Ice, Mice, and Men
In February 2012, Gareth Morgan trapped ten of New Zealand’s top experts on the region in a boat with 40 ordinary Kiwis for a month. Together with Geoff Simmons, he grilled them about the issues facing our southern waters
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It is tempting to call the National Government’s Social Security Amendment (Benefit Categories and Work Focus) Bill the most irrelevant sideshow in the circus that is tighter[...]
23 Sep 2012
After the speech that I posted online the other day “Our land, our environment and our economy – Transiting to where“, Kim Hill and I had a really good discussion on th[...]
06 Sep 2012
The age of economic prosperity has delivered, however New Zealanders’ expectations of material wealth continue to rise. Can we be satiated or is despoiling of our land and environm[...]
06 Sep 2012
Last week the Children’s Commissioner released an “issues and options” report from an expert panel asked to investigate what can be done about child poverty. The panel included med[...]
04 Sep 2012
KiwiSaver paper leaves investors in darkIn the fourth and final part of a series on investment performance, I look at regulation and information.In New Zealand we still ha[...]
04 Sep 2012
Tax and Welfare reform
The way the limited resources of our public health system are allocated across those in need is increasingly ad hoc and unfair. Because of the lack of a coherent and consistent fra[...]
06 Jul 2010
Environment, conservation and climate change
Contrary to the findings of the Productivity Commission the fundamental issue with housing affordability is not lack of available land. That Commission has done the debate a major [...]
28 Oct 2012
Economics
Gareth Morgan, director of Gareth Morgan Investments The prospect of a sustained period of strong economic growth is one facing New Zealanders. While such a scenario might app[...]
27 Jul 1994
Morgan Foundation
Fisheries Management
