Good luck !

I'm more sceptical what those people involved understand of the term "Increasing productivity".

- Building more roads (Infrastructure) with machinery imported -.
- Extending Public transport with rolling stock imported -.
- Improving Power grid/ supply with equipment imported -.
- Improving education system with lecturer's /products/ etc. imported -.
- etc. -

Ha -Millions of $ are leaving the country.

Please edenz don't take my comment out of context.

Why?

Caygill presided over the EC, the most pernicious of the the cargo cult reform moves, a bureaucratic boondoggle setup to oversee a legislated monopoly, the result of which was a bonus for lawyers and the useless

Neven

I have edited this comment. A reminder to all. Please do not use abusive language or say anything that might look like defamation to a lawyer with a big mortgage he/she wants to pay off in a hurry.
cheers/Bernard

Well, has anyone done the obvious yet and googled the names to see what might be coming our way. OK, I do it, and heres one I prepared earlier,

Don Brash - Most here already know which way the bankers gib is cut, output minus input equals profit, if the labour portion of that input can be reduced to only having to feed the slaves, that would greatly improve our productivity to inline with the other nations that my neo-con mates live of whom I am so envious because they already have such conditions. So I'll hire Judith Sloan.

- Judith Sloan Australian Productivity Commissioner
TOWARDS FULL EMPLOYMENT
IN NEW ZEALAND
A RESPONSE TO EMPLOYMENT: THE ISSUES
A REPORT OF THE PRIME MINISTERIAL TASK FORCE
ON EMPLOYMENT
BY PROFESSOR JUDITH SLOAN
DIRECTOR
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LABOUR STUDIES
NEW ZEALAND BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE
AUGUST 1994
(from conclusions)
On the first, the critical factor determining the translation of output growth into jobs growth is the degree of labour market flexibility, measured along a number of dimensions. With the passing of the Employment Contracts Act, New Zealand has experienced a dramatic improvement in its overall extent of labour market flexibility. There is, however, one major unfinished agenda item and that relates to the high (perceived) costs of firing arising from the unfair dismissal decisions of the Employment Court. The overseas evidence is very clear: strong employment protection laws are associated with high rates of unemployment, particularly long-term unemployment. The suggestion made here is that the work of the Employment Court be transferred to the normal court system and the principles of contract law, which underpin the approach of the ECA, be more strongly invoked in respect of dismissal matters. The other impediment to greater labour market flexibility relates to minimum wages and their potential harm to the employment prospects of the lowest paid and least productive members of the workforce.
http://www.nzbr.org.nz/documents/publications/new-publications/sloan-pap...

David Gaygill - Pretty well known to most politically interested bods as part of the terrible four Douglas, Prebble, Basset during the selling of NZ man on mainstreet down the river. When made head of the electricity commission he stated in an article in the Dominion newspaper that during the Douglas reforms he didn't really know what was going on, just said what they told him to say. I have lost the actual article from pre 2008 election, if anyone kept it or noted it, could they please post it?

Bryce Wilkinson - During our receivership at the hands of international financiers in 1984 and the imposed structural adjustment programs many foreign trained advisors from within treasury were pulling the puppet strings of their locally recruited political co-operatives. The most prominent of these were Graham Scott, Bryce Wilkinson, Rob Cameron, Roger Kerr, all of whom have been put in charge of or part of most all of the many taskforces put back in place by the National Party Executive as we are once again being prepared, unless the sheoples awake, for another liquidation and further privatisation:
Cultural Re-Invention
Within The New Zealand Treasury
Joe Wallis* and Brian Dollery**
August 2001
In an extensive series of interviews with those actors who played an influential role in making economic policy in New Zealand over the 1984-1993 period, Goldfinch (2000) found that four NZT officials - Graham Scott, Bryce Wilkinson, Robert Cameron and Roger Kerr- were nominated as being more influential around 1984 than Bernard Galvin who was Secretary at the time. It appears that Galvin was prepared to allow these subordinates to assume the reins of policy leadership within the organization in much the same way that the Labour prime minister , David Lange, gave his finance minister, Roger Douglas, a free rein in driving the new economic policy direction through various veto points in Cabinet, caucus and Parliament. Easton (1997) has, with his characteristic sense of drama, described this as a "colonel's coup" within the NZT. The influence of the "colonels" increased through the 1980s as Scott replaced Galvin as Treasury Secretary and Kerr assumed the position of director of the hugely influential Business Roundtable.

NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS: THE NZ LABOUR PARTY SINCE 1984
JIM DELAHUNTY (WELLINGTON, OCTOBER 1999)
As Bruce Jesson said in "Revival of the Right" - "Since 1984 New Zealand has been ruled by a government of the libertarian right. This has not always been obvious to New Zealanders: political awareness has declined since the 1930s..." p.30.
He then goes on to show how Labour policy was related to capitalist aims and objectives... 'Treasury presented the incoming government with a set of briefing papers, written by Graham Scott, Roger Kerr, Bryce Wilkinson and Rob Cameron published under the name of "Economic Management" which was to be the blueprint of Labour's economic reforms... "Economic Management" recommended most of the reforms that were to transform the New Zealand economy: deregulation of finance, floating the dollar, abolition of exchange controls, corporatisation, GST reduced income tax, family care and so on..."
Sharechat article by Rodney Rampant
12 June 2009
Re Regulatory Taskforce
The presence of Capital Economics director Bryce Wilkinson, identified like Scott as a long-time crusader for "finishing the job" started by Roger Douglas in the 1980's, indicates a willingness to consider bold ideas. The rest of the group represents a solid who's who of the legal and corporate sectors, including investment community heavyweights Paul Baines and Don Turkington, and the noted legal commentator, now chairman of Chapman Tripp, Jack Hodder. The inclusion of David Caygill, once a regulatory reformist in the Lange-Douglas government 20 years ago and now the chair of the Electricity Commission, suggests that the taskforce will have the capacity to knit its proposals together with whatever happens once the wholesale electricity market review is completed.

Its looking like an easy victory Wally, a majority of occupants are still in the mess tent in the middle of the fort on the piss with the music cranked up blisfully unaware that the stealthy invaders have already dispatched all the perimeter guards and are readying for the final assault on the fat and happy drunks in the mess tent, and by the time they realise they are even under attack they will be in no position or condition to mount any sort of counter attack. Just the way Dodgy Rodgy likes to plan it, hit'em before they even know whats happened to'em.

Come on you lot, you didn't really expect a serious effort to be made to put right the pigsty economy did you? The whole Brash thing is for the benefit of the poorly educated peasantry. Something to take their minds off the daily drudge of working to pay the taxes. It'll be kept wallowing in the trough of tax payer loot, running with the spin and getting the full support of the stupid poodle media, right up to the point when the Beehive deems it time for the findings to be sold to the public, as the right way forward ..............oh and why the Nats have to keep the govt in office.
The findings have already been written! All Brash has to do is stick to the script and he will be bending the knee come 2011.

The committee would have an easy task if they developed policy to ensure that producers and exporters are paid.
Production can not happen without investment.R&D and infrastructure spends are worthless without production
NZ is littered with examples of what can happen wihen producers receive just returns the last of which is the dairy industry.
Unfortunately this committee is unlikely to have courage to address the major issues of an overvalued exchange rate ,excessive interest rates or attempt to control credit growth.They never have in the past

Rose C Evans