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Why it makes no financial sense for Treasury to invest in our kids

Geoff SimmonsOctober 28, 2014Tax and Welfare

Today UNICEF released its report on child wellbeing. They found that during the global financial crisis New Zealand’s level of child poverty didn’t budge. Child poverty rose in most countries, thanks to the financial crisis, and fell in a few. … Read More

Saving the Saddleback From Cats – Friend or Feral?

Gareth MorganOctober 28, 2014Environment

Is the tide turning in the battle against introduced predators? Over the weekend we heard that tieke (saddleback) are nesting outside the fenced sanctuary of Zealandia. This is a landmark moment for conservation in New Zealand, but also reinforces the … Read More

Dairy farmers are voluntarily making huge progress fencing and planting waterways

Gareth MorganOctober 27, 2014Environment

Fonterra’s 2014 Annual Report makes for impressive reading when it comes to water quality. Dairy farmers are voluntarily making huge progress fencing and planting waterways, and ensuring that when stock have to cross rivers, they do so on a bridge. … Read More

The crime is not being rich, the crime is we don’t tax all the income that wealth can earn

Geoff SimmonsOctober 22, 2014Economics

In our last blog we looked at whether the claims of ‘rock star’ economist Thomas Piketty held any water or not. Short answer is that some did, some didn’t. In this blog we turn to what we should do about … Read More

Does Money make Money?

Geoff SimmonsOctober 21, 2014Economics

‘Rock star economist’ or ‘inequality messiah’ French economist Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty First Century has outsold every other book on the planet this year. The book is so popular because it floats the idea that money makes … Read More

ECAN, Fed Farmers and Dairy NZ – Plotting to reduce water quality

Gareth MorganOctober 20, 2014Environment

What does National’s resounding election win mean for our rivers? As we found in our review of the Government’s water quality framework, we have serious reasons to doubt their commitment to ‘maintain or improve our waterways’. Our concerns are growing … Read More

Why it makes no financial sense for Treasury to invest in our kids

Saving the Saddleback From Cats – Friend or Feral?

Dairy farmers are voluntarily making huge progress fencing and planting waterways

The crime is not being rich, the crime is we don’t tax all the income that wealth can earn

Does Money make Money?

ECAN, Fed Farmers and Dairy NZ – Plotting to reduce water quality

This Kiwi hero walked the length of NZ to draw attention to water quality. What he saw will make your sick

Flavell is right in calling for a review of racism in our justice system, but wrong to overlook progress

River Quality Data – Did the Ministry for the Environment mislead us?

5 Reasons why 1080 is so deadly to predators yet benign to the environment (and you)