Views From Outside the Apiary

Public Sector Pay

How should we think about pay for nurses, teachers, or police? Former top bureaucrat Ian Fletcher tries to answer that tricky question...

The Budget and the Economy – Have We Done Enough?

Apiculture industry consultant and former top bureaucrat Ian Fletcher gives his “Views from Outside the Apiary” – on the budget and economy.

Three Waters

The Government’s ‘Three Waters’ reform of water, sewerage and stormwater arrangements is ambitious, complicated and controversial...

How Should we Think About Ukraine?

How should we think about the war in Ukraine? The experienced and educated Ian Fletcher weighs in on "the end of post-WW2 settlement".

Zero-Basing the Public Service

Ian Fletcher on the politics of "zero-basing" the public service and what he believes really needs to be done to improve effectiveness...

Productivity and the Role of the State

Apiculture industry consultant and former top bureaucrat Ian Fletcher gives his monthly “Views from Outside the Apiary”...

Why Taxes Need to Rise

Apiculture industry consultant and former top bureaucrat Ian Fletcher gives his monthly “Views from Outside the Apiary” as a...

What is to be done? A Four-Part-Start

I usually write this column to raise issues and encourage readers to think about solutions. This month is different...

Nuclear Boats

VIEWS FROM OUTSIDE THE APIARY: IAN FLETCHER The anxious watch over the latest Covid lockdowns in New Zealand has kept much of our...

Productivity, Covid, Housing & Health

VIEWS FROM OUTSIDE THE APIARY: IAN FLETCHER ‘Productivity isn't everything, but in the long run it is almost everything. A country's...