How can we clean up space?
By Gilbert Wong Space might be the final frontier, but, like all frontiers it’s strewn with junk. Luckily, Professor Guglielmo Aglietti, director of the Auckland Space Institute has a plan. Three giant monitors line the front of the Mission Operations Control Centre...
Is it time Pākehā New Zealanders faced their personal connections to the past?
By Richard Shaw “It is a long since time we Pākehā confronted the unsettled history of the place in which the “team of five million” lives. Time we were honest with ourselves. Time we ended the forgetting.” Whenever I visit my mother in New Plymouth we...
Taxing the digital economy: what changes can be made? ▶
The question of how to tax multinational companies that operate highly digitalised business models is one of the most contested areas of international taxation. The tax paid in the jurisdictions in which these companies operate has not kept pace with their immense...
Will an international tax on tech giants be enough?
By Victoria Plekhanova Australia and New Zealand are signing up for an international tax on the tech giants — but will it be enough? Australia, New Zealand and many other countries are losing hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue each year by not adequately...
What’s happening in Haiti?
By Rashmee Roshan Lall The 7 July assassination of the country’s president, Jovenel Moïse, has thrown the country into disarray. Here’s what you need to know. In the days since president Jovenel Moïse’s assassination last week, Haiti’s situation has become...
What’s the right COVID-19 risk to live with?
By Tony Blakely, Tim Wilson & Vijaya Sundararajan As Australia looks toward opening its international borders, new virus modelling provides scenarios that can help us decide what’s the right risk to tolerate. As Australia inches up its vaccine rollout, the...
Will sustainable cities look like the places we know today?
By Timothy F. Welch A sustainable city could look like the ones we know today. It could look like the ones we see in science fiction movies, or it could look like something which none of us has yet dreamt. No one knows what the world will look like in a generation....
What is the context behind the protests in Cuba?
By Democracia Abierta In unprecedented protests, Cubans demonstrated against their government and its mishandling of the pandemic, only to be met with repression. For the first time in over 60 years, thousands of Cubans, in more than 20 towns and cities across the...
What is the future of Māori-Pakeha relations?
By Dame Anne Salmond Instead of seeing Māori ways as an either/or with existing thinking about the world and its governance, Dame Anne Salmond argues it’s time to bring them together for new institutional forms of order for Aotearoa-New Zealand. For more than...Subscribe by Email
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