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Speeches and presentations
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Reflections on a Life Well Lived: A Tribute to Sir Ron Trotter
17 August 2010, Roger Kerr, Old St Paul's, Wellington
Margaret and the family have asked me to reflect on Sir Ron’s role in business and public affairs and I’m honoured to do so. I loved Ron like a father. So it was with a heavy heart that I sat down to write these notes on Friday.
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The Maori Seats in Parliament
5 February 2009, Philip A Joseph
Separate Maori representation has routinely been trumpeted as a defining feature of our electoral system. So one would expect its introduction to have been on a considered and principled basis. But not so: four separate Maori electorates were introduced in 1867. Those seats were a temporary expedient, not a principled reform.
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Maori in the New Zealand Economy
29 January 2009, Rob McLeod
The policies or remedies that lift people from an unacceptable performance segment are not in my opinion as difficult as achieving compliance with those policies by relevant stakeholders. Most of my policy injunctions are rhetorical in nature, like the injunction to parents to do the right thing by their children; or the injunction to schools to do the right thing by their Maori students.
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Maori, Business and the Economy
29 January 2009, Roger Kerr
It is no accident that one of the most positive recent periods for Maori - the Maori cultural renaissance, the exciting developments in Maori education and the rise of Maori commercial enterprises - all began in the freer economic environment that followed the economic reforms of the mid-1980s and early 1990s.
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Maori and Business
28 October 2004, Roger Kerr
Roger Kerr's speech to Te Awe: Wellington Maori Business Network in Wellington today.
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The Resource Management Amendment Act: Is it Too Little,Too Late?
18 September 2003, Rob Fisher
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Identity, Culture and Society
28 November 2000, Douglas Myers
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An Introduction to Professor Kenneth Minogue
6 April 1998, Roger Kerr
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Minority and Majority Cultures and Education
9 February 1996, Michael Irwin
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Business and Biculturalism
18 March 1993, Roger Kerr
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What Kind of Country?
28 June 1992, Roger Kerr
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Books and reports
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Te Oranga o te Iwi Maori Working Paper 5: Maori and Welfare
20 July 2009, Lindsay Mitchell
Writing in the Dominion Post in 2006, New Zealand Business Roundtable
chairman Rob McLeod (Ngati Porou) reminded us that when the general
unemployment rate had been over 8 percent there was widespread anxiety, yet
Maori unemployment was still that high and was attracting little comment.1
At that time, 88,500 or 29 percent of working-age Maori (18-64 years) were
receiving a benefit.2 More positively, 71 percent of Maori were not receiving a
benefit.
Unfortunately, however, Maori statistics paint a regrettable picture, not only
because of current over-representation in most negative social indicators, but also
because the disproportion was less pronounced in the past. Maori were not
always over-represented in dole queues, prisons, and the courts, in high rates of
gambling and alcohol addiction, youth suicide, substance abuse and smoking.
NZ $12.50
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Te Oranga o te Iwi Maori Working Paper 4: Te Puni Kokiri: The Ministry of Maori Development
20 November 2008, John Luxton
It is interesting in a public policy sense to review the various roles that have been given to the Maori portfolio of government over the last 160 years. Maori Affairs is one of the oldest of all government portfolios. Over time, the changing role of the portfolio has reflected the government approach to Maori issues. This paper looks at what role such a ministry might play in future.
NZ $12.50
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Te Oranga o te Iwi Maori Working Paper 3: Once Were Iwi? A Brief Institutional Analysis of Maori Tribal Organisations Through Ti
22 September 2008, Frédéric Sautet
This paper explores the nature of iwi through time and is structured in three parts. First, the role and institutional limitations of a tribal collective are examined. Second, the paper looks at the evolution of Maori institutional arrangements during the nineteenth century and the issue of the 'iwi counterfactual'. Third, contemporary iwi are analysed with broad conclusions drawn regarding the opportunities they pose, the challenges they face, and the alternatives available.
A free PDF copy of this report is available under 'Books and reports' (please see the menu on the left).
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Te Oranga o te Iwi Maori Working Paper 2: The Maori Seats in Parliament
30 May 2008, Philip A Joseph
This essay advances four propositions: (a) the separate seats are unnecessary to
secure effective representation of Maori, (b) the seats entrench a form of historical paternalism that removes Maori issues from the mainstream political agenda, (c) the retention of the seats under MMP represents an insidious form of reverse discrimination and (d) the seats invite 'overhang' and the potential to undermine the expressed will of the people.
