Why is the UN calling for a gendered approach to climate – and how does Aotearoa stack up?
Photo by UN Women Gallery , licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 By Bex Ansell and Izzy Renton On November 14th, 2022, COP27 included the conference’s first-ever day devoted to gender. Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, laid out three things the UN Climate...
What did the NZ 2020 election reveal about public opinion and political marketing? ▶
In this talk hosted by Koi Tū: Centre for Informed Futures at the University of Auckland, Associate Professor Jennifer Lees-Marshment and Dr Edward Elder will use Vote Compass data to highlight the key lessons learned about political marketing and policy from 2020,...
COP26: Does New Zealand’s latest climate pledge go far enough?
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...
Counter-terrorism: how can Aotearoa reduce the risk of future attacks?
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...
How can we rethink ‘race’ in Aotearoa?
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...
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...
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...
Is New Zealand really the least corrupt country in the world?
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...
Is tax the ticking time bomb of our generation? ▶
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...Subscribe by Email
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