The Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit (SPPU) of The Salvation Army 15th report ‘Whakatere Ana I Ngā Tere Navigating the Rapids’, right in the...
It’s time we truly disrupted the food insecurity status quo in Aotearoa. Dream with me for a bit whanau. What if we had a national network of...
Tugging away at the strands of the web of injustice that holds people in poverty and re-weaving the kete of social ...
A Close Call for ‘No’ 50.7% to 48.4%. Our nation has spoken and voted not to legalise cannabis – but not by much. So, what happens now? Firstly...
Every three years the boards start going up, signs go up on the fences, pamphlets in the mailboxes, door knocking to handing out more pamphlets...
I love all aspects of lolly scrambles—the risk and reward involved, the anticipation, the hope, the urgency, the lolly snobbery as you hunt for...
A kind of silence has descended on our communities over the past weeks. Many people comment that the lack of traffic noise means they can now hear...
This year’s State of the Nation Report launched in February, had the theme—Tangata Whenua, Tangata Tiriti, Huia Tangata Kotahi—People of the Land...
In Psalm 133, the writer beautifully states that it is a beautiful thing when brethren or God’s people dwell together in unity. The word used for...
The way resources are shared out amongst the people of this country says a lot about the quality of our relationships. When there is too much...
Human beings are biologically and (perhaps, therefore) culturally oriented to community: we flourish best in the group. Crime is often an outcome...
As I come to the end of my internship at the Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit, I find I have discovered three things. The left wing-right wing...
