COLIN JAMES Political Journalist & Analyst Reasoned feedback is welcome at the address below. SPEECHES, PAPERS AND BRIEFINGS ARCHIVE 2013 "All, all, alone" 26 February 2013 Institute of International Affairs 2012 Summary: making big decisions 11 December 2012 Treasury long-term fiscal options conference Making big decisions 11 December 2012 Treasury long-term fiscal options conference Local and central 9 November 2012 Auckland alumni dinner Kirk the political pivot 3 November 2012 Fabian Society conference on Kirk Enigma variations 5 September 2012 Conference marking 40 years from recognizing China Good cause for optimism: 1912 and 2012 9 August 2012 IPANZ Young Professionals conference All change to a different future 6 June 2012 Wellington Club winter lecture The next public service 1 March 2012 Launch of Future State On a wing and a smile 16 February 2012 Post-election conference 2011 To big to fail. (Too small to succeed?) 13 December 2011 IPANZ Auckland conference The opportunity state 2 December 2011 ANZSOG forum Forever young 31 October 2011 Sir Frank Holmes' funeral Labour is a global commons 20 October 2011 NZIIA onference on foreign policy Resilience - a big picture 18 October 2011 Conference on earthquakes Where is rhetoric now? 18 August 2011 Conference on political rhetoric Mediating the new media 26 May 2011 Massey graduation ceremony 2010 Investing national capital (on innovation) 7 December 2010 OECD symposium on innovation Waltzing Matilda (or not) 3 September 2010 Reconstituting the Constitution conference The world from the apex of the triangle 1 July 2010 Pacific Rim Universities symposium The no-special-treatment ethnic group 25 March 2010 Statistics Forum Whose Treaty is it to be? 4 February 2010 Te Papa Waitangi debates 2009 Who guards the guardians? 25 June 2009 Institute of Public Administration Generalising Maori 9 May 2009 Maori in Parliament conference 2008 The last baby-boomer election 12 December 2008 VUW post-election conference The Key to a long, happy life? 9 December 2008 Institute of Public Administration seminar Top of mind and proximate 10 October 2008 Launch of NZ-Australia Research Centre The constitution in 2033 9 September 2008 IPS 25th anniversary lecture series All change 18 July 2008 Manukau City Council Midwinter Function Generational change and participation 11 July 2008 Australasian Study of Parliament conference The future public service 5 June 2008 IPANZ young professionals conference Fleas on a dog 16 May 2008 Graduation address, Victoria University Trust and risk 6 May 2008 Unisys Technology Forum 2007 Settling the settler society 26 September 2007 Dominion Day symposium Changing climates 18 September 2007 Water and Wastes Association conference Prime Ministers in an outlier society 30 August 2007 Political studies conference Ruth amid the alien corn 28 April 2007 "The Bolger Years" conference The elusive SEM 9 March 2007 Legal Research Foundation conference Making a future nation 8 February 2007 Te Papa Waitangi Day series 2006 Ten years of MMP 5 December 2006 Australasia Study of Parliament Group seminar From the Pacific: NZ view of Australia's strategic role 27 September 2006 ASPI Global Forces conference Foreign and family: the Australian connection 21 February 2006 Major Foreign Policy Issues Seminar 2005 A contest of wills 2 December 2005 Victoria University post-election conference Whatever it takes 30 November 2005 Study of Parliament group seminar After the Treaty: a new fiction 14 November 2005 Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture Four million people in search of an idea 24 July 2005 State of the Nation series, Anglican cathedral Ruataniwha -- a double-take on the Treaty 13 May 2005 Speech to Ngai Tahu planning summit The Pacific-ation of New Zealand 3 February 2005 Speech to Sydney Institute 2004 Sir Frank's next 20 years 19 November 2004 Seminar on Sir Frank Holmes Polishing a tarnished veneer 22 October 2004 United Nations Assocation Deciding what we want to be 15 October 2004 Tax Conference When the balloon goes down 28 July 2004 Treasury productivity symposium Rights, the Treaty and indigenisation 20 July 2004 Speech to Human Rights Treaty symposium The politics of science and its doubters 25 June 2004 Speech to Veterinary Association Whose party is this anyway? 16 June 2004 Speech to Institute of Directors Time for a protocol on our approach to the world? 14 May 2004 Comments to the Australia-NZ Leadership Forum What made the revolution 30 April 2004 Conference on 1984-87 government Some questions about Asia 27 April 2004 Comments to the Asia Forum Indigenising Aotearoa-New Zealand (part 1) 27 January 2004 Speech to Australian judges conference Indigenising Aotearoa-New Zealand (part 2) 27 January 2004 Speech to Australian judges conference Indigenising Aotearoa-New Zealand (part 3) 27 January 2004 Speech to Australian judges conference 2003 A peculiar inversion: politics over the next 12 months 20 November 2003 Information Technology Association Good economics or good politics? 5 November 2003 Employers and Manufacturers A hack at foreign affairs 15 October 2003 Wairarapa Institute of International Affairs Looking through Iraq 27 March 2003 Microsoft partners function Keeping the Knowledge Wave rolling on 21 February 2003 Knowledge Wave conference 2002 Public service under the hammer 3 December 2002 Institute of Public Administration A change of mood? 29 November 2002 NZ Herald business lunch Watch out for the elephants 16 November 2002 United Future conference Two million voters in search of a rationale (part 1) 23 August 2002 Post-election conference Two million voters in search of a rationale (part 2) 23 August 2002 Post-election conference Michael Cullen's inefficient peasants 26 June 2002 Primary Resources Forum conference Getting up to speed -- or not 21-22 May 2002 Summing up the Skill NZ "New Directions" conference 2001 Summing up regional development 29 November 2001 Regional development conference, Rotorua Paddling round the archipelago 27 November 2001 Speech at E-vision interactive breakfast A little knowledge is a dangerous thing 2 November 2001 Speech to Polytechnics Association conference An ethnic accident 27 October 2001 Paper at Stout/IPS Australia-NZ conference The government after 2002 11 October 2001 Speech to Importers Institute conference "Left" and "Right" 20 August 2001 Speech to the Wellington Rotary Club Hard Choices 3 August 2001 Summation at the Knowledge Wave conference Catching the Tides of History 29 June 2001 Speech to the National Party Epsom electorate's "newsmakers" breakfast "Freedom" and "Security" 5 May 2001 Speech to the National Party northern region conference When the America's Cup is gone 4 April 2001 Auckland Regional Council function The future of the Treaty of Waitangi 6 Feb 2001 Contribution to Waitangi Day Forum 2000 A new paradigm for local government? 10 Jul 2000 Speech to local government conference The politics of the constitution 7-8 Apr 2000 paper for Constitutional conference The issues in the 1999 election 18 Feb 2000 paper for conference at Victoria University of Wellington 1999 Australia/NZ seminar 8 Nov 1999 Maryland University US CONTACT P O Box 9494, Marion Square, Wellington 6141, New Zealand Email: ColinJames@synapsis.co.nz HOMEPAGE