Feb 11, 2019 | Policy Commons Blog
By Simon Wilson – **This speech was given at the welcome reception for the Public Policy Network Conference, 29 January 2019, at the University of Auckland** It used to be local body politics was the essence of boring. Council meetings were the politics no one...
Dec 7, 2018 | Policy Commons Blog
By Mike Webster – The University of Auckland’s Dr Mike Webster takes a look at a slightly different approach to school and workplace bullying In the days that followed World Compassion Day last week, I couldn’t help but think about the increasing problem...
Dec 6, 2018 | Policy Commons Blog
By Anna Berka, Julie MacArthur, Steve Matthewman, Stephen Poletti, and Maria Bargh – Introduction New Zealand faces a range of interconnected challenges in reorienting its energy infrastructure to address both climate mitigation and adaptation goals. These...
Dec 5, 2018 | Policy Commons Blog
By Jess Berentson-Shaw – With the return of our evidence-driven Associate Minister for Transport Julie Anne Genter to Wellington it is timely to explore why transport is an area in which the evidence is so routinely ignored, even though implementation of what we...
Nov 28, 2018 | Policy Pod
By DAVID LEPOFSKY Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Toronto Visiting Professor of Legal Ethics and Public Interest Advocacy, Osgoode Hall Law School Canadian experience with accessibility legislation – what has Ontario done right or wrong on accessibility?...
Nov 26, 2018 | Policy Commons Blog
By Justin Alsleben – Many people who are terminally ill, or otherwise suffer from serious and irremediable medical conditions, face prolonged and acute suffering at the end of their lives. These medical patients may experience a deteriorated quality of life...
Nov 23, 2018 | Policy Commons Blog
By Susan St John – ‘Let’s not mindlessly raise the age, argues Susan St John, but try to solve actual problems ordinary people face’ Recently a prominent New Zealand weekly magazine ran the story “Fresh moves to raise the age of super to 67”. Yet the...
