Retiring retirement

Sir Dick Seddon, then PM, proposed a compulsory retirement age of 65 years in 1898 when the average life expectancy for a New Zealander was ...

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Projected international population change

If you have not yet watched the documentary by Shaw (2025), Birthgap , I strongly recommend it. I felt it connected many disparate elements ...

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Population migration and birthrate loss

The world of work is a complex construct, with demographics - such as population changes, labour market factors, and available opportunities...

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Keeping older workers in work for longer

In a post-Covid world we seem to all be facing some similar workforce constraints. Although we are all attempting to gain more migrants to b...

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If Aotearoa was a village

Statistics New Zealand published an infographic on data derived from the 2018 census data (2019), showing the population of Aotearoa as it w...

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Acts of Terrestrial and Extra-terrestrial Leadership

'Sustainability' arose from the concept of 'sustained yield' in the 1980s which describes agriculture and forestry practi...

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