News: Perspectives

Our country’s recent political reset presents an opportunity to tackle one of the biggest blights on Aotearoa New Zealand society: longstanding child poverty and its resulting intergenerational effects.

Not all mums-to-be have their own mamas around during their new journey into parenthood. And whether by choice or not, this can be challenging. Dr Felicia Low shares how to find other support. 

In an op-ed for the NZHerald, Koi Tū director Sir Peter Gluckman and Koi Tū chair Bridget Coates encourage more meaningful conversations and a more future-oriented mindset to tackle the complex, multi-generational challenges that we face as a nation.

Given our existing pest problems and the likelihood of new ones being inflicted on us by global warming, we need to begin to investigate genetic options.

When we conflate science and science systems, we risk undermining the place of science.