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New Zealand Leadership
- New Zealand's politicians are too middle-class to tackle our biggest problems (Nov ’20)
- New Zealand has just elected one of the most diverse parliaments in the world. Here's how it stacks up (Nov ’20)
- The new leader of the free world (May ’20)
- Open, honest and effective: what makes Jacinda Ardern an authentic leader (May ’20)
- New Zealand’s Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet (Apr ’20)
- Three reasons Jacinda Ardern’s coronavirus response has been a masterclass in crisis leadership (Apr ’20)
- Winston Peters invokes Christchurch massacre as NZ’s deportations row with Australia escalates (Mar ’20)
- PM Jacinda Ardern gets a win in ScoMo’s territory (Feb ’20)
- Economic growth is an unnecessary evil, Jacinda Ardern is right to deprioritise it (May ’19)
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Maori
- I have lost much of my childhood fluency in te reo Māori – we must fight for its survival (Sep ’20)
- Bandaid or cure: a major health review remains split on how to reduce persistent inequalities for Māori (Jun ’20)
- A collective narcissism (Jun ’20)
- The state removal of Māori children from their families is a wound that won’t heal – but there is a way forward (Jun ’20)
- Dying too young: coronavirus, my Māori family and me (may ’20)
- Patricia Grace’s literary legacy: giving Māori characters their ‘natural’ voice (Feb ’20)
- Jacinda Ardern is right, Waitangi Day is imperfect. But the flaws are intentional (Feb ’20)
- We must dismantle our colonial system and rebuild it with Māori at the heart (Feb ’20)
- The haka isn’t yours – stop performing it (Jan ’20)
- Here’s why the UK wants to heal the scars of its colonial past with Māori (Jan ’20)
- On every issue important to Māori this government is failing (Nov ’19)
- Cook’s arrival was a disaster for Māori. Britain’s half-hearted apology isn’t good enough (Oct ’19)
- Resources and activities for teaching indigenous history and culture, ages 13+
The Well-Being Index
Housing Crisis
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Aotearoa Society
- Gold star for you: New Zealand council puts stickers on bins of best recyclers (Nov '20)
- The 'staggering' potential of New Zealand's returning diaspora
- New Zealand media put Christchurch gunman in his place with focus on victims (Aug '20)
- Is the PM a transformer? Or just a manager? (Jul '20)
- Did a tragic family secret influence Kate Sheppard’s mission to give New Zealand women the vote? (Jul '20)
- Post-Covid New Zealand tackles a new threat – anxiety over an uncertain future (Jul '20)
- Reforming cannabis laws is a complex challenge, but New Zealand’s history of drug reform holds important lessons (Jun ’20)
- New Zealand supermarket chain becomes first to use 'period' label on menstrual products (Jun ’20)
- Trust, risk and routine arming: the killing of a frontline officer challenges New Zealand police practice (Jun ’20)
- Black Lives Matter outrage must drive police reform in Aotearoa-New Zealand too (Jun ’20)
- New Zealand drops armed police trial after public concern (Jun ’20)
- Armed police not what NZ needs (Jun ’20)
- Kindness doesn’t begin at home: Jacinda Ardern’s support for beneficiaries lags well behind Australia’s (Jun ’20)
- New Zealand tackles 'period poverty' with free sanitary products for all schoolgirls (Jun ’20)
- In our welfare system, it’s ‘us or them’ (Jun ’20)
- Documents reveal serious lack of consultation before police armed response teams launched (May ’20)
- Like Christmas: New Zealand's post-Covid books boom (May ’20)
- Move over culture wars, New Zealand's post-virus election will be about economics (Apr ’20)
- 'New Zealanders don't think like that': Kind Kiwi claps back at Melbourne woman after racist outburst (May ’20)
- Move over culture wars, New Zealand's post-virus election will be about economics (Apr ’20)
- Covid-19 an opportunity to tackle our housing crisis (Apr ’20)
- Universal basic income: be careful what you wish for (Apr ’20)
- The challenges and benefits of outdoor recreation during NZ’s coronavirus lockdown (Mar ‘20)
- As an MP in self-isolation, I’ve seen New Zealand’s collective power to respond to a crisis (Mar ’20)
- Ardern: New Zealand has ‘fundamentally changed’ since Christchurch shootings (Mar ’20)
- Far-right extremists still threaten New Zealand, a year on from the Christchurch attacks (Mar ’20)
- In New Zealand, we are starting to value women’s work fairly. It’s time for the world to follow (Mar ’20)
- Product of Australia – it’s fashionable to beat up on New Zealanders
