NZCPR Newsletter: Transforming Our Future

When Labour launched their failed Three Waters scheme in 2021, which aimed to confiscate council water services and amalgamate them into mega-authorities controlled by Maori, one of the major concerns raised was over the financing of the scheme.

The quantum of the proposed debt was eye-watering - some $180 billion was to be borrowed. Their figures were made more attractive because the repayment of that debt fell outside of their 30-year cash flow projections!

This controversial funding arrangement was likened to a Ponzi scheme – one day the chickens would come home to roost and the money would have to be paid back.

NZCPR Newsletter: Aspirational Reform

The last six years of inept management by the Hipkins-Ardern Labour Government has exposed a multitude of problems facing the country that need to be addressed.

Since poor public sector performance has become the norm in most policy areas, the lack of resilience of many New Zealand families to cope with the resulting adversity, is now a growing concern.

Nowhere is this more evident than in health, where the contrast between being forced onto a public hospital waiting list for specialist treatment, and having the resources to pay for private care, could mean the difference between life and death.

NZCPR Newsletter: Policy Failure

Since their election in 2017, Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Government has embarked on an ambitious  programme of significant public policy transformation and reform.

In line with the PM’s deeply held socialist view that more State control produces better outcomes, centralisation has been the preferred approach.