How can we address Covid anxiety?
By Mary Breheny Listening to other people’s stories is a powerful way to unite people, and instead of belittling anxieties as illogical, addressing fears with understanding can help us design responses which enable all people to experience security in uncertain...
Why won’t carbon farming pine trees truly help mitigate climate change?
By Anne Salmond It’s time for Labour and the Greens to rescue their climate consciences and stop plans to plant vast, environmentally risky pine forests as a way of offsetting our greenhouse gas emissions. In New Zealand, we have a Labour-Green government at...
What cultural values belong in science?
By Julie Rowland The University of Auckland’s Julie Rowland examines the notion that education should be secular and devoid of any form of spirituality. Commentators, here and overseas, have depicted the practice and learning of science as facing an existential...
What is Havana syndrome?
By Robert Bartholomew Robert Bartholomew takes apart the theory US and Canadian diplomats were the target of a mysterious new weapon in Cuba and lays out a much more likely explanation. Havana Syndrome – the mysterious affliction affecting US diplomats and...
Will an income insurance scheme work in New Zealand?
By Susan St John Susan St John responds to the newly-announced income insurance scheme with some suggestions on how to tweak and improve what we already have. The welfare state should ensure there is always adequate income in the event of loss of employment,...
What role can New Zealand play to combat climate change?
By Kevin Trenberth Climate change is a global problem requiring a global solution, but individual nations like New Zealand can play a role and must do so, writes Kevin Trenberth. The climate is changing and human activities are the cause: this is confirmed in the...
What role do banks play in the housing crisis?
By Michael Rehm If banks’ lending behaviour is found to have contributed to New Zealand’s housing quagmire, then banks must be held to account and share the pain when the bubble inevitably bursts, writes the University of Auckland’s Michael Rehm. New Zealand’s...
What are the problems with New Zealand’s climate strategy?
By Anne Salmond Dame Anne Salmond lays out the fundamental problems with this country’s strategy to use pine forests and overseas offsets to help wish away our climate emissions. New Zealand’s strategy for responding to climate change is fundamentally flawed....
Screen time: how much is too much?
By Samantha Marsh & Alex Muntz A healthy digital diet is different for different people. We need to learn to listen for what our body and brain are telling us. How much screen time is too much? It’s a question we all want the answer to. But it’s like...Subscribe by Email
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