When public services don’t work for Indigenous peoples, it’s more than just a case of policy failure. As long as colonial assumptions are embedded in the system, there can never be real progress.
Nineteenth-century European settlement is often depicted as a triumphal ‘taming of nature’. But does that collective memory impede more honest appraisals of the environmental risks we face today?
New Zealand property prices have fallen every month this year following a series of punishing interest rate hikes that began last October. So far, the hikes have yet to dent inflation.
Roy Billing shares his views on the 2001 Australian law changes and the effects on New Zealanders who have settled permanently in Australia since 2001
"I feel the Federal Government of Australia should approach this issue with the same level of fairness given the closeness and history of our two countries and in the true ANZAC Spirit."
Roy Billing was born in New Zealand and is based in Sydney. He is one of Australia's best known Character Actors.
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While tracing his own family’s journey from Ireland to Aotearoa New Zealand, Richard Shaw encountered how much ‘selective amnesia’ about the colonial past still shapes our lives today.
Despite being the closest of neighbours, for the last decade there’s been a worsening Trans-Tasman spat as New Zealanders in Australia are refused basic services and often deported. The new Albanese government has signalled this may be about to change, but what caused the spat in the first place, and was race the underlying issue?
“If we can be more vulnerable as Pākehā — and if we can stop pretending that we know stuff because we’ve taken a few te reo classes — then we’ll be in a better position to learn. And to help create a better Aotearoa.” — Kate Frykberg.
Since the Ardern government handed down its first wellbeing budget, real outcomes in New Zealand have stagnated or gotten worse. So why is the Albanese government considering a similar move?
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