Are New Zealand and China fair-weather friends?
By Jonas Fleming Over the last three years, New Zealand-China relations have encountered new challenges, as Jonas Fleming explains. Over the last three years, New Zealand-China relations have encountered new challenges. New Zealand’s decision to block Spark’s 5G...
« Le Parti de Le Pen » : What does the rise of the French Far-Right mean for France’s 2022 election?
By Justin Wong Marine Le Pen has already announced her bid for the presidency in 2022. Before the National Front’s (FN) Marine Le Pen advanced to the second round of the 2017 presidential election, philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy wrote in 2010 that she was “far-right...
What is the plight of climate change’s “refugees”?
By Julia Budler Julia Budler explores the displacement of people due to climate change. In its first 1990 assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted that “the gravest effects of climate change may be those on human migration,” predicting...
Will covid-19 change how we address the climate emergency? 🔊
Can we conceptualise a response to the climate crisis from how the world has reacted and responded to covid-19? What can we take from the response to the pandemic to start a new response to the climate crisis? Is a systems change required moving forward as we continue...
How have faith communities responded to Covid-19?
By Andrew Lim In response to the global spread of Covid-19, many faith communities including churches, mosques, synagogues, temples and gurdwaras have suspended their meetings and services in order to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The 2019-20 Covid-19...
What technologies can help clean up rivers? 🔊
New Zealand has a dirty rivers problem. In 2017, two-thirds of the country’s rivers were deemed too polluted to swim in. Given this, research is being carried out to find ways in which the country can attempt to clean up its rivers. Ngārie Scartozzi is a student...
Dear John, could you be the Kingmaker? Intriguing possibilities in 2020 New Zealand election
By Luke Oldfield Recent political polling suggests that the 2020 New Zealand general election will be a close affair. The result could very well rely on the success of minor parties, and the horse trading that goes on between the parties before and after polling day....
Off the grid: How can we optimise solar power in Oceania and beyond?
By Sean Endres As it becomes obvious that society’s use of fossil fuels needs to be addressed, renewable sources of energy have been celebrated as a way for the world to break its fossil fuel dependence. As it becomes increasingly obvious that society’s rampant use of...
E-scooters and human rights: What are the ethical dilemmas in their supply chain and in consumers’ wellbeing?
By Maria Rabino-Neira E-scooters have taken off. But what are the ethical dilemmas in their supply chain and in consumers’ wellbeing? Introduction The promise of globalisation has been to bring a win-win situation to the new interconnected world; consumers in...Subscribe by Email
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