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Visit by Richard Epstein, University of Chicago

Thursday, 3 June 2004, 4:13 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

Professor Richard Epstein, law professor at the University of Chicago and international authority on labour issues, will visit New Zealand in August as a guest of the New Zealand Business Roundtable. More >>

Giving with one hand, taking with the other

Friday, 28 May 2004, 4:46 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

The Budget’s many positive steps to get people into work are a cruel hoax for the popular, private early childhood sector with the Education Minister yesterday doing his best to ensure no more investment and a potential loss of jobs in that sector. More >>

Government Gives Up On Growth

Thursday, 27 May 2004, 4:00 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

“With the 2004 budget the government has abandoned any pretence that its top priority is economic growth”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business, said today. “No long-term strategy is laid out for making New Zealand a high productivity, ... More >>

Park the Employment Relations Law Reform Bill

Friday, 21 May 2004, 2:09 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

“The Employment Relations Law Reform Bill should be parked and a new reform process should be instituted with genuine consultation among all stakeholders, including business”, according to New Zealand Business Roundtable executive director Roger ... More >>

A Credible Commitment To Auckland Transport

Friday, 21 May 2004, 1:55 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

“At last a major political party is demonstrating it understands Auckland’s transport problems and coming up with credible plans to fix them”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today. More >>

Business Roundtable Backgrounder On Immigration

Friday, 21 May 2004, 1:47 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

New Zealand should consider auctioning some portion of residence permits granted in any given year, according to a new Policy Backgrounder released by the Business Roundtable today. More >>

Sizing Up The 2004 Budget

Friday, 14 May 2004, 3:13 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

Speech by Roger Kerr of the New Zealand Business Roundtable to the Institute of Chartered Accountants Friday 14 May 2004 More >>

Tax Freedom Is Approaching

Friday, 23 April 2004, 1:31 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

Tax Freedom Day in New Zealand is important because it represents the day in the year when the average New Zealander stops working for the government and starts working for themselves, the executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, Roger ... More >>

Making Sense of Corporate Citizenship

Wednesday, 21 April 2004, 12:50 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable

Making sense of debates about corporate citizenship or the social responsibilities of business can be like trying to nail jelly. More >>

Kerr Speech: 5th Annual Superfunds Summit 2004

Tuesday, 6 April 2004, 11:15 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable

Many of our politicians act as though retirement income policy is the ‘third rail’ of New Zealand politics: touch it and you’re dead. Arguably, however, the trauma is self-induced. Its sources are largely the broken political promises and abrupt, ... More >>

New Resource for Journalists and Students

Friday, 27 February 2004, 7:01 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

The New Zealand Business Roundtable today launched a new online resource designed for journalists, students, and others interested in public policy issues. More >>

Roundtable Welcomes Treaty Tribes Initiative

Friday, 27 February 2004, 1:34 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

The New Zealand Business Roundtable said today that the government and other political parties should consider very seriously the approach proposed by the Treaty Tribes Coalition on the foreshore and seabed issue. More >>

1984 – 2004: Twenty Years On - Roger Kerr Speech

Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 2:49 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

This year is the 20th anniversary of the change of government in 1984 and the beginning of a period of radical economic reform. It should be a time to take stock of what the country has achieved in the last two decades and to debate the agenda for the ... More >>

Reigniting Reform in Australia and New Zealand

Monday, 23 February 2004, 8:49 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable

Delivered at 7.30pm 20 February, 2004 to the New Zealand Business Roundtable Annual Retreat More >>

Play the Ball, Minister

Friday, 13 February 2004, 1:03 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

Minister for small business John Tamihere should play the ball not the man when debating business sector views, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today. More >>

Proposed Legislation Undermines Property Rights

Thursday, 12 February 2004, 5:43 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

Legislation amending the Resource Management Amendment Act in the case of the Waitaki catchment fails to recognise existing property rights and undermines incentives to invest, New Zealand Business Roundtable executive director Roger Kerr said today, ... More >>

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