An address to a meeting in Dunedin introducing A Constitution for Aotearoa New Zealand on 30 November 2016. The address makes the case for a written constitution in the light of concerning trends overseas, such as the rise of the “post-truth” age in Donald Trump’s United States and the...

The keynote address to the Open Source/Open Society Conference, delivered on 22 August 2016. The address introduces Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Dr Andrew Butler’s new book, A Constitution for Aotearoa New Zealand, and discusses the shortcomings of New Zealand’s unwritten constitution

An address to the New Zealand Local Government Conference, delivered on 18 November 1995. The address traces the history of local government in New Zealand, from the provincial legislatures of early colonial New Zealand, to their abolishment in 1876. It suggests that this abolishment has...