By borrowing from the British NHS system of working closely with general practitioners, this radical shake-up of New Zealand’s health system can greatly improve primary healthcare.
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New Zealand’s Alpine Fault has ruptured in a major earthquake on average every 250 years. New research shows a 75% chance of the next one within 50 years, and it’s likely to be magnitude 8 or more.
Measuring the equivalent economic cost of ‘lost life years’ due to the pandemic allows us to map the true scale of the crisis.
Two years ago an inquiry called for major reform of New Zealand’s mental health services, but since then, things got worse rather than better.
Without making housing supply the priority, the government’s tax-based policies create more objectives than they can reasonably achieve.
The good news is New Zealand’s whistleblower protection laws will be stronger. The bad news is they might still not be strong enough.
New Zealand is replacing its once groundbreaking environmental legislation with new laws, one of which focuses on climate change adaptation and will include a fund to enable managed retreat.
The New Zealand subsidiaries of major Australian banks might be highly profitable, but realising their true sale value can still be a challenge.
Three crucial factors have determined the fate of Syria, including the failure of the United Nations to stop the carnage.
Even a short walk in nature can relieve mental fatigue and anxiety. With most of us living in cities, we need urban parks more than ever to take care of our well-being during the pandemic.
Three major earthquakes, including one magnitude 8.1 shake, ruptured along the Tonga Kermadec subduction zone, the longest such system on Earth.
The adolescent brain is particularly vulnerable to experience. Puberty is is the time brain networks are hardwired around milestone events. We should help teenagers make meaning of the pandemic.
Young fish need to find food to grow, but avoid being eaten themselves. That dance for survival is linked to moonlight, which has implications for fisheries management everywhere.
The Climate Change Commission releases New Zealand’s first comprehensive plan to cut emissions, calling on the government to “pick up the pace”.
A new measure of average weather days in New Zealand puts the temperature on the rise, again.
As the eradication of polio and the successful rollout of AIDS treatments have shown in the past, global cooperation in the face of COVID-19 is possible.
Once paid, tax becomes the property of the government. Pretending otherwise undermines the basic principles of the social contract.
The damage to once highly regarded brand names might be severe.
Our work is often so closely tied to our sense of who we are, many of us struggle to switch off on holidays. But it’s never too late to hide the laptop.
Given long-term forecasts for growing urban populations and an increasingly variable climate, local authorities will have to think about how best to encourage people to conserve water.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Research Fellow, School of Health, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor, School of English, Film, Theatre, Media and Communication, and Art History, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor in Education, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Clinical Psychologist, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Honorary Research Associate, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor in Commercial Law and Taxation, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Postgraduate in Marine Biology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Research Fellow, Antarctic Research Centre, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor of Taxation, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor of Accounting and Capital, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor of Glaciology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor of Media Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor in Geophysics, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
