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The implications of competition and market trends for media plurality in New Zealand

Jeff Loan
Kieran Murray
Dr Reinhard Pauls
Kelvin Woock
This report for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage examines the state of media plurality in New Zealand. Sapere examined how competition and market trends have affected the media, and whether public policy interventions may be necessary to address specific issues or market barriers.
Jeff Loan
Kieran Murray
Dr Reinhard Pauls
Kelvin Woock

Assessing the emissions footprint of the fibre networks relative to other fixed broadband options in NZ

Corina Comendant
Kieran Murray
This paper provides a first assessment of the emissions footprint of the current New Zealand fibre network, with a focus on internet provision to households and small to medium-sized businesses.
Corina Comendant
Kieran Murray

Efficient price discrimination in the wholesale electricity market

Kieran Murray
Sapere was asked by Meridian Energy to review the discussion paper ‘Inefficient Price Discrimination in the wholesale electricity market – issues and options’, issued by the Electricity Authority (Authority) as part of its Wholesale Market Review.
Kieran Murray

Survey to better understand general practice costs – interim results

Dr Tom Love
Sapere was commissioned to provide advice to the interim entities (interim Health New Zealand and interim Māori Health Authority) on options for the future of primary care funding.
Dr Tom Love

Sizing of the backyard and micro-commercial egg production in Australia

David Graham
William Li
Zabard Hartmann
Sapere was engaged to develop a methodology and approach for estimating the level of production in the backyard (households raising less than 15 hens and whose level of production is typically driven to meet personal consumption demands) and micro-commercial (small-scale operations with up to 1,000 hens) segment of the egg industry (collectively referred to as the ‘informal sector’).
David Graham
William Li
Zabard Hartmann

Māori economic participation in the infrastructure sector - Elevating enterprise ownership and labour market outcomes

David Moore
Preston Davies
Dr Jamie O’Hare
He tina ki runga, he tāmore ki raro (In order to flourish above, one must be firmly rooted below). For the past 12-months, a team from Sapere, including David Moore, Preston Davies, and Jamie O’Hare, has assessed employment and business ownership outcomes in the horizontal infrastructure sector of Aotearoa New Zealand. The mahi sought to elucidate the landscape of Māori employment and business ownership in the sector.
David Moore
Preston Davies
Dr Jamie O’Hare

Analysis of the upper North Island supply chain strategy working group options for moving freight from the ports of Auckland

David Moore
Preston Davies
Sapere was engaged by the Ministry of Transport in response to Cabinet’s request to officials for further advice on the Upper North Island Supply Chain Strategy (UNISCS).
David Moore
Preston Davies

A review of the fiscal cost estimate of moving to averaging accounting for existing forests within the Emissions Trading Scheme

Kieran Murray
Kieran Murray and Gary Blick of Sapere were asked by the New Zealand Carbon Farming Group to review the estimates of fiscal impact relied upon by Ministers when deciding forests registered in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) before 2019 would not be permitted to use ‘averaging accounting’.
Kieran Murray

A Future Capitation Funding Approach

Dr Tom Love
Addressing health need and sustainability in general practice funding The Health Transition Unit commissioned Sapere to work with a reference group of sector experts to explore improved capitation approaches that support the sustainability of general practice, and respond to health need better than existing funding mechanisms.
Dr Tom Love

Assessment of mechanisms of managed retreat

David Moore
Angus White
Kelvin Woock
The Ministry for the Environment has made available our report to them assessing mechanisms to support managed retreat. We are pleased the team of David Moore, Angus White, and Kelvin Woock were able to support the Ministry in its important work in relation to climate change adaptation.
David Moore
Angus White
Kelvin Woock