Newsroom
What NZ must learn from Germany’s sudden €20 billion military meltdown
We have a new colleague at The New Zealand Initiative.
Month: June 2026
Insights
Better on the books
The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) pays for the care and recovery of people hurt in accidents.
Quadrant
Bildung and the Machine
A sense of dread has settled over schools and universities.
The New Zealand Herald
ACC measuring wrong figure when it comes to getting people back to work
The Accident Compensation Corporation exists to mend people.
Research reports
Half a Turnaround: Why ACC’s recovery must be built on rehabilitation, not exits
The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), which funds injured New Zealanders’ care and recovery, has halted a decade of decline.
The Australian
In charge or just a ministerial performance?
Most people carry a comforting picture of government.
Insights
The twenty-dollar week
For months, commentators had one demand of Labour: stop holding your fire and show us some policy.Last week, Labour obliged.
Other publications
Foreword to ‘Finance Freedom’
People sometimes ask me how a think tank measures success.
Newsroom
German leaders erase the big black zero they once worshipped
When the European Central Bank raised interest rates on June 11, its first increase since 2023, the news was unwelcome across the eurozone.
Insights
On borrowed calm
Across the Tasman, anger has propelled Pauline Hanson’s One Nation from a fringe outfit to the most popular party, on 31 percent in a recent poll, ahead of both Labor and the Coalition.