Dr Oliver Hartwich

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Unravelling MMP

On current polling, close to 900,000 people will give National their party vote, and none of those votes will yield an additional seat. A National voter who understands this needs no instruction from anyone. Her party vote is dead where it is but alive anywhere else on the centre-right.


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We Don't Know How Unlucky We Are In NZ

Our small population size has fostered a social conformity that makes it hard to speak one’s mind. With two-degrees-of-separation, you cannot afford to burn bridges. And given our latent inferiority complex, we don’t publicly admit to our problems