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Think Tanks to Merge
16 December 2011, Business Roundtable
The New Zealand Business Roundtable and the New Zealand Institute confirmed today that the boards of the two organisations had agreed to combine forces to form a new, independent public policy think tank.
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Charter School System Could Transform Lives
8 December 2011, Business Roundtable
The Business Roundtable welcomes the charter school initiative announced this week, New Zealand Business Roundtable chairman Roger Partridge said today.
Mr Partridge outlined the Business Roundtable’s views on the charter proposal in an article Charter Schools: A Dove Among the Pigeons published on the organisation’s blog Policy Matters (businessroundtable.wordpress.com)
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Business Roundtable Questions ‘Strange’ Treasury Advice re Spending Cap Bill and Proposes Strengthening Measures
2 December 2011, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The Treasury’s advice to the government on the Spending Cap (People’s Veto) Bill constitutes an abandonment of its duty to advise and an inappropriate political judgment, according to a submission on the Bill released today by the New Zealand Business Roundtable.
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Bryce Wilkinson Appointed Acting Executive Director
15 November 2011, New Zealand Business Roundtable
New Zealand Business Roundtable chairman Roger Partridge announced today that economist Dr Bryce Wilkinson has been appointed acting executive director of the Business Roundtable.
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Draft Auckland Plan Bound to Fail
11 November 2011, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The Auckland Council's draft Auckland Plan fails to focus the Council on succeeding in its core task of providing local public goods efficiently and at least cost, according to a submission on the draft plan released today by the New Zealand Business Roundtable.
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More Decisive Action Needed on the Economy and Government Accounts
26 October 2011, New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Update confirms the need for more decisive action both on the economy and the government accounts”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today.
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Parliament Affirms Right to Freedom of Association
29 September 2011, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The final passage last night of the Education Amendment Bill, which abolished compulsory membership of student unions, was welcomed by Business Roundtable executive director Roger Kerr as an affirmation of the principles of a free society.
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Business Roundtable Welcomes Spending Cap Bill
11 August 2011, New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The Bill introduced to parliament yesterday as a government measure to place a cap on government spending deserves strong support”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today.
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Business Roundtable Executive Director and Former Australian PM Receive Prestigious Australian Awards
2 August 2011, New Zealand Business Roundtable
New Zealand Business Roundtable executive director Roger Kerr and former Australian Prime Minister John Howard were awarded the Alan McGregor Fellowships by the Centre for Independent Studies chair Michael Darling at the Consilium conference in Coolum, Queensland which finished on Saturday.
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Budget Measures Do Not Match Government's Ambitions
19 May 2011, New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The government has taken some commendable decisions in the budget but they do not amount to a coherent plan for economic growth and for removing serious foreseeable risks”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today.
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Top University Debaters Face Off in the Business Roundtable’s Big Social Issues Debates Grand Final
4 May 2011, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The two top Victoria University debaters will compete against their University of Auckland counterparts, for a prize of $1000, over the moot Welfare Incentivises Irresponsible Behaviour in the grand final of the Business Roundtable’s Big Social Issues Debates.
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Little Respite on Tax Freedom Day
2 May 2011, New Zealand Business Roundtable
“Tax Freedom Day this year is 3 May, as far as the central government tax burden is concerned”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today. Tax Freedom Day represents the notional day in the year when the average New Zealander stops working for the government and starts working for themselves.
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New Zealand Scores Well in International Property Rights Index
16 March 2011, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The New Zealand Business Roundtable today announced the release of the 2011 International Property Rights Index (IRPI), which measures the intellectual and physical property rights of 129 nations from around the world. This year, sixty-seven international organisations, including the New Zealand Business Roundtable, partnered with the Property Rights Alliance in Washington, DC and its Hernando de Soto Fellowship program to produce the fifth annual IPRI.
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Introduction of Regulatory Standards Bill a Big Step Forward
15 March 2011, New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The introduction into parliament of the Regulatory Standards Bill is a landmark development in the quest for better regulation in New Zealand”, Business Roundtable chairman Roger Partridge said today.
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Financial Markets Authority Regulation
3 March 2011, New Zealand Business Roundtable
While the Business Roundtable was pleased that a number of the changes it had proposed appeared to have been taken up, Mr Kerr said that it was concerned at the half measure adopted in relation to concerns it and others had expressed about permitting the FMA to “compulsorily acquire” investors’ rights of action in relation to securities.
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Savings Working Group Report a Mixed Bag
1 February 2011, New Zealand Business Roundtable
“Today’s report by the Savings Working Group contains some important messages but is flawed by dubious analysis and over-reach”, the executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, Roger Kerr, said today.
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Stronger Action Needed to Boost Growth and Reduce Risks
14 December 2010, New Zealand Business Roundtable
“It is pleasing that official projections confirm a gradual pick-up in activity but the growth outlook is relatively weak and the economy is vulnerable to adverse events”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today.
