The former finance minister starts as vice-chancellor of Otago University in July. But such appointments call for more robust debate about the perceived independence of our tertiary institutions.
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Incremental and pragmatic, New Zealand’s fifth Wellbeing Budget tries to balance cost-of-living support with huge long-term investment challenges – all without frightening the inflation horses.
Thursday’s ‘orthodox no-frills budget’ sounds like Labour is switching from Ecostore to Kmart: never mind your wellbeing, this is about Labour’s political survival.
Health, housing and education get funding boosts in the fiscally conservative first budget delivered by New Zealand’s coalition government.
New Zealand’s finance minister Grant Robertson will take centre stage when he delivers the coalition government’s first budget tomorrow.
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Visiting Scholar in Politics, City, University of London
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Professor of Politics, Massey University
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Professor; Co-Director, Centre for Health Systems and Technology, University of Otago
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Professor of Macroeconomics, Head of School of Economics and Finance, Massey University
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Professor of Economics, University of Waikato
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Professor of Innovation and Economics, Massey University
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Professor and Director, Centre for Nursing and Health Research, Massey University
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Head of Institute of Education te Kura o Te Mātauranga, Massey University
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Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
