“The Great Climate Voter Debate” Live streaming tonight 7pm
Tonight will see TV3’s Samantha Hayes host the ‘The Great Climate Voter Debate’ between politicians from the National, Labour, Green, New Zealand First and Internet Mana parties. The debate has been organised by a collaboration of New Zealand NGOs: Forest&Bird, Generation Zero, 350 Aotearoa, Greenpeace, Oxfam New Zealand and WWF as part of the Climate...
Government Economics Network (GEN) Conference 2020
On 5 November, Te Papa is hosting the Government Economics Network (GEN) Annual Conference for 2020. The conference will look at a range of policy areas and review how modern economic analysis methods could be used in these areas. Kim Hill from RadioNZ is due to facilitate, including chairing a panel/Q&A discussion for each session....
Local Government New Zealand Major Issues Seminar: Regional Economic Development.
Last week I attended a Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) seminar on Regional Economic Development. LGNZ had invited some prominent speakers including Shamubeel Eaqub, principal economist at the New Zealand Institute of Economic Development and author of the recently published book Growing Apart: Regional Prosperity in New Zealand. The other speakers, both MPs with portfolios...
One Hundred Years On From World War One
The quiet waterfront scene of the capital was momentarily disrupted on Monday, 4 August by the sound of gunfire, to mark one hundred years since New Zealand entered the First World War. Members of the Institute team gathered on the wharf alongside a crowd vying for a view of the 100-gun salute. Yesterday morning’s salute...
Shaping our science System – A SCANZ panel event.
“Does investment in science influence society? Can we really expect it to meet New Zealand’s economic, social, environmental and cultural needs? Is it the level of investment or the areas in which the investment is made?” These are the questions which open the Science Communicators Association of New Zealand (SCANZ) event ‘Shaping our science system’...
Submissions on the Environmental Reporting Bill Due 5pm Tomorrow
Submissions on the Environmental Reporting Bill are due at 5pm, 17 April. This is an important piece of potential legislation for New Zealand. The Institute supports Environmental Reporting legislation in principle and we have a detailed submission in process. The Parliamentary Commission for the Environments submission is a quick and worthwhile read for anyone interested, it...
Wise Awards are now open!!
Entries for the 2020 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Awards are open until January 15. The awards celebrate innovative projects around the world for their positive contributions to education and to society. Six projects will be picked in September 2020 and will each receive $20,000 (USD). You can check out previous winners here including New Zealand project Te Kotahitanga (University of Waikato). WISE is...
The UK think tank Reform is visiting the Institute – 5th November 2020
Strengthening our long-term fiscal position – comparing New Zealand and the United Kingdom Tara Macpherson and Kimberley Trewhitt, researchers from Reform a UK based think tank, will be visiting the Institute on the 5 November. Reform’s mission is to develop better strategies to deliver public services and economic prosperity. Tara and Kimberley will...
‘What’s the hold up?’ – Generation Zero begin speaking tour
Next week Generation Zero will begin their nationwide speaking tour which aims to ‘get NZ moving on climate change’ and showcase opportunities for New Zealand to move beyond our reliance on fossil fuels. The group will travel to 13 centres around New Zealand, beginning in Dunedin on the 15th of July and ending in Auckland on...
Plenty of work still to be done – Financial Literacy Summit, 14 June 2020
On 14 June, McGuinness Institute interns Jeremy Todd and Susie Krieble attended the 2020 Financial Literacy Summit in Auckland hosted by the Commission for Financial Literacy and Retirement Income. Although New Zealand has come out on top in a study comparing average levels of financial literacy across different countries, experts emphasised that we cannot afford...
Forum for the Future: Living in two worlds
Tomorrow night a discussion entitled “Living in Two Worlds: Multiculturalism with bi-cultural foundations (the New Zealand-Canadian dialogue)” will take place at Te Papa. The event has been organised by the Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research’s as part of the Forum for the Future series. It will run between 6.30pm and 7.30pm in the Soundings Theatre,...
Big Data discussion series: Growing up digital
Last night fellow research analyst Ryan Gallagher and I went along to the penultimate session of the Big Data Discussion Series at the Royal Society. The series is being run alongside the National Library’s Big Data exhibition and explores the nature and implications of big data and how it may serve as a tool in...
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