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Roger Kerr: The Working Man and the Man and his Work

November 19, 2015 By Nicholas Kerr 6 Comments

(The following is reprinted with the permission of Bryce Wilkinson. It is the eulogy he delivered at the service to honour Roger’s life held on Thursday 3 November 2011 at 2.30pm at Old St Paul’s in Wellington.) (Photo courtesy of the New Zealand Herald) Roger Kerr committed his working life to improving the quality of […]

Filed Under: Random Rants Tagged With: economics, new zealand, Roger Kerr

Contrasting attitudes in New Zealand and Hong Kong

December 27, 2014 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

Originally published 22 July 1997 in Nexus, the University  of Waikato student magazine, as part of a regular series I wrote under the banner of “Postcard from Hong Kong” What is the “New Zealand dream”? One could be forgiven for thinking that the answer is to simply leave this earth in no worse state than […]

Filed Under: Random Rants Tagged With: entrepreneurs, envy, Hong Kong, new zealand

The future of Hong Kong

October 2, 2014 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

The following is from my pre-blog archives. When I lived in Hong Kong in 1997, I was asked to write a semi-regular column under the banner “Postcard from Hong Kong” for a university newspaper in New Zealand. This article appeared on July 4 1997, three days after the United Kingdom transferred sovereignty of Hong Kong back […]

Filed Under: Random Rants Tagged With: Hong Kong, journalism, new zealand

New Zealand pays price for letting mateship die

February 26, 2014 By Nicholas Kerr 1 Comment

Published in the Australian Financial Review, June 13, 2002 Should the NZ Labour Party, led by Prime Minister Helen Clark, win enough support to govern alone, the paths of New Zealand and Australia look set to keep diverging. A strong showing by the Green Party would result in more isolationist policies. A National government would […]

Filed Under: Random Rants Tagged With: ally, australia, free trade, helen clark, john howard, new zealand, policy, US

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I’m Nicholas, a marketing consultant and dad in Dallas, TX. I like to follow policy debates, chat about parenting and share stories. Read More…

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