Breadcrumbs List.
Politics and law
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Auckland debaters make their mark in Vietnam
18 January 2024
The new year heralded success for a squad of debaters at the world's largest debate competition.
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The ‘Mrs P’ case highlights the crisis in our Family Court
17 January 2024
Opinion: Many women and children, whose true claims of abuse are disbelieved or dismissed, never get their High Court victory, says Carrie Leonetti.
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ACT's quest for regulatory reform
15 January 2024
ACT’s attempt at regulatory reform in Aotearoa New Zealand has failed three times already, Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey asks what’s different now.
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Academic explores protection of reproductive choices
13 December 2023
We can freeze eggs and sperm, undergo in-vitro, or choose sterilisation or contraception, but if something goes wrong, the path to justice is complicated, says Dr Anna Broadmore.
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Enhancing the mana of Te Tiriti
5 December 2023
Opinion: There is no need for the Act Party’s ‘principles’, because there are not two treaties, says Professor Margaret Mutu. There is only one – Te Tiriti o Waitangi
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No Paine no gain: law student wins gold
30 November 2023
Jack Paine sprinted through sweltering heat to win gold at the Pacific Games in Honiara, Solomon Islands.
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Simple steps for new Govt to tackle child poverty
16 November 2023
Opinion: For families where parents are without work and need welfare to survive, National’s election promises will deliver nothing, writes Susan St John.
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The pseudoscience of ‘parental alienation syndrome’
15 November 2023
Opinion: Thousands of children will go to bed tonight in the court-ordered care of violent fathers because a judge accepted a diagnosis of a non-existent disorder, says Carrie Leonetti
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Human rights scholar wins top Royal Society award
8 November 2023
Human rights scholar Dr Maria Armoudian from Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland has won the Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Social Sciences.
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Rhodes to success: students head to Oxford
8 November 2023
Rhodes Scholarship recipients Karan Kalsi and Frances Wright are set to undertake postgraduate studies at Oxford.
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Misha Vorobyev: why we should relax rules for Ukrainian refugees
1 November 2023
Opinion: Russian-born academic Dr Misha Vorobyev outlines the issues in the war on Ukraine and states the case for New Zealand to allow more Ukrainian refugees into the country.
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Refugee advocate wins social justice award
1 November 2023
Bernard Sama has been recognised for his work to improve Aotearoa's refugee policies, garnering an award for social justice in the process.