The Corona welfare response we need
The promised ‘urgent work’ to render our welfare system fit for the coronavirus emergency will need to be fundamental and very large, writes Dr Michael Fletcher
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Reforming our public service
Simon Chapple on how to improve the government's public sector reform package.
February Policy Quarterly free online
The special Policy Quarterly issue on Family Wellbeing is now available free online.
Tax on Tuesdays
Video coverage of the first in our new discussion series on tax justice, featuring Andrea Black, Michael Fletcher and Max Rashbrooke.
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Keeping the reformed public service in check
There are some easy ways to improve the big public sector reform package currently before Parliament, writes Simon Chapple.
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Don't mention the P-word
A new piece of inequality research seems to go out of its way to pretend New Zealand doesn't have a structural poverty problem. So politically convenient if this were true, says Max Rashbrooke -- but it isn't.