Can the Māori Health Authority really boost Māori life expectancy?
Graham Adams: setting up a new bureaucracy with the ultimate aim of closing a gap in life expectancy is quixotic, to say the least.
Break out those Tui billboards
Karl du Fresne: the media have abandoned their traditional role of trying to reflect the society they purport to serve in favour of advocating on behalf of divisive & often extremist minority causes.
Woke Green gender co-leaders the final death of NZ Greens' credibility
Martyn Bradbury: The Greens with one leader - Chloe - could be a 15% Party. Greens with a gendered woman and a 'any gender' co-leadership will be accused of pandering to their own woke dogma
What’s in a name?
Martin Devlin: The great thing about sports stars' names is they can take on a life well beyond the mere handle Mum & Dad picked out.
Jacinda Ardern and Nanaia Mahuta struggle in Ukraine lethal aid debate
Geoffrey Miller: Ardern’s argument last week that an ‘artificial distinction’ was being made between lethal and non-lethal aid – later echoed by David Parker – may not hold up for much longer.
Reforming the United Nations
Dr Michael Bassett: it raises [an issue] founders of the UN hoped they wouldn’t face again once Adolf Hitler was dead: how to deal with a madman possessed of the wherewithal to blow up the world.
Research finds many Kiwi academics feel unfree to exercise academic freedom
Free Speech Union: Over a third of Kiwi academics felt more constrained than free (5 or lower out of 10) for five of the eight questions.
Hear the Master roar: Tiger Woods’ other-worldly Augusta return
Lachlan Waugh: Tiger Woods is back in what is 2022’s greatest sporting spectacle
Culture wars stifling critical debate on our campuses
Dr Bryce Edwards: Left-wingers generally gave up on economics, choosing to focus on non-economic issues: social issues, foreign policy, post-materialism, & the “culture wars”.
Getting away from it all (well, almost)
Karl du Fresne is part travel writer, part social commentator in this enjoyable read.