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Impasse on Superannuation Age Must be Broken
8 December 2010, New Zealand Business Roundtable
As the 2025 Taskforce also said in its report last month, changes to NZS are “vital and are already well overdue.” New Zealand simply cannot hope to achieve the growth rates needed to catch up to Australian income levels with the present share of government spending in the economy, let alone higher ratios with the increased spending on superannuation and health associated with an aging population.
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Aboriginal Leader Noel Pearson to Deliver Business Roundtable Lecture
28 October 2010, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The 15th annual New Zealand Business Roundtable Sir Ronald Trotter lecture will be delivered by Noel Pearson at a dinner at The Auckland War Memorial Museum on 2 November 2010. A lawyer and the founder of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, Noel Pearson has devoted his life to solving problems of education, welfare and employment in Aboriginal communities (see below).
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Economic Freedom Fell Globally and in New Zealand in 2008
20 September 2010, New Zealand Business Roundtable
New Zealand lost ground in 2008 in the Economic Freedom of the World: 2010 Annual Report, released today in New Zealand by the New Zealand Business Roundtable. The report takes the annual series up to 2008, the most recent year for which data are available.
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Auckland Shows Benefits of Rationalising Water Businesses
2 September 2010, New Zealand Business Roundtable
This week’s announcement that customers will benefit from lower prices from the integrated water business in Auckland was predictable and good news, Business Roundtable executive director, Roger Kerr, said today.
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Government’s Liquor Decisions Sensible
23 August 2010, New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The government deserves credit for its level-headed decisions on alcohol”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today. “It has clearly listened to evidence and argument and avoided over-reaction.”
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Leading Auckland Lawyer Appointed as Roundtable Chair
20 August 2010, New Zealand Business Roundtable
New Zealand Business Roundtable members have elected Roger Partridge as the new chair of the organisation. He replaces Rob McLeod who was appointed in July by Ernst & Young to be managing partner, New Zealand and Australia, based in Sydney.
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Local Government Forum: New Report on Ports Industry Released
18 August 2010, Local Government Forum
The Local Government Forum released today a report on the performance
of New Zealand ports, which are a vital link in the transport chain between
New Zealand and the rest of the world.
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Tributes Flow For Business Roundtable Founding Chairman
11 August 2010, New Zealand Business Roundtable
Business Roundtable Chairman Rob McLeod and Executive Director Roger Kerr today paid tribute to the organisation’s founding chairman and business icon Sir Ronald Ramsey Trotter, who died peacefully at his Kapiti Coast home last night after a long illness.
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Local Government Election Year - Good Candidates Needed
11 August 2010, Local Government Forum
With less then 10 days to go before nominations close for this year’s local authority elections, the Local Government Forum is encouraging business friendly candidates to stand for councils around the country.
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New Thinking on Council Spending in UK
2 August 2010, New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The UK government has announced its intention to introduce automatic referenda if the rate of increase in council tax (rates) exceeds a threshold set by parliament”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today.
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Sound Steps But No Step Change in Budget
20 May 2010, New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The government deserves credit for correcting some of the economic mistakes of its predecessor but is still well away from putting the economy on a strong and balanced growth path”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today.
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No Respite on Tax Freedom Day
29 April 2010, New Zealand Business Roundtable
“Tax Freedom Day this year is again 11 May, as far as the central government tax burden is concerned”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today.
Mr Kerr said Tax Freedom Day represents the notional day in the year when the average New Zealander stops working for the government and starts working for themselves.
“The average New Zealander effectively spends more than one third of the year working for central government.”
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Latest Figures Highlight Productivity Challenge
16 March 2010, New Zealand Business Roundtable
“Today’s productivity data from Statistics New Zealand dramatically highlight the
damaging consequences of the economic mismanagement of recent years”, Roger
Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today.
The data bring the series up to March 2009, effectively the end of the last
government’s term of office.
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Major Problems with Development and Financial Contributions
15 March 2010, Local Government Forum
A joint report by the Local Government Forum and the Property Council New
Zealand identifies major problems with the practices of councils in levying
development and financial contributions.
Taxing Growth and Development: A critical review of the role of development and
financial contributions examines the conceptual bases for such contributions,
considers alternatives (particularly greater recourse to user charges) and
recommends policy reforms.
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New Zealand’s Top University Debaters Go Head to Head in Business Roundtable’s Big Social Issues Debates
10 March 2010, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The New Zealand Business Roundtable is hosting the Big Social Issues Debates, a national university debating tournament beginning in secondary schools on March 15 and finishing with a grand final to be hosted by Minister for Social Development Hon Paula Bennett on 24 March at the Academy Galleries in Wellington starting at 5.30pm.
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