I’ve just been going over the results of Roy Morgan’s August opinion poll, and they’re clear: inequality and poverty are the most pressing issues for New Zealanders. In the poll, 15 per cent say that “Poverty/ The Gap Between Rich & Poor/ Imbalance of Wealth” is the most important issue the country faces – more…

Below are two papers from Perce Harpham, an advocate of a Universal Basic Income (UBI). Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis contains a brief proposal for a UBI along slightly different lines, as set out by Gareth Morgan and Susan Guthrie. Here, Harpham’s introduction paper brings, in his words, a partial solution to the inequality issue. It…

Welcome to the start of a conversation about inequality. This is a joint project between myself, as the editor of the recently published Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis, and the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services, one of the book’s supporters. We’ve created this site as a way for people to understand more about…