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Bruce Cotterill: Time to abandon the costly experiments

It’s amazing what you get used to. I’ve spent most of this week in Perth, Western Australia. While...

Envy taxes will make all Kiwis poorer, writes Bruce Cotterill

“Rich people”. The term conjures up a variety of thoughts. Many will run to the immediate vision...

Bruce Cotterill: Vocal minorities drowning out the majority view

A few years back, in the early stages of this Government, I wrote an article entitled “The...

Bruce Cotterill: Watch out – Common sense ahead

Somebody once said that the trouble with common sense is that it is not particularly common. And...

Bruce Cotterill: $2b for welfare – is that our best spending choice?

In a week when we’ve seen overseas banks start to collapse, it seems that New Zealand continues to...

Bruce Cotterill: New Zealand’s road to the future is full of potholes

You can tell a lot about a country from the state of its roads. Roads are a critical part of the...

Bruce Cotterill: Mental health, prostate cancer – we’re getting on our bikes to give Kiwi blokes a helping hand

It’s been a tough couple of weeks. Many of our communities have been hammered. City people. Rural...

Bruce Cotterill: Labour’s new leader has a lot of explaining to do

If they say that a week is a long time in politics, then the past 10 days have been an eternity....

Bruce Cotterill: Rugby World Cup, an election – it’s a year of two games

With a challenging year behind us, we have hit 2023 carrying something of a hangover from the past...

Bruce Cotterill: Government has fiddled as big issues festered

There is no doubt that distraction is a major enemy of productivity. If we think about our own...