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Podcast: Planning urban fut...

05.16.2023

Tune into this riveting podcast for a deep-dive into the world of urban planning and infrastructure development in New Zealand! Chief economist Eric Crampton is joined by the Infrastructure Commission’s Nadine Dodge and Peter Nunns to grapple with the complex ...

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05.16.2023 Podcast: Planning urban futures Tune into this riveting podcast for a deep-dive into the world of urban planning and infrastructure development in New Zealand! Chief economist Eric Crampton is joined by the Infrastructure Commission’s Nadine Dodge and Peter Nunns to grapple with the complex ...
05.15.2023 Podcast: NCEA and the school curriculum Welcome to the New Zealand Initiative podcast! In this episode, Michael Johnston has a fascinating conversation with Bali Haque, an experienced educator who has held various roles in the education sector. Bali is a well-respected educator, having worked as a ...
05.09.2023 Podcast: Australia vs. New Zealand: Where to Thrive? In this thought-provoking episode, the Initiative’s economists – Dr Oliver Hartwich, Dr Eric Crampton, Dr Tony Burton, and Dr Bryce Wilkinson – dive into the debate over whether Australia is a better option for skilled talent. They discuss the current ...
05.01.2023 Podcast: The science of learning Learning is a central pursuit of the education system. It is essential that educators understand key elements of the science of human learning and how to apply them in the classroom. In this podcast episode, Michael Johnston is joined by ...
04.27.2023 Podcast: Tony Burton joins the team The Initiative team has welcomed a new addition to their team with the appointment of Tony Burton as a Research Fellow. Tony has a PhD in economics and philosophy from the University of East Anglia researching game theory and choice ...
04.19.2023 Podcast: Average Effective Tax Rates In this podcast episode, the Initiative’s chief economist Eric Crampton is joined by OliverShaw Principal, Robin Oliver, to discuss new independent research which shows that high-wealth individuals pay more tax on average and represent a higher proportion of the total ...
04.18.2023 Podcast: Higher education in New Zealand In this podcast episode, we explore the state of education in New Zealand, both at the school and university levels. Drawing from our own experiences, we discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the current education system and the challenges that ...
04.13.2023 Podcast: New Zealand university administrative bloat In this episode, Dr Oliver Hartwich and Dr James Kierstead discuss administrative bloat in New Zealand universities, focusing on the rise of non-academic staff and its potential consequences. Dr Kierstead shares some figures on the large number of non-academic employees ...
04.05.2023 Podcast: The history of New Zealand's infrastructure Much can be learned from the past, both the good and the bad. The Initiative’s upcoming report takes a historical perspective on New Zealand’s infrastructure challenge and offers a roadmap for moving forward. In this week's podcast, Drs Oliver Hartwich ...
03.29.2023 Podcast: Vocational education and training In this week’s podcast, Oliver Hartwich and Michael Johnston are joined by visiting professor Dr Antje Barabasch to discuss vocational education and training, the Swiss dual education system, and the differences with the New Zealand system. Professor Dr Antje Barabasch ...
03.21.2023 Podcast: Save our Schools - New Zealand's Education Crisis There are many pressing problems facing New Zealand, but none more urgent than the decay of our once great education system. For more than two decades, the literacy and numeracy achievement of our young people has been declining. The downward ...
03.20.2023 Podcast: Mātauranga Māori & Science Recent Ministry of Education publications bring mātauranga Māori concepts into the school curriculum. While concepts like mauri, a Māori term meaning “vital essence” or “life force”, may have something to offer science as a reflection of ecosystem health or the ...
03.14.2023 Podcast: Localism with Malcolm Alexander For years, The New Zealand Initiative has argued for the case for localism in New Zealand, which is one of the most centralised countries in the world. According to a recent tax sharing poll, 70% of people support keeping tax ...
03.08.2023 Podcast: Public Service Political Neutrality The public service, and the neutrality of its leaders, has become a recent issue. In this episode, Drs Oliver Hartwich and Michael Johnston discuss New Zealand's public service, how it is run, and the importance of public servants being impartial ...
03.02.2023 Podcast: The Flaws of the Charities Amendment Bill The Charities Amendment Bill is currently before Parliament, but it is flawed and full of unintended consequences. As promised in the Labour Party manifesto, charities in New Zealand are demanding a proper first principles review with a better process and ...
