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Muriel Newman

A Country in Lockdown

A Country in Lockdown

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com First published 22nd March 2020 The global COVID-19 crisis is deepening. Within 12 weeks of the new coronavirus being detected in workers at a live animal market in China, 100,000 people around the world had caught the disease. Twelve days later that had

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Labour’s Dependency Trap
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Labour’s Dependency Trap

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Ron Haskins,a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute and former White House Presidential Advisor on welfare reform, has a long association with welfare policy research and development, including the most effective ways of reducing child poverty. Through modelling and analysis, he has concluded,

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Election Year – a Quick Glimpse Ahead
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Election Year – a Quick Glimpse Ahead

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The 2020 general election will be held on Saturday, September 19th. It will give New Zealanders the opportunity to vote, not only for those we want to govern the country for the next three years, but also on whether we want cannabis and euthanasia to

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Judicial Activism
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Judicial Activism

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. Following the terror attack in

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