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 Welfare Symposium
Paper delivered in August 2004

A Paper On Retirement
Published in February 2003

A Better Way
Full Report of the Commission on the Reform of Public Services

Aims Of 1980’s Privatisation Misunderstood
(published NZ Herald 22 August 2002)

Spending Without Reform (pdf)
June 2002 Interim report of the Commission on the reform of public services

Your government is repeating our painful mistakes
Published in The Independent, 18 June 2002

Crime In New Zealand
February 2002

Sir Roger Douglas Receives The Friedrich A. von Hayek Medal
Press release in 2002

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Hon Dr. Michael Bassett

The Hon Dr. Michael Bassett was a Labour Member of Parliament from 1972 – 1975 and 1978 – 1990. He was a Minister in the Fourth Labour Government from 1984 – 1990. Since then, he has focused on writing books (The State In New Zealand) and articles.


We are pleased to present some of Dr Bassett’s articles which were first printed in The Dominion Post newspaper.
Date published
Description
21 May 2007
The Strange Death of Labour’s New Zealand
8 May 2007
Reserve Bank
27 Mar 2007
The Big Issue
7 Nov 2006
Policing in Auckland
24 Oct 2006
Careless Decisions
6 June 2006
Political Diversions
23 May 2006
NZ & Australia
11 Apr 2006
Getting Priorities Straight
14 Mar 2006
Crime and Police Priorities
28 Feb 2006
Family Planning and Poverty
14 Feb 2006
The Cartoon Furore
8 Nov 2005
Political Correctness
31 Oct 2005
MMP and 2005
11 Oct 2005
A New Cabinet?
7 June 2005
Preparing For The Future
10 May 2005
Three in a Row?
26 April 2005
Pedantry and the Press
29 Mar 2005
Lunacy Sightings
15 Mar 2005
The National Opposition
12 April 2005
George and the Police
1 Feb 2005
Orewa Mk II
4 Jan 2005
Sir Apirana Ngata
26 Oct 2004
Local Government
28 Sep 2004
Auckland Mayoralty
14 Sep 2004
Tauranga Waitangi Tribunal Claim
31 Aug 2004
NZ and Australia
17 Aug 2004
The Blame Culture
3 Aug 2004
Journalists and Blair
22 June 2004
Twenty Years
8 June 2004
Great Expectations
25 May 2004
The Laager Mentality
11 May 2004
Current Difficulties
2 Mar 2004
Going Downhill
23 Dec 2003
Foreshore and Seabed
9 Dec 2003
Leadership
25 Nov 2003
Legal Aid
11 Nov 2003
CYF And The Government
28 Oct 2003
National Leadership
14 Oct 2003
United States – New Zealand
30 Sep 2003
Child Poverty
16 Sep 2003
The Courts
2 Sep 2003
Racial Distinctions
19 Aug 2003
ARC Rates
5 Aug 2003
Maurice Williamson
10 Jun 2003
Police Priorities
24 Jun 2003
Maori Definitions
27 May 2003
Treaty Trouble
13 May 2003
Maori Seats
1 Apr 2003
The War
18 Feb 2003
Rural Health
4 Feb 2003
Sir John Turei
21 Jan 2003
Summer Journalism
7 Jan 2003
Future Prospects
24 Dec 2002
Local Government
15 Oct 2002
The Democrats
1 Oct 2002
American Elections
3 Sep 2002
Unions
20 Aug 2002
Media
6 Aug 2002
Immigration
29 Jul 2002
Whatever happened to National?
9 Jul 2002
Inflation
26 Jun 2002
MMP
12 Jun 2002
Apologies
29 May 2002
Dirty Tricks?
15 May 2002
Health
4 May 2002
Don Brash
1 May 2002
Welfare
17 Apr 2002
National’s Predicament
3 Apr 2002
Self Help
20 Mar 2002
John Banks
6 Mar 2002
Health Is A Killer
23 Feb 2002
Anderton
20 Feb 2002
Luck
6 Feb 2002
Treaty
23 Jan 2002
GE
26 Dec 2001
Health Care
12 Dec 2001
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