<A response to Brian Easton’s post “It Aint Easy Being Small” on Point of Order> Brian Easton is right about one thing: New Zealand is small. Where he goes wrong—consistently, and consequentially—is in treating smallness as a justification for lower ambition, weaker competition, and heavier regulation. Smallness does not doom a country to mediocrity. Some of […]
It’s Policy, Not Geography, That Holds New Zealand Back
Geography does not condemn New Zealand to underperformance; policy does. Singapore and Ireland succeeded not by chance but through openness, low taxes, and strong institutions. New Zealand lags because government remains too large and policies insufficiently competitive. With the right reforms, we too can close the gap.
Trump’s Path Back: How Shifting Politics and Powerful Voices Reshaped the Election
Obama’s subtle snub of Harris, voter fatigue with executive overreach, and the vocal support of CEOs like Elon Musk and Bill Ackman reset the 2024 race. By shifting the Overton window on immigration, the economy, and constitutional norms, these business voices helped clear a surprising path back to power for Donald Trump.
Isolationist policies start to catch NZ up
On the eve of Prime Minister Helen Clark’s meeting with United States President George W. Bush, and other officials, it is not just the US in Anzus that New Zealand should be concerned about, writes NICHOLAS KERR. Closer to home, our relationship with Australia is not what it used to be either. [This op-ed originally […]
Loving Uncle Sam
This country’s education system has failed for decades to provide young New Zealanders with any context of the world’s only superpower and its people. There was virtually no mention of America during my own schooling; the only foreign country we studied was the global nonentity Fiji.
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