- SOMEWHERE TO LIVE - EXPLORING SOLUTIONS TO THE HOUSING AFFORDABILITY CRISIS IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND (Feb ’20)
- ‘These children are in limbo’: the New Zealanders locked out of Australia’s NDIS (Feb ’20)
- Not much love actually: Jacinda Ardern was right to call out Australia’s ‘corrosive’ policies (Feb ’20)
- Jacinda Ardern lashes Scott Morrison for ‘testing’ friendship over deportations to New Zealand (Feb ’20)
- Vested interests in New Zealand politics are too big to ignore – we need a Royal Commission (Feb ’20)
- ‘They allowed the perfect storm’: UN expert damns New Zealand’s housing crisis (Feb ’20)
- The haka isn’t yours – stop performing it (Jan ’20)
- I pioneered the four-day week – now it must be used to fight the climate crisis (Jan ’20)
- New Zealand lobby group plans to sue Australia over citizenship law change (Jan ’20)
- New Zealand’s waiting list for state housing hits record high (Jan ’20)
- Aotearoa is at last finding its voice, helping us heal after a year of tragedy (Dec ’19)
- New Zealand to get 10 Gbps fibre to premises in 2020 (Nov ’19)
- The Wellbeing Budget 2019 (Jun ’19)
- The search for an alternative to GDP to measure a nation’s progress – the New Zealand experience (jun ’19)
- NZ has dethroned GDP as a measure of success, but will Ardern’s government be transformational? (jun ’19)
- New Zealand’s Next Liberal Milestone: A Budget Guided by ‘Well-Being’ (May ’19)
- New Zealand’s well-being approach to budget is not new, but could shift major issues (May ’19)
- Jacinda Ardern urges leaders to widen their definition of ‘prosperity’ – video (Jul ’19)
- New Zealand's electoral system — is it better than ours? (may ’19)
- The paradox of happiness: the more you chase it the more elusive it becomes (May ’19)
- Four lessons we must take away from the Christchurch terror attack (Mar ’19)
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Economy
- The market is not our master — only state-led business cooperation will drive real economic recovery (Jul ’20)
- COVID-19: New Zealand's recession will 'technically' be over in two weeks, not a 'great depression scenario' - economist (Jun ’20)
- By sacking staff and closing stores, big businesses like The Warehouse could hurt their own long-term interests (Jun ’20)
- New Zealand Government Net Debt to GDP (Jun ’20)
- If we are going to borrow, let’s buy the best (May ’20)
- Covid could put NZ horticulture out in front (May ’20)
- Will New Zealand’s $50 billion budget boost Jacinda Ardern’s chance of being re-elected? (may ’20)
- The pandemic budget: moving New Zealand from critical care to long-term recovery (may ’20)
- The ghosts of budgets past haunt New Zealand’s shot at economic recovery (may ’20)
- Climate explained: why switching to electric transport makes sense even if electricity is not fully renewable (Apr ’20)
- Coronavirus Covid-19: Winston Peters: NZ economy can't go back to the way it was (Apr ’20)
- Towards a more productive, digital NZ (Apr ’20)
- New Zealand’s ‘catch up, patch up’ health budget misses the chance for a national overhaul (Mar ’20)
- Coronavirus support packages will reshape the future economy, and that presents an opportunity (Apr ’20)
- NZ has dethroned GDP as a measure of success, but will Ardern’s government be transformational? (Jul ’19)
- New Zealand’s Next Liberal Milestone: A Budget Guided by ‘Well-Being’ (May ’19)
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Tourism
- From a mountain village, a plea for kindness (Jun ’20)
- NZ-Pacific bubble should come first (May ’20)
- A four-day working week could be the shot in the arm post-coronavirus tourism needs (May ’20)
- Coronavirus has made Australia and New Zealand closer than ever before, even ahead of the 'travel bubble' (May ’20)
- The coronavirus survival challenge for NZ tourism: affordability and sustainability (May ’20)
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Climate Action
- New Zealand invests in growing its domestic recycling industry to create jobs and dump less rubbish at landfills (Sep ’20)
- New Zealand wants to build a 100% renewable electricity grid, but massive infrastructure is not the best option (Jul ’20)
- Emissions trading reform Bill passes, hard work ahead (Jun ’20)
- Climate Explained: what Earth would be like if we hadn’t pumped greenhouse gases into the atmosphere (Jun ’20)
- Why long-term environmental observations are crucial for New Zealand’s water security challenges (Jun ’20)
- Let’s fix Australia’s environment with any pandemic recovery aid – the Kiwis are doing it (Jun ’20)
- NZ puts hard cap on emissions for first time to strengthen its trading scheme (Jun ’20)
