In a major new research report, the Helen Clark Foundation and engineering consultants WSP are calling for urgent action and a mature national conversation to develop public consensus about how best to fund and finance the country’s infrastructure needs.
A new report from the Helen Clark Foundation and engineering consultants WSP is calling for significant change to the way communities are engaged in climate adaptation planning. With climate change reshaping our lives, culture, and public health in .
The Helen Clark Foundation is pleased to announce that Murray Bruges has been appointed as its new Executive Director. Murray comes to the Foundation from his role as Manager, NZ Government Affairs at Fonterra Co-operative Group in Auckland, where he specialised .
Wednesday, 21 July 2021, 11:53 am
Alcohol-fueled crashes cost New Zealanders $636,000 in
lifetime ACC costs every day for the last five years on
average new figures show.
The ACC data demonstrates
the staggering cost of just one aspect of alcohol-related
harm between 2016 and 2020.
The data was released
after Minister of Justice Kris Faafoi stated his goal to
review of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act within this
parliamentary term, a move applauded by alcohol policy
experts.
“In total $1.162 billion has been amassed
in lifetime costs to ACC over the last five years,” The
Helen Clark Foundation’s health equity fellow Matt Shand
Alone
we can be broken, standing together we are
invincible
- Nā Kīngi
Tāwhiao
Disabled people are four times
more likely than non-disabled people to experience severe
loneliness, with 10 percent reporting they feel lonely most
or all of the time, a new report says. The full report is here.
The
report,
Still Alone Together, by the Helen Clark
Foundation and WSP updates their first
report on loneliness released in June 2020 and provides
a fuller picture of New Zealand’s levels of
loneliness.
Across the whole population, self-reported
loneliness increased immediately after the nationwide
lockdown, and increased further later in the year, perhaps