This report explores the age of smoking initiation and transition into daily smoking using a nationally representative sample of New Zealanders aged 15 years and over. The study examined the mean age of smoking initiation and transition into daily smoking as a whole and by age, gender, ethnicity and deprivation status.

Most New Zealanders will be impacted by cancer in their lifetime – either directly, or through friends or family members affected by cancer. This plan sets NZ on a path to better cancer prevention, treatment and care over the next 10 years, so that New Zealanders living with cancer have access to high-quality care no...

How does the Pacific fit into the Indo-Pacific? This paper presents a summary of the thoughts of Pacific, New Zealand and Australian speakers on the changing geopolitics of the region during a recent workshop at the ANU.

This research note aims to provide much-needed inspiration for achieving the government’s large-scale reform agenda proposed earlier this month. To cover Minister of Education Chris Hipkins’ all-embracing goals, it includes proposals for both the structure of the vocational education generally and the future of industry-based education specifically.

This strategy sets out a shared understanding of what children and young people need and want in order to be well, and what the New Zealand government is and should be doing to support them.