Blog | Meet Your Mayor: Craig Lord
Kia ora and welcome to the second episode of Meet the Mayor. With your local elections only weeks away, Public Policy Club is excited to introduce you to your leading mayoral candidates; finding out more about their policies and what they can do for you as a voter. Today, we chatted with mayoral candidate Craig Lord! Today […]
Blog | Meet Your Mayor: Viv Beck
Kia ora and welcome to the debut episode of Meet the Mayor. With your local elections only weeks away, Public Policy Club is excited to introduce you to your leading mayoral candidates; finding out more about their policies and what they can do for you as a voter. Today, we chatted with mayoral candidate Viv […]
Blog | Three Waters Reforms: The Solution to Our Water Woes?
Written By Samuel Hill In June, the Government introduced its first piece of legislation as part of its planned Three Waters Reform Programme [1]. There is general consensus that reform is needed in the water sector, but the response to the proposed reforms has been mixed. The Case for Reform The ‘three waters’ being referred […]
Blog | Proposed Changes to Oranga Tamariki – Ministry for Children
By Simran Sonawalla A new law designed to improve the oversight of agencies responsible for protecting children, and young people who are at-risk is currently being debated in parliament. As it stands, there have been several critiques and support for this bill. The Oversight of Oranga Tamariki System and Children and Young People’s Commission Bill […]
Blog | Māori Health Authority: Bureaucracy?
Written by Shirin Ranjbar The New Zealand government is due to abolish the twenty District Health Boards by July this year. The new health system will include a new Māori Health Authority. Instead of twenty different decision makers, the country will have a singular decision maker. The current system is characterised by fragmentation, where a […]
Blog | Search and Surveillance; the price of safety?
Islamic Women’s Council national co-ordinator Aliya Danzeisen. [xvi] By Jingshu Xu The Search and Surveillance bill [i] will be up for review this year as part of the government’s response to the Royal Commission of Inquiry’s recommendations about the Christchurch masjidain terrorist attack on March 15, 2019[ii] [iii]. The bill was originally created in 2012 […]
Blog | Speak For Yourself: Balloting the House of Representatives on their Speaker 
The Right Honourable Trevor Mallard, Speaker of the House of Representatives By Nicholas Langrell-Read I The Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives (herein the House) holds an important constitutional office and performs crucial roles with regard to the functioning of the House. Two such roles are chairing meetings of and maintaining order in […]
Blog | “New Zealand’s Moonshot”: The Road To Predator Free 2050
Written by Ethan McCormick In 2016 the John Key government announced that New Zealand would eradicate all rats, possums, and mustelids by 2050. It’s a goal of mind-boggling scale that was dubbed “New Zealand’s moon shot” by the late Sir Paul Callaghan [1]. Since the announcement, the mission of Predator Free 2050 has received support […]
Blog | Attorney-General, David Parker, rejects Rotorua District Council Representative Arrangements Bill
Pictured above: David Parker, Attorney-General of New Zealand. By Emilie Paris Baldauf The Rotorua District Council Representative Arrangements Bill was drafted by the Rotorua Lakes Council and brought to Parliament by Rotorua-based Labour MP Tamati Coffey. It would grant 21,700 Māori roll voters three seats in the electorate, the same number of seats given to […]
Blog | Multiple Sides to Every Story: Revamping the New Zealand History Curriculum
By Simran Sonawalla After three years in the making, Hon Chris Hipkins announces the release of Aotearoa New Zealand history curriculum, which will be compulsory in every school throughout years 1 to 10 [1]. The programme — officially known as Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories/Te Takanga o Te Wā — is part of the social sciences […]