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God Defend New Zealand

The Government’s 2025 Defence Capability Plan commits $12 billion over four years, including $9 billion of new spending. But without institutional reform, new money risks being absorbed into a system too slow and fragmented to deliver modern capability, a new report from The New Zealand Initiative warns. Read more

Major General John G. Howard, MNZM (Ret)
Research note
23 April, 2026

Splitting power generators from their retail arms would not cut electricity bills

With energy prices spiking, an old idea has gathered fresh momentum: break up the big electricity companies. New Zealand First put the proposal on its agenda at the party’s State of the Nation address, calling for the four gentailers, companies that both generate and retail power, to be split apart. Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich
NZ Herald
16 April, 2026

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