Giving voice to our future

by Sir Peter Gluckman and Bridget Coates
The Beehive Building, New Zealand's Parliament Building, against the Sun in Wellington.

In an op-ed for the NZHerald, Koi Tū director Sir Peter Gluckman and Koi Tū chair Bridget Coates encourage more meaningful conversations and a more future-oriented mindset to tackle the complex, multi-generational challenges that we face as a nation.

“It was an opportunity missed. The election has come and gone, with virtually no discussion of the long-term issues that profoundly affect our country. We were distracted by trivia, amused by accidental misstatements and apparently entertained by “gotcha” questions from the media. There were pitifully few discussions of serious, long-term, strategic issues confronting our nation.”

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