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KiwiFail – the ideology of state ownership
Luke MalpassSeptember 11, 2009

When New Zealand’s former Minister of Finance Dr Michael Cullen announced the re-nationalisation of KiwiRail...

KiwiRail: Doomed to Fail?
Luke MalpassSeptember 10, 2009IA115

Government ownership cannot and will not ‘fix’ rail in New Zealand.  Luke Malpass argues that...

Supersize New Zealand : A Collection of Essays on How to Improve New Zealand’s Public Policy
Luke MalpassSeptember 9, 2009PF17

This collection of essays from the Centre for Independent Studies show that increased regulation and...

Emissions Tax: The Least Worst Option
July 16, 2009

A carbon tax could reduce income tax or petrol prices   The New Zealand government’s...

Emissions Tax: The Least Worst Option
Luke MalpassJuly 16, 2009IA113

Following warnings from mainstream scientists, politicians around the world have rushed to implement a range...

The costs of alcohol: all dollars and no sense
Luke MalpassJune 19, 2009

New Zealand is currently experiencing a great wringing of hands about binge drinking – the...

Free to Work. The liberalisation of New Zealand’s labour market
Wolfgang KasperJanuary 1, 1996PM32

In 1902 New Zealand’s first Minister of Labour, Pember Reeves, described the Australasian states as...

Contestable Funding: A New Deal for Research and Development in New Zealand
Veronica JacobsenJuly 1, 1991PM19

One of the first substantive measures of public sector reform undertaken by the 1984-1990 Labour...

Mine by Rights or Right to Mine? Mining Policy in New Zealand
Veronica JacobsenMarch 20, 1991CIS

Minerals, the land above them and the surrounding environment are scarce resources. If they are...

Reflections on Privatisation
Roderick DeaneMarch 3, 1991OP32

Although privatisation of state-owned enterprises made great progress in New Zealand and elsewhere throughout the...

The Inequity of ‘Pay Equity’. Comparable worth policy in New Zealand
Penelope J BrookAugust 1, 1990NZPP1

In New Zealand as in many other Western countries, pressure for women’s groups has increased...

Rogernomics. Reshaping New Zealand’s economy
Simon WalkerMarch 26, 1989NZCIS

Between 1984 and 1988, the Fourth Labour Government undertook the most comprehensive and far-reaching revisions...

Land of the long white cloud faces bad weather
November 24, 2011The Age

SINCE 2008, New Zealand has been led by former investment banker John Key's National Party....

New Zealand’s spending binge
Luke MalpassNovember 18, 2011

Most of New Zealand’s general election campaign is being dominated by squabbling over the Crown...

Spending Spree wasted decade of prosperity
November 18, 2011The National Business Review

To gain wisdom for the future, one must learn lessons from the past. One of...

A scrappy state of affairs
October 28, 2011

One of the great fiscal institutions in New Zealand is the Pre-election fiscal update (PREFU)....

Unions vs Representation
September 30, 2011

Growing up in New Zealand, where the labour market was deregulated (in 1991) when I...

Why bother?
August 26, 2011

Privatisation in New Zealand is a political swear-word. Its very mention is meant to invoke...

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