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Flint & Steel Volume 06 | Magazine Launch
“… on vocation, working, and living” “So what do you do?” These five words are the most predictable starting point of getting-to-know-you…
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Participate in, don’t just consume community
Every time the local elections roll around I read through that little booklet of candidates and find it difficult to…
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Max Rashbrooke Podcast
New Zealand expert in poverty and inequality Max Rashbrooke sits down with our CEO Alex Penk and Research Manager, Kieran…
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Dr Kathryn Mannix Podcast
Last year we read a beautiful book called With the End in Mind: dying, death and wisdom in an age…
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Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Podcast
Earlier this year, we hosted Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela for her first time in New Zealand to speak at our annual…
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Introducing the Maxim Institute Podcast
Welcome to the Maxim Institute Podcast. We are so excited to be launching this new podcast. In this series we…
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Naked politics blocks decent policy-making
There’s been a lot of cynicism about the Provincial Growth Fund, and last week Minister Shane Jones went a long…
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MIC 11 | Hate speech vs free speech
Freedom, Responsibility and Public Debate WHERE: Horse & Trap – 3 Enfield Street, Mt Eden, AUCKLAND WHEN: Wednesday 30th October, 6:30PM…
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Census success needs all of us
Imagine if you could influence funding for the healthcare you receive, or for the schools your children attend, with just…
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Maxim Institute’s Submission to the Abortion Legislation Bill
This submission was prepared by Danielle van Dalen, Gael Goulter and Jessie Duffin in response to the Parliamentary Select Committee’s…
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Review our reliance on temporary workers
New Zealanders are heavy users of temporary work migration, so it was disappointing that no-one seriously discussed this last week…
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Danielle speaks on Mahi – The Disability Employment Podcast
Danielle was invited to speak on the very first podcast of Mahi – The Disability Employment Podcast, hosted by Jonathan…
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2020 Sir John Graham Lecture | SAVE THE DATE
MAXIM INSTITUTE PRESENTS THE 13TH ANNUAL SIR JOHN GRAHAM LECTURE FRIDAY, 26 JUNE | PULLMAN HOTEL DELIVERED BY TOM SIMPSON…
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Choices, consequences, and euthanasia
“You see, the reality is that for every choice, there is a consequence.” As the End of Life Choice Bill…
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The failure of audacious goals
“Goals are for losers.” I wouldn’t put it quite as provocatively as cartoonist Scott Adams did in his book How…
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Checking our climate blind spots
When it comes to emissions it is easy for us to obsess about factories and farmers as if these activities…
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Avoiding the election budget “black holes”
In April this year, astrophysicists did the seemingly impossible and took a photo of a black hole. The black hole…
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NZ Herald feature Alex’s column on rage and civility
Alex’s article was printed as guest editorial in the Bay of Plenty Times and the Rotorua Daily post on the…
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Recommendations | Defining and measuring what it means to be poor in New Zealand
DEFINITION AND MEASUREMENT Defining Poverty: A definition of poverty cannot capture “everything in the world we don’t like,” as one…
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Defining and measuring what it means to be poor in New Zealand
INTRODUCTION Who is poor? How did they get there, and how has poverty damaged their lives? The first paper in…
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