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Cannabis legalisation ... OK idea, bad timing

13 August 2019

Opinion: NZ could take time to evaluate the cannabis issue. Instead, we will be forced to make a choice on legalisation and hope we get it right, writes Grant Christie.
Ihumātao: NZ breaching human rights obligations

12 August 2019

Opinion: The UN has asked Government to stop development of Ihumātao. Until then, NZ is in breach of international human rights, writes Claire Charters.
The democratic cost of inequality

29 July 2019

How concerned should we be with inequality in society? A great deal according to economist Robert H. Wade.
Rising up in the spirit of justice

25 July 2019

Opinion: Ihumaatao is about to be bulldozed. Will the Government continue to turn away? Dr Frances Hancock and Qiane Matata-Sipu write from the protest site.
What happened to the UN sustainability goals?

24 July 2019

Opinion: Despite encouraging progress, much more needs to be done to turn sustainable development goals into a global reality, writes the UN’s Friedrich Soltau.
A new dawn of the worst and most injurious

24 July 2019

Opinion: Dr Neal Curtis argues we are moving away from democracy to a new type of government, kakistocracy, that puts the worst of us at the top of the heap
Diary of a summer scholar: KDee Ma'ia'i

22 July 2019

KDee completed a Summer Research Scholarship with Associate Professor Jennifer Frost exploring the enfranchisement of 18 to 21 year olds in the United States.
Anne Salmond: Billion Trees policy being rorted

16 July 2019

Opinion: Natural forests take up 40 times more carbon than plantations, but most new planting under NZ’s Billion Trees policy is pine, writes Dame Anne Salmond.
We need to talk about America

12 July 2019

America is constantly “fantasised, sensationalised, and caricatured,” says Brendon O’Connor, an expert in American politics at the University of Sydney.
Poverty: not an earthquake but still a crisis

11 July 2019

Opinion: New Zealand is in a crisis of poverty and inequality which is shaking our values to the foundation and creating long-term damage, writes Susan St John.
Fulbright Awards to study masters of laws

9 July 2019

The Auckland Law School congratulates our alumni who have been granted 2019 Fulbright General Graduate Awards.
Who can beat Trump in 2020?

8 July 2019

Opinion: The Democrats need a presidential candidate who can draw together a deeply divided US. Dr Paul Michel Taillon analyses the first debate held last month.

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