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Aotearoa has vast tracts of suburban and urban terrain. The possibilities for reformulating under-used landscapes into massive carbon-capture terrains are enormous, says Rod Barnett

An edited extract from The China Tightrope, a new book on the NZ-China relationship, on what a conflict involving China might look like - and what that would mean for Aotearoa.

Hosting three of the 'Big Four' sports events in the past year has drawn thousands of Kiwi volunteers. And some keep coming back, putting their hands up for every women's World Cup in Aotearoa. 

Aotearoa could benefit from adopting some of the latest Australian measures to crack down on vaping

Recent news that the New Zealand government has granted an offshore oil and gas exploration permit it had earlier declined demonstrates how fragile the current ban on such activity still is.

‘Anxiety into action’ is the theme of this 10th and last episode in our Newsroom video series The Way Forward about the ways we are tackling the climate crisis in Aotearoa.

The most recent rise in Aotearoa New Zealand’s minimum wage has again put the spotlight on low-wage jobs and the established belief that low wages are a starting point for workers who are quickly able to transition into higher-paid employment. But our research found the situation is not so straightforward.…

It’s important we think about the lives NZ saved in the pandemic because of our response. A national Lockdown Day would serve as a stark reminder of the human cost of not taking swift action, writes Nicholas Agar

What happened on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey 108 years ago has shocked and shaped Aotearoa New Zealand ever since. The challenge in the 21st century, then, is how best to give contemporary relevance to such an epochal event.

The recent report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) underscores the urgency of emissions reductions. For Aotearoa New Zealand, where 50% of emissions come from agriculture in the form of methane and nitrous oxide, this means the primary sector must be part of the response.

Most people today are coping with the rising cost of living individually: cost cutting, looking for a better paid job, taking on “side hustles”, and so on. But not so long ago, many workers globally and in Aotearoa New Zealand approached the same problem in far more collective ways.