Free to Disagree: Could MMP break?
Here is the full third episode of Free to Disagree, our new weekly show with Oliver Hartwich and Damien Grant. Te Pāti Māori have told supporters to give them their electorate vote and send their par...
23 Aug 42min
Unravelling MMP: How the 2026 election could break the voting system from two sides
In this episode, Nick talks with Oliver Hartwich about how the 2026 election could break MMP from two sides. Oliver's latest research note traces Te Pāti Māori's call for supporters to split their vot...
20 Aug 38min
Why New Zealand can no longer afford to be naive about security
In this episode, Oliver talks to John Howard about New Zealand's changing security environment, from the firing of Defence Minister Chris Penk to the Semtex drone at Leipzig Airport and the SIS threat...
18 Aug 27min
Free to Disagree: Luxon survives his third coup attempt
Here is the full second episode of Free to Disagree, our new weekly show with Oliver Hartwich and Damien Grant. One day after Christopher Luxon survived a confidence vote, Oliver and Damien ask wheth...
14 Aug 40min
Free to Disagree: Are voters just going on vibes?
Free to Disagree is a new weekly podcast produced by The New Zealand Initaitive. Join Oliver Hartwich and Damien Grant as they talk about New Zealand politics and economics. Two friends on broadly the...
7 Aug 35min
Why the West has forgotten how to think about history
In this episode, Oliver talks with Dr Sarah Irving-Stonebraker, associate professor of history at the Australian Catholic University, about why the West has largely lost the ability to think meaningfu...
4 Aug 33min
No off-ramp in the Iran conflict and what it costs New Zealand
In this episode, Oliver talks with John Howard, senior fellow at the New Zealand Initiative, about why he sees no negotiated settlement over Iran in the next 30 to 60 days, and what prolonged disrupti...
30 Jul 30min
Getting New Zealand's primary literacy reforms right
In this episode, Michael talks with Dr Helen Walls, who served on the ministerial advisory group on literacy and numeracy. Helen is generally supportive of New Zealand's primary literacy reforms but w...
30 Jul 47min
