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From time to time essays are produced by Trust members and others to generate discussion in a current topic related to our future. Anyone wishing to submit such an essay should send their piece into FTA for publication on this site. An editorial right to ensure quality standards, is retained. By Mike Gould, on our social/economic system
New Zealand's Interests in the Pacific: Taking the Long View Neil Plimmer on our Pacific neighbours "Policies to our Pacific neighbours need to take a long view. The last decade or so has seen numerous difficulties in the Pacific Islands Countries"
How we tamed the great depression
and seven keys to unleash a different future Gordon Dryden on New Zealand’s future
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‘If one New Zealander — Prime Minister John Key — can come up with the concept of a national cycle trail as a tourism and job creator, imagine the results if we unleashed the talents of 4
million others. And instead of a nine-day fortnight, we followed Google and involved all New Zealanders in spending a fifth of their
working week creating new ideas. Wow.’
Global Economic Crisis This submission, by former Commission For The Future (CFF) Secretariat member George Preddey, was sent to all 122 Members of Parliament and to most Chairs/Mayors of Regional/City/District Councils on 28 March to mark Earth Hour.
The Three Bears & The Great Transition
Mike Gould March 2009
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