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Child welfare system: a perfect storm?
No full textThe year 2019 represented a watershed moment for Aotearoa New Zealand’s child welfare system, as a public spotlight was shone on systemic ethnic inequities during ongoing legislative changes aimed at centering Te Tiriti o Waitangi and whänau, hapü, and iwi considerations in policy and practice. In the midst of this dialogue, Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Government hosted the “Children, Families, and the State”– a seminar series focused on the historical, current, and future role of the state in the lives of families and children. The seminars, and the discussion it generated, was due to the calls to action from speakers across the system, including leadership at Oranga Tamariki, within the family court, non-profit providers, commissioners and advocates, and academics.
The four brief essays in this edition of Policy Quarterly capture viewpoints from several of the seminar speakers. Despite their different perspectives, common threads unite them. A greater recognition of the structural causes of the historical and current patterns of ethnic inequities in child welfare system contact, a commitment to whänau, hapü, and iwi-centred policy, practice, and partnership, the authors argue, are vital for a more just and empowering system
Maori Responses to Covid-19
Get PDFMäori infection rates from Covid-19 are perhaps the only example in Aotearoa New Zealand’s contemporary history where Mäori have achieved better social outcomes than non-Mäori. This remarkable, and unanticipated, outcome is potentially a golden precedent for policymakers if we can determine the critical factors that reversed embedded trends of disproportionate disadvantage. This article argues that, while the national lockdown and science-based approach were important enablers of these outcomes, the nationwide Mäori response to Covid-19 should also be recognised as critical. It describes the key components of the Mäori response to Covid-19 and argues that, in composite, the Mäori response demonstrates the value and positive impact of ‘strengths-based’ policy at scale, as well as providing insight into key policy settings that would enable the positive outcomes in respect of Covid-19 to be replicated across other important policy areas
Structural Reform, Regulatory Practice and Digital Implications: the APEC experience
Get PDFThis article provides a brief history of APEC’s work on structural reform under the various APEC instruments that have been agreed for these purposes. It then examines the progress made by individual APEC economies in implementing structural reforms themselves. It concludes that APEC members have made good progress in developing basic policies and institutions in such areas as competition policy and law, good regulatory practice and ease of doing business. APEC has been less successful in encouraging its members to reform heavily restricted sectors, where there is the potential for significant productivity gains. There are also worrying signs that recently the pace of reform in many economies has slowed. These issues are likely to be thrown into sharp relief by the growth challenges posed by Covid-19. Renewed efforts on structural reform will be required if APEC economies wish to return to a growth path based on the expansion of services and the application of digital technologies
Whither APEC post-2020? Centre stage for New Zealand
Get PDFAs APEC marks its third decade, a priority for the 21 member economies is to agree upon where the agency’s purpose and work programmes should focus over the next 20 years. APEC is the undisputed leading institution promoting Asia-Pacific economic growth. It is not a negotiating body but draws strength from its ‘value proposition’ built on members’ support for consultation, consensus and collaboration. The review of APEC’s future is occurring in the context of a global pandemic that has disrupted regional commerce, travel and community well-being. The preoccupation of APEC members is with economic recovery and renewed growth. The challenge for New Zealand as APEC chair in 2021 will be to gather collective commitment to further measures of regional economic integration, inclusivity and sustainability designed to stimulate recovery, and identify how a digitally enabled regional economy could contribute to that goal
Censorship and Surveillance in the First World War
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Review of Jared Davidson, Dead Letters. A history of state censorship, the New Zealand home front, and undelivered mail during the Great War.
 
Purchase Money Security Interest Refinancing in New Zealand: A Case for Retention of Super-Priority
Get PDFThis article concerns the issue of purchase money security interest (PMSI) refinancing. Under current law, PMSI super-priority is lost on refinance regardless of whether the refinancier is the original PMSI holder or a third party financier. This article contends that such a position is uncommercial and frustrates the undergirding objective of the law of debt security to facilitate the provision of credit to business. This position is supported by theory, international treatment of the issue and policy
Contractual Interpretation
Get PDFThis article starts with some general points about the interpretation of contracts, before discussing in more detail the methodology of interpretation and, in particular, the modern purposive approach to interpretation with its greater use of extrinsic aids to interpretation
Trial by Fire: Trauma, Vulnerability and the Heroics of Fieldwork
