Breadcrumbs List.
Politics and law
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A chance to right some wrongs
17 August 2022
Opinion: Banning alcohol sports sponsorship will reduce the industry’s capacity to recruit large numbers of boys into heavy drinking as young men, writes Peter Adams.
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State law is failing tamariki Māori
17 August 2022
Opinion: A by-Māori-for-Māori solution to the overrepresentation and abuse of tamariki Māori in state care is needed, says Dr Fleur Te Aho.
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Three strikes: The end of a failed experiment
16 August 2022
Opinion: Aotearoa’s three strikes law resulted in overly harsh sentences and amplified the over-incarceration of Māori and Pacific peoples, writes associate professor Carrie Leonetti.
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Last call to kōrero with Aotearoa's brightest minds
11 August 2022
Helen Clark, Siouxsie Wiles and Chlöe Swarbrick are just a few of the big names that have inspired students as part of the Kupe Leadership Scholarship.
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Poverty is not a partisan issue
5 August 2022
Opinion: Bipartisan support for substantial long-term transfer policy reforms needed urgently to share the pain of reduced living standards, writes Susan St John.
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Is high inflation bringing us down?
3 August 2022
Business School researchers are exploring how economic fluctuations affect well-being to help inform the policy decisions of central banks.
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Jane Kelsey: Protection is needed for truth to out
1 August 2022
Opinion: Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey from the Faculty of Law says academics face worsening challenges to be public intellectuals and feel vulnerable when speaking out.
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Dylan Asafo: a quiet voice for justice
1 August 2022
Dylan Asafo doesn’t shy from sharing his opinion on health inequity and institutional racism in the justice system.
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'Still Here 09' : a new Pacific documentary series
29 July 2022
From Central Auckland to the World. A Research Fellow in the Faculty of Law leads an all female Pacific filmmaking team creating a new documentary series called 'Still Here 09'.
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Why we need to abolish prisons and honour te Tiriti o Waitangi
29 July 2022
If we are ever to see effective alternatives to prisons in Aotearoa, we need to achieve Tiriti-based constitutional transformation, writes Dylan Asafo.
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We must raise the bar and improve supply chain resilience
29 July 2022
Why are the shelves bare? Professor Tava Olsen takes a look at what's going on with the world's supply chains as part of Raising the Bar.
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Social security purposes and principles cold comfort for too many
28 July 2022
Susan St John: Have we gone backwards in our thinking on providing a social security blanket?