- Freshwater reforms to lead to massive emissions reductions (Jun ’20)
- New Zealand government ignores expert advice in its plan to improve water quality in rivers and lakes (may ’20)
- New Zealand’s COVID-19 budget delivers on one crisis, but largely leaves climate change for another day (may ’20)
- Covid-19 has nothing on what’s coming (Apr ’20)
- Factcheck: is New Zealand hypocritical to reject Australia’s climate accounting? (Jan ’20)
- New Zealand’s carbon emissions bill (Jan ’20)
- Climate explained: how climate change will affect food production and security (Dec ’19)
- Here’s why the UK wants to heal the scars of its colonial past with Māori (Jan ’20)
- New Zealand passes historic zero carbon bill with near unanimous bipartisan support (Nov ’19)
- Climate explained: how emissions trading schemes work and they can help us shift to a zero carbon future (Aug '19)
- New Zealand poised to introduce clean car standards and incentives to cut emissions (Aug ’19)
- New Zealand bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of ‘carbon-neutral future’ (Apr ’18)
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Refugees
New Zealand grants asylum to Behrouz Boochani, Kurdish-Iranian refugee who was detained on Manus Island (Jul '20) Golriz Ghahraman: 'I feel such sorrow when I imagine my parents' fate' (Jun '20) Behrouz Boochani: Jacinda Ardern lashes 'offensive' claim refugee won political favours (May '20) New Zealand would be honoured to take Behrouz Boochani. Australia be damned (Dec '19)
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COVID-19 (NEW ZEALAND)ed
- New Zealand's Covid-19 response the best in the world, say global business leaders (Oct '20)
- Auckland’s rapid lockdown has given New Zealand a better chance of eliminating coronavirus – again (Aug '20)
- Covid-19 coronavirus: More strategic approach to virus needed (Aug '20)
- Masking the outbreak: despite New Zealand’s growing COVID-19 cases, there are more ways to get back to elimination faster (Aug '20)
- 6 months after New Zealand’s first COVID-19 case, it’s time for a more strategic approach (Aug '20)
- Why New Zealand needs to focus on genome sequencing to trace the source of its new COVID-19 outbreak (Aug '20)
- Successful COVID-19 contact tracing systems for New Zealand
- A new community case of COVID-19 in New Zealand is a matter of when, not if. Is the country prepared for it? (Aug '20)
- 'They didn't close the deal': New Zealand looks on in horror at Melbourne Covid-19 crisis (Aug '20)
- Effect of New Zealand border controls on COVID-19 reincursion risk (Jul '20)
- Covid 19 coronavirus: Evidence grows that virus may have originated from outside China (Jul '20)
- How New Zealand could keep eliminating coronavirus at its border for months to come, even as the global pandemic worsens (Jul '20)
- New Zealand beat Covid-19 by trusting leaders and following advice – study (Jul '20)
- As a homecoming Kiwi, I didn't expect the red carpet – just a nicer welcome (Jul '20)
- Jacinda Ardern decries 'dangerous' calls to reopen New Zealand borders (Jun '20)
- The COVID-19 “success story”: Why has the world singled out New Zealand for praise? (Jun '20)
- The law is clear – border testing is enforceable. So why did New Zealand’s quarantine system break down? (Jun '20)
- 2 new COVID-19 cases in New Zealand, but elimination of community transmission still stands (Jun '20)
- New Zealand ends Covid-free run with two cases from UK (Jun '20)
- The next once-a-century pandemic is coming sooner than you think – but COVID-19 can help us get ready (Jun '20)
- Ardern earns brief dance, but hard yards ahead (Jun '20)
- In awe of NZ: How world media reacted to New Zealand eliminating Covid-19 (Jun '20)
- New Zealand hits zero active coronavirus cases. Here are 5 measures to keep it that way (Jun '20)
- Covid-19: How to avoid the second wave (Jun '20)
- 'Can't quite believe it': New Zealand tiptoes towards elimination of coronavirus (Jun '20)
- New Zealand hits a 95% chance of eliminating coronavirus – but we predict new cases will emerge (Jun '20)
- Ardern says New Zealand on track to eliminate coronavirus 'ahead of schedule' (Jun '20)
- Helen Clark on China and Covid-19 (Jun '20)
- Some Countries Have Brought New Cases Down To Nearly Zero. How Did They Do It? (May '20)
- Nature is key to NZ’s post-Covid future (May '20)
- Low staff levels must be part of any reviews into the coronavirus outbreaks in NZ rest homes (may '20)
- Watch public meetings of the Epidemic Response Committee (May '20)
- ‘Forgotten’ migrants locked out (may '20)
