Nov 3, 2021 | Politics & Society, Science & Technology
By Robert McLachlan New Zealand’s new climate pledge is a step up, but not a ‘fair share’. As the Glasgow climate summits gets underway, New Zealand’s government has announced a revised pledge, with a headline figure of a 50% reduction on gross 2005 emissions by the...
Sep 6, 2021 | Politics & Society
By Alexander Gillespie New Zealand needs to go beyond fast-tracking counter-terrorism laws to reduce the risk of future attacks. New Zealand’s second terrorist attack in two years highlights weaknesses in existing counter-terrorism laws in preventing violent...
Aug 4, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
By Dame Anne Salmond A new column from Dame Anne Salmond challenges the legalistic, one side up against the other approach to race relations and the Treaty of Waitangi of the past 40 years. Racist thinking runs deep. As Jess Berentson-Shaw observed in ‘Why Anti-Racism...
Jul 27, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
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...
Jul 19, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
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...
Apr 28, 2021 | Politics & Society
By Zachary Meskell New Zealand needs additional transparency measures to shed light on “dark money” in politics, says Zachary Meskell. Earlier this year, Transparency International released its annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI) and, once again, New Zealand was...
Apr 14, 2021 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
Is tax the ticking time bomb of our generation? That is the focus of this lecture hosted by the University of Auckland Law School. Featuring a panel of tax experts, this seminar will discuss current and pressing tax issues such as tax and the property market, wealth...
Dec 8, 2020 | Politics & Society, Science & Technology
By David Hall, Raven Cretney & Sylvia Nissen By declaring a climate emergency Jacinda Ardern needs to inspire hope, not fear. There is no question that we must act, and act fast, on climate change. This week’s climate emergency declaration by the New Zealand...
Dec 2, 2020 | Politics & Society, Referee
By Alexander Campbell In an election dominated by the response to COVID-19, a line in the Labour manifesto opened the door to campaign finance reform: “Labour will continue to protect the integrity of New Zealand elections, and voters’ access to the polls, including a...
Nov 12, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Joseph Boden “We will begin to make real progress when we realise that the War on Drugs has been a complete failure and damaging to our society, and that significant changes in our attitudes and laws are needed to begin to deal with drugs as a health issue,...