ahead, David Cameron’s memoirs won’t help. In fact, they will lead them astray.
Newsroom
Who needs enemies when you have friends like Orbán and Erdoğan?
Despite the threats of Russia, China, and stagflation, Hungary and Turkey are backstabbing the organisations they belong to – Nato and the EU.
The Australian
System in freefall: why NZ children face education tragedy
Young New Zealanders have been let down by an education establishment which, over decades, has run a once world-leading education system into the ground.