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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...
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**You can listen to a recording of this talk here Wednesday 7 March, 12-1pm Venue: The University Clocktower, Room 032 22 Princes Street RSVP: ppi@auckland.ac.nz Allan Gyngell is one of Australia’s leading public intellectuals, with expertise in...
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Thursday 1 March, 4pm Venue: OGGB, Room 321 University of Auckland Business School 12 Grafton Road RSVP: ppi@auckland.ac.nz Since 1989, the UK Women’s Budget Group (WBG), a group of academics, activists and trade unionists, has tried to hold successive UK governments...
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Tuesday 27 February, 6-8pm Venue: OGGB, Decima Glenn Room (Level 3) University of Auckland Business School 12 Grafton Road Register online Achieving a successful transition to a low emission future for energy and transportation An effective transition to a low...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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By Brian Martin – Media stories about universities often focus on shortcomings; the routines of good teaching, solid research and maintaining high standards rarely merit attention. Moreover, universities can sometimes find themselves under attack in spite of...
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By Michael O’Brien and Susan Kemp – If social investment is the next (or perhaps current) big policy idea (as some commentators seem to suggest), then it requires some very careful review and discussion what it is and how it is designed to work. The new...
