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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
Luke MalpassJuly 16, 2009IA113

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

Emissions Tax: The Least Worst Option
July 16, 2009

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

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...

Brash’s ‘extremist’ policies seen as sensible in Australia
May 3, 2011The Dominion Post

If anyone doubts how left-wing New Zealand has become, one need look no further than...

2025: A New Zealand policy odyssey
Luke MalpassNovember 12, 2010

In an interview on Radio New Zealand, Chair of the 2025 Taskforce, Don Brash, was...

New Zealand’s risky re-regulation path
Luke MalpassNovember 3, 2010Business Spectator

Amidst the commentary surrounding John Howard’s Lazarus Rising book launch, much has been made of...

The Polish Shipyard of the South Pacific redux?
October 22, 2010

New Zealand's recent economic growth figures were not encouraging. The economy is lurching along, and...

New Zealand’s great regression
Luke MalpassOctober 20, 2010The American, Journal of the American Enterprise Institute

Over a year ago in Auckland, the humorist P.J. O’Rourke gave a dinner lecture for...

GST and the Ratchet Effect
October 15, 2010

On 1 October, New Zealand got a new tax system. Lowering the tax rate and...

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