The piece critiques New Zealand’s political approach to fiscal rules and long-term planning, warning that 'magical thinking'—such as believing in quick fixes or hidden benefits—undermines accountability, especially in areas like public-private partnerships, education funding, and
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Well, the way that the independent remuneration authority looks at it is they sum up together the salary, the allowances, and the superannuation, and then they uh set that in accordance with what the equivalents are that they look at across the rest of the workforce and uh internationally and what they think is reasonable, and yes, the entitlements are part of what they look at. The actual eligibility rules for the entitlements and how that all plays out. It's a complicated mixture of the speaker, the ministerial authorities, DIA, various others. Uh, and I appreciate there have been questions about the way various MPs have applied those. I don't think there's been evidence that anyone has definitely broken the rules. They should absolutely adhere to the rules. No, that's not true. I can understand. But but it's never defending it. And it just the whole thing just looks wrong. Look, I agree with you that it doesn't look good for MPs to be getting access to things that New Zealanders don't think are fair. That we don't have to be able to do that. Yes, that's right. I totally understand that.
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need for accountability in public spending
\\ \\ 24 March 2024\\ \\ Blog\\ \\ **The dangers of ‘magical thinking’** \\ \\ In a recent commentary under the headline “magical thinking about government needs a dose of reality”, the UK’s Institute for…\\ \\ P\\ \\ Peter Daviscall for open disclosure of financial plans
.jpg%3Fv%3D1748240983&w=828&q=75)\\ \\ **Labour challenged to come clean on $18.2b bill**\\ \\ 14 June, 2026\\ \\ Nicola WillisSocial-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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