Archives for April 2018

29 April 2018 by Jan Rivers

The Royal Commission on Social Policy’s April Report 30 years on

Introduction. The scale of the consultation. The push for early publication. The long term impact. Explanation of the layout of the report. Volume I Volume II Volume 3 parts 1 & 2 Volume IV Appendix 1 Equating Māori and Pākehā values. The full text of the Royal Commission on Social Policy and link to the […]

19 April 2018 by Jan Rivers

Paradise Lost – Paradise regained

Hold the date: Friday June 22nd and Saturday June 23rd 2018 at St Andrews on the Terrace. In developing the topic for this weekend we have visited the themes around the Winter Soltice, Matariki and the lecture series and subsequent publication of “The Greening of Christianity” by the Rev. Professor Sir Lloyd Geering. In these […]

19 April 2018 by Jan Rivers

Can’t get no satisfaction from the NZ Herald

Just feeling failed by the NZ Herald and its ability to call out supposed lies with impunity. Here is the correspondence in relation to a recent complaint. Most unsatisfactory but a waste of time to go on or not? Any advice? The Herald’s responses to my email are in red. I note that Mike Hosking […]

16 April 2018 by Jan Rivers

Participate in a submission to the Tax Working Group

Would you like to be part of the current tax policy debate without needing to know the difference between Pigou and Tobin? Think base erosion sounds like something you do to protect your floors? News Website Scoop Media and Public Engagement Projects (PEP) invite you to share your issues, ideas and perspectives on the NZ […]

4 April 2018 by Jan Rivers

Press complaint about NZ Herald article “How Labour just lost the 2020 election”

This seemed like a worthwhile way to spend an hour or so. Will the NZ Herald be willing to correct a completely inaccurate article? ( Not that this kind of response wouldn’t be legitimate on any day of the week for a dozen or more articles with similarly careless and inaccurate reporting – but this […]

1 April 2018 by Jan Rivers

Book Review: National Enterprise – The development of the public corporation Ernest Davies Gollancz 1946

Managing services and infrastructure for the public good. The recent scandal with FaceBook and Cambridge Analytica has shown what happens when the controllers of capital are able to decide how things should run to benefit them. Economic dominance and first mover advantage coupled with a lack of regulation has captured the public’s data and used […]