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Publications

  1. Alcohol Policy and the Politics of Moral Panic

    Luke Malpass | 26 May 2011 | Policy Monographs

    New Zealand’s proposed liquor legislation marks a return to old attitudes towards alcohol regulation that perversely believe,... Read More...

  2. Ending No. 8 Wire Welfare: Why New Zealand is Lagging Behind

    Luke Malpass | 02 Apr 2009 | Issue Analysis

    The government’s welfare policy is moving in the right direction and a recession is a good time to reform the welfare system. ... Read More...

  3. FEATURE: Explaining the Income Gap: Are Aussies and Kiwis that different?

    Phil Rennie | 12 Dec 2007 | POLICY Magazine

    New Zealand is Australia's poor cousin. Is the Kiwis' national culture holding them back?

  4. Reinventing New Zealand’s Welfare State

    Peter Saunders | 27 Mar 2007 | Issue Analysis

    New Zealanders are much richer than when the welfare state was founded. People’s incomes should therefore be sufficient... Read More...

  5. State of the Nation New Zealand 2003

    Jennifer Buckingham | 05 Apr 2003 | Special Publications

    The report, State of the Nation New Zealand, traces and analyses the profound social and economic changes occurring over... Read More...

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Opinion & Commentary

  1. New Zealand’s great regression

    Luke Malpass | 20 Oct 2010 | The American, Journal of the American Enterprise Institute

    New Zealand was once a beacon to the Western world for classical liberal reform. No longer. Where did it all go wrong?... Read More

  2. Bad manners to blame politicians

    Phil Rennie | 15 Feb 2006 | The New Zealand

    As an exuberant child of the 1980s I had many excuses for my misbehaviours and public rudeness. But I never thought to blame ... Read More

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