The Supreme Court has this week released a judgment that not only raises issues for the Crown’s settlement negotiations with Hauraki, but it also marks a shift in how the Court sees its relationship with Parliament.
Read MoreWhat the Prime Minister Should Have Said to Business
Jacinda Ardern Did Not Say Enough at a Recent Business Breakfast.
Read MoreResurrecting the Development State
The Government’s proposed infrastructural entity in context.
Read MoreMinisters be warned: Next time the Band-Aid will come off fast
Jacinda Ardern may have been misguided showing mercy to Clare Curran two weeks ago given the odds of more coming out. But at least she's not left with a low bar precedent around her neck
Read MoreThoughts from the Criminal Justice Summit
The recent Criminal Justice Summit talked about the need for change – especially in terms of engagement with Māori. But there was little about what that change might actually look like.
Read MorePolitical Turmoil When the Economy Sours.
Australian politics has been even more entertaining than New Zealand’s. But aside from the ambitions of the comedians is there something else going on?
Read MoreHow do you solve a problem like Chelsea?
Chelsea Manning is a convicted criminal and so some say the government should not allow her entry to New Zealand. But on what grounds should any government be allowed to police speech? How do we draw the line?
Read MoreAke, Ake, Ake!
We need to give greater protection to the public assets of heritage value.
Read MoreTime for leaker to come clean and get help
UPDATED: This post is a different version from one published on RNZ this morning. It takes into account Trevor Mallard's decision to halt the inquiry into the leak of Simon Bridge's travel expenses. A decision that doesn't resolve anything
Read MoreUneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Global Crown
Trump’s interactional strategy – such as it is – is leaving opportunities that others are filling.
Read MoreIs Don Brash really different from those Canadians?
Amidst the free speech debate of recent weeks, there seemed to be some interesting flip-flops by those critical of Molyneux and Southern, but defensive of Brash. So what gives?
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Winning Winston
It’s time we stopped looking at Winston Peters through the spectacles the Rogernomes gave to us
Read More'Good' is a conversation... what NZ's weekend of division should teach us
Let's not remember the visit of Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux for the division and insults. That way, they win. Let's instead remember what we have in common and keep talking
Read More‘Business Opinion’ is falling. Does it matter?
What is the actual state of the economy?
Read MoreJacinda returns: Baby under one arm, political capital under the other. How will she spend it?
The coalition government has lost its way after the burst of policy in its first 100 days. So Jacinda Ardern's return this weekend signals a key moment in its life... and its path to 2020
Read MoreWhither Archives New Zealand and the National Library?
Proposals to change the unsatisfactory status of two vital heritage institutions are meeting strong resistance from their current host.
Read MoreMaking sense of the Winston (six week) era
Late on Thursday night Winston Peters will turn back into a minor party pumpkin... or, um, Foreign Minister. So how do we judge his rein as PM? The Winston weeks... the Peters period...How do we make sense of this political epoch?
Read MoreWhat Should the Government Be Doing?
I was asked to nominate ‘the three big things [the current government] should be tackling and is not’. Here is my answer.
Read MoreImbalanced Trade
Trump is going to war for the wrong reasons
Read MoreWho do we think we are? The free speech debate
Debating the rights and wrongs of rights starts with the acknowledgement there is no right and wrong... so where do you draw the line?
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