2025 Insights Newsletters
Insights 48 / 19 December: From blueprints to building
Insights 47 / 12 December: A replacement RMA | Counted out | Planning to plan
Insights 46 / 5 December: Dodging tax debts | Reaching housing consensus | A Christmas wish
Insights 45 / 28 November: Manic compression | Fast-tracking the bill | Contraceptive house prices
Insights 44 / 21 November: Opportunities and challenges | Über messy | The lever-pullers
Insights 43 / 14 November: Governance, not ideology | Grocery reform? | Ned to know
Insights 42 / 7 November: Better health | Professional standards dilemma | A stadium proposal
Insights 41 / 31 October: MMP after 30 years | Falling behind? | On the rocks
Insights 40 / 24 October: Labour's Future Fund | Curiosity sparks growth | I, Claude
Insights 39 / 17 October: Refocusing Kāinga Ora | A case for Localism | A Nobel attempt
Insights 38 / 10 October: Not a growth strategy | Albanese’s rugby diplomacy | The outrage economy
Insights 37 / 3 October: Excessive regulation costs | Starting small | Councils of the absurd
Insights 36 / 26 September: The wrong target | Not-so-killer acquisitions | Sense and nonsense
Insights 35 / 19 September: A new dawn | Electoral Amendment Bill | Competitive arithmetic
Insights 34 / 12 September: Invisible architecture of prosperity | Deflating grade inflation | Yes (no) Minister
Insights 33 / 5 September: Who's accountable? | Promising supermarket reform | Ark ship B
Insights 32 / 29 August: Amazing grades | Local government reform | When more means less
Insights 31 / 22 August: Broken news | Chasing innovation away | Radio Albania’s midlife crisis
Insights 30 / 15 August: A rationing of pipes | Grade expectations | Talking in code
Insights 29 / 8 August: NCEA does no favours | Response to tariffs | Britannia's curse
Insights 28 / 1 August: Government reckons with itself | Social media limits | Kids feeding lambs
Insights 27 / 25 July: Bridging divides | Transparency as a threat | A slippery slope
Insights 26 / 18 July: Feeling for Gen Z | Students learning nothing | Nothing to see here
Insights 25 / 11 July: Regulatory standards case | Stepping stones? | Solving success with failure
Insights 24 / 4 July: In Memoriam: Des Gorman | Hobson’s sledge | Messy housing growth | Bad vibrations
Insights 23 / 27 June: More help less noise | Suggestions for submissions | The Johnston test
Insights 22 / 19 June: Learning from the Dutch | What about teaching? | A Wellington icon
Insights 21 / 13 June: Smart Support for Councillors | Strengthening academic freedom | “Trickle-down,” again
Insights 20 / 6 June: A golden opportunity | Belittling property rights | Learning from letters
Insights 19 / 30 May: Grocery competition | A smarter future | Auckland's precautionary urbanism
Insights 18 / 23 May: Deficits forever? | Foundation of freedom | New neutrality
Insights 17 / 16 May: Green Budget fantasy | Bureaucracy or the books | Ministry of everything
Insights 16 / 9 May: Not being Donald | Up to standard | Charlie Brown Pope
Insights 15 / 2 May: A silent emergency | Losing monopoly | The Turing Test
Insights 14 / 24 April: A welcome amendment | Finding economics | Requiem for a ringtone
Insights 13 / 17 April: Treasury restores rigour | Working with others | Cheers to sanity
Insights 12 / 11 April: Trade for grown-ups | RBNZ's capital review | Iowa Car Crop
Insights 11 / 4 April: Primary care investment | Breaking up | A lucky signal
Insights 10 / 28 March: Growth-first RMA reform| Four more years? | Time capsule wars
Insights 9 / 21 March: Completing the jigsaw| Time for ANZAC | My regulatory revelation
Insights 8 / 14 March: The Us-Canada crisis | No.8 will not work | Growing an organisation
Insights 7 / 7 March: Reform for resilience | Permission to work? | Sick quitters
Insights 6 / 28 February: The people's portfolio | business-led clusters | NZ's last defence
Insights 5 / 21 February: Reserve Bank costs | The right targets | Shock horror
Insights 4 / 14 February: Want growth? | Gene technology bill | Safety first!
Insights 3 / 7 February: Kia ora! | The heterodox hiatus | Messing with time
Insights 2 / 31 January: Paths to educational improvement | Evidence-based policy | Growth objections
Insights 1 / 24 January: Growth needs consolidation | Wither the University? | A letter from Trump