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Full Coverage: 2025 Taskforce Report
Smellie Sniffs The Breeze: The Trouble With Lists
The 2025 taskforce might have created an opportunity to break through to a new willingness to examine policy options, old and new, with fresh eyes. Instead, it was set up to fail... Which is tragic, because much of what the taskforce recommends is still pretty much what needs to happen. More>>
Werewolf: Gordon Campbell Looks Back At 2025
Don Brash and his 2025 Task Force have been given the job of enabling the New Zealand economy to catch up with Australia in 15 years or so – which is only fair, since it was the policy mix during Brash’s reign at the Reserve Bank in the 1990s that helped turn New Zealand into a low wage country rapidly sliding towards Third World status. More>>
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- Labour - Key's wasting half a million to keep mate in a job
- Labour - Speech: Goff - Govt’s deals to reward privilege
- Werewolf - Russel Norman IV: Showdown over tax
- ACT - Morgan Onboard for Capital Tax Proposal
- Productive Economy Council - PEC Calls for a National Vision from John Key
- People and Process Limited - Why Productivity Growth is a Red Herring
- TV3 Video - How will the 2025 taskforce improve export performance?
- Out Now - Werewolf Issue 6
Keith Rankin: 2025 And All That: The 2009 Brash Report
The task set for 2025 taskforce (chaired by Don Brash) - to identify ways in which New Zealand's annual economic growth might average at least 4.5% per capita for 15 years - must be understood for what it is: an exercise in politics, not economics. More>>
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- Public Address - Keith Ng on the Taskforce
- Dave Wolland Cartoon - Brash Recovery Plans
- Labour - Brash completely out of touch on minimum wage
- ACT - Key Condemns Kiwi Kids
- Scoop Business - NZ economy not yet out of the woods: NZIER
- NZEI - Taskforce Recommendations Take Education Back
- Unite Union - Brash needs to learn up from down
- Dairy Workers Union - Proposals will kill national economic security
- Libertarianz Party - Libz Applaud Taskforce Recommendations
- NZ Young Nationals - 2025 Report - Time To Get Conversation Underway
- Maxim Institute - Government Should Pay Attention, Not Stifle Debate
- Industry Training Federation of NZ - The nugget in the Brash Report
- Solo NZ - Wanted—Winston! (No, not *that* Winston!)
- Public Address Out-Link - OnPoint - Taskforce 2025: A Space Odyssey
- Public Address Out-Link - OnPoint - From the floor of the Tax Working Group
- Pundit Out-Link - 2025 taskforce report: If lions ran the circus...
- TV3 Video - Brash's 'catching the Aussies' plan too radical - English
- TV3 Video - Don Brash on the 2025 tax taskforce
- TV3 Video - Business New Zealand says Brash's report is useful
- TV3 Video - Gareth Morgan' radical tax overhaul
- TV3 Video - Changes to tax system mooted
- TV3 Video - Brash looks to Aussie dollar to help exporters
2025
Taskforce: 35 Recommendations To Bridge Income Gap With
La-La Land
As well as the recommendations to sharpen regulations and reduce government spending and tax, the Taskforce has made recommendations on everything from early childhood education to mining. More>>
ALSO:
- 2025 Taskforce - First Report (PDF)
- 2025 Taskforce - Report Designed to Spark National Conversation
- 2025 Taskforce - Govt Choices Make It Hard to Close the Income Gap
- 2025 Taskforce - Bold Tax Reform Would Spur Enterprise, Excitement
- 2025 Taskforce - World’s Best Practice Needed for Govt Regulations
- Scoop Business - Slash spending for 20% tax rate – Brash taskforce
- Public Address Out-Link - OnPoint - Taskforce 2025: A Space Odyssey
- NZ Govt - Taskforce report requires practical decisions
- NZ Govt - 2025 Taskforce Report welcomed
- Labour - Goff: Brash report a sham and waste of time
- United Future - Dunne: 2025 Report a mix of good and bad
- Progressive Party - Brash calls for return to failed policies
- ACT - 2025 Taskforce: A Good Starting Point
- Greens - Inequality won’t lead to economic prosperity
- Maori Party - Maori Party to look carefully at 2025 report
- Scoop Business - COMMENT: Key bolts door on most big Brash ideas
- Keith Rankin - Tax Reform - What Not To Do
- ACT - Where’s Your Backbone Mr Key?
- NZ Alliance Party - 2025 taskforce report a waste of space
- Tertiary Education Union - Taskforce opts for ignorance over education
- Employers and Manufacturers Association - 2025 Productivity Taskforce report on the money
- EPMU - Taskforce rehashes dangerous, discredited policies
- Lindsay Mitchell - Productivity Report Makes Crucial Recommendations
- Federated Farmers - Farmers keen to start Dr Brash’s conversation
- Earlier - Gordon Campbell: Treasury and the Don Brash revival
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