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Why the Commerce Act 1986 is Unfit for Purpose
Get PDFNew Zealand’s Commerce Act 1986 overturned both common law consumer protections and previous legislation that had spelled out procedures for identifying and sanctioning the abuse of market power. Inspired by Chicago School doctrines and an anti-state philosophy, the legislation opened the way for three decades of monopoly profiteering, exploitation of the weakest consumer groups and anti-competitive conduct, while regulation has been absent or ineffective. In this article, key weaknesses in the 1986 legislation are examined, and some remedies suggested
The CER Negotiations: the real backstory
Get PDFThis article is an ‘insider’s account’ of the background to the negotiation of New Zealand’s first comprehensive bilateral trade agreement, the Australia–New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement, or CER. It argues that this agreement marked the first step in the process of a systematic reform of the New Zealand economy along orthodox liberal economic principles, and, in that sense, anticipated the comprehensive internal economic reforms initiated some two years later by the Labour government headed by David Lange. It analyses key ‘drivers’ of CER: the growing realisation that New Zealand was falling further and further behind Australia in its living standards, and the shock of the entry of the UK into the EEC, which forced a diversification of New Zealand trade and foreign policy away from the United Kingdom towards the AsiaPacific region. It includes a critical re-evaluation of the role of Prime Minister Robert Muldoon in the negotiations during a period of New Zealand political history in which he was dominant
Renewing the Aotearoa New Zealand Science System: Summary: Public Statement 1 December 2020
No full textOne Health Aotearoa: a transdisciplinary initiative to improve human, animal and environmental health in New Zealand
Get PDFThe following article, Harrison, S., Baker, M.G., Benschop, J. et al. One Health Outlook 2, 4 (2020), was published online by BMC on31 January 2020 at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s42522-020-0011-0. It is © The Author(s) 2020, but is Open Access and is distributedunder the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), whichpermits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that appropriate credit is given to the originalauthor(s) and the source, a link is provided to the Creative Commons license, and any changes are indicated. Permission to republishthe paper here has been obtained from the authors, and no changes have been made to the text
"simply another thing to keep clean": New Zealand Architecture in the 1990s
Get PDFWhen Douglas lloyd Jenkins wrote, in 2005, of the contrasting views of the deconstructivist stream that "literally flowed through the house between dining and living spaces" in Noel Lane's AB Gibbs House, he characteristically inflicted doses of reality and wit with his portrayal of the public's understanding of contemporary architecture as being: "simply another thing to keep clean." This conference, dangerously close, given the involvement of too many of its participants in the era under examination, proposes to examine New Zealand's architecture in the 1990s - a decade, which began with the fervour of a sesqui-centennial and a major economic recession (1991-92), and ended with the unrequited fear of Ken the Cockroach, New Zealand's face of the millennium bug
Once upon a time in Venice: The Invention of New Zealand Architecture at the 1991 Mostra di Architettura di Venezia
Get PDFThere is little in the history of New Zealand that might resonate against measures of architecture established and perpetuated by Euro-centric socio-cultural development. And yet, in 1991, the University of Auckland was judged to have the world's best school of architecture. The circumstances of this recognition followed the Venice Biennale of Architecture that year when, for the first and only time, 43 select architecture programmes were invited to present themselves in open competition in the Corderie dell'Arsenale. The Auckland contribution was an elegant free-standing screen accompanied by a small selection of provocative instrumental drawings, and within the agenda set by the Biennale director, Francesco Dal Co, a claim could indeed have been made that, with this win, New Zealand, at that time, possessed the most eminent School of Architecture in the World. With hindsight the Venice Prize presented a high-takes paradox for New Zealand architecture. Superficially it offered a weighty endorsement for the pedagogic and disciplinary practices of the Auckland School, especially those associated with discursive modes of technical drawing. However, it did so at precisely the moment in history when these modes of representation were declining in the face of digital developments. But this hasn't hindered repeated attempts to duplicate the success in 1991. With this paper I will re-visit The Venice Prize, and subsequent Venetian visitations, with critical attention turned to teasing out some of trials that accompanied these presentations. In particular, thought will be given to how the narrative for New Zealand architecture presented in 1991 has become a prevailing New Zealand architectural mythology, and I will argue that each return to Venice since 1991 has entrenched this narrative as an ever-regressive account of global marginalisation, fragmentation and isolation
Narratives of Inequality: Postcolonial Literary Economics.
Get PDFWhereas postcolonial criticism might have been entrapped into culturalism and identity politics, the novel, at least its best specimens, continues to address the more fundamental question of economic inequality whose relevance has been rediscovered since the 2008 financial crisis – or so Melissa Kennedy asserts in her latest book, Narratives of Inequality. The book offers an extensive survey of postcolonial fiction across different historical times and locations. Convinced that literary studies should play an important role in the critique of global capitalism along the lines of Thomas Piketty and Amartya Sen, Kennedy selects novels that explicitly handle economic vocabulary and subject-matter. According to her, these works register the same or similar structures of inequality regardless of their specific local, historical, and cultural contexts
How the Learning Story Framework can be Enhanced to Provide Better Assessment Information to Support Planning for Children’s Further Learning: A Critique of the Reliability and Formative Validity of Learning Stories in Aotearoa New Zealand
Get PDFLearning stories are the predominant method of assessment in the Aotearoa/New Zealand early childhood education sector. In the present paper, we argue that, while learning stories appropriately emphasise what children can already do, also describing their challenges in learning stories could contribute to planning, independent learning, motivation and self-assessment. Drawing on the first author’s professional experience as an early childhood teacher, a critique of the three components of learning stories’ practice – notice, recognise, and respond – is used to put forward a case for effective strategies to enhance the validity and reliability of these assessments. These components are deployed sequentially in the learning stories assessment process to serve the formative purpose of the approach. The notice component includes a familiar observer, informal sharing of observations and watchful listening to achieve descriptive validity, and the use of children’s own words to achieve interpretative validity. The ‘recognise’ component involves peer review, multiple perspectives, and child plus parental feedback to achieve construct validity. The ‘respond’ component draws attention to multiple perspectives input to achieve accuracy as a property of validity. The application of each strategy also improves the reliability of learning story assessments. 
Catastrophic Risk from Rapid Developments in Artificial Intelligence: what is yet to be addressed and how might New Zealand policymakers respond?
Get PDFThis article describes important possible scenarios in which rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) pose multiple risks, including to democracy and for inter-state conflict. In parallel with other countries, New Zealand needs policies to monitor, anticipate and mitigate global catastrophic and existential risks from advanced new technologies. A dedicated policy capacity could translate emerging research and policy options into the New Zealand context. It could also identify how New Zealand could best contribute to global solutions. It is desirable that the potential benefits of AI are realised, while the risks are also mitigated to the greatest extent possible
Listening to Voices of the Future: contributions from people born after 1985
Get PDFThe six articles that follow are contributions from eight people born after 1985. They represent a response to the invitation we published in the August 2019 issue of Policy Quarterly (Coleman and Karacaoglu, 2019). We hope that what follows is a valuable contribution to various intergenerational conversations that are taking place in New Zealand and around the world
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