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Tax Working Group unlikely to sort housing inequality

14 December 2018

Opinion: The Tax Working Group is unlikely to address housing inequality given exclusions in its terms of reference, writes Hon Associate Professor Susan St John (Economics).
He Ara Oranga – Pathways to Wellness

11 December 2018

The Report of the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction, led by Professor Ron Paterson, has been released, with 40 recommendations within 12 broad areas.
Students track war crimes in Syria

10 December 2018

A chance to take part in an Amnesty International (NZ) investigation into possible war crimes in Syria was too good to pass up for University of Auckland students last week.
Tax expert awarded premier Law Foundation scholarship

29 November 2018

Professor Craig Elliffe, from the Auckland Law School has been awarded the country’s premier legal research grant, the New Zealand International Research Fellowship - Te Karahipi Rangahau ā Taiao.
Women in NZ: a country of firsts

28 November 2018

Opinion: Women's right to vote was won just 10 weeks before a general election, on this day in 1893. Suffragists work continued as they rallied women to register and use their vote, writes Professor Jennifer Curtin.
Some myths about NZ Super

22 November 2018

Opinion: Let’s not mindlessly raise the qualifying age for Super but instead try to solve actual problems ordinary people face, writes Hon Associate Professor Susan St John.
Philosophical principles drive Rhodes Scholar

20 November 2018

University of Auckland alumnus Johann Go is a 2019 Rhodes Scholar.
The cost of our nation’s cultural heritage too high?

19 November 2018

Opinion: An Environment Court decision has paved the way for the destruction of the special cultural heritage landscape at Ihumaatao, near Māngere, exposing flaws in New Zealand’s heritage protection mechanisms.
Future Directions of Aotearoa’s Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Courts Conference

15 November 2018

Researchers at the University of Auckland are hosting a conference to encourage informed, robust, conversations about the future shape, scope and operation of the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Courts.
The widening challenge of the state care abuse inquiry

15 November 2018

Opinion: Changes to the state care abuse inquiry's size and complexity offer a new set of problems, writes Dr Stephen Winter.
Democracy surviving in Trump’s America

12 November 2018

Opinion: Democracy requires engaged citizenship: Not engagement driven by fear and reaction, writes Dr Paul Michel Taillon.
‘Your son Jayden needs our help’

5 November 2018

Opinion: A new 'predictive modelling' system to identify young people on the road to dependency fails basic principles, writes Associate Professor Simon Denny.

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