Don is one of New Zealand’s leading economic and financial policy advisers.
With a wide background in public policy, Don chairs the Government’s 2025 Taskforce, charged with investigating the reasons for the recent decline in New Zealand’s productivity performance, identifying superior institutions and policies in Australia and other more successful countries, and making recommendations on the steps needed for New Zealand to achieve Australian living standards by 2025.
Report of the 2025 Taskforce: Answering the $64,000 Question: Closing the Income Gap with Australia by 2025
30 November 2009
The Taskforce's first report is available for download
New Zealand’s economic outlook: Can we ever catch Australia?
30 July 2009
Speech at AUT University delivered soon after Don’s appointment to chair the 2025 Taskforce.
Big Ideas to Super-Size New Zealand's Economy
14 April 2008
Outlines 10 policy changes which would help to accelerate our rate of economic growth at a symposium in Auckland hosted by the Centre for Independent Studies
Orewa 2004 - Nationhood
27 January 2004
The speech which, for a time, changed “Orewa” from a place to a date, outlining the dangerous drift to racial separatism in New Zealand and the development of the Treaty grievance industry
