This review of ‘Conversations about our country with Jim Bolger’ by David Cohen was first published in the ‘NZ International Review’ (September/October 2021) p.29-31. James Brendan Bolger presents a ...

Our current fiscal settings promise that we will eventually face a public debt explosion. A major cause would arise from the ...

New Zealand has ‘Scandinavian ambitions in terms of quality of life, but a US attitude to tax’: Lara Clark. One of the most perceptive remarks about New Zealand’s fiscal tension was made by former ...

Jim Bolger was the first Prime Minister I ever interviewed. It was 1992 or early ‘93 at Massey University. He was in the second half of his first term and I was a 21- or 22-year-old student journalist ...