If we care for effective emissions reductions, we need to understand how the ETS works. Otherwise, we will fail both the environment and the economy. [...]
New Zealand is at risk of spending tens of billions of dollars on policies that will not cut carbon emissions by a single gram. And as for those emissions reductions we do achieve, we will do so at ludicrously inflated costs. [...]
Voters should ask a simple question about any new housing proposal: Will it make it easier to build more homes? If the answer is not “yes,” these are not the policies Australia or New Zealand need to fix our countries’ housing crises. [...]
Bad government policies are the main reason housing is unaffordable. Said differently, if government wants to make housing more affordable, it could do so simply by getting out of the way. [...]
Kiwis have mothballed their ambition. We have forgotten about growing the pie so we can share it. We have given up on excellence in favour of wellbeing, kindness and not rocking the boat. [...]
New Zealand’s post-modern politicians have moved past the old power philosophy and found nirvana in a place where nothing ever happens and the rulers remain untouchable in power. [...]