Apr 18, 2024 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society, Referee
Words by Helen Flannery and Chuck Collins Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash DAFs channel huge amounts of cash to ‘culture war’ groups – anonymously. Why do people get tax breaks for using them? US law lets wealthy people get substantial tax deductions if they donate...
Apr 26, 2023 | Featured, Ngā Ara Whetū, Politics & Society
Photo by NOAA on Unsplash Climate change is the “bread and butter” issue of our times, as spelled out in the latest synthesis of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report. If we do not urgently address climate change, there will be much...
Apr 12, 2023 | Featured, Politics & Society
Photo by Sophie Turner on Unsplash Tara McAllister, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Cate Macinnis-Ng, University of Auckland, and Dan C H Hikuroa, University of Auckland As global environmental challenges grow, people and societies are...
Dec 16, 2022 | Business & Economics, Ngā Ara Whetū, Politics & Society
by Cormac Jelicich In 2020, two crises coincided. First, the COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented socioeconomic harm, triggering a devastating health crisis that engendered the steepest recession since the Great Depression. Second, the myriad of ecological...
Feb 9, 2022 | Politics & Society, Referee
Ending New Zealand’s Housing Crisis is a film by Harry Booth, Haidon Evans and Jade Hunter. The film was produced as part of a Stage 3 COMMs class Documentary and Social Change (2021) taught by Annie Goldson at the University of Auckland. Aotearoa New Zealand is...
Dec 14, 2021 | Politics & Society
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...
Jun 16, 2021 | Politics & Society, Science & Technology
By Peter Davis Access to medicines is in many ways a litmus test of a decent society, particularly if a medication can make a difference between life and death. The short answer is that they are not! Unlike many other countries, hospital patients receive their...
May 27, 2021 | Politics & Society, Referee
By Genevieve Hawkins Boulton A strong partnership with Māori is vital to restoring tikanga and reversing the impacts of colonisation. Health experts further recognise the restoration of tikanga of whānau to be integral to the well-being of Māori, therefore, reducing...
Apr 22, 2021 | Politics & Society
By Maria Armoudian & Nicolas Pirsoul If we want to improve NZ’s freshwater quality, first we need to improve the quality of our democracy. Since the fatal Havelock North campylobacter outbreak in 2016, freshwater quality has rightfully been a major political issue...
Apr 7, 2021 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
By Alison Pavlovich “If we want a fair and prosperous future, we need a tax system that helps to redress market inequalities.” ACT leader, David Seymour, and National Party leader, Judith Collins, have both labelled the extension of the bright-line test...