02.20.2023 Podcast: Benchmarking New Zealand's infrastructure delivery costs Director of Economics for the Infrastructure Commission, Peter Nunns, talks to Eric Crampton, Chief Economist for The New Zealand Initiative, about his research on the cost to deliver infrastructure in New Zealand and the need to improve the efficiency of ...
02.15.2023 Podcast: The economic effects of Cyclone Gabrielle Resilient infrastructure is crucial for protecting people during disasters and ensuring that communities can bounce back quickly in the aftermath of a crisis. Two powerful examples of this can be seen in New Zealand's response to the 2011 Christchurch earthquake ...
02.09.2023 Podcast: Benjamin Macintyre joins the team The Initiative team has welcomed a new addition to their team with the appointment of Benjamin Macintyre as a Research Assistant. Benjamin holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics, International Studies, and Italian, and brings a fresh perspective to the ...
02.09.2023 Podcast: Economic Roundtable In this week's podcast we are diving into the much-anticipated policy shift announced by the country's new Prime Minister. The speculation has been building for months, with many wondering what policies will be scrapped and which ones will remain. In ...
01.23.2023 Podcast: Building market failure In this week's podcast The New Zealand Initiative's chief economist, Dr Eric Crampton, chats with Christian van der Pump about building regulations, fire safety and the causes of 'market failure' in the building industry. Christian van der Pump is a ...
12.14.2022 Podcast: Challenges proposed in new legislation for Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act In this week's podcast The New Zealand Initiative's chief economist, Dr Eric Crampton, chats with Jonathan Alve, National Operations Manager at Hospitality New Zealand, about proposed amendments to the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act and the challenges these may ...
11.30.2022 Podcast: Michael Johnston talks with Holly Gooch about a project to help twice-exceptional students Holly Gooch is part of the KiwiNet Emerging Innovator programme to progress a project to help twice-exceptional secondary students. Michael Johnston sat down with Holly to talk about her PhD research project.
11.28.2022 Podcast: The Initiative's state of the nation with Josie Pagani and Oliver Hartwich Josie Pagani interviews Oliver Hartwich about the state of the nation in this week's Initiative podcast.
11.21.2022 Podcast: Michael Johnston and Emma Chatterton on improving teacher supply through immigration Michael Johnston sat down with Emma Chatterton, Strategic Project Lead at ImpactLab, to discuss her experience gaining registration and certification as an overseas-trained teacher. In addition, they discuss how New Zealand might improve teacher supply through immigration, and the country's ...
11.16.2022 Podcast: Oliver Hartwich and Eric Crampton discuss NZ's immigration woes with June Ranson New Zealand's immigration system is cracking under pressure. A lack of staff, a shambolic IT system, and new government policies that bamboozle applicants are creating unnecessary stress for migrants, and long delays around simple work visa applications that once made ...
11.15.2022 Podcast: Christoph Schumacher on the OCR, Taylor Rule and GDP Live Oliver Hartwich chats with Christoph Schumacher about the Official Cash Rate, inflation, the Taylor Rule, and the new GDP Live tool that provides real-time New Zealand GDP tracking. To help fund the incredible GDP Live tracker contact Christoph at [email protected].
11.09.2022 Podcast: Martien Lubberink talks with the Initiative about bank profitability, regulation, and taxes Victoria University's Associate Professor Martien Lubberink specialises in banking regulation. In Newsroom, Prof Lubberink warns of unintended consequences of setting extra taxes on current bank profits. He talks about bank profitability, regulation, and taxes, with Eric Crampton and Bryce Wilkinson. ...
11.08.2022 Podcast: The state of the nation with Josie Pagani and Oliver Hartwich Josie Pagani and Oliver Hartwich discuss the state of the nation
10.27.2022 James Kierstead and Michael Johnston on new NCEA trial results James Kierstead and Michael Johnston discuss the results of a second pilot for literacy and numeracy assessments, as well as an upcoming survey on the extent to which university students are willing to express their ideas.
10.20.2022 Podcast: Oliver Hartwich and Eric Crampton on barriers to supermarket entry Oliver Hartwich and Eric Crampton discuss how the government is preventing overseas supermarkets from entering the New Zealand market.
10.11.2022 Podcast: Australia’s Universities: Can They Reform? Are international students subsidising the education of domestic students in Australian universities – or is it the other way around? Why does Australia have quite so many international students anyway? Does China post a real risk to academic freedom in ...
10.02.2022 Podcast: Oliver Hartwich with Simon Court on the Clean Car Scheme Oliver Hartwich chats with ACT’s Transport and Climate Change spokesperson Simon Court about the Clean Car Scheme and how it's adding bureaucracy, not reducing emissions.
