This report analyses data from the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment’s (MBIE’s) Migrant Surveys 2021 and 2022 for respondents who were waged or salaried employees. The analysis aims to identify the extent to which migrant employees are experiencing adverse working conditions, and the particular migrant groups that are more at risk.

The New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment commissioned Baringa to provide this advice based on international case studies. The advice sought is in response to concerns and obstacles raised by public electric vehicle (EV) charging operators to the roll out of public EV charging stations in New Zealand.

The New Zealand government has launched their electric vehicle charging strategy. The strategy outlines the government’s long-term strategic vision for a national electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure that can support a growing EV fleet, while helping New Zealand meet its climate commitments.

In Aotearoa New Zealand and elsewhere, there is a growing policy focus on long-term, complex and systemic challenges and opportunities. This paper uses the term ‘transformative change’ to describe the extreme of this type of policy focus.

Policy-makers worldwide have long asked what makes one country or economy more resilient than another, or one region more resilient than another. ‘Resilience’ has been a topic of enduring interest to policy-makers and academics. If policy work aimed at improving resilience is to be effective, policy-makers need to be clear about what they mean by...