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The Morgan Foundation: Still Here and Still Thinking for the Future

Jessi MorganNovember 11, 2016Morgan Foundation

With the announcement of Gareth Morgan’s new political project: The Opportunities Party (TOP), there may be some of you wondering what now for the Morgan Foundation? Well in many ways nothing changes, it is business as usual for the foundation, … Read More

Where to now for Government climate negotiations?

Gareth MorganNovember 3, 2016Environment

Yesterday we revealed the Government’s covert plan to cook the books – by changing the accounting rules for forestry they planned to mask our growing greenhouse gas emissions. It appears that they were trying to slip this through under the … Read More

New Report: Climate Cheats III – Cook the Books

Gareth MorganNovember 2, 2016Environment

Not content with using fraudulent carbon credits to meet New Zealand’s international commitments, the Government has a plan to cook the books to cover up our growing greenhouse gas emissions. The Morgan Foundation’s new report exposes the impacts of this … Read More

Along the Road to Damascus – almost

Gareth MorganNovember 1, 2016Morgan Foundation

Well that was the plan, Joanne and I were supposed to finish our latest round of visits to our social development and humanitarian projects by going to Homs in Syria where – as you would expect – there are very … Read More

To Palestine with Love

Gareth MorganOctober 31, 2016Morgan Foundation

In September this year Joanne and I had the opportunity to engage with UNRWA, (UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine) a temporary NGO set up in 1949 as to assist Palestinians displaced by the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict. 66 years later … Read More

Face to Face with Bernard Hickey: Has the Reserve Bank got the right target?

Gareth MorganOctober 28, 2016Economics

Face to Face with Bernard Hickey: Has the Reserve Bank got the right target? was last modified: October 28th, 2016 by Gareth Morgan

Timor-Leste: Visit by UNICEF Ambassadors Gareth and Joanne Morgan, June 2016

Gareth MorganOctober 27, 2016Morgan Foundation

Over June and July this year Joanne and I rode our motorcycles from the top of Sumatra along the length of Indonesia and finished our journey in Timor-Leste. One of our social development engagements along the way began in that … Read More

The Police (and pretty much everyone else) Know how to Prevent Crime, Why Don’t the Politicians?

Jess Berentson-ShawOctober 26, 2016Tax and Welfare

It was nicely done really; Judith Collins neatly deflected the question posed by a delegate at a Police Association’s Conference about when the government was going to start addressing the causes of the crimes, notably child poverty. She repelled that … Read More

Politicians need to face up to reality and discuss the future of NZ Super

Geoff SimmonsOctober 25, 2016Tax and Welfare

Over the weekend the Retirement Commissioner foreshadowed the launch of a new study. The findings are that despite its success, NZ Super is not sustainable in the long term unless we make some changes to it. This sparked the usual … Read More

Inequality, Housing and Economic Growth – In Perspective

Gareth MorganOctober 21, 2016Economics, Tax and Welfare

Earlier this week the New Zealand Initiative (NZI) released their thoughts on inequality and specifically the role housing affordability has played in exacerbating the numbers. It’s good to see a business-funded think tank acknowledging that inequality matters – despite the … Read More