Purpose: This article examines the perspectives of Rainbow employees on workplace climate challenges across New Zealand organisations. It also reveals the impacts of contemporary conservative political discourses surrounding diversity, equity…continue reading
Law and Justice
CTA Community of Practice March 2025 – Indigenous Critical Policy Analysis: an adaption of CTA into the Australian context
By: Natalie Bryant
Published: 2025-03-18
Indigenist Critical Policy Analysis (ICPA) is an evaluative framework designed to assess whether policies, programs, and processes meaningfully engage with Indigenous perspectives, particularly within the socio-political context of post-colonizing Australia.…continue reading
Health
Application of CTA for Private Healthcare
By: Dean Cowles
Published: 2025-07-16
Dean Cowles completed his Master’s thesis exploring strategies to improve Māori health outcomes, in private surgical settings, by understanding the value of Māori nurses in this space. He has extensively…continue reading
Critical Tiriti Analysis
A critical Tiriti analysis of the New Zealand Cancer Control Strategy
By: Heather Came, Jacquie Kidd and Teresa Goza
Published: 2019
Objectives: Te Tiriti o Waitangi is foundational to health policy in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Systemic breaches of te Tiriti have contributed to enduring health inequities between Māori (the indigenous peoples…continue reading
Critical Tiriti Analysis Health & Wellbeing Māori Policy
Refugee and Asylum seekers
A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the Afghan Evacuee Resettlement Programme in Aotearoa New Zealand
By: Nadia A. Charania, Irene Zeng, Priyanka Kumar, Claudia Gaylor, Eleanor Holroyd
Published: 2025
In 2021, following the Taliban’s control of Afghanistan, Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) welcomed over 1,700 Afghan nationals at risk due to their association with NZ agencies. The New Settlers Family…continue reading
Migrants and Former Refugees resettlement
Non-profit Sector
Looking Ahead: Future Trends in Social Service Delivery Report
By: SociaLink Tūhono Pāpori Charitable Trust
Published: 2025
This report looks at the trends that are likely to affect the social service sector over the next 15 years, when it will be 2040, the 200-year anniversary of the…continue reading
Social Services Te Tiriti O Waitangi
Critical Tiriti Analysis
Indigenous rights and managed public land: a critical treaty analysis of parks and reserves in New Zealand
By: Robin Quig and Els Russell
Published: 2025-08-25
This research critically examines the extent to which the Reserves Act 1977, the primary legislative framework governing many parks and reserves, especially those associated with territorial local authorities, aligns with…continue reading
Critical Tiriti Analysis
Housing
Homelessness insights report – June 2025
By: Te Tuāpapa Kura Kāinga | Ministry of Housing and Urban Development
Published: 2025
This is the second iteration of the six-monthly homelessness insights report, which focuses on people living without shelter. The report provides additional insights and data to better understand and address…continue reading
Homelessness Housing Insecurity
LGBTQIA+
‘We are celebrated but not included’: heteronormativity and cisnormativity in Aotearoa New Zealand workplaces
By: Le Cui
Published: 2025-08-19
Using survey comments from organisations across various sectors in Aotearoa New Zealand, this qualitative study examines the workplace climate for Rainbow employees. It employs the theoretical frameworks of heteronormativity and…continue reading