Breadcrumbs List.
Politics and law
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Who's afraid of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks?
15 April 2019
Opinion: Disapprove of Julian Assange if you will but remember that his fundamental rights and freedoms must be protected. Professor Marianne Franklin, Visiting Fellow at the Department of Commercial Law, University of Auckland Business School examines the issues.
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System still flawed for care abuse survivors
10 April 2019
Opinion: MSD’s historic claims compensation process for survivors of abuse in state care remains flawed despite recent changes, writes Dr Stephen Winter.
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Four tactics the pro-gun lobby can be expected to employ
10 April 2019
Opinion: Professor Peter Adams outlines four tactics we can expect the pro-gun lobby to lift from the playbook used by big tobacco and others.
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Brexit stories out of date by lunchtime
5 April 2019
Opinion: Constant change around fast moving Brexit makes it tricky for a writer but Professor John Morgan manages to sum up the latest with some history to help.
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Tech giants could risk all on exposed Achilles heel
29 March 2019
Opinion: Big Tech corporations’ ubiquity and wealth can make them seem untouchable, but they have a weakness. Professor Susan Watson examines their Achilles heel.
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A climate-neutral NZ? Yes, it’s possible
29 March 2019
Opinion: NZ could show much larger emitters how climate change policy can be ambitious, fair and above all transparent, writes University of Oxford's Myles Allen.
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Eviction from paradise: Tourism and land grabs
27 March 2019
Booming tourism in the Global South has led to widespread infringements on local rights to land and resources, often with devastating impacts on livelihoods.
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Challenging Islamophobia no threat to free speech
22 March 2019
Opinion: Challenging Islamophobia and entrenched racism does not stop condemnation of terror attacks carried out in the name of any ideology, writes Dr Neal Curtis.
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You don’t need to make racial slurs to be racist
21 March 2019
Opinion: Shocking, but believable in diverse NZ where race relations have been neglected for years, writes Associate Professor Louise Humpage of the terror attack.
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Spectacle of theatre, performance, and law
19 March 2019
The Anthony Harper, Pop-up Globe Moot is back.
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Nativism and terrorism, blood and soil
18 March 2019
Opinion: The mosque gunman's manifesto combines nationalism and xenophobia intended to polarise, but the overwhelming response in the wake of the attacks has been unity, writes Dr Chris Wilson.
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Mosque shooter no ideological Einstein
18 March 2019
Opinion: The historical ignorance of the mosque shooting terrorist is palpable and his grasp of socio-political realities utterly flawed. But this is Islamophobia, writes Hon Professor Douglas Pratt.