Harmful commodity marketing (e.g: alcohol, vaping and unhealthy food and beverage products) in digital spaces has been linked to adverse health outcomes and there have been calls for its regulation. This article explains why this is important and considers how such regulation could be achieved.

New Zealand has been undertaking major reform of its vocational education sector since 2019. The authors of this article suggest that collectively, greater focus is needed on understanding and responding to specific learner needs within regions and enabling learners to continue learning over their lifetime.

Young people are often framed as being underrepresented and/or insufficiently considered in decision-making processes, including public policy. To help remedy the lack of youth voices in New Zealand government policy, the authors of this article present the first results from the 'What Is Your Stand?' research project. The article presents and discusses the results specifically...

This article explores the challenges New Zealand’s regulatory agencies face in operationalising regulatory stewardship, and provides some conceptual clarity that may aid these agencies in collaborating to develop and adopt the whole-of-system, life cycle view of regulation that is envisaged.

This article explores how the New Zealand Parliament scrutinises the quality of long-term governance and considers how such scrutiny could be made more systematic, proactive and rigorous.