Guest Post: How AI Can Build a Smaller, Smarter State

A guest post by Chris Scott on Kiwiblog:

Every so often, New Zealand produces a piece of public policy that doesn’t really belong to the left or the right — it simply works. ACC is the classic example. When it arrived in the 1970s, it wasn’t universally adored, but it solved a real problem in a way both sides could live with. The left valued the universality and fairness; the right appreciated the end of endless litigation and the stability it brought to business.

Guest Post: Two Years In, the Government Is Out of Excuses

A guest post by Chris Scott on Kiwiblog

We’re now well past the point where the coalition can blame everything on the mess they inherited. That line worked in 2024. It even worked — just — in 2025. But with an election looming in November, voters are no longer interested in origin stories. They want outcomes.