This report warns that many of Aotearoa New Zealand's mounting infrastructure challenges stem from a preventable lack of basic upkeep of assets. It calls for fundamental changes, including ring-fencing renewal funding, increasing transparency and ensuring infrastructure investment decisions consider full asset lifecycles rather than just upfront costs.

The report measures social cohesion in New Zealand across five dimensions with Australian comparison: sense of belonging, sense of worth, social inclusion and justice, participation, and acceptance and rejection. It finds that New Zealand’s social cohesion is 8 percentage points lower than in Australia and New Zealand lags on every dimension.

This report looks at how government can improve nutrition and health outcomes for the public, arguing that the current approach is insufficient. The authors call for government intervention to shift the obesity conversation away from individual choice to focus on the commercial food environment and social determinants of poor nutrition.

This report argues that New Zealand must make strategic decisions now about how it will respond to the impact of climate change on the insurance industry. It asserts that without policy intervention, outcomes will be regionally inconsistent and further entrench existing inequalities. The report explores various options for how New Zealand might keep residential insurance...

According to this report, low levels of corruption are part of New Zealand’s self-identity. The report considers the growing perception of corruption in New Zealand’s political and governance systems in recent years and why this matters.