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Councils to consider national cat legislation

As part of the LGNZ’s AGM this week local councils will vote on a remit to improve the management of cats in New Zealand. If successful councils will lobby the Government for development of national...

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Our Low Bar for Household Economic Wellbeing Needs a Serious Rethink

Every year the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) using data collected by Statistics New Zealand reports on how New Zealand households are doing economically. We get a raft of data on household...

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Is Charitable Giving the Alternative to a Wealth Tax in New Zealand?

Recently a Fairfax journalist asked me, in my capacity as head of research at The Morgan Foundation about the annual rich list. As a public policy think tank, we have done quite a bit of research on...

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Why Does No-one Understand Social Investment? Not Even Bill English

Its confusing, this Social Investment business, yet sometimes it sounds so very simple. For example Bill English made it sound very simple in the leaders debate when he said “…we will go to the social...

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Birdsong Returning to Wellington

How Kelvin Haste helped transform his suburb and his city.  Have you heard what’s going on in Wellington? It’s a sound that is music to the ears of NEXT Predator Free Community Champion Kelvin Hastie...

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South Island Kaka thank DOC for its Efforts

See the stoat creating havoc in the Kaka’s nest in this video. Then look at the impact on nesting numbers after the aerial 1080 drop was completed – 30 times more nests! This is what the battle to save...

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Why is the SPCA in New Zealand such a sick outfit?

If it only kept to its core business of preventing wanton cruelty to animals by those who get their jollies from such activity, the NZ SPCA would be worthy of respect. But it hasn’t done that for...

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Name and Shame Time

I get pretty sick of faceless organisations whose senior people fail to stand up and face the music when they make blunders or outrageous claims. Despite unleashing its obscene affront to New Zealand’s...

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Cullen’s Tax Working Group: High on politics of envy, low on economic literacy

Tax Working Group head, Michael Cullen, asserts that the capital gains tax (CGT) is best described as a “tax on capital income”. Since when have capital gains been income? Show me any country’s...

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Think Russia, Azerbaijan & Kazakhstan – Think Oil, Gas and Coal

Having spent the last 3 months in these countries and getting some appreciation of their dependence on fossil fuels – oil, gas, coal – one realises how loopy is the idea popular in societies like New...

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