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Te Oranga o te Iwi Maori Working Paper 1: Maori Economic Development: Glimpses from Statistical Sources
25 January 2006, Dave Maré and Sylvia Dixon of Motu and Andrew Coleman, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
Provisionally entitled Te Oranga o te Iwi Maori: A Study of Maori Economic and Social Progress, the book will look at factors and institutions that have influenced Maori development and ways of building on past achievements.
The first Working Paper, Maori Economic Development: Glimpses from Statistical Sources, was undertaken by Wellington-based Motu Economic and Public Policy Research. The authors were Dave Maré and Sylvia Dixon of Motu and Andrew Coleman, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan.
The paper provides an overview of Maori economic development during the past 150 years, drawing on readily available statistical and historical sources.
Author Dave Maré said, "The path of Maori economic development that we have traced is one of ongoing change and adaptation, as well as one of substantial increase in material standards of living, albeit with periods of significant setback.
"The living standards of Maori improved enormously during the 20th century (as did the living standards of non-Maori). One of the most important drivers of that process of improvement was the gradual incorporation of Maori into the market economy, leading to the acquisition of jobs, incomes, new skills and new sets of knowledge. Another driver was the extension of government social services and 'safety net' income support provisions to Maori. A third was the initiative of Maori people themselves: developing new types of business activity and social services, and channelling public funding for social services in directions likely to be of greatest benefit to Maori."
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The Future of Culture in a Globalised World: The 2005 Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture
15 December 2005, Tyler Cowen
I sometimes describe my cultural and economic point of view as
being that of a cultural optimist; that is, I expect the future in
a commercial economy to bring us more choices and more diverse choices.
If we put aside the concerns of the current day and look back at world history, it has been the globalising eras that have brought us cultural diversity. If we look at the nineteenth century, which, for Europe, was a time of free trade when countries and regions were drawn closer by using railroads and faster ships, we see a time of remarkable cultural inventiveness. The biggest deglobalisation the West has suffered was the fall of the Roman Empire. Following that fall, there was indeed a dark age for culture; literature declined and many wonderful statues of antiquity were melted down for their bronze content.
This longer-term perspective is often forgotten when we consider the present day. We find cultural pessimists - both on the left and right wings - concerned that we are headed toward a so-called least common denominator, one-world culture. The vision is that everyone eats at McDonald's, we all wear Reeboks, we are all stuck in a Starbucks somewhere, we all watch banal television shows, and have little else to experience. Even in our modern world this is obviously not true.
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Affirmative Action: The US Experience and Implications for New Zealand
20 April 2005, Richard A Epstein
This lecture, Affirmative Action: The US
Experience and Implications for New Zealand,
was delivered on 3 August 2004 at the
offices of Russell McVeagh, Wellington.
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America and its Allies: Growing Together or Growing Apart? The 2002 Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture
12 August 2002, Dr Francis Fukuyama
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Waitangi, Morality and Reality
1 April 1998, Kenneth Minogue
Professor Minogue's investigation of Treaty of Waitangi issues finds there is a considerable gap between the moral imperatives driving Treaty issues, and New Zealand realities. The book analyses the inevitable tensions between issues of justice, the economy, culture and democratic politics which must be carefully managed in advancing the Waitangi process.
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Submissions
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Submission on the Welfare Working Group paper Reducing Long-Term Benefit Dependency: The Options
23 December 2010, New Zealand Business Roundtable
1.2 We see the issue of welfare dependency and welfare costs as hugely important – economically, fiscally and socially. The WWG’s work should be seen in the context of the precarious current economic situation, with an anaemic GDP growth outlook and dangerous external vulnerabilities due to very high foreign indebtedness. Within a short period of time demographic trends will add to fiscal pressures with the prospect of higher government spending on superannuation, health and welfare.
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Submission on the Foreshore and Seabed Bill
28 July 2004, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The foreshore and seabed should generally be publicly owned with open access, subject to existing private rights.
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Submission on the Resource Management
(Waitaki Catchment) Amendment Bill
12 February 2004, NZBR
This proposed legislation is an ad hoc and backward step for water management, promoting a central planning approach that is out of line with international best practice.
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Submission on Walking Access in the New Zealand Outdoors
25 November 2003, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The proposals discussed in the report entail a substantial erosion of private property rights which is detrimental to prosperity. Land-based industries, such as farming and forestry, and tourism are directly affected.
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Submission on the Foreshore and Seabed of New Zealand
6 October 2003, New Zealand Business Roundtable
Property rights, including Maori customary rights, are at the heart of the issue of ownership of the foreshore and seabed.
