Nov 28, 2019 | Science & Technology
Interview with Professor Simon Thrush (head of the Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland) Your research focuses on ecosystem tipping points. What are they? A tipping point is a sudden, abrupt, often dramatic change in the way that a natural...
Nov 28, 2019 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society, Science & Technology
By Gilbert Wong Gilbert Wong looks at the forces shaping the future of food and how research is contributing to what’s likely to be on our plates in 2030. Consider the following. One in ten New Zealanders is going (mostly) meat free. By some estimates, 70 percent of...
Nov 27, 2019 | Politics & Society
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...
Nov 26, 2019 | Politics & Society
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...
Nov 25, 2019 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
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...
Nov 21, 2019 | Science & Technology
By Farah Qaiser A new Lancet Countdown report presents the lifelong health consequences that a child born today will face from climate change. We often talk about climate change in terms of melting icebergs, rising seawater, and elevated temperatures, but what about...
Nov 20, 2019 | Business & Economics, Referee
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...
Nov 19, 2019 | Politics & Society, Science & Technology
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...
Nov 14, 2019 | Politics & Society, Science & Technology
By Phillipa Malpas A new bill intends for terminally ill New Zealanders who have less than six months left of life, the option of requesting and receiving an assisted death from a qualified medical practitioner if they fulfill certain eligibility criteria. The End of...