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Submission: Commerce (Promoting Competition and Other Matters) Amendment Bill

Submission: Commerce (Promoting Competition and Other Matters) Amendment Bill

1. INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY 1.1 This submission on the Commerce (Promoting Competition and Other Matters) Amendment Billis made by The New Zealand Initiative (the Initiative), a Wellington-based think tank supported primarily by major New Zealand businesses. Read more

Dr Eric Crampton

Submission

12 February, 2026

Granny flat red tape changes shifts risk from councils onto homeowners

New Zealanders once took pride in being a resilient “do-it-yourself” (DIY) people. Working city fathers, like mine, would spend much of their weekends working on their houses, gardens, fruit trees or sheds. Read more

Dr Bryce Wilkinson ONZM

NZ Herald

12 February, 2026

Voters Hungary for change: It’s the economy, stupid

Hungary is a landlocked nation of ten million people with an economy smaller than New Zealand’s. It has no significant military, no permanent seat on the Security Council and no history of shaping international affairs. Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich

Newsroom

10 February, 2026

New Zealand’s new reality

For the first time since the Second World War, New Zealand is being asked to make major economic decisions under direct threat from an ally. New Zealand is negotiating a minerals deal with the United States. Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich

Insights Newsletter

5 February, 2026

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Responsibility Before Ruin: A pre-emptive fix for NZ's phoenix problem

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New Zealand's falling fertility and the limits of immigration

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