Free to Disagree: National's plan to break up Foodstuffs
Here is a full episode of Free to Disagree, our new weekly show with Oliver Hartwich and Damien Grant. National has announced it would split...
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Better education requires better teaching
In this episode, Michael talks to Kevin Donnelly, an Australian educator and author who co-chaired the review of Australia's national curric...
Nothing routine about the CIA in Moscow
In this episode, Oliver talks to John Howard, senior fellow at the New Zealand Initiative, about the CIA director's public visit to Moscow a...
Free to Disagree: Do celebrity candidates actually win votes?
Here is a full episode of Free to Disagree, our new weekly show with Oliver Hartwich and Damien Grant. Paul Henry is standing for ACT and Ta...
Free to Disagree: The social media ban National couldn't sell to its coalition
Here is a full episode of Free to Disagree, our new weekly show with Oliver Hartwich and Damien Grant. National has introduced a bill bannin...
Kiwis putting it on the line for Ukraine
In this episode, Michael talks to Tenby Powell ONZM, former mayor of Tauranga and leader of KiwiKARE, about his team's humanitarian work in...
Free to Disagree: Could MMP break?
Here is the full third episode of Free to Disagree, our new weekly show with Oliver Hartwich and Damien Grant. Te Pāti Māori have told suppo...
Unravelling MMP: How the 2026 election could break the voting system from two sides
In this episode, Nick talks with Oliver Hartwich about how the 2026 election could break MMP from two sides. Oliver's latest research note t...
Why New Zealand can no longer afford to be naive about security
In this episode, Oliver talks to John Howard about New Zealand's changing security environment, from the firing of Defence Minister Chris Pe...
Free to Disagree: Luxon survives his third coup attempt
Here is the full second episode of Free to Disagree, our new weekly show with Oliver Hartwich and Damien Grant. One day after Christopher Lu...
Free to Disagree: Are voters just going on vibes?
Free to Disagree is a new weekly podcast produced by The New Zealand Initaitive. Join Oliver Hartwich and Damien Grant as they talk about Ne...
Why the West has forgotten how to think about history
In this episode, Oliver talks with Dr Sarah Irving-Stonebraker, associate professor of history at the Australian Catholic University, about...
No off-ramp in the Iran conflict and what it costs New Zealand
In this episode, Oliver talks with John Howard, senior fellow at the New Zealand Initiative, about why he sees no negotiated settlement over...
Getting New Zealand's primary literacy reforms right
In this episode, Michael talks with Dr Helen Walls, who served on the ministerial advisory group on literacy and numeracy. Helen is generall...
Why New Zealand should attract data centres now
In this episode, Eric talks with Adam Jarvis, an Emergent Ventures fellow, about what happened when Anthropic held back the public release o...
New Zealand by Comparison: how we measure up against the world
In this episode, Michael talks with Oliver Hartwich, Executive Director of the New Zealand Initiative, about two new reports, New Zealand by...
A recent history of school qualifications
In this episode, Michael talks with Doug Blackmur, former chief executive of NZQA, about the qualification model developed in the late 1990s...
Ukraine and the future of war
In this episode, Michael talks with Ben Stallworthy about the war in Ukraine and what it reveals about the changing character of modern warf...
What China's missile demonstration means for New Zealand
In this episode, Oliver talks with retired Major General John Howard about a crowded few weeks in global security, from the NATO summit in T...
Should retirement villages have to repay residents faster?
In this episode, Oliver talks with Michelle Palmer, Executive Director of the Retirement Villages Association, about the retirement village...