Max Rashbrooke is a Wellington journalist and author. He has written for national newspapers and magazines in New Zealand and the UK, including The Guardian, the New Zealand Herald and The Listener. He was the 2011 recipient of the Bruce Jesson Journalism Award. Max is the editor and co-author of Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis, which looks at the rising gap between New Zealand’s rich and poor. The book, published in 2013, received widespread media coverage and generated a lot of discussion about income inequality. The first two chapters of the book were rewritten to produce ‘The Inequality Debate: an Introduction‘, a short guide to income inequality in New Zealand published in March 2014.