2 Dec 2025

'Wicked' problems need a new approach

From Nights, 8:10 pm on 2 December 2025

Many of the major issues we face as a country right now are long-term and complex. 

But does our current way of governing, including three-year terms and the variations of MMP, make it almost impossible to find lasting solutions?

Former chief science advisor and now Director of the Koi Tū Centre for Informed Futures, Sir Peter Gluckman, says we can't begin to solve these problems without more consensual policymaking.

He's laid out his thinking in a new report, and he joins Emile Donovan to explain how he believes we can get there.

Sir Peter Gluckman

Sir Peter Gluckman Photo: Supplied / University of Auckland