Productivity Commission

Auditor-General audit shines light on local government debt and costs

16 Feb 19, 9:31am

Auditor General notes growing debts and rising costs at councils as they grapple with issues including population growth and climate change
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Methane narrative changes with less need for drastic reduction

10 Sep 18, 11:17am

Keith Woodford

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Keith Woodford explains how the narrative is changing in regard to the need for methane emissions, with less need for drastic reductions
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NZ needs to generate 65% more electricity in the next 30 years

4 Sep 18, 1:53pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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The Productivity Commission on what we need to do to ensure we have enough electricity to power those electric vehicles and clean industrial heaters as we move to a low-emissions economy
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Paradise lost! Two decades of shocking failure in political leadership

14 Aug 18, 2:30pm

Kerry McDonald

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Kerry McDonald details why he believes New Zealand must hold a Royal Commission into the policy failures of successive governments since the Millennium
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A Principal Integrity Officer for banks?

7 Aug 18, 10:40am

Gareth Vaughan

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Australian Productivity Commission proposes a formal, accountable reporting line to bank board and regulator putting substance to banks' marketing claim they put customers first
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Robertson wants to know why local government's costs are so high

24 Jul 18, 1:31pm

Jason Walls

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A decade after the Shand Inquiry, the Finance Minister has asked the Productivity Commission to take another look at local government spending
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Fixing NZ's productivity problem

15 Jul 18, 7:51am

Jason Walls

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How too many SMEs, cooperatives and immigrants are contributing to NZ's productivity woes
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Central govt admits rates rises aren't enough to help local govt

11 May 18, 1:44pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Central govt asks Productivity Commission to probe local govt funding; acknowledges some of the councils facing the biggest cost increases have shrinking rating bases
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Woods fails to produce figures on energy transition

5 May 18, 9:24am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods talks up NZ's comparative advantage producing renewable energy, but can't say how quickly its production can be scaled up
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Killing local, buying global

1 May 18, 8:39am

Guy Trafford

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Guy Trafford points out that taxing farming carbon output will just reduce or close local production, with urban food then sourced overseas. First-mover actions will be an own-goal
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Ten to 12-fold carbon price increases needed to reach net-zero emissions

27 Apr 18, 1:00am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Productivity Commission calls for drastic carbon price increases, the inclusion of agriculture in the ETS, huge land-use changes, and rebates for clean vehicle imports
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Who guards the guards?

16 Apr 18, 9:28am

Guest

Richard Baker explains why an NZ Initiative report on NZ's key economic regulators rates the FMA ahead of the Commerce Commision and the RBNZ
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What about a land tax?

5 Sep 17, 2:46pm

Gareth Vaughan

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Auckland University's Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy extols the virtues of a land tax & how one would hit both landbankers and wealthy foreigners buying NZ land
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Does NZ need a banking competition probe?

22 Apr 17, 9:46am

Gareth Vaughan

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As Australia's government prepares to formally review banking competition in its oligopolistic market, should NZ be doing the same?
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Ten things you might not know about New Zealand’s tertiary education system

15 Apr 17, 3:12pm

Guest

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The Productivity Commission has uncovered some little-known facts about our education system for post-secondary studies, who gets the private benefits from the public investment, and what employers think of graduates
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Tackling land bankers with competitive land markets

6 Apr 17, 7:05am

Alex Tarrant

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Nick Smith says tackling land bankers best done by creating competitive land markets; Welcomes Productivity Commission proposals
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'Royal Commission should be next step'

5 Apr 17, 2:28pm

Guest

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Infrastructure New Zealand says a Royal Commission into planning laws, local government structure and funding would be an appropriate move toward designing a fully integrated planning, funding and delivery system
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Building firms looking to raise prices

4 Apr 17, 1:31pm

Alex Tarrant

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Construction firms in position to raise prices as they hit capacity buffers with skilled labour shortages showing no signs of letting up, NZIER survey shows
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'Hey, those are our ideas'

29 Mar 17, 2:10pm

Alex Tarrant

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Labour responds to challenge from Joyce that political parties should seriously consider ProdComm urban planning proposals in Election 2017 campaign; Notes similarities to current policies
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Bringing it forward: Getting through the housing crisis

29 Mar 17, 9:02am

Eric Crampton

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The NZ Initiative's Eric Crampton says a govt committed to housing affordability would implement the Productivity Commission’s better urban planning agenda
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