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Submission on the Historic Heritage Management Review
1 April 1998, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Articles
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Maori Leaders Should Lead Way on Welfare Reform
31 July 2009, Roger Kerr
The 'Maori and Welfare' paper launched by the Business Roundtable last week tracks the prevalence of social problems among Maori as a proportion of the population from the earliest recorded statistics through to the present. It finds that Maori were not always over-represented in dole queues, prisons and the courts, high rates of gambling and alcohol addiction, teenage births and single parenthood, child abuse, youth suicide, substance abuse and smoking.
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Fees not the biggest barrier to study
27 April 2005, Norman LaRocque
If New Zealand is to enjoy quality tertiary education, a mix of private and public spending is a better option than taxpayers footing the whole bill.
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Hui Taumata: A Source of Optimism
11 March 2005, Roger Kerr
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Roderick Deane on Corporate Governance
11 February 2005, Roger Kerr
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New Zealand Families Matter
17 December 2004, Patricia Morgan
The family is now in a worse state in New Zealand than almost anywhere else.
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Key issues for Maori are also those of wider society
3 December 2004, Roger Kerr
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It's Yesterday's Schools Once More
20 July 2004, Roger Kerr
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Prejudice Against a Word
16 January 2004, Roger Kerr
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Where everybody knows your name
15 September 2003, Roger Kerr
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Why is Australia doing so well?
24 August 2003, Roger Kerr
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Should our land be sold to foreigners?
2 March 2003, Roger Kerr
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Perspectives
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Issue 356 Social Housing Model rips the Heart out of Indigenous Communities
1 April 2010, Noel Pearson
THAT welfare passivity has no racial basis is readily confirmed in the writings of the pseudonymous English doctor and author, Theodore Dalrymple, about life among the white tribes of contemporary Britain.
Dalrymple's accounts of underclass pathos and dysfunction and the elite ideas that have created and sustain it, could well be an account of life an entire world away: Aboriginal communities in remote Australia.
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Issue 348 It’s Always the End of the World as We Know It
24 February 2010, Dennis Dutton
IT seems so distant, 1999. Bill Clinton had survived impeachment, his popularity hardly dented, Sept. 11 was just another date and music fans were enjoying a young singer named Britney Spears.
But there was a particular unease in the air. The so-called Y2K problem, the inability of computers to read dates beyond 1999 threatened to turn Jan. 1, 2000 into a nightmare. The issue had first been noticed by programmers in the 1950s, but had been ignored. As the turn of the century loomed, though, it seemed that humankind faced a litany of horrors
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Issue 346 The Populist Addiction
17 February 2010, David Brooks
Politics, some believe, is the organization of hatreds. The people who try to divide society on the basis of ethnicity we call racists. The people who try to divide it on the basis of religion we call sectarians. The people who try to divide it on the basis of social class we call either populists or elitists.
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Issue 344 When Welfarism takes Over, Disaster will follow
12 February 2010, Noel Pearson
Most people would not be glad to have government service provisioning dominating their lives in the way Aboriginal and other like disadvantaged people's lives are. There is no freedom of private choice and action when governments have assumed responsibilities that are normally undertaken by responsible parents and individuals. That government intervention has crowded out the responsibilities of individuals, families and communities is my point.
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Issue 342 The Best is Yet to Come
4 February 2010, Adrian Wooldridge
Two years ago, as the world flirted with a second Great Depression, Gregg Easterbrook was in the midst of writing a book about the coming economic boom. A less confident writer might have abandoned the project in despair. But Mr. Easterbrook, a graduate of the New Republic's school of contrarian journalism, forged on regardless. The result is a book that is both a pleasure to read and a valuable corrective to the gloom that currently envelops us.
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Issue 331 Why Opting Out is no "Third Way"
21 December 2009, Will Wilkinson
At first blush, "libertarian paternalism" seems a linguistic miscarriage, a self-crippling idea condemned to limp aimlessly in eternal darkness on the island of misfit creeds alongside "humanitarian sadism" and "color-blind racism." But that hasn't stopped Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, law and economics superstars at the University of Chicago, from pushing the catchphrase and concept as a solution to the nation's problems for a half-decade now.
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Media Releases
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Working Paper on Maori Project Released
25 January 2006, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The Business Roundtable has released the first Working Paper in a series which will form the basis of a book to be published later this year.
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Affirmative Action: The US Experience and Implications for New Zealand
20 April 2005, New Zealand Business Roundtable
Affirmative action programmes may make good sense for commercial or social purposes, but decisions about them should be made by firms or institutions in a decentralised way.
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E-Connects
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When Ideas Have Sex
19 July 2010, Matt Ridley
British author Matt Ridley argues that, through history, the engine of human progress and prosperity has been, and is, "ideas having sex with each other."
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