Viktoria Kahui Senior Lecturer in Environmental Economics, University of Otago Biodiversity is declining at rates unprecedented in human history. This suggests the ways we currently use to manage our natural environment are failing. One emerging concept focuses on giving legal rights to nature. Many Indigenous peoples have long emphasised the
Today, RNZ and both TV news channels lean well to the left, NZME and Stuff have both been captured by a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Otago Daily Times won’t touch a cartoonist like Garrick Tremain. Don Brash Conservative views are less and less welcome
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John Porter “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” Originally a line spoken by Marcellus in Act I of Hamlet. It has now become an idiom used when something is not right, or seriously amiss, especially when leading to suspicion of motive. For example: “If the authorities knew about
Michael Ryan Teaching Fellow in Economics, University of Waikato There is an ongoing global debate over whether the high inflation seen in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic can be lowered without a recession. New Zealand is not immune to this issue. Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr has said a
Mike Butler Mike Butler is the author of The Treaty: Basic Facts, and The First Colonist. Six thousand Tauranga citizens who petitioned in 2021 for a vote on a proposed Maori ward want some fair treatment over the ward that is currently being imposed on Tauranga. These citizens feel aggrieved
David Farrar David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders. bassettbrashandhide.com The new Victoria University Vice-Chancellor decided
There should be no surprises in the latest 1News poll, released yesterday, that shows support for the coalition has slumped. No surprises here because the Media Party has been on the attack since the Government was formed, hostile to everything because their preferred parties were rinsed in the election. The
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Bryce Edwards Political Analyst in Residence, director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz Many criticisms are being made of the government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill, including by this writer. But as with everything in politics, every story has
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