Time to question costing of unhealthy habits
We're all going to die. We're not all going to die tomorrow, although these days it feels like the apocalypse is looming, but it will happen to all of us. Read more
10 February, 2017
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What should it take to become a Kiwi?
I am married to an immigrant. It is not something I often need to confront. Read more
Roger Partridge
10 February, 2017
We need an apples-for-houses comparison on immigration
Let’s engage in an absurd exercise. Do immigrants, just in coming to New Zealand, make apples more expensive? Read more
7 February, 2017
Immigration and house prices
Research Fellow Jason Krupp talks to Larry Williams about our immigration report and whether migrants are responsible for pushing up house prices.
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7 February, 2017
Confronting populism with evidence
The New Zealand Initiative this week made a case for why, when assessing immigration, it is important to count the benefits and not just the costs. Not surprisingly it was greeted with an intemperate response from NZ First leader Winston Peters, who railed at our finding that migrants are not stealing jobs from Kiwis. Read more
Dr Rachel Hodder
3 February, 2017
Facts of immigration matter
Six months ago, when we started scoping the Initiative’s immigration report, we had a very specific audience in mind: Winston Peters. Our aim was to assemble all the available research and have a fact-based conversation with New Zealand’s most prominent immigration sceptic. Read more
Dr Rachel Hodder
3 February, 2017
Guy Williams discusses The New New Zealanders
Ahead of the launch of The New New Zealanders: Why migrants make good Kiwis, comedian and TV personality Guy Williams spent the day chatting to the report authors. In the first of a series of videos, Guy, and the report authors Jason Krupp and Dr Rachel Hodder discuss the report findings and myth-bust some of the fears that people have about immigration. Read more
Dr Rachel Hodder
1 February, 2017
Doing good, and doing well as a consequence
A sufficiently advanced incompetence in a president is indistinguishable from malice. Donald Trump has issued an Executive Order blocking legal American residents, who happen to have been born in a small set of Middle Eastern countries, from returning home. Read more
Dr Eric Crampton
31 January, 2017
Dr Oliver Hartwich discusses immigration report
Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, discusses our latest report, The New New Zealanders: Why migrants make good Kiwis, on Newstalk ZB with Leighton Smith.
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Dr Oliver Hartwich
31 January, 2017
Dr Eric Crampton on The New New Zealanders report findings
Dr Eric Crampton discusses the migrant levy, and the other recommendations, from our report, The New New Zealanders: Why migrants make good Kiwis, with Mike Hosking.
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30 January, 2017