The 2016 PIRLS results announced this week are bad. PIRLS (the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) compares the reading ability of Year 5 students. Read more
New Zealand’s drinking culture might be dying. Many signs are pointing that way. Read more
Government welfare must do a better job of breaking the cycle of disadvantage. That message was common cause amongst the audience at the launch this week of the New Zealand Initiative’s latest report Welfare, Work and Wellbeing: From Benefits to Better Lives. Read more
How can we preserve our fisheries now and into the future? Our Research Fellow, Dr Randall Bess, talks to Breakfast's Jack Tame about his latest report, The Future Catch. Read more
In his new report 'The Future Catch', Dr Randall Bess is calling for a peak body to be set up to influence policy around recreational fishing to ensure future generations will be able to fish. Duncan Garner interviews Dr Randall Bess on The AM Show about his recommendations. Read more
Many New Zealanders love to fish. With the tenth longest coastline in the world, hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders fish recreationally each year in inshore waters. Read more
Wellington (4 December 2017): New Zealand’s recreational fishing sector needs a representative peak body to bring all marine fishing interests together to engage with the Minister of Fisheries, the new Ministry of Fisheries and other fishing sectors. There are several options for funding such a peak body. Read more
Dr Randall Bess discusses on Newshub the recommendations in his latest report 'The Future Catch'. He is calling for a peak recreational fishing body to help make and influence policy. Read more
New Zealand has a great opportunity to improve the recreational fishing experience for current fishers and the next generation. Dr Andrew Rowland from Recfishwest in Western Australia outlines some of the key policy proposals from our latest report, The Future Catch. Read more
On 4 December we launched the third report in our Fisheries Project series, The Future Catch. You can read our report and its recommendations here. Read more
On 4 December we launched the third report in our Fisheries Project series, The Future Catch. You can read our report and its recommendations here. Read more
On 4 December we launched the third report in our Fisheries Project series, The Future Catch. You can read our report and its recommendations here. Read more
On 4 December we launched the third report in our Fisheries Project series, The Future Catch. You can read our report and its recommendations here. Read more
Government welfare must do a better job of breaking the cycle of disadvantage. That message was common cause amongst the audience at the launch this week of the New Zealand Initiative’s latest report Welfare, Work and Wellbeing: From Benefits to Better Lives. Read more
Voltaire wrote that one great use of words is to hide our thoughts. I remembered this when Grant Robertson said the tax working group would improve “fairness” in the tax system. Read more