The Latest Breaking News from Aotearoa

Politicians need to reimagine our cities by reclaiming city centres and building strong urban communities for tenants instead of more suburban development, argue Dr David Jenkins and Eileen Corcoran.

Funding for the arts and tertiary education in Aotearoa New Zealand has long been insufficient. Run the two together, as is happening this year, and we find ourselves at a precarious junction.

There is no evidence exotic tree monocultures will continue to sequester CO2 at high rates beyond the first few decades of their life, argues David Norton

The unprecedented scale of the downsizing of our universities will undercut the future prosperity and democratic values of Aotearoa. Catherine Abou-Nemeh looks at the consequences.

The crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand’s university and wider research sector did not happen overnight. While funding shortfalls and sweeping redundancies are now making headlines, the underlying problems have been evident for years.

The recent decision in “one of the most complex and long running” trademark cases in New Zealand was a loss for the country’s mānuka honey producers. But it also served to highlight just how ill-equipped our laws are for protecting Māori taonga (treasures) and mātauranga Māori (traditional knowledge).

In New Zealand, a collective of strip club dancers has moved a dispute with their employer out into the open to fight for protections for all gig workers.

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