The New Zealand Initiative

Chelsy Killick talks to Oliver Hartwich about his new column in The Australian and what New Zealand should learn from Germany’s foreign policy mistakes.

11 Touko 20229min

The government’s Te Hurihanganui sketches a radically different version of education in New Zealand. But what is it based on? And what would be its implications. Michael Johnston discusses the documen...

2 Touko 202226min

Several large companies recently received hefty government handouts to install new boilers and heaters. This was all under the guise of decarbonisation, using money earmarked for the country’s Covid r...

28 Huhti 202211min

Putin’s influence has helped the rise of Marine Le Pen. But his political vehicles are not limited to the Far Right. Oliver Hartwich joins Ben Craven to discuss the recent French election, Putin’s wi...

28 Huhti 202213min

Ben Craven interviews Dr Michael Johnston about his recent presentation at The New Zealand Initiative Members’ Retreat. The pair discuss the disturbing trends of cancel culture and the erosion of aca...

21 Huhti 202210min

Are the days of large news outlets now in the past? If so, what does that mean for our shared experiences and understanding of what is and isn’t news? And how does news become news anyway? Sean Plunk...

14 Huhti 202220min

Oliver Hartwich talks to Alex Sundakov from Castalia Advisors about his experiences in both countries, how the Soviet era cast a long shadow over their national identities, and why there might be some...

13 Huhti 202234min

Oliver Hartwich joins Ben Craven to discuss Germany’s response to the war in Ukraine. Chancellor Olaf Scholz recently threw out three decades’ worth of German foreign policy dogmas. His “Zeitenwende”...

5 Huhti 202216min