- Stuck migrants working for lentils (may '20)
- Alcohol can make coronavirus worse – so why was it treated as essential in New Zealand’s lockdown? (may '20)
- Covid-19 Comms: US Government Worst, New Zealand & Germany Best Say PR Pros (may '20)
- What you need to know from Government's mega COVID-19 document dump (may '20)
- Covid-19 lays inequality in NZ bare (apr '20)
- Traffic and takeaways: readers on New Zealand's loosened lockdown (Apr '20)
- Coronavirus: $20 million Government fund announced for tertiary students to get access to digital devices and internet connections (Apr '20)
- How NZ can aid the world in the Covid-19 response (Apr '20)
- New interactive app simulates COVID-19 spread in NZ (Apr '20)
- 'You can't compare': New Zealand looks on Australia's loose lockdown with envy – and horror (Apr '20)
- Covid 19 coronavirus: Revealed - the data showing the success of NZ's lockdown over Australia's (Apr '20)
- Coronavirus: New poll shows support for alert level 4 extension despite economic pain (Apr '20)
- Has New Zealand really done better than Australia in controlling coronavirus? (Apr ’20)
- Migrants plead for emergency benefits under lockdown (Apr ’20)
- Why coronavirus emerges in clusters, and how New Zealand plans to eliminate outbreaks after lockdown (Apr ’20)
- Five ways New Zealanders’ lives and liberties will be heavily controlled, even after lockdown eases (Apr ’20)
- New Zealand lockdown releases charity spirit as Ardern 'be kind' mantra kicks in (Apr '20)
- Covid 19 coronavirus: The new data that shows how NZ got it right (Apr '20)
- A strict Covid-19 lockdown gave New Zealand a key ingredient to recover – solidarity (Apr '20)
- Jacinda Ardern asks New Zealanders to keep diaries to help trace coronavirus contacts (Apr '20)
- Protecting lives and livelihoods: the data on why New Zealand should relax its coronavirus lockdown from Thursday (Apr '20)
- Coronavirus: Māori, Pasifika twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than Pākehā - study (Apr '20)
- ‘Ready, fire, aim!’ approach is on target (Apr '20)
- Data isn’t enough for this decision (Apr '20)
- Covid 19 coronavirus: New Zealand vs. Australia - do we really want to be like them? (Apr '20)
- Covid 19 coronavirus: Code words at supermarkets possible for victims escaping violence (Apr ’20)
- Coronavirus: How does New Zealand stack up against World Health Organization's 'criteria' for lifting restrictions (Apr '20)
- Coronavirus: How loneliness is impacting society during lockdown (Apr '20)
- Covid 19 coronavirus: Online learning 'game-changing' - but many may still miss out
- Coronavirus: Dr Ashley Bloomfield answers COVID-19 questions (Apr '20)
- It’s as if Dr Ashley Bloomfield’s entire life was on a trajectory to meet Covid-19 and help guide New Zealand through it. (Apr ’20)
- Verena Friederike Hasel: We are witnesses of something quite extraordinary. Covid-19 coronavirus response in New Zealand vs the world (Apr ’20)
- ‘Delivers the stats like no other’: New Zealand’s Covid-19 crush on health chief (Apr ’20)
- New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern’s Covid-19 response is a lesson for other world leaders (Apr ’20)
- Three reasons why Jacinda Ardern’s coronavirus response has been a masterclass in crisis leadership (Apr ’20)
- Covid-19 coronavirus: More evidence indicates healthy people can spread it (Apr ’20)
- Understanding NZ’s Covid-19 curve (30 Mar‘20)
- Jacinda Ardern holds special coronavirus press conference for children (Mar ‘20)
- New Zealand's coronavirus stimulus leaves the working poor most exposed (Mar ‘20)
- New Zealand outstrips Australia, UK and US with $12 billion coronavirus package for business and people in isolation (Mar ‘20)
- Self-isolating for coronavirus is impossible for tens of thousands of New Zealanders – unless we help them fast (Mar ‘20)
- Tougher New Zealand rules on Covid-19 could set it apart as ‘normal’ nation after lockdown (Mar ‘20)
- New Zealand to enter lockdown to fight the coronavirus (Mar '20)
- How does Australia’s COVID-19 response compare to New Zealand? (Mar ’20)
- Caring for 300,000 temporary migrants in New Zealand is a crucial missing link in our coronavirus response (Mar ’20)
- NZ’s decision to close its borders will hurt tourism but it’s the right thing to do (Mar ’20)
- Coronavirus: New Zealand PM says all arrivals must self-isolate (Mar ’20)
- Jacinda Ardern reveals 'unprecedented' travel restrictions to combat coronavirus, all travellers to New Zealand to self-isolate (Mar ’20)
- New Zealand outstrips Australia, UK and US with $12 billion coronavirus package for business and people in isolation (Mar ’20)