What is the future of food?
By Gilbert Wong Consider the following. One in ten New Zealanders is going (mostly) meat free. By some estimates, 70 percent of millennials are cutting back on meat in their diet. Millennials, those born between 1981 and 1996, make up an increasingly dominant...
Are New Zealand’s electoral finance laws failing? 🔊
The New Zealand First party has been in the news recently following reports the New Zealand First Foundation allegedly channeled donations through to the political party. Party leader Winston Peters has maintained the legality of the process, however Andrew Geddis, a...
Should prisoners be allowed to vote? 🔊
A few days ago Justice Minister Andrew Little announced plans to change the current law on prisoner voting rights in time for the 2020 election, to allow prisoners serving sentences of three years or under to vote. This change comes after a landmark decision by the...
How bad is poverty in New Zealand? 🔊
Poverty is a prevalent issue in Aotearoa, with the narrative often around inequality amongst our most vulnerable communities. New research conducted by AUT’s New Zealand Work Research Institute has found that more than 50,000 working households are living in poverty...
How does climate change impact our health?
By Farah Qaiser We often talk about climate change in terms of melting icebergs, rising seawater, and elevated temperatures, but what about the impact of climate change on our health…today? A new report from The Lancet Countdown shows that climate change is already...
E-scooters and human rights: What are the ethical dilemmas in their supply chain and in consumers’ wellbeing?
By Maria Rabino-Neira Introduction The promise of globalisation has been to bring a win-win situation to the new interconnected world; consumers in developed countries were going to access products at affordable prices, and the people in developing countries were...
What institutional reform befits the era of the long climate crisis?
On October 22, former MP and Green Party co-leader Russel Norman, who now leads Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand, delivered the 2019 Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture at the University of Auckland, looking at institutional reform options for dealing with climate change, in...
Is New Zealand giving away control over its water?
By Mia Chung Water issues have come into the spotlight in recent years with foreign water bottling companies setting up plants in New Zealand. The latest of these is Chinese company Nongfu Springs, whose plans to establish a bottling plant in Otakiri, east of...
The ethics of assisted dying: What could a law change mean for New Zealanders?
By Phillipa Malpas The End of Life Choice Bill[1] put forward by MP David Seymour in 2015, passed its final reading in parliament on Wednesday 13th November, with 69 MPs supporting a change in the law, and 51 votes opposed. Although the legislation has been passed by...Subscribe by Email
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