Climate Change – A Bluegreen Issue

Gareth MorganEnvironment

Yesterday I argued for a Bluegreen Party – one that could act as a coalition partner to Labour or National – a party that stuck to its knitting of protecting and improving the environment while remaining relatively agnostic on the … Read More

Time for a Bluegreen Party

Gareth MorganEnvironment

Congratulations to the National Party. To increase your majority in your third term, reflects public confidence in the leadership team and an endorsement that one’s policies are more attuned to the preferences of voters than those offered up by any … Read More

Election Day is Time to Refocus on Policies

Gareth MorganUncategorized

Over the course of this election campaign there has been a lot of focus on dirty politics, spies and conspiracies, and tragically way too little on policy. Those stories will no doubt continue to be discussed long after the vote … Read More

Ask me anything on Election 2014

Gareth MorganUncategorized

At 12:30pm I will be doing an “ask me anything” live chat on election 2014. Topics I would like to talk about are around the environment, tax, welfare, inequality, economics. Everyone is welcome, leave your indifference at the door. Live … Read More

Can the government really create more jobs?

Geoff SimmonsEconomics

Over the last few weeks a range of economic development policies have emerged from across the political spectrum. They vary from the weird to the wonderful, but all of them suffer from the same problem – the delusion that the … Read More