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Submission on the Environmental Reporting Bill

Submission on the Environmental Reporting Bill

Our submission on the Environmental Reporting Bill is now available for download from our website. One of the key issues addressed in our submission was the overlapping boundaries of the environmental domains the bill defined. As our submission points out: Our concern lies with the extent the domains overlap. The air and atmosphere & climate domains...
TalentNZ: Sharing Resources

TalentNZ: Sharing Resources

With the TalentNZ intiative continuing into 2020 (see the TalentNZ  Tour), the Institute has been looking to share and grow our research and ideas with the wider public. We have recently created a resources page on the McGuinness Institute website which includes articles, books and videos relating to the four key pillars of the TalentNZ initiative: ways...
TalentNZ: A look inside

TalentNZ: A look inside

The TalentNZ initiative has been underway for a month now and we are in the planning stages of a speaking tour for early next year. Our first major output is the journal TalentNZ: Creating a place where talent wants to live. The Journal comprises three major sections; talent, cities and economy. Talent The Talent section focuses on the experiences and ideas of...
TalentNZ: Sending out the message

TalentNZ: Sending out the message

Over the last two weeks the Institute’s boardroom has been re-purposed as a make-shift mail centre as the distribution of our latest publication, TalentNZ: Creating a Place Where Talent Wants to Live, gets underway. Summer interns Annie and Josie McGuinness, Johanna Smith, George Spittle and Patrick Walsh have been organising, packaging and posting the TalentNZ Journal...
Interview with Face Television

Interview with Face Television

On the 7th of October the McGuinness Institute’s CEO Wendy McGuinness was interviewed for Face Television’s ‘In Conversation with Noel Cheer’. In this interview Wendy discusses the structure and role of think tanks, their relationship with public institutions and an overview of the work of the McGuinness Institute.