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Wellington (20 August 2013): NZ Universities thrash-out skilled emigration debate The Next Generation Grand Final Debate: Fresh Perspectives on the Big Social Issues Special Guest Panellist: Hon Hekia Parata, Minister of Education Skilled, under 30, and thinking of heading overseas - does that make you an asset or a liability to New Zealand Inc.? That’s what we’ll find out when Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Auckland go head-to-head in the finals of the annual The Next Generation Debates: Fresh Perspectives on Big Social Issues, to be held in Wellington on Thursday night. Read more

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The New Zealand Initiative is bringing Nick Cater to New Zealand to launch his book The Lucky Culture on 15 July in Wellington, 16 July in Auckland and 17 July in Christchurch. The Lucky Culture and the rise of an Australian ruling class, published by Harper Collins, is a bold and provocative book about Australia’s national identity and how it is threatened by the rise of an aspiring ruling class. Read more

The New Zealand Initiative is launching the first in a series of reports on housing affordability, co-authored by former local government minister Hon Dr Michael Bassett and Luke Malpass. Priced Out – How New Zealand Lost Its Housing Affordability looks at long-term trends in housing regulation and social circumstances as well as the changing roles of local and central governments. Read more

The New Zealand Initiative Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, discusses Budget 2013 on TVNZ's Q+A with Susan Wood. Read more

Public policy think tank, The New Zealand Initiative, launches its first report on New Zealand’s international debt position and foreign direct investment regimes. The report, New Zealand's Global Links: Foreign Ownership and the Status of New Zealand's Net International Investment, provides a one-stop-shop for statistics on New Zealand’s investment patterns. Read more

Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard will be the keynote speaker at the The New Zealand Initiative’s annual retreat dinner in Auckland on 21 March. Mr Howard will speak about ‘Trans-Tasman Relations in the Pacific Century.’ “My talk will focus on some of the joint opportunities and challenges before Australia and New Zealand in a regional economy dominated by the continued development of China and many other Asian economies,” says Mr Howard Dr Oliver Hartwich, Executive Director of The New Zealand Initiative, says John Howard’s talk will be educational, inspiring, and enlightening. Read more

The New Zealand Initiative will be hosting one of Germany’s top economists on 13 February to talk about the lessons from bad policy making. Germany is Europe’s model economy. Read more

With the affordability of housing currently circulating the walls of parliament, it seems timely to ask, why are houses in New Zealand so expensive? Luke Malpass, Research Fellow at The New Zealand Initiative, who is currently conducting significant and intensive research in this area, will be presenting a talk to try and explain why housing is so costly. Read more

Dr Christian Sandström will talk in Wellington on 24 October, on Sweden’s economic position and whether the country really has a socialist economy. With taxes and labour market regulation the only exceptions, Sweden is today in many regards a capitalist economy. Read more

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New Zealand operates one of the most restrictive foreign investment regimes in the developed world, missing out on much needed investment, says a new Research Note from The New Zealand Initiative. In Verboten! Read more

Mondayising public holidays by Prime News on July 24. Featuring Luke Malpass from The New Zealand Initiative. Read more