Elections 8 Tribes Style

Elections 8 Tribes Style

Back in early 2007 a book called 8 Tribes was published. It was described then by the publishers as a “snapshot of contemporary New Zealand (that) explores our unspoken class system and the hidden social boundaries that separate us from each other” In...
Elections 8 Tribes Style

Economic Debate

Over the weekend there were a growing number of policy debates around the impacts and implications of proposed changes to government investment strategy. At Public Address Russell Brown writes “Labour’s guarantee scheme was excoriated along with...
Elections 8 Tribes Style

Deepening the Debate

Two years and 5 days ago I started this blog to be able to store up a bit of a reference library of ideas and experiences for customers, friends and myself. It has snowballed to be much more than that. Thanks to the readers in the US, Australia, NZ and UK especially...
Elections 8 Tribes Style

Improving Local Investment

Following on from yesterday it seems that some of the ideas in the draft strategy for coming out of the crisis stronger -Download Full Document here have got a bit more traction with National. *Later in the day – John Key announced that he would be looking for...
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Solutions for NZ

Following on from the NZ Institute / NZX draft document from Economy on the edge: Swan dive or belly flop? Or as another Jason commented – How can we take this to the next level? A draft strategy for coming out of the crisis stronger -Download Full Document here...