The author of the Newsroom piece, 'How to make New Zealand's Tax System Fairer?' says our tax policies need to change.

This is especially if we want to do something serious about intergenerational inequalities, poverty, and inadequacies in our health and other social services.

Louise Delany is a senior lecturer in the Department of Public Health at Otago University and is also a member of Tax Justice Aotearoa New Zealand.

Delany joined Kerre Woodham.

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