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The canary in the coal mine for inequality

1 May 2019

Opinion: Rising rheumatic fever rates among Māori and Pasifika children show scare tactics don’t work in bringing health equality to all NZers, writes Dr Julie Spray.
Robots won’t replace all that makes us human

29 April 2019

Opinion: The changing world of work is already upon us, writes Faculty of Arts Dean Robert Greenberg, but technology won’t replace every human skill.
What future for the body and soul of France?

29 April 2019

Opinion: Deborah Walker-Morrison looks at massive donations made by the super-rich to restore Notre-Dame while social inequity and homelessness grows in France.
Best thesis places children as participants in their own health

12 April 2019

Dr Julie Spray spent a year back at primary school for her PhD in Anthropology, which has been awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis.
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.
Why Tongan has no word for human rights

8 April 2019

Opinion: Dr Melenaite Taumoefolau examines the gulf between modern and traditional Tongans and explains why the language has no term for human rights.
Jake Bransgrove transcribes diaries of Joseph Banks

31 March 2019

Student and University of Auckland history tutor Jake Bransgrove added to his historical knowledge with a summer project transcribing the journals and letters of Joseph Banks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Life and death during the Mongolian Bronze Age

20 March 2019

New research has shown that Bronze-Age Mongolians probably lived in small nomadic groups that had a relatively well-balanced diet and used horses for transportation.

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