Maori, Justice and the 20th Century
IGPS Senior Associate Len Cook examines how complex population dynamics have affected the experience each generation of Maori has had with State custody.
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Our obsequious public service
Simon Chapple on the quiet ministerial power grab undermining our public service.
November Policy Quarterly free online
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Video coverage of the first in our new discussion series on tax justice, featuring Andrea Black, Michael Fletcher and Max Rashbrooke.
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Don't mention the P-word
A new piece of inequality research seems to go out of its way to pretend New Zealand doesn't have a structural poverty problem. So politically convenient if this were true, says Max Rashbrooke -- but it isn't.
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The foreign donation ban isn't enough
Banning foreign donations is a splendid idea, writes IGPS researcher Pete McKenzie, but under this bill untraceable money will still be corrupting our political system.
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Our obsequious public service
Over the past generation, argues Simon Chapple, we have quietly shifted towards a valet public service. The shift constitutes a largely unnoticed power grab by government ministers, to the detriment of the public good.