09.28.2022 Europe’s mega crisis – Michael Johnston in conversation with Oliver Hartwich and Eric Crampton In this episode Michael Johnston hosts Oliver Hartwich and Eric Crampton to discuss various European crises and how New Zealand should be learning from, and not repeating, the European mistakes.
09.20.2022 Podcast: Oliver Hartwich and Michael Johnston on the modern learning environment experiment Ideology rather than evidence is the basis for the Ministry of Education’s (MoE) ‘Modern Leaning Environments’, research by The New Zealand Initiative has revealed. Dr Oliver Hartwich and Dr Michael Johnston discuss the fact that a government ministry could not ...
09.15.2022 Podcast: Reducing anxiety through self-leadership Michael Johnston talked to leadership coach Kate Morton of Transformation Space about leadership in organisations and self-leadership as an antidote to anxiety. They also discussed the implications of Kate’s work for addressing rising levels of anxiety in teenagers and your ...
09.08.2022 Podcast: Eric Crampton and Scott Wilson on the history of funding and financing NZ's roads Dr Eric Crampton interviews Scott Wilson in this follow up interview to their discussion about transport funding and getting roads built. In this episode they talk about the history of how New Zealand funded and financed roads, and the structures ...
08.30.2022 Podcast: Every Life Is Worth The Same Are Māori dying earlier because they are Māori? Do Māori lead less healthy lives because they are being discriminated against? And how much racism is there in the New Zealand health system? These are the questions at the heart of ...
08.24.2022 Podcast: The cost of doing business - Oliver Hartwich with Greg Harford, CEO, Retail NZ Oliver Hartwich is joined by Retail NZ CEO, Greg Harford, to discuss the pressures retailers are facing in the current economic climate - crime, inflation, fair pay agreements, increasing costs of doing business, labour shortages, and Covid.
08.17.2022 Podcast: Oliver Hartwich with Professor David Rozado on sentiment words from news media outlets Oliver Hartwich talks with Professor David Rozado from Otago Polytechnic about his research in positive/negative sentiment words and terms loaded with political connotations in academia and news/opinion articles from news media outlets.
08.11.2022 Podcast: Michael Johnston discusses improving our childrens' reading and writing Michael Johnston discusses improving our childrens' reading and writing with Belinda Blick-Duggan and Dr Helen Walls.
08.02.2022 Podcast: Eric Crampton, Matthew Birchall and Scott Wilson on funding and financing NZ's roads Scott Wilson joins Eric Crampton and Matthew Birchall to discuss the petrol excise holiday, sustainability of the land transport funding system, and what better options might be for the funding and financing of New Zealand roads in the future.
07.31.2022 Podcast: Oliver Hartwich and Michael Johnston on New Zealand's education emergency There are many pressing problems facing New Zealand, but none more urgent than the decay of our once great education system. Every time a young person leaves school without basic literacy and numeracy, it is a travesty. Oliver Hartwich and ...
07.27.2022 Podcast: Germany is stumbling towards an uncertain future Oliver Hartwich and Dennis Wesselbaum discuss Germany's outlook.
07.26.2022 Eric Crampton speaks with Peter Nunns Director of Economics for the Infrastructure Commission, Peter Nunns, talks to Eric Crampton, Chief Economist for The New Zealand Initiative, about his research on the size and scope of local government, as well as funding and financing mechanisms.
07.25.2022 Podcast: How central bank mistakes after 2019 led to inflation A research note released today by The New Zealand Initiative mainly attributes the outbreak of inflation in many economies to central bank mistakes. Oliver Hartwich interviews co-authors Graeme Wheeler, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, and Bryce ...
07.25.2022 Oliver Hartwich interviews Graeme Wheeler and Bryce Wilkinson.mp3 Oliver Hartwich interviews Graeme Wheeler and Bryce Wilkinson.mp3 by The New Zealand Initiative
07.20.2022 Podcast: Dr Oliver Hartwich interviews two new colleagues Oliver Hartwich interviews historians James Kierstead and Matthew Birchall, two new colleagues at the Initiative.
07.19.2022 Podcast: Dr Eric Crampton speaks with Chris Snowden on making NZ a smokefree nation Dr Eric Crampton and Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, discuss New Zealand's change in legislation for vaping products.
07.13.2022 Podcast: Dr Michael Johnston on resetting literacy standards Declining literacy is a contributor to low productivity and New Zealand's students have been let down by the education system. In this podcast Dr Michael Johnston and Amanda Boyd discuss the Ministry of Education's plan to introduce new NCEA requirements ...
07.04.2022 Podcast: Oliver Hartwich Talks With John McDermott Dr Oliver Hartwich chats with Dr John McDermott, Executive Director of Motu and former Assistant Governor and Chief Economist at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand about monetary policy in New Zealand, the overhang of monetary stimulus from the last ...

