by Bruce Cotterill | May 10, 2025 | Uncategorised
Do you remember the Super City? That gigantic failure of local government policy that saw Auckland’s suburbs surrender their decision-making and their character to the bureaucrats downtown? By the time our local body elections roll around later this year, it will be...
by Bruce Cotterill | Apr 27, 2025 | Uncategorised
The recent antics within a couple of our minor political parties should force us to think about the future of our voting system. The next general election in 2026 will see the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the MMP electoral voting system. MMP stands for...
by Bruce Cotterill | Mar 29, 2025 | Uncategorised
I was reminded this week of the story of Jill Barad. Barad was the rather glamorous chief executive of Mattel Inc in the 1990s who took well-deserved credit for the resurgence of the Barbie brand. But the last few years of her time in the corner office were marred by...
by Bruce Cotterill | Mar 15, 2025 | Uncategorised
It’s early days but the Government’s first infrastructure investment summit appears to have been well received. There was good representation from the investment community, some visible presence from the international investment funds, and a Prime Minister who was “on...
by Bruce Cotterill | Mar 1, 2025 | Uncategorised
We love a good victim don’t we. Show me a victim and I’ll show you an opposition politician preaching concern, a union leader criticising those who caused it, and a media scrum scrambling to tell the story. Our television news teams have become quite expert at...
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