Are the new smoking policies the answer for a smokefree New Zealand?
By Chris Bullen If implemented as planned, the new smokefree action plan could be the single most significant approach we take as a nation to reducing preventable death and disease and reducing health inequities, writes Chris Bullen. As a doctor, tobacco researcher...
Can we have climate justice without migration justice?
By Andreas Neef Andreas Neef looks at what a failure of the negotiations at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow could mean for climate migration in the Pacific and beyond. As thousands of delegates from around the world gather in Glasgow at the COP26 Climate Summit...
Do we need a fundamental rethink into how we address climate change?
By Anne Salmond The way the Government is investing in tackling climate change is scientifically ill-informed, and economically ill-considered. It needs a fundamental rethink, writes Dame Anne Salmond. My heart sank when I read about the commitments that New Zealand...
Could space junk prevent future space exploration?
By Laura Pirovano There’s too much junk in space and a real need to know where it is moving, to protect important spacecraft and satellites, writes Laura Pirovano. Space – vast and almost empty. This has always been our view and it has hardly changed even with...
My body, my choice? Not this time
By Mike Lee Mike Lee argues that the rights of other people to remain free from harm overrides freedom of choice. Over the last 18 months, most businesses have had a passive role in New Zealand’s Covid-19 recovery plan. The Government has been calling all the shots...
How can nature-based forests help combat climate change?
By Anne Salmond The use of ‘permanent’ plantations of pine trees solely to build up carbon offsets is solving one harm with another, writes Dame Anne Salmond. There is an alternative. As Argentinian ecologist Sandra Diaz said during the 2021 Nobel Prize...
When will New Zealand stop honouring this genocidal dictator?
By Maria Armoudian Absent-mindedly paying tribute to murderous Turkish dictator Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is a stain on this country’s integrity. It’s time we did something about it, writes Maria Armoudian. Last week, in what once seemed to many an...
COVID: What should we be doing for Māori and Pacific peoples?
By Natalie Netzler Covid-19 is hitting our Māori and Pacific communities disproportionately hard. So how can we improve clear, targeted messaging on vaccination? The Covid-19 pandemic continues to create global chaos and devastation. At the time of writing there have...
Should we be worried about COVID vaccine side effects?
By Helen Petousis-Harris Health risks from contracting Covid-19 far outweigh the rare vaccine side effect linked to the woman who died in New Zealand last week. Helen Petousis-Harris explains. After hundreds of millions of Covid-19 vaccination doses given worldwide,...Subscribe by Email
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