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Office gossip isn’t just idle chatter. It’s a valuable – but risky – way to...
ShutterstockGossip flows through the offices and lunchrooms of our workplaces, seemingly filling idle time. But perhaps, through these ubiquitous and intriguing conversations, we are influencing our...
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NZ’s mental healthcare is in crisis – but research shows us how to shorten...
Getty Images New Zealand’s youth mental healthcare continues to experience a rolling crisis with long waiting times for services. There have been calls to expand the mental health workforce and to...
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The past in a different light: how Māori embraced – and rejected – the...
By the 1870s, photography was a ubiquitous presence in the colonial life of Aotearoa New Zealand. For Māori, however, it was also a colonising tool – part of the colonial practices of land alienation,...
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Grant Robertson is swapping cabinet for academia – but should ex-politicians...
Getty ImagesThe appointment of former Labour finance minister Grant Robertson as vice-chancellor is a first for Otago University, which has never had a non-academic in the role. But it’s not hard to...
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What if whales took us to court? A move to grant them legal personhood would...
Shutterstock/Konrad MostertIn a groundbreaking declaration earlier this month, Indigenous leaders of New Zealand and the Cook Islands signed a treaty, He Whakaputanga Moana, to recognise whales as...
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More adults are being diagnosed as neurodivergent. Here’s how employers can...
Anne Koeleman/ShutterstickThere has been a rise in the number of people diagnosed with “neurodivergence” in adulthood over the past decade. This trend has been noted both internationally and in New...
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Have New Zealanders really been ‘misled’ about AUKUS, or is involvement now a...
Getty ImagesWhen former prime minister Helen Clark spoke out against New Zealand potentially compromising its independent foreign policy by joining pillar two of the AUKUS security pact, foreign...
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5 reasons why the Fast-track Approvals Bill threatens NZ’s already fragile...
Getty ImagesConservation “good news” stories – the release of native birds into new habitats, for example – are always welcome. They recognise the work of conservation staff and volunteers who do the...
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Light pollution affects coastal ecosystems too – this underwater ‘canary’ is...
Wikimedia Commons/Luca Davenport-Thomas, CC BY-SAIn the early 20th century, canaries were used as early warning systems in coal mines to alert miners to rising levels of carbon monoxide. A small...
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The government is basing its school truancy response on data – but...
smolaw11/Getty ImagesSchool truancy has been a concern across the political spectrum for years. But proposed solutions have largely failed to address the core reasons for unexplained school absences....
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NZ education scores must improve – but another polarising ideological pivot...
Getty ImagesYou don’t need to look hard right now to see concerns about Aotearoa New Zealand’s education system.Declining performance in international testing has been noted in mathematics, reading and...
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Why the government’s haste in changing the health system could come back to...
Getty ImagesSince coming into power, the coalition government has adopted a simple but shrewd see-how-fast-we-can-move political strategy. However, in the health sector this need for speed entails...
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Rugby stadiums are sold as an economic asset – but NZ needs to ask if they’re...
A multi-billion dollar stadium precinct has been proposed for Auckland, one of three proposals in front of Auckland Council for a new stadium in the city. The council is also considering revamping Eden...
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In demand but disempowered: why low-skilled migrant workers face even worse...
Arkadiusz Warguła/Getty ImagesThe New Zealand government claims its recently announced changes to visa rules will address exploitation and unsustainable migration. In reality, the new rules are likely...
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Supermarket facial recognition failure: why automated systems must put the...
Getty ImagesThe incident of a woman misidentified by facial recognition technology at a Rotorua supermarket should have come as no surprise.When Foodstuffs North Island announced its intention to trial...
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Ecosystems are deeply interconnected – environmental research, policy and...
Shutterstock/S CurtisWhy are we crossing ecological boundaries that affect Earth’s fundamental life-supporting capacity? Is it because we don’t have enough information about how ecosystems respond to...
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West Antarctica’s ice sheet was smaller thousands of years ago – here’s why...
Hugh Chittock/Antarctica New Zealand, CC BY-SAAs the climate warms and Antarctica’s glaciers and ice sheets melt, the resulting rise in sea level has the potential to displace hundreds of millions of...
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From Gallipoli to Gaza: remembering the Anzacs not as a ‘coming of age’ tale...
Getty ImagesWhen New Zealanders commemorate Anzac Day on April 25, it’s not only to honour the soldiers who lost their lives in World War I and subsequent conflicts, but also to mark a defining event...
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Climate change and human rights: how a landmark legal victory in Europe could...
Getty ImagesA seven-year campaign by a group of over 2,000 Swiss women – average age 73 – recently ended with a European Court of Human Rights decision variously described as a “landmark”,...
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Single dose of LSD highly effective at treating anxiety
LSD was accidentally discovered by Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz pharmaceutical company in Switzerland in 1938. It was apparently useless, but from 1947 it was marketed as “a cure for everything from...
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Granting legal ‘personhood’ to nature is a growing movement – can it stem...
Getty Images/Amy ToensingBiodiversity is declining at rates unprecedented in human history. This suggests the ways we currently use to manage our natural environment are failing.One emerging concept...
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New rock art discoveries in Eastern Sudan tell a tale of ancient cattle, the...
Julien CooperThe hyper-arid desert of Eastern Sudan, the Atbai Desert, seems like an unlikely place to find evidence of ancient cattle herders. But in this dry environment, my new research has found...
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Will checking character references really help you find the best candidate...
marvent/ShutterstockFinding the best person to fill a position can be tough, from drafting a job ad to producing a shortlist of top interview candidates.Employers typically consider information from...
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Trump’s immunity arguments at Supreme Court highlight dangers − while...
A view of the Supreme Court on April 25, 2024, when justices heard arguments about immunity involving former President Donald Trump. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral...
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Does fighting inflation always lead to recession? What 60 years of NZ data...
GettyImagesfatido/Getty ImagesThere is an ongoing global debate over whether the high inflation seen in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic can be lowered without a recession. New Zealand is not...
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