Get PDFIn this Introduction, we take two persistent tropes of fieldwork, the ‘trial by fire’ and the ‘heroic fieldworker’ to task. Our analysis traces out what we call everyday decentering of these tropes, which we argue is necessary for fieldwork to be taught and engaged with beyond romanticised twentieth century masculinist heroics. We argue that anthro-pology and related field research based disciplines might be better served by adopting a more ethnographic approach towards the lived reality of fieldwork. Through our review, we situate the contribution that the six pieces in this volume make to pedagogies of the field. Readers are invited to continue this conversation about fieldwork futures in anthropology’s second century
Towards building an Indigenous Science Tertiary Curriculum (Part 2)
Get PDFKo te Koronga tētahi kaupapa mō te rangahau Māori kounga nei, e tū nei i Te Whare Wānanga o Ōtākou (https://www.otago. ac.nz/te-koronga/index.html). E rua ōna wāhanga: ko te Graduate Research Excellence tētahi, ko te Indigenous Science Research Theme tērā atu. I Aotearoa nei, e ai tonu i te Whare Wānanga o Ōtākou, he āputa nui e tohu nei me whakatipu ō te Māori pūkenga, ōna āheinga hoki, ā-rangahau nei, ki ngā pūtaiao. He tauira, i Ōtākou ko tōna 3% o ngā pouako katoa i te Division of Sciences he Māori, ka mutu, ehara i te mea ka rangahau ngā pouako Māori katoa i ngā take whakawhanake Māori. Mō Te Koronga, ko tō mātou whāinga matua ā-rautaki ko te whakatipu i te tokomaha o ngā pouako Māori e hāngai ai ki te taupori, me te aro kehokeho pū ki te whakapakarihia o te mātauranga me te pūkenga Māori. E tutuki ai ngā whāinga e pā ana ki te whakawhanakehanga Māori i tā Te Whare Wānanga o Ōtākou Māori Strategic Framework 2022 (MSF), ngā whāinga ā-kaupapa here o te motu, ka mutu ko ngā whāinga o te hapori Māori anō hoki, kua whakatauria e Te Koronga kia whakatipu i te hunga pouako Māori kia hāngai ki te taupori (ko tōna 15%), kia whakapakari hoki i te mātauranga me te pūkenga Māori i ngā pūtaiao. E whakatinanahia ai ēnei whāinga, e rua ngā rautaki e horaina nei: ko te waihanga mai i tētahi kaupapa matua hou mō te pūtaiao taketake, mō te mauri ora rānei, nō roto mai i te Division of Sciences ka tahi, me te whakawātea mai i ētahi tūranga mahi mauroa mō te pouako Māori ka rua. Ka aro pū tēnei tuhinga ki te rautaki tuatahi. Ko tēnei kauapapa matua hou mō te pūtaiao taketake: ka whakangungu i ngā atamai, Māori mai, Pākehā mai hoki, ki ngā rohenga o te (‘ngā’ rānei) pūtaiao taketake; ka whakapakari i ngā āheinga ā-pouako puta noa i ngā momo akoranga mā roto mai i te waihangatia o tētahi wāhi ake hou mō te whakaako i te pūtaiao taketake/mauri ora; ka waihanga i tētahi marautanga hou kaupapa Māori nei, ka aro tonu hoki ki ngā ‘ōritehanga’ o te mātauranga taketake me te whakaaro Pākehā; ka takoha atu ki ō te hapori Māori hiahia, ki ōna wawata hoki mō ngā pūtaiao e whirinaki nei ki ngā hoahoatanga Māori o nāianei, ki ngā āheinga hou hoki ka puta, ka whakatutuki anō hoki i tā Te Hïkina Whakatutuki rautaki ko Vision Mātauranga Policy, Diversity in Science, me ō Te Whare Wānanga o Ōtākou whāinga i te Māori Strategic Framework.
Te Koronga is a Māori research excellence kaupapa (mission) based at the University of Otago (https://www.otago.ac.nz/te-koronga/index.html). It is composed of two parts: Graduate Research Excellence and the Indigenous Science Research Theme. In New Zealand, there is a significant need to grow Māori research capability and capacity in sciences and particularly at the University of Otago. For example, at Otago approximately 3% of all academic staff in the Division of Sciences are Māori and not all Māori staff necessarily research on Māori development issues. For Te Koronga, our top strategic priority is to grow Māori academic staff numbers to population parity with a clear focus on building Māori expertise and capability. In order to meet the objectives related to Māori development for the University of Otago Māori Strategic Framework 2022 (MSF), as well as national policy goals, and importantly Māori community aspirations, Te Koronga has set an aim to increase Māori academic staff numbers to population parity (approximately 15%) and to increase Māori academic expertise and capability in sciences. To realise these aims, two strategies are offered: firstly, to create a new indigenous sciences or mauri ora (flourishing wellness) major within the Division of Sciences and secondly to create Māori academic tenure track positions. This paper will focus on the first strategy. A new major in indigenous science will: train Māori and non-Māori scholars in the fields of indigenous science(s); build staff capacity across the disciplines through creating a new dedicated teaching area of indigenous sciences/mauri ora; create new curriculum that is kaupapa Māori-led as well as at the ‘interface’ of indigenous scholarship and Western ways of thinking; contribute towards Māori community needs and aspirations in sciences that build on current Māori networks as well as new opportunities that emerge and will address Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Vision Mātauranga Policy, Diversity in Science strategy and Otago University’s Māori Strategic Framework goal
New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernity in the Pacific
Get PDFIn the final essay (or coda) of Matthew Hayward and Maebh Long’s collection of essays New Oceania: Modernism and Modernities in the Pacific, scholar Susan Standford Friedman aptly summarises the volume as an exposure of the “prevailing metropolitan and continentalist assumptions about modernity” in the Pacific (245). Such assumptions are concerned with the so-called infancy of Pacific writing in comparison with older print and publishing traditions from the global north. In this volume, modernist, literary and Pacific studies are used to prise open this seeming binary, and to sketch understandings of modernism and modernity from Oceanian writers across the region. Excitingly, the volume offers extension to this assumed dialectic via various critical and disciplinary gazes from its contributors
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