The New Zealand Initiative

387 - The Martian Audit: Or, how New Zealand repelled an Invasion through procedural complexity

Podcast by The New Zealand Initiative

387 - The Martian Audit: Or, how New Zealand repelled an Invasion through procedural complexity

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Podcast by The New Zealand Initiative

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The New Zealand Initiative

Episodes

The Martian Audit: Or, how New Zealand repelled an Invasion through procedural complexity

Why free speech is losing ground even in free societies

An operational pause is not peace

Thanked Once a Year: An Anzac Day Conversation with Bob Davies

What New Zealand's 19th-century teachers knew but progressive educators forgot

Why children can't learn unless they feel safe

Who runs the country?

Why New Zealand can't assume the fuel will keep flowing

Let prices do the job when fuel is scarce

Will the Planning Bill actually deliver housing affordability?

Academic freedom and institutional neutrality in New Zealand’s universities

Alain Bertaud on what planners control — and what they don't

Iran, three weeks on

Why the RMA replacement falls short on property rights

The Iran war and what it means for New Zealand

Renovating the Nation: How Asset Recycling Can Help Solve the Infrastructure Deficit

What went wrong between the RMA blueprint and the bills

New Zealand's 14-day fuel problem and the Iran crisis

Hope is not a strategy: What a more dangerous world means for New Zealand

Understanding the highly sensitive learner

New Zealand's falling fertility and the limits of immigration

New Zealand faces rare earth ultimatum

Why vague codes of conduct threaten free speech on campus

Housing Affordability: NZ at the Global Policy Frontier (Part 3) - Finishing the Revolution

Wrapping up 2025: policy wins and what's ahead for New Zealand

Fast track reform and parliamentary oversight

How mayors could replace regional councillors

Housing Affordability: NZ at the Global Policy Frontier (Part 2) - From Heresy to Reform

How New Zealand ends up writing off $700 million in corporate taxes every year

Universities, democracy and cultural shifts: A farewell to Dr James Kierstead

Housing Affordability: NZ at the Global Policy Frontier (Part 1) - Clarity Emerging from the Mists

Sir Ian Taylor on literacy, AI and what schools should teach

How better data could fix New Zealand's struggling health system

MMP After 30 Years: Time for Electoral Reform?

Sir Nick Gibb on what works in education reform

Owning less to achieve more: Refocusing Kāinga Ora

Why New Zealand's productivity lags behind small European nations

Building Nations: What Canada’s First Nations can teach us about devolution and development

What's driving grade inflation?

Building cyber resilience in New Zealand

When authoritarians silence universities

When tax policy goes wrong

What Adam Smith can teach us about regulating technology

Unscrambling Government: Less confusion, more efficiency

Breaking down barriers not breaking up supermarkets

Why getting an A at university is so easy now

How Trump lost ground to Putin in Anchorage

How professional licencing restricts competition

Going Dutch: Lessons from the Netherlands

Calling time on NCEA