Latest from the Policy Commons
NZ Budget 2021
Hon Grant Robertson presented the NZ Budget 2021 to Parliament on Thursday 20 May. Public Policy Institute Director, Professor Jennifer Curtin and the Gender Responsive Analysis and Budgeting team have provided detailed commentary on the new budget. From The...
Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand’s Deportation Policy and Practice in Regional Context
By Dr Tim Fadgen Deportation policy is a regional dilemma that won’t be solved by Australia and New Zealand trading diplomatic insults. Both nations must recognise their complicity in a system of regional dislocation and their joint responsibility to address it....
Commentary: New Zealand’s Proposed Health Reforms
Health Minister has announced a major overhaul of the healthcare system in Aotearoa New Zealand, following the Health and Disability Review. The changes will prioritise primary care and accessibility by removing all District Health Boards and replacing them with a...
Prioritising a National Women’s Health & Wellbeing Strategy and Action Plan
Gender Analysis Briefing 1/2021 Sarah Bickerton, Jennifer Curtin, University of Auckland Gender Justice Collective www.genderjustice.nz Background In 2020 a group of individuals and organisations, committed to a vision for Aotearoa as a place of leadership in...
ICYMI: Ecological decline can no longer prop our economy
Stephen Knight-Lenihan Dr Stephen Knight-Lenihan is a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland. The fundamental nature of our economic system is to benefit from ecological decline. Dr Stephen Knight-Lenihan makes the...
ICYMI: Stop the behaviour change talk, give us better systems
By Jess Berentson-Shaw We need to be talking about changing the structure of our systems and built environments so that climate-positive behaviour isn't a tough personal choice, it's the easy default I count myself incredibly privileged each year over summer to be...
ICYMI: Why we’re not ready for a vaccine rollout
By Helen Petousis-Harris Dr Helen Petousis-Harris is a vaccinologist and Associate Professor in the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences Helen Petousis-Harris looks at the potential complications of vaccinating older New Zealanders - and...
ATEPS2020: Rachel Tauleilei’s Speech
APEC BUSINESS ADVISORY COUNCIL ADDRESS TO AUCKLAND TRADE AND ECONOMIC POLICY SCHOOL SESSION TWO: THE NEW TRADE ENVIRONMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND FRIDAY 4 DECEMBER 2020 RACHEL TAULELEI ABAC NZ and CEO, KONO ‘THE NEW TRADE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH...
Carrie Stoddart: Speech to ATEPS2020
Deconstructing the patriarchy through the habitual practice of radical inclusion in international trade Prepared for Auckland Trade and Economic Policy School. Text republished from OpinioNative. Gender and Trade Panel University of Auckland Saturday 5 December...
ATEPS Keynote: Hon Damien O’Connor
Speech to Auckland Trade and Economic Policy School HON DAMIEN O'CONNOR Trade and Export Growth Delivered at the University of Auckland, 4 December 2020 Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. I want to recognise the hard work of the University of Auckland’s...
Transformative Housing Policy for Aotearoa New Zealand
Transformative Housing Policy for Aotearoa New Zealand: A Briefing Note on Addressing the Housing Crisis Jacqueline Paul, Jenny McArthur, Jordan King, Max Harris, and Scott Figenshow *We would like to thank Dr Diane Menzies, Vanessa Cole, Professor Jonathan Boston,...
Green bonds a small step in a dual crisis
Dr Ryan Jones and Dr Tom Baker ask if ‘green bonds’ can save us from economic and climate collapse Covid-19 has combined with climate change to create a dual crisis that demands extraordinary financial solutions. Governments around the world, including ours in...
Virtual hosting of APEC a bold move
By Rob Scollay - What New Zealand must do to play virtual host to APEC next year is something perhaps never attempted before. The rewards could be big. Virtual hosting of 2021 APEC: a rewarding challenge for NZ New Zealand’s confirmation that it will proceed with...
Covid exposes need for public health agency
By Collin Tukitonga - Dr Collin Tukuitonga draws on New Zealand's response to Covid-19 to argue for a designated population health agency An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed major shortcomings in the funding and...
Covid-19 and clickbait
By Anne Salmond - Michael Woodhouse still can't provide evidence of his apocryphal 'homeless man' staying for free in quarantine. Dame Anne Salmond argues the Opposition and media need to be better in throwing around such claims. It is now 12 days since the...
Watch: Public Policy Forum COVID-19 and the Pacific – Tourism, Trade and Tracing
Recorded 1 July 2020, University of Auckland. As Aotearoa New Zealand began to control its COVID-19 cases, calls began to grow for the creation of a Pacific—and Trans-Tasman—travel bubble. The general concept would see tourism and other travel to resume between...
Colonial feel to Māori media plan
Crown options for Māori media have a colonial “feel and smell” to them, writes the University of Auckland's Dr Claire Charters Are the Government’s Options for Māori Media unconstitutional, contrary to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, international Indigenous peoples’ rights...
Imagining a different world and making it happen
How we come out of this crisis will depend on how well we are able to imagine new futures, and turn those visions into reality. In this first part of a two-part series on vision-making, Jess Berentson-Shaw looks at what sets apart an effective vision that can lead...
A vision for workplaces that work for all of us
After the lockdown, it is now clear to many that "work" has been conceptualised and operationalised in a way that excludes many people and causes avoidable stress. So how do we deconstruct those ideas? asks Jess Berentson-Shaw This week public servants in...
Take care with tech used to fight Covid
A type of artificial intelligence is being used to research Covid-19, but the experts behind it must consider the social implications of their work - and participation from diverse voices Machine learning is a kind of artificial intelligence where algorithms are...
