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Landmark Statements
One Law for All?
A major policy speech made while ACT Party Leader, focusing on the need to ensure all are equal before the law
Building a More Prosperous New Zealand
A major policy speech made while ACT Party Leader, outlining the economic policies needed to grow New Zealand's economy and living standards.
Return to Orewa
An address to the Orewa branch of the New Zealand National Party
Challenges for New Zealand's Future Pension System
Can the New Zealand Superannuation scheme survive the ageing of New Zealand's population, and if not, what should be done about it? A speech given to the Asset Allocation Summit at the Hilton Hotel in Auckland
Why bother with public life?
Speech given at the opening dinner of Consilium, hosted by the Centre for Independent Studies, in Coolum, Queensland
Orewa 2004 - Nationhood
The speech which, for a time, changed “Orewa” from a place to a date, outlining the dangerous drift to racial separatism in New Zealand and the development of the Treaty grievance industry
Why are Schools Failing so many of our Kids?
An address to the Visionschools annual conference
Inflation targeting 14 years on
A summary of New Zealand’s experience of inflation targeting in a speech to the American Economics Association in Atlanta
Faster growth? If we want it
A speech to the Knowledge Wave conference in Auckland
Comments on accepting the NZIER/Qantas Economics Award
Discusses the success or otherwise of the post-1984 economic reforms and criticizes professional economists for failing to explain those reforms to the public