At 33%, New Zealand's highest income tax rate is relatively low compared to other economies. Lifting it and cutting tax for low-income earners could improve welfare.
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One in four New Zealanders are living with a disability. Non-disabled people think they know what disability "looks like", and often how to help. And that can be a problem.
New Zealand is introducing new procurement rules to better link government spending with climate change policy. The first target is to reduce emissions profile of the government's vehicle fleet.
An official inquiry is underway to examine if New Zealand troops committed war crimes in Afghanistan during an event known as Operation Burnham, when six civilians were killed.
New Zealand was the first nation to grant women the vote in 1893, but during the pre-war years enduring prejudice against women in politics outweighed any support for women to stand for parliament
For the past two and a half million years, Earth has experienced regular ice ages, but with carbon dioxide levels now over 400 parts per million, the next ice age is postponed for a very long time.
Climate change is a super-wicked problem. With a growing sense of urgency to act on climate change, it is vital we strike a balance between encouraging action and limiting pushback.
Teaching history is as much about facts and people as it is about contested narratives and disputed interpretations, which is why it's time to make New Zealand history a compulsory subject at school.
As part of an upgrade of Auckland's city centre, the council promises to include local Māori communities and their histories. But without addressing inequalities, it is no more than a token gesture.
Despite repeated calls for an overhaul of New Zealand's marketing regulations to protect children from exposure to ads for unhealthy products, successive governments have failed to act.
Regenerative agriculture has the potential to build production and reducing pollution, but it needs a clearer definition.
A change to drug laws in New Zealand has been hailed as a leap towards treating drug addiction as a heath issue. But it has also been criticised for essentially decriminalising class A drugs.
A proposed plan to clean up New Zealand's waterways draws clear limits on the expansion of dairy farming and irrigation, as well as on the use of nitrogen fertiliser in some key areas.
New Zealand is in the process of negotiating a free-trade agreement with the EU. Agriculture is likely to become an issue because it is heavily subsidised in Europe but not in New Zealand.
All plants take up carbon dioxide when they grow, but when they are harvested or cut down, they release the greenhouse gas back into the atmosphere.
The land occupation at Ihumātao, near Auckland's airport, is reviving forms of protest common in the 1970s, now enhanced by new media and led by a new generation of Māorikeen to see grievances addressed.
People with high cultural intelligence are non-judgemental, tolerant of ambiguity and inclusive – and these qualities mean they are more likely to be successful in global business positions.
New research shows that Māori and Pasifika scholars are significantly under-represented in New Zealand's universities, making up only 5% and 1.7% of the academic workforce, respectively.
Traditional market transactions ignore the costs of greenhouse gas emissions. An emissions trading scheme is a tool to put a price on emissions and to influence us to choose lower-emission options.
New York's Union Square is an important site in American labor history. One scholar's research illustrates the shifting meanings and inherent tensions of public space as an epicenter of civic life.
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Professor in Applied Mathematics, Massey University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Director, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Senior Lecturer, New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science, University of Waikato
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Professor and Chair in Lake and Freshwater Sciences, University of Waikato
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Editor, New Zealand Law Journal; Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Waikato
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Associate Professor for the School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University
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Professor of Politics, Massey University
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Waikato
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Auckland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Business Law, Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Co-Director JMAD research center, Auckland University of Technology
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Senior Researcher in Politics, Auckland University of Technology
