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New Zealand needs investment from both here and overseas to build businesses and create jobs. Investors need confidence that the law will protect what they own and the agreements they make.

On my first morning as prime minister, I would deliver a speech. It would contain no slogans or platitudes about becoming the best country in the world.

New Zealand is about to lose a German bread that was never German, and as the only German in sight, I have been invited to grieve.

I asked Major General (Retd) John Howard, our Senior Fellow, to write a paper answering a question that sounds almost too simple for a man who spent more than four decades in uniform: what is a frigate?

People sometimes ask me how a think tank measures success. It is a fair question. We do not win elections and we have nothing to sell.

When The New Zealand Initiative set out 235 recommendations for the next government last month, the one this paper chose for its headline was the proposal to pay younger workers less.

When contemplating writing a foreword to Dr Prabani Wood’s insightful report on primary healthcare, I felt a bit like an impostor. After all, I am a doctor, just not the medical kind.

Foreword to ‘The People’s Portfolio’ by Dr Bryce Wilkinson, published by The New Zealand Initiative (Wellington), 25 February 2025 For some people, ‘privatisation’ is a dirty word. To me, it is the opposite. Maybe that has something to do with how I experienced the practical effects of privatisation – and the blessings it brought me. […]