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“The New Zealand Curriculum is a clear statement of what we deem important in education. It takes as its starting point a vision of our young people as lifel ...

Are robots coming for our jobs? How seriously should we take dire predictions of job losses and the death of industries by a thousand algorithms? Economist and ...

Waikumete Cemetery, at the end of my road, is the largest in Auckland. It’s a rambling, hilly patch of green.

We take pride in being a cohesive and safe country, with a strong co-operative culture. But New Zealand’s current record high rates of incarceration and reof ...

Ill-informed societies make ill-informed decisions. The importance of well-functioning educational institutions is undisputed. Students are formed by what they ...

“Ko taku reo taku ohooho, ko taku reo taku mapihi mauria” “My language is my awakening, my language is the window to my soul”

There’s a mushrooming grey area between traditional charity and business as usual. A whole spectrum of efforts based on a conviction that things can be done ...

When asked about what home means to us we are indeed a little biased in our answer...

‘I should like everybody in the world destroyed and the world empty of people. You yourself, don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of ...

When I think of the type of person best suited to help New Zealanders living in poverty, my mind doesn’t natur ...

Rights as a conversational currency are becoming weaker, as my generation’s ears perk up instead at compassion.

Looking back now I see the signs...

Both my parents grew up in big families and multi-generational households. Our family was no different. Mum and Dad were never short of babysitters when work o ...

The river flows, the seasons turn, The sparrow and starling have no time to waste. If men do not build How shall t ...