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What's a National Risk Assessment Authority, and do we need one?

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Show Notes

As Aotearoa picks through the rubble left by last month’s Cyclone Gabrielle, and we continue to feel the consequences of the pandemic, we have to ask ourselves why we weren’t prepared.

Our short termism, our ‘she’ll be right’ attitude, our reactivity is leaving us vulnerable to risks like a global pandemic, earthquakes, a cyclone according to a new report by Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures.

It’s pushing for a national risk assessment authority. Author Sir Peter Gluckman joins us now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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