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The Tax Shitshow
Tax policy is the most important political statement. Everything else is downstream. It is also complex, boring and a nightmare to implement. Capital gains tax, wealth tax, land tax, income tax, inheritance tax, corporate tax, bright-line t...
We need an engineer, not PwC: The future of the public service
The minister responsible for reforming New Zealand’s public service currently holds eleven portfolios. Eleven. That’s too many. Paul Goldsmith is Minister for Defence, Justice, Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations, Arts and Culture, Veterans, Pa...
The State Housing Rabbit Hole
I am drowning in 7,078 New Zealand housing-policy documents published between 2000 and 2025. So, despite trying to engage with the current political news cycle: the Luxon-and-MMP debates, whatever Winston Peters said, Helen Clark weighing i...
Immigration Has Lost Social Licence
I will start with the obvious: Winston Peters is racist and xenophobic. I am treating that as a fact. Also, a personal disclosure that is relevant to this analysis.
I have been an immigrant for a very long time. Since I was four, when my m...
That’s Not the Point, Prime Minister
The Rule-out
Christopher Luxon has formally ruled out working with the Opportunity Party. “We’re a party of low tax,” he said, “we don’t think we want to do business with them.”
That’s not the point, Prime Minister. God, please!
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Political scientist specialized in New Zealand Politics. A regular contributor on RNZ Nights with Emile Donovan, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan and writes for interest.co.nz. Less Certain is a wweekly newsletter.
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