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A newsletter from the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies
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Institute for Governance and Policy Studies 2022 Upcoming Events Programme
20 July: “What’s the point? Reflections on the changing role of universities from a former student, academic, politician and Vice-Chancellor”. Steve Maharey with Linda Clark
The function of universities and the role of academics has changed fundamentally over the past 50 years. As a student, academic, politician and Vice-Chancellor, Steve has experienced these changes – some positive, some not so much – first-hand. Steve will be in discussion with Linda Clark, former journalist, Victoria University law graduate and now partner at Dentons Kensington Swan
Venue: GBLT1, Old Government Building, Lecture Theatre 1, 12:30pm to 1:30pm, Wednesday 20 July, Victoria University of Wellington, Pipitea Campus.
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In the pipeline - mooted IGPS events
Events in the pipeline for 2022 (with likely coordinator/presenter in brackets) include: Waste and plastics policy (Hannah Blumhardt), Open Budget Survey 2021 (Derek Gill), the situation of sole parent families (Penny Ehrhardt), The future of rail (Paul Callister), Reserve Bank independence (Chris Eichbaum), effectiveness of Government agencies’ long-term insights briefings (Jonathan Boston), imprisonment trends (Len Cook), the OECD country trust study (Santiago Gonzalez, OECD and Conal Smith), political party funding (Max Rashbrooke and Lisa Marriott), the wage share (Bill Rosenberg and Geoff Bertram), open government activities in NZ, Australia and PNG (Keitha Booth), “Individual liability for state aggression: Questions of policy and governance” (Kennedy Graham), Chinese living in Aotearoa (Bev Hong), Business Desk’s government public sector project (Nikitin Sallee), hydrogen
and global warming (Wallace Rea), Three Waters co-governance (Mike Joy), and social insurance (Michael Fletcher).
Watch this space as the events firm up!
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Recipe (for disaster)? Mike Joy’s water footprint research gets broad public exposure
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Public engagement following IGPS senior researcher Mike Joy’s published paper (see last newsletter) with co-authors, quantifying for the first time the water footprint of milk production in Canterbury using a method counting the full grey water component, has been phenomenal.
Link to Mike Joy's Paper:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360658768_The_grey_water_footprint_of_milk_due_to_nitrate_leaching_from_dairy_farms_in_Canterbury_New_Zealand
Even the cartoonists were getting in on the issue (see above)!
Mike summarised his work in a conversation article (https://theconversation.com/11-000-litres-of-water-to-make-one-litre-of-milk-new-questions-about-the-freshwater-impact-of-nz-dairy-farming-183806) which has had 110,000 reads so far.
The article was picked up by both the New Zealand Herald and newshub:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/11000-litres-of-water-to-make-one-litre-of-milk-new-questions-about-the-freshwater-impact-of-nz-dairy-farming/MPTYDAXVY3JXQXWZOLAQE4NNMM/
and
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/05/11-000-litres-of-water-to-make-one-litre-of-milk-questions-raised-over-freshwater-impact-of-nz-dairy-farming.html
Mike’s work featured on radio:
Radio New Zealand (https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment/468134/impact-of-dairy-farming-on-canterbury-water-quality-unsustainable),
newstalkZB (https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/audio/dr-mike-joy-canterbury-is-not-the-place-for-dairy-cattle/),
and Waatea news (https://waateanews.com/2022/06/01/dairy-pollution-hurting-canterbury-mana-whenua/) .
It was also picked up by an editorial in the Otago Daily Times (https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/editorial/real-cost-dairy), and TV1 news (https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/06/09/technology-and-research-helping-pave-new-era-of-dairy-farming/).
Finally, there were even questions asked in Parliament (https://ondemand.parliament.nz/parliament-tv-on-demand/?itemId=225787).
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Senior researcher Michael Fletcher off to Hungary for conference in Budapest, then to the Max Planck Institute, Munich.
Michael Fletcher has been invited to present at the 3rd International Public Policy Association (IPPA) Workshop being held at Corvinus University in Budapest from 28-30 June. His paper, part of the three-day workshop session on Family Complexity and Social Policy around the World, is titled “Complex families, money management and social policies in New Zealand: Towards a research programme.”
Michael’s paper focuses on questions that have been little researched and are poorly understood in New Zealand: how do people living in blended families, step-families and in shared-care families manage their money and share resources? And to what extent are the sharing assumptions embedded in our social policies at odds with the real-world day-to-day behaviours of families?
Following the IPPA workshop, Michael will spend three weeks as a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich. Michael has been the Institute’s New Zealand Correspondent since 2015. While there, he will be working on the New Zealand chapter of an Institute research project called ‘Life in Dignity’, a cross-country survey of minimum income benefits provided in various European and other countries.
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OECD July workshop at the IGPS on trust in government
The IGPS is hosting an invitation only workshop on 7 June for the OECD who are doing a sequence of country visits, including New Zealand, examining the question of how to build trust in government in a democracy.
Thanks to Conal Smith, IGPS senior associate and part of the OECD New Zealand study team, for organising this workshop
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Adrian Macey, senior associate, on climate change and “promising the earth”
Together with Dave Frame, senior associate Adrian Macey wrote an Op Ed For business desk on “Climate change: time to stop promising the earth”
(https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/opinion/climate-change-time-to-stop-promising-the-earth – paywalled).
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Senior associate David Bromell & IGPS Director Simon Chapple quoted in series of stuff articles on the Christchurch attack
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IGPS senior associate David Bromell was quoted (https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300602064/lessons-from-a-terror-attack-when-did-we-forget-how-to-listen-to-each-other-chapter-7--threats-old-and-new):
"Various governments have tried different things to address that including the idea of having lead ministers on critical issues, and clusters of agencies that are supposed to work together,” says Bromell. “But the bottom line is that the single line of accountability is still in place and the way the budget is done doesn’t easily incentivise agencies to work together and pool resources to address problems.
“So it takes quite a lot of goodwill and proactive leadership on the part of public sector chief executives to break out of that, and I still don’t think we’re seeing it.”
IGPS Director Simon Chapple was also quoted (https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300598389/how-pleas-for-help-in-the-leadup-to-the-christchurch-attacks-fell-through-the-cracks--chapter-1-the-iceberg):
“I’ve been involved in a lot of select committee hearings,” says Chapple. “And you’ve got to think that I’ve got an advantage. But I’ve never felt that anything I’ve said has been taken on board.”
You can understand, he says, people feeling they’ve been cut out of the process.
“If I’m feeling this, how are you going to feel if you’re a regular citizen without experience in government who has something to say? Or a member of the Muslim community who is trying to draw attention to the anti-extremist space?”
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