- Newshub Nation: Budget Panel DiscussionMassey University Associate Professor of Economics Dr Matt Roskruge, Newshub’s Business Reporter Madison Reidy and Brigitte Morten from Franks Ogilvie …
- Stuff: Budget 2021: Māori Health Authority funding should be ‘at least’ proportionate to population, commentator saysThe Government has provided $98.1 million in establishment funding, but the people the Māori Health Authority (MHA) will be helping are no closer …
- Stuff: Budget 2021: Moving the dial on Māori housingThe Government’s $380 million Budget investment in Māori housing has been heralded as a step in the right direction, rather than unleashing …
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- Newshub: Budget 2021: Benefit increases, rent reforms needed to tackle child poverty in New Zealand – expertsRaising benefits and rent reforms are some of the key areas that need addressing in this year’s Budget to tackle …
- Stuff: Job upheaval looms in health reforms, but overall numbers seem steadyThe health sector reforms are set to cause upheaval at the top echelons, but job numbers may not change much overall, economists …
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- Stuff: Are minimum wage rises passed on to customers, as business groups claim?The minimum wage rise on April 1 was the “last straw” for Dunedin cafe owner and academic Paula O’Kane, who has just …
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- Stuff: Child poverty declines, but Māori, Pacific poverty rates ‘profoundly disturbing’Child poverty has improved overall since 2018 according to annual figures released on Tuesday, but the statistics for Māori and …
- Te Ao – Māori News: Māori unemployment on the rise amidst Covid-19 lockdownNew Zealand’s economy continues to take a hit as the country is forced back into lockdown. Coupled with recent figures …
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- NZ Herald: Maths decline – Ministry of Education calls in Royal Society to stop NZ mathematics rapid declineAn expert panel has been brought in by the Ministry of Education to improve students’ maths results – which have …
- NBR: Could 2021 bring step-change to the Māori economy?2021 Economic Outlook: economist Matt Roskruge spies matching ambitions. While the twists and turns of 2020 left the most seasoned …
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- Stuff: Our Truth, Tā Mātou Pono: How our business reporting served and protected European settler interestsOur Truth, Tā Mātou Pono is a Stuff project investigating the history of racism. Part one has focused on Stuff and its newspapers, and …
- Stuff: Covid-19: Jobless and tempted to get into a franchise, what are the pitfalls?The coronavirus pandemic has driven people who have lost their jobs to look at their options, and one they are turning to …
- The Spinoff: Covid-19 has changed New Zealand forever. The experts explain howSome of the smartest people in the country examine the effects of the pandemic on Aotearoa’s future in 400 words …
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- RNZ: DHBs still operating under strain and in deficit under LabourLabour has failed to get DHB deficits under control this term, despite going hard on the issue when in opposition. …
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- Kai Tiaki Nursing NZ: Looking beyond Covid-19While management of Covid-19 has captured a good deal of attention this election campaign, it is important to consider other …
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- Stuff: Te Reo Māori app could influence standard rate for translationsA new app inspired by troubles translating a text could set the benchmark rate for te reo Māori translations nationwide. …
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- te ao Māori News: $64.2 million in WINZ food grants during lockdown quarterAuckland Action Against Poverty alleges many beneficiaries are being denied additional assistance such as food grants. … The ultimate stress …
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- Te Ao Māori News: Auckland Action Against Poverty calls for end to benefit sanctionsIn May the Ministry of Social Development removed sanctions for solo mothers who refused to name their children’s fathers. But …
- Te ao Māori News: Coalition should have reformed welfare before Covid-19 outbreak – economistWorkers who have lost income due to Covid-19 are getting almost double the amount of government help in wage subsidy …
- Te ao Māori News: It could be 2024 before some parts of the economy fully recover – economistMāori economist Dr Matthew Roskruge says it could reach 2024 before some parts of the New Zealand economy fully recover, …
- Te Ao Māori News: Economics lecturer says lack of people movement will hurt economyMassey University economics and finance senior lecturer Matthew Roskruge of Te Ati Awa and Ngāti Tama says if New Zealand’s borders aren’t opened to trading partners soon, this will have a long term effect on industry.
- RNZ: Economists on unemployment number predictionsMatt Roskruge speaks to Gyles Beckford on New Zealand’s unemployment numbers.
- Taranaki Daily News: The biggest spend up since Think Big is coming to TaranakiMatt Roskruge comments on increased Government debt levels and their long-term economic impact.
- Māori TV: Māori tourism critical to country’s economic rebuildMāori economist Matt Roskruge says we should be proud of the amazing growth in Māori tourism.
- Stuff: Māori economy critical to Covid-19 economic recoveryTe Au Rangahau Director Dr Matt Roskruge says the Māori economy is critical to the country’s economic recovery.
- RNZ: Māori economy holds the key to helping Aotearoa recoverMaori economy is the key to fast tracking the whole country’s economy recovery from COVID related recession. Expert on Maori …
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- Stuff: Deep Trouble: A historic unemployment crisis has begunA Stuff investigation detailing the shape of unemployment crisis now, how it will grow and what it means for a welfare system suddenly under intense scrutiny. Te Au Rangahau co-director Matt Roskruge features in Part Two: Who’s next?
- Kai Tiaki, Nursing New Zealand: Did Budget 2020 deliver for Māori?Matt Roskruge on whether Māori will benefit equally from the spoils of Budget 2020.
- RNZ: Budget 2020: Māori to get $900m to deal with Covid-19 falloutThe government will spend $900 million in Budget 2020 to support whānau, hapū and iwi to deal with the fall-out of Covid-19.
- Māori Televison: Tahua on Tapataphi LIVEBudget 2020
- RNZ: Budget: Funding welcomed, but Māori business miss outThe government will spend $900 million on initiatives to support Māori to deal with the fall-out of Covid-19. The package …
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- Te Ao with Moana: Lockdown – Is life back to normal?Sarah Hall breaks down what today’s announcement means to Aotearoa. We hear from Dr Rawiri Jansen, Dr Matt Roskruge and Te Reo Māori advocate and father, Jeremy MacLeod.
- NZ Doctor: Covid-19 impact on nurse wellbeing: Identification, sustainability and mitigationDr Matthew Roskruge is a Kiwi health economist currently working to investigate how New Zealand’s nursing workforce is managing in the Covid-19 crisis, and what measures are needed to sustain an already-pressured sector of healthcare.
- te ao Maori News: Could the economic recovery cause another Māori migration?Māori economist Dr Matthew Roskruge says we could see another urban migration post-lockdown as whānau impacted by the tourism industry struggle to get back to business.
- Newshub: Coronavirus: What the pandemic is costing small businessSenior lecturer at Massey University’s School of Economics and Finance Matt Roskruge said while challenges were ahead, confidence should begin …
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- Newshub: Coronavirus: Māori economist says Māori workers will be hit hardA senior lecturer in economics at Massey University says Māori workers and iwi will feel the economic impact of coronavirus.
- RNZ: Fears Covid-19 could cost Māori economy $500 millionThe Federation of Māori Authorities is warning Covid 19 could hit the Māori economy by half a billion dollars.
- Waatea: Roskruge seeks Māori meaning for social capitalMassey University lecturer Matt Roskruge has been awarded a 2019 Rutherford Discovery Fellowship to research what social capital means within a Māori world view and how this is relevant to other populations.
- te ao Māori News: Māori enterprise – awakening the taniwhaMassey’s Te Au Rangahau Director Dr Jason Mika tells te ao Māori News why bringing Māori values into the business world seems to be a winning formula.