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When medals matter most: high-performance sport funding risks a return to the ‘win at all costs’ model

When medals matter most: high-performance sport funding risks a return to the ‘win at all costs’ model

Holly Thorpe, University of Waikato

Superpower rivalry is making Pacific aid a bargaining chip – vulnerable island nations still lose out

Sione Tekiteki, Auckland University of Technology

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India is the new China – NZ needs to see the bigger picture in trade negotiations

Chris Ogden, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

India is the new China – NZ needs to see the bigger picture in trade negotiations
Land of opportunity or bicultural nation? Twin visions of national identity face off over the Treaty principles

Olli Hellmann, University of Waikato

Land of opportunity or bicultural nation? Twin visions of national identity face off over the Treaty principles
Funding research for economic return sounds good – but that’s not how science really works

Nicola Gaston, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

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Is ‘judicial activism’ skewing Treaty law – or are court critics the real radicals?

Is ‘judicial activism’ skewing Treaty law – or are court critics the real radicals?

Marcelo Rodriguez Ferrere, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

After the hīkoi, the challenge: the Treaty principles debate and an honest reckoning with history

Anne Salmond, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

After the hīkoi, the challenge: the Treaty principles debate and an honest reckoning with history
We know enough about brain development to know youth offending reforms probably won’t work

Kris Gledhill, Auckland University of Technology

We know enough about brain development to know youth offending reforms probably won’t work
Trump joins Putin, Xi and Modi as the ‘four horsemen’ of global authoritarianism

Chris Ogden, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

Trump joins Putin, Xi and Modi as the ‘four horsemen’ of global authoritarianism
Survivors of abuse in care know how redress should work – will the government finally listen?

Stephen Winter, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

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With 14 community newspapers due to close, too many parts of NZ are becoming ‘news deserts’

Greg Treadwell, Auckland University of Technology

With 14 community newspapers due to close, too many parts of NZ are becoming ‘news deserts’
Treaties, truth and equality: how NZ, Australia and Canada are all struggling with colonial politics

Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University

Treaties, truth and equality: how NZ, Australia and Canada are all struggling with colonial politics
The Treaty Principles Bill is already straining social cohesion – a referendum could be worse

Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato and Claire Breen, University of Waikato

The Treaty Principles Bill is already straining social cohesion – a referendum could be worse
Despite the national apology, abuse in state care is still happening – only systemic change will work

Jennifer Montgomery, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

Despite the national apology, abuse in state care is still happening – only systemic change will work

Firearms law reform: the case for making club membership compulsory for NZ gun owners

Firearms law reform: the case for making club membership compulsory for NZ gun owners

Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato

The Indo-Pacific is an idea more than a region – and it’s pushing politics in a ‘pessimistic and paranoid’ direction

The Indo-Pacific is an idea more than a region – and it’s pushing politics in a ‘pessimistic and paranoid’ direction

Nicholas Ross Smith, University of Canterbury and Paul M. Bacon, Waseda University