Quadrant
Promises Half-Kept
In the April 2024 issue of Quadrant, I began a column with Enoch Powell’s observation that all political lives, unless cut off at a happy juncture, end in failure.
Nicola Willis
Insights
Judged by their peers
The Herald’s ‘Mood of the Boardroom’ survey has become a fixture in New Zealand’s media calendar.
The Australian
When fiscal conservatives fall out, the books are in trouble
Last week, boxes of fudge arrived at New Zealand’s Parliament.
The Australian
NZ’s answer to infrastructure crisis hiding in plain sight
“We have no money, so we shall have to think.” That line is ascribed to New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford before he cracked the atom.
The Australian
‘Drowning electorally’: Christopher Luxon’s premiership under pressure
The latest New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll makes for remarkable reading.
The Australian
NZ budget faces its biggest test since the 1980s
Spare a thought for New Zealand’s Finance Minister, Nicola Willis as she prepares to deliver her first Budget later this month.