Mar 1, 2018 | Policy Commons Blog
By Kathryn Cammell – Learning from policies adopted elsewhere is often what underpins innovative change in local government. In the case of Auckland Council, we saw this with the introduction of a living wage for Auckland Council employees. A Living Wage Unit...
Feb 27, 2018 | Policy Commons Blog
By Jess Berentson-Shaw – Self-professed policy wonk Jess Berentson-Shaw agrees with a lot of what Bill English said about welfare spending, but argues his big social investment idea failed because it was too narrow, paternalistic and complex for already-stressed...
Feb 26, 2018 | Policy Commons Blog
By Tim Hazeldine – Queenstown is crowded right now, crowded with stranded travellers unable to get home. As of last Friday, every single seat on every single flight to Auckland was sold out, for all this week, on both airlines. For some Aucklanders forced to...
Feb 14, 2018 | Policy Commons Blog
By Nichola Shackleton – Obesity, a key public health issue for the 21st century and possibly one of the most talked about and researched health topics. But it’s more than a health condition; there are social and economic consequences to obesity also. Obesity is...
Feb 14, 2018 | Policy Pod
The overlapping economic challenges and geo-political changes and tensions make the global economic scene riskier and more unpredictable than at any time since the late 1960s. Many of the key economic relationships that economists tended to take for granted seem to...
Feb 9, 2018 | Policy Commons Blog
By Philipp Lottholz and Karolina Kluczewska The difficulty of reaching practitioners and experts is one of the main challenges faced by early-career researchers in particular, and one that can overshadow fieldwork experiences and attempts to produce new knowledge....
Jan 30, 2018 | Policy Commons Blog
By Tim Wu – It is just over a year since the death of Helen Kelly, former President of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, and ardent campaigner for the legalisation of medical cannabis. Despite suffering from advanced cancer, her own application to take...
