Regulatory Standards Bill
The Regulatory Standards Bill is a reprehensible attack on ordinary Kiwi citizens, setting out to entrench property rights -...
Our failed grocery market – where are we going?
Grocery Commissioner Pierre van Heerden has released this statement revealing two commercial behaviours he believes are “reinforcing”...
SEPARATION WOULD DETER INVESTMENT? "BOLLOCKS", DAVID SEYMOUR
So ACT leader David Seymour has come up with a line discredited 20 years ago in response to Minister Willis’s supermarket breakup plans....
RESPONSE TO MINISTER’S GROCERY ANNOUNCEMENT
The announcement by Nicola Willis this morning moves the debate on market failure forward and is more positive than some observers had...
Nicola Willis has the Power to Regulate Supermarkets - but Will She?
My latest Op-Ed in the NZ Herald here . Text repeated below in case you cant open it. ---------------------------------------------------...
Time for Commerce Minister Role to be Taken Seriously Again
Andrew Bayly’s self inflicted knife in the back is bad news for the millions of consumers and thousands of small businesses who are the...
A Watershed Moment for Competition
Some issues that are first exposed by a few individuals gain momentum slowly, then suddenly reach a watershed moment and become...
Government should be focused on fixing market failures - Ernie Newman
For those who couldn't read my opinion piece in The NZ Herald today due to its being premium content, I've copied it below: Er nie Newman...
BOOSTING KIWIBANK DOESN’T CUT IT FOR REFORMING BANKING
For those who couldn't read my opinion piece in ThePost today due to its being premium content, I've copied it below::...
OPEN YOUR WALLETS FOR THE FOODSTUFFS MERGER APPEAL FUND
19 November 2024 (This Op-Ed appeared on Stuff.co.nz on 19 November - repeated here for those who cant get past the Stuff paywall.)...