I’m excited to hear about the new standalone Social Investment Agency. One aspect I particularly like is its focus on emergent practice. This focus extends the original idea and clarifies whatever the Social Wellbeing Agency has been doing. Emergent practice is important for four reasons. First, I know that some of you think that the…

Yesterday, I decided to take the advice of my whanaunga – The Most Reverend Don Tamihere – and listen to the speeches at Ratana through sympathetic, charitable and compassionate ears. And, I am glad I did. Not just because I truly believe mahia i runga i te rangimārie me te ngākau māhaki, but because what…

Today social media was full of accounts going off at the idea of social investment. Most of them have not read the literature or explored why it’s intuitively appealing. The idea of social investment has been around for a couple of decades. Like it or not it is one of those policies that will endure…