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Media Directions
16 September 2011, Cameron Slater
Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater describes the decline of print media and the rise of partisan online media. This presentation was first given at this year's Dunes Symposium.
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The Blogosphere and Public Policy
16 September 2011, David Farrar
David Farrar of Kiwiblog discusses the growing influence blogs over the development of public policy. This presentation was first given at the 2011 Dunes Symposium.
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A Nation at Risk
26 August 2011, Roger Kerr
Roundtable executive director Roger Kerr outlines New Zealand's current precarious economic situation and puts forward some recommendations for building a more productive and prosperous future.
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Global Trends in Privatisation: Lessons for Maximising Economic Gains
9 August 2011, Prof. William Megginson
A presentation on privatisation by Professor William Megginson, one of the world’s leading academic authorities and researchers on privatisation of state-owned enterprises.
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Economic Overview for Paymark Strategic Forum
24 June 2011, Roger Kerr
A general overview for the Paymark Strategic Forum of New Zealand's current economic situation and the challenges it faces.
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Reflections of a Tagger
13 May 2011, Alan Dormer
Resource management expert Alan Dormer's speech to the Auckland branch of the Architectural Draftsman's Association. In it he discusses challenges facing Aucklanders and their local government as the city continues to grow.
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Partial Privatisation
30 March 2011, Philip Barry
A presentation given by Philip Barry to the Law and Economics Association of New Zealand. In it he analyses trends in SOE performance and addresses the myths surrounding privatisation.
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Can Global Financial Regulation Save Us from Future Crises?
22 March 2011, Dr Gordon Thiessen
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The Economic State of the Nation, 2011
25 February 2011, Dr Roderick Deane
Dr Roderick Deane's presentation at the Annual Members' Retreat 17 February 2011.
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Confessions of a Political Disaster Tourist
24 February 2011, Dr Oliver Marc Hartwich
Dr Oliver Marc Hartwich's speech to the February 2011 CEO Forum in Wellington.
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Tribute to Rob McLeod
17 February 2011, Roger Kerr and Dr Roderick Deane
Tributes to Rob McLeod at the New Zealand Business Roundtable Annual Retreat 2011
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Trends in income inequality and other socio-economic outcomes
22 November 2010, Ben Gleisner, The Treasury
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Whither Economics?
4 October 2010, Glenn Boyle
The 2008 global financial crisis resulted in a number of casualties. In the eyes of
many, one such casualty is economics itself. According to these critics, economics
has failed dismally: it failed to prevent the crisis, it failed to predict the crisis, and it
even contributed to causing the crisis. Glenn Boyle argues that proponents of such a
view have much in common with medieval monarchs who removed the heads of
those bearing unwelcome news, and that sensible commentary on economics has
been the real victim of the crisis.
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Asia: Welcome to Our Region
4 October 2010, Rowan Callick, Pacific Rim Policy Exchange, Sydney
I just received a press release from a UN agency headlined: Addressing inequality key to progress on global anti-poverty targets. This is a project to end poverty that appears to operate in a parallel universe, for those of us who are living here in the Asia-Pacific region which contains more than half the world’s population.
For you are meeting in the wake of the recent North American-European financial crisis – NOT a GLOBAL financial crisis – and just as this region is taking over, in my view unshakeably, the leadership of economic growth, if not of the global economy itself.
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Catching Australia by 2025
10 September 2010, Dr Don Brash
Dr Don Brash's presentation to the 2010 Dunes Symposium.
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The New Zealand Economy: Challenges and Opportunities
9 September 2010, Dr Roderick Deane
Dr Roderick Deane's presentation to the 2010 Dunes Symposium.
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Entrepreneurs and Governments: Soul Mates or Uncomfortable Bedfellows?
9 September 2010, Bill Day
Bill Day's presentation to the 2010 Dunes Symposium
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Public Policy: Objectives and Principles
9 September 2010, Roger Kerr
Roger Kerr's presentation to the 2010 Dunes Symposium
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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 Global Fiscal Crisis and the Future of Public Spending
1 February 2010, Roger Kerr
Hard on the heels of the global financial crisis (which, though stabilised, is far from resolved) comes the global fiscal crisis. Since Dubai World, Dubai’s state-owned investment vehicle, defaulted on servicing its debt in November 2009, the world has been wondering who’s next.
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Address to the Blenheim South Rotary Club
27 October 2009, Peter Shirtcliffe
At the outset let me suggest to you that there is nothing wrong with debt per se. In our time we have all had to cope with some form of debt, either in our business or simply to buy a home. The issue is the ability to service the debt. As a community we cope with this by getting richer. Tonight I want to talk with you about some things we can do to make us all richer, so we’re not fretting unduly about the Gnomes of Zurich.
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The Getting of Wisdom or Grumpy Old Policy Analysts?
8 July 2009, David Trebeck
It is often said that wisdom is accumulated with age. Equally, I am aware that longevity can bring out bouts of grumpiness at the manifest failings, so it seems, of those tasked with making and implementing policy. In this address, I intend to deliver a few sprays, constructively I hope, but sprays nevertheless, along with some observations that probably fall into a ‘reflections’ box. Whether what I say constitutes wisdom or grumpiness, I’ll leave you to judge.
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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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Choice and Vouchers - the Swedish experience
10 June 2009, Odd Eiken
Speech by Odd Eiken, former Swedish Secretary of State for Schools and Adult Education, at the Conference for Educational Policy-Makers, Boston University School of Education.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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