Recognising the importance of measuring financial knowledge as a building block of financial capability, this report analyses New Zealand’s results by age, gender, ethnicity, education, employment status and personal income to identify areas of need and opportunity when targeting delivery of financial education.

New Zealand faces its worst recession in nearly a century. Unfortunately, the economic response to the challenges of Covid-19 leaves much to be desired. Most new policy initiatives proposed in the run-up to the 2020 general election range from trivial at best to economic sabotage at worst. Promoting employment, growth and productivity, and a credible...

This report explores the origins and consequences of New Zealand’s adherence to child-centred education. It contrasts the scientific consensus about how children learn with the different and, in many ways, contradictory advice given to educators and policymakers. It exposes how parts of the research community confuse evidence with values. It also uncovers how curriculum and...

The Like Minds, Like Mine programme aims to increase social inclusion and reduce stigma and discrimination against people with experience of mental illness and distress. This report describes learnings from an evaluation of the Like Minds, Like Mine programme from 2018-2019. The key learnings relate to four themes: Te Tiriti framing and applying an equity...

In 2019 a cross-Immigration New Zealand (INZ) Victims of Family Violence Project was instigated to assess the effectiveness of INZ’s approach to both preventing and responding to family violence for recent migrants - people who have lived in New Zealand for five years or less. This report provides an account of the project’s key phases...