Kate Newton

1 week ago | unsw.edu.au | Kate Newton |Daniel Ghezelbash

If you are facing an injustice and don't know where to turn, a new AI assistant trained by lawyers on NSW legal protections empowers you to take action. An innovative partnership between UNSW Kaldor Centre Director Professor Daniel Ghezelbash and the National Justice Project has created a simple way to exercise your rights: Hear Me Out, a free online platform that helps you to understand and lodge a formal complaint.

3 weeks ago | rnz.co.nz | Kate Newton

RNZ launched a political poll in April 2025 in partnership with the longstanding and reputable polling company Reid Research. The poll builds on the former Newshub-Reid Research Poll, which ran successfully from 2009 to 2023. The polls, which will run about four times a year, involve 1000 online interviews nationwide.

1 month ago | odt.co.nz | Eloise Gibson |Kate Newton

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. BusinessBy Eloise Gibson and Kate Newton of RNZAs insurers move towards individual risk ratings for properties, industry leaders have warned that a growing number of homes could be left without insurance. If a growing number of homes became difficult or impossible to insure, that could cause their value to plummet - creating a problem for the whole economy, industry members were told.

1 month ago | rnz.co.nz | Eloise Gibson |Kate Newton

As insurers move towards individual risk ratings for properties, industry leaders have warned that a growing number of homes could be left without insurance. If a growing number of homes became difficult or impossible to insure, that could cause their value to plummet - creating a problem for the whole economy, industry members were told. ANZ chief risk officer Ben Kelleher told the recent Insurance Council conference that New Zealanders had short memories when it came to major flood events.

1 month ago | rnz.co.nz | Kate Newton |Phil Pennington

Victimisation rates for violent offences have stayed mostly steady according to new official data, released two days after the government said violent crime had dropped. Ministry of Justice data out on Thursday counted violence differently than the police and Justice Ministers did on Tuesday, when ministers Mark Mitchell and Paul Goldsmith said violent crime had dropped by 2 percent in 2024, for the first time since 2018. "It is encouraging to see a reversal of this rise," Mitchell said.