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Government’s Plan a Welcome Start
9 February 2010, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The New Zealand Business Roundtable welcomed the government’s announcement today of plans to strengthen and reform the economy and its renewed commitment to catching up with Australia, Business Roundtable executive director Roger Kerr said today.
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Realistic Taskforce Report Challenges Politicians and Voters
30 November 2009, New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The Taskforce report on closing the income gap with Australia offers a realistic
assessment of New Zealand’s major economic challenges and a substantial
programme for achieving the 2025 goal”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New
Zealand Business Roundtable, said today. “Nothing less would do the job.”
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Former Business Roundtable Chair Honoured
27 November 2009, New Zealand Business Roundtable
New Zealand Business Roundtable chairman Rob McLeod today congratulated
Commonwealth Bank of Australia chief executive and former Business Roundtable
chairman Sir Ralph Norris on being named Executive of the Decade at last night’s
Deloitte/Management Top 200 Awards.
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New Zealand Business Roundtable Hosts Liquor Debate
24 November 2009, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The New Zealand Business Roundtable is hosting an evening of debate and discussion on the current review of the liquor laws on Wednesday, 2 December. The event will be held at the Academy Galleries, in Wellington from 5.30pm to 7.00pm to an audience of young professionals and students.
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Updated Fact File of Economic Statistics Released
30 October 2009, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The New Zealand Business Roundtable has updated the data of key statistics complied for economic journalists and others interested in the New Zealand economy.
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Report of Regulatory Responsibility Taskforce Welcomed
29 October 2009, New Zealand Business Roundtable
“On a first examination, the Regulatory Responsibility Taskforce appears to have
produced an outstanding and robust report that deserves the support of the government and parliament”, the executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, Roger Kerr, said today.
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New Zealand Business Organisations Support Message to G20 on Protectionism
15 September 2009, New Zealand Business Roundtable, Federated Farmers and Chambers of Commerce
The heads of three New Zealand business organisations have lent their support to
an Australian initiative asking G20 leaders to focus on domestic sources of
pressure for protectionist policies.
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Maori and Welfare
20 July 2009, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The New Zealand Business Roundtable today released the fifth working paper in a series that explores Maori development and ways of building on past
achievements.
The paper, entitled Maori and Welfare, is authored by Lindsay Mitchell, a
Wellington-based welfare commentator and researcher.
The paper 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, in high rates of gambling and alcohol addiction, youth suicide, substance
abuse and smoking.
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Climate Change Policy: Still No Proper Cost Benefit Analysis
3 July 2009, New Zealand Business Roundtable
"While the new NZIER/Infometrics report to the government on climate change
policy provides useful insights, it is not a Regulatory Impact Statement, as required
by and defined in the terms of reference of the parliamentary select committee
reviewing the proposed Emission Trading Scheme (ETS)", Roger Kerr, executive
director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today.
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Climate Change Issues: A Dissenting Voice
18 June 2009, David Henderson
David Henderson's contribution to a panel discussion on public policy responses to global warming, delivered at the 'Beyond Kyoto - Green Innovation and Enterprise in the 21st Century' conference, at the Said Business School, Oxford University.
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Economic Direction Sound but Harder Decisions Required
28 May 2009, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The 2009 Budget is a first step on the long road to raising the economy's rate of productivity growth and correcting structural
imbalances.
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Keynote address to the Massey University College of Business Graduation Ceremony
12 May 2009, Peter Shirtcliffe
Advice regarding the skills and attributes necessary to achieve in business.
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Huge Shift in Tax Freedom Day
27 April 2009, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Opportunities of a Lifetime: Lessons for New Zealand from New, High-Growth Economies - the 2009 Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture
7 April 2009, Stephen Jennings
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Opportunities of a Lifetime: Jennings' lecture full
4 April 2009, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture is to be delivered on Tuesday 7 April by Renaissance Group founder Stephen Jennings at Te Papa Tongarewa to a sell-out crowd of 450.
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Freedom to Trade Coalition will hold G20 to Account
2 April 2009, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The Freedom to Trade Coalition - comprising over 60 civil society organisations from 44 countries - launched an open letter calling on all governments to eliminate trade barriers.
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Income Redistribution Not a Local Government Role
30 March 2009, New Zealand Business Roundtable
A new report argues that income redistribution policies should continue to be the responsibility of central government, not councils.
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Royal Commission Report Only a Starting Point
27 March 2009, New Zealand Business Roundtable
"The Royal Commission's report is a starting point for reforming local government in Auckland, but more work needs to be done", Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today.
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Business Roundtable releases climate change submission
19 March 2009, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The Business Roundtable has released the submission which it presented today to the Emissions Trading Scheme Review Committee of parliament.
Executive director Roger Kerr said that the key point made in the discussion with the Committee was that the regulatory impact analysis (RIA) required in the
Committee's terms of reference had not been undertaken.
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Where To From Here - Progress On The Confidence & Supply Agreement between ACT and National
20 February 2009, Rodney Hide
Both National and ACT want to see a more prosperous and cohesive nation driven by the initiative and hard work of individual people. But ACT also believes our national productivity performance will need to increase dramatically to match that of Australia.
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Te Papa Treaty Debates on Audio
17 February 2009, New Zealand Business Roundtable
Audio of the two 2009 Treaty Debates at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is available through the following Radio New Zealand link...
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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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New Zealand Economy Faces Massive Challenges
18 December 2008, New Zealand Business Roundtable
"Today's Budget Policy Statement indicates the massive challenges the government is facing as a result of the economic mismanagement of recent years", Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today.
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Climate Change Coalition Warns Governments Against Global Cap on Emissions
11 December 2008, New Zealand Business Roundtable
As the eleven thousand participants in the United Nations Climate Change Conference descend on Poznan, Poland, this week, a coalition of 50 civil society organisations from 38 countries is warning governments against opting for strategies that would "do little to protect humanity against the threat of climate change but would drastically increase the threat of global economic catastrophe."
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Top Debaters Square off in Business Roundtable Parliamentary Debating Championships
28 November 2008, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The New Zealand Business Roundtable, in association with the New Zealand Universities' Debating Council and the Victoria University of Wellington Debating Society, is pleased to announce that the Grand Final of the New Zealand Business Roundtable Parliamentary Debating Championships will be held at 4.30pm on Sunday 30 November in the Legislative Council Chamber at Parliament.
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Report Calls for Councils to Focus on Core Services
27 November 2008, New Zealand Business Roundtable
Local authorities have strayed, at great cost, far beyond their core role of providing certain vital services to their local communities, according to a new report released today by the Local Government Forum.
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Chairman's Remarks
20 November 2008, Rob McLeod
We said from the outset that the policies put in place by the last government to achieve its laudable goal of raising New Zealand's relative living standards and place in the OECD rankings could not succeed, and that they would move New Zealand further away from that goal. It gives us no satisfaction to have been proved right.
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Report Explores the Role of Te Puni Kokiri: the Ministry of Maori Development
20 November 2008, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The New Zealand Business Roundtable today released the fourth working paper in a series that explores Maori development and ways of building on past achievements.
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No U-Turn on Carbon Tax
19 November 2008, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The Business Roundtable has welcomed National Party leader John Key's indication that the new government will be willing to consider the merits of a carbon tax vis-à-vis an emissions trading scheme (ETS) as a response to climate change.
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The Real Environmental Crisis
11 November 2008, Roger Kerr
The Business Roundtable has had a longstanding interest in environmental issues. We have been involved in debates over the Resource Management Act (RMA) and climate change from the outset. With the change of government it is pleasing that policies in both these areas are up for review. The election result suggests that voters at large are unhappy with them.
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