Rolleston near Christchurch is rapidly expanding, with more fast-tracked development coming. It’s a far cry from the ‘town of the future’ planned in the 1970s.
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On the anniversary of New Zealand women gaining the vote in 1893, a recipe for Spanish cream gives a glimpse into the personal world of suffrage leader Kate Sheppard.
A new book, Conspiracy Nation, explains how conspiratorial thinking and misinformation spread – both online and in the real world – in contemporary Australia.
A proposed new airport at Tarras would affect the entire South Island economy. Twelve years on from the Canterbury earthquakes, have the implications of such a project been properly thought through?
Efforts to rein in the social media giant’s power have followed the same script: dialogue, then attempts at self-regulation, then a bitter dispute over legislation, followed by compromise.
The time has come to deal with hateful extremism before it manifests as violent extremism. This includes having a public register of hate incidents.
Overlooked for decades, the house where the women’s suffrage campaign was launched finally becomes a public landmark.
New far-right groups have emerged during the pandemic and existing groups have become more radicalised and increased their memberships.
‘Antarctic cities’ residents care deeply about the continent, with environmental concerns outweighing economic priorities. Asked about its future, they feel a mix of hope, pessimism and sadness.
We might not be able to predict the next big earthquake, but we can make sure we’re ready for it and understand the risks.
The Christchurch gunman’s surprise guilty plea makes him the first person convicted of terrorism in New Zealand. A legal expert explains what will happen next in the sentencing process.
Haji-Daoud Nabi was a lifelong friend, who helped inspire my research in Afghanistan on how violent events shape people’s sense of community. I never thought my work would one day apply at home in NZ.
The US, Russia and China haven’t backed the NZ-led Christchurch Call to crackdown on online extremism. Without them, and key non-western media, the initiative is unlikely to make enough difference.
Rather than unifying the country, it appears the government’s overreach on gun legislation has paved the way for distrust and division.
My assessment is that there are about 150 to 300 core right-wing activists in New Zealand. This might sound modest – but proportionate to population, it’s similar to extremist numbers in Germany.
In the wake of last year’s Christchurch mosque attacks, New Zealand’s intelligence agencies must become more transparent in their reporting on the risk of right-wing terrorism.
To understand the threat better, we need to devote more resources to monitoring and tracking far-right forums and social networks and a national database tracking hate crimes.
New Zealand’s terrorism law has never been prosecuted successfully since it was enacted nearly 20 years ago. So, why are prosecutors bringing a terrorism charge against the Christchurch shooter?
The language of the neutral and secular state in Bill 21, like its precursors, presumes an invisible Christian default for the rules around public expressions of religiosity.
National regulation of free speech should be by governments, and not corporations, in order to be democratic.
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