The Good Society is the home of my writing about how we can shape a better world together.
A detail from Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Renaissance fresco The Allegory of Good and Bad Government
The Spinoff: Life in Aotearoa is increasingly precarious – and young people shoulder the burden
Insecure housing, jobs and climate: that’s what the government is giving young people.
The Post: The government promised to eliminate waste, but has piled it up instead
Locking people up longer and ignoring climate change is immensely wasteful.
The Spinoff: Bishop’s house price comments show the mood is shifting. Will we see actual change?
The willingness to deal with negative headlines and falling prices is still not clear.
The Post: Beware the politician talking up a crisis
New Zealand wasn’t going broke in 1984, and it isn’t now either.
The Spinoff: Are New Zealand’s youngest voters really shifting right?
What has happened since the Jacindamania “youthquake”?
The Post: Housing – and the unhoused - left out in the cold
Housing policies were bizarrely absent from the Budget.
The Spinoff: Budget 2024 is starving the future’s needs to pay for today’s politics
It isn’t austerity but a “sinking” lid is applied to the public finances.
The Post: The memorial we owe to those who died at Loafers Lodge
Regulation must change so that such tragedies never reoccur.
The Guardian: One year ago, a deadly boarding house fire shook New Zealand. We must prevent another tragedy
The Loafers Lodge fatalities could all too easily be repeated, given relative state inaction.