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Submission: Infrastructure Funding and Financing Amendment Bill 2025

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 This submission on the Infrastructure Funding and Financing Amendment Bill 2025 (the Bill) is made by The New Zealand Initiative (the Initiative), a Wellington-based think tank supported primarily by major New Zealand businesses. Read more

Dr Benno Blaschke

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20 February, 2026

Happy Social Justice Day

If this is the first you have heard of ‘social justice day,’ do not feel bad. Few people have heard of it, despite it having featured on the United Nations’ calendar for nearly two decades. Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich

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20 February, 2026

A question of priorities

It is more than two weeks since the catastrophic failure of Wellington’s sewage treatment plant at Moa Point. Massive quantities of raw sewage continue to flow into Cook Strait. Read more

Dr Michael Johnston

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20 February, 2026

Legislative fail-safes

No straight thing can be built of our crooked timber. We can and will err, even with best efforts and intentions. Read more

Dr Eric Crampton

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20 February, 2026

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Responsibility Before Ruin: A pre-emptive fix for NZ's phoenix problem

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