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The New Zealand Initiative episodes:

Podcast: Planning urban futures

Podcast: NCEA and the school curriculum

Podcast: Australia vs. New Zealand: Where to Thrive?

Podcast: The science of learning

Podcast: Tony Burton joins the team

Podcast: Average Effective Tax Rates

Podcast: Higher education in New Zealand

Podcast: New Zealand university administrative bloat

Podcast: The history of New Zealand's infrastructure

Podcast: Vocational education and training

Podcast: Save our Schools - New Zealand's Education Crisis

Podcast: Mātauranga Māori & Science

Podcast: Localism with Malcolm Alexander

Podcast: Public Service Political Neutrality

Podcast: The Flaws of the Charities Amendment Bill

Podcast: Benchmarking New Zealand's infrastructure delivery costs

Podcast: The economic effects of Cyclone Gabrielle

Podcast: Benjamin Macintyre joins the team

Podcast: Economic Roundtable

Podcast: Building market failure

Podcast: Challenges proposed in new legislation for Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act

Podcast: Michael Johnston talks with Holly Gooch about a project to help twice-exceptional students

Podcast: The Initiative's state of the nation with Josie Pagani and Oliver Hartwich

Podcast: Michael Johnston and Emma Chatterton on improving teacher supply through immigration

Podcast: Oliver Hartwich and Eric Crampton discuss NZ's immigration woes with June Ranson

Podcast: Christoph Schumacher on the OCR, Taylor Rule and GDP Live

Podcast: Martien Lubberink talks with the Initiative about bank profitability, regulation, and taxes

Podcast: The state of the nation with Josie Pagani and Oliver Hartwich

James Kierstead and Michael Johnston on new NCEA trial results

Podcast: Oliver Hartwich and Eric Crampton on barriers to supermarket entry

Podcast: Australia’s Universities: Can They Reform?

Podcast: Oliver Hartwich with Simon Court on the Clean Car Scheme

Europe’s mega crisis – Michael Johnston in conversation with Oliver Hartwich and Eric Crampton

Podcast: Oliver Hartwich and Michael Johnston on the modern learning environment experiment

Podcast: Reducing anxiety through self-leadership

Podcast: Eric Crampton and Scott Wilson on the history of funding and financing NZ's roads

Podcast: Every Life Is Worth The Same

Podcast: The cost of doing business - Oliver Hartwich with Greg Harford, CEO, Retail NZ

Podcast: Oliver Hartwich with Professor David Rozado on sentiment words from news media outlets

Podcast: Michael Johnston discusses improving our childrens' reading and writing

Podcast: Eric Crampton, Matthew Birchall and Scott Wilson on funding and financing NZ's roads

Podcast: Oliver Hartwich and Michael Johnston on New Zealand's education emergency

Podcast: Germany is stumbling towards an uncertain future

Eric Crampton speaks with Peter Nunns

Podcast: How central bank mistakes after 2019 led to inflation

Oliver Hartwich interviews Graeme Wheeler and Bryce Wilkinson.mp3

Podcast: Dr Oliver Hartwich interviews two new colleagues

Podcast: Dr Eric Crampton speaks with Chris Snowden on making NZ a smokefree nation

Podcast: Dr Michael Johnston on resetting literacy standards

Podcast: Oliver Hartwich Talks With John McDermott