The full spreadsheets underpinning our recently released working paper on wealth inequality.

In the OIA documents released to me, Child Poverty Unit officials offer to help the prime minister establish “an agreed whole-of-government work programme for reducing child poverty”. The plan is yet to be written, then.

Naive optimism serves no-one; but a guarded, grounded optimism is a vast improvement over despair.

Genuinely, quite an amazing amount of stuff.

Addressing hardship is like climbing a mountain that gets steeper with every step: easy at first, far harder as you enter the final push.

Just-released pre-pandemic stats show that rises in disposable income have been matched by skyrocketing housing costs. And that poses a conundrum for the prime minister.

Most of us are concerned about inequality, but are we being held back by our beliefs about the poor, our scepticism of government, and an exaggerated sense of how egalitarian our society actually is?

Today we are releasing the second tranche of our wealth inequality data in conjunction with Statistics New Zealand

The Labour-Greens cooperation agreement has been signed, and ministerial portfolios allocated, so what progress can we expect in the next three years?

Covid has set back the PM’s modest progress on childhood hardship, meaning greater policy ambition is needed