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Health Post-Pandemic: necessity the mother of intervention?
Get PDFThe Covid-19 pandemic has provided the ultimate stress test of the New Zealand health system, confirming known weaknesses, but also facilitating useful responses and changes. We discovered an effective centre, as well as regional cooperation, and IT enhancements may finally have their day. The financial stress of family doctors revealed our patchwork funding system, and privacy issues in the use of identifiers and matters of jealously guarded scope of practice in the workforce were exercised under pandemic conditions. Hospitals were able to function at 50% capacity, and deficiencies were revealed in the aged care sector. Finally, we avoided gross health inequalities. With a review of the system recently released, this experience may advance the cause of reform
Assessing the Design and Capability of Our Public Health System in a Covid and Post-Covid New Zealand
Get PDFNew Zealand’s public health response to Covid-19, while effective thus far, has raised questions about our country’s public health capability and capacity, our ability to respond to public health challenges, and our ability to protect Mäori communities from bearing the brunt of inequitable outcomes. The aims of this article are to identify and discuss some of the challenges that face New Zealand’s state-mandated public health institutions, and to explore critera for assessing the capability of these institutions. There is no universal standard approach to the design of public health institutions, systems and structures; a variety of different configurations would work in any context and their effectiveness is strongly influenced by national history, and the prevailing policy and political culture. In order to assess the ability of our public health institutions to effectively respond to a diverse array of challenges, we propose a capability framework consisting of ten key elements
Alone Together: the heightened risks of loneliness following Covid-19
Get PDFEven prior to Covid-19, loneliness posed a significant public policy challenge. Loneliness intersects with other wellbeing factors, so prioritising wellbeing requires policies that allow social interaction to thrive. Prolonged loneliness also creates significant public health risks. Covid-19 thrust loneliness into greater prominence with enforced social isolation compounded by considerable employment and income loss. The level 4 lockdown contributed to an increase in self-reported loneliness, especially among those already at risk. Future analysis will determine the full impact of Covid-19 on loneliness; in the meantime, policy to enable social interactions to thrive will be an important part of the recovery
New Zealand’s Hosting of APEC in 2021
Get PDFHosting APEC in 2021 is a unique and timely opportunity for New Zealand to take responsibility for providing regional leadership that can advance and sustain APEC as an institution, including through its development of trade and economic policies that will support the region’s economic recovery from the effects of Covid-19. This article reviews why APEC matters to New Zealand and the international context which will influence New Zealand’s APEC host year. It outlines how New Zealand will approach its virtual hosting of APEC 2021, and the key themes which will inform our priorities
Of Women and Belonging: Ethnographic encounters in the borderland of Gurez, Jammu and Kashmir
Get PDFI explore issues of identity and belonging in the field as a woman researcher, through encounters and narratives that highlight vulnerabilities in doing ethnography in a hostile borderland in Jammu and Kashmir. The contested notions of belonging – as a woman and as a researcher in the field – often proves challenging for female researchers who have to be mindful of both these identities at the same time. The field constantly reminds ‘the researcher’ of her identity as a woman, and here lies the difficult task of carrying out the fieldwork while remaining true to both. The challenges that a woman researcher faces can be overcome if she finds a way to negotiate her belonging in the field with herself, and with her participants. 
Towards a New Public Ethics
Get PDFThis article is a very slightly modified version of Michael Macaulay’s Victoria University of Wellington inaugural professorial lecture, of the same title, which was delivered on 5 November 2019. It offers an overview of misconduct issues in the New Zealand public sector, and an explanation over the causes of toxic workplace cultures. It ends with a plea to develop a more specifically care ethics approach, to augment current public ethics perspectives. The lecture draws on seven years of accumulated research but foregrounds results from the three-year, ARC-funded Whistling While They Work 2 research project, for which Michael was the New Zealand lead
Driving New Zealand’s Economic Relationship With Asia: The Importance Of Growing Connections, Capacity And Confidence
Get PDFHow does New Zealand’s engagement across the Asia region affect New Zealand’s prosperity and security? New Zealand’s approach to developing economic, political and people-to-people connections across Asia has changed considerably over the last few decades. This article seeks to highlight some of those changes, including how the New Zealand public’s perceptions of Asia have changed over time and how this has shaped New Zealand foreign policy. The critical question is whether enough is being done – across public, private and community sectors – to help position New Zealand as a highvalue partner in Asia for the long term
The Economics-Security Nexus in the US-China Trade Conflict decoupling dilemmas
Get PDFFor more than two decades, China was enmeshed in transnational trade and investment networks. The complex interdependence that characterised the relationship between the United States and China is now threatened by policies that incentivise decoupling, including the partial unwinding of multinational supply chains. Since 2018 the ‘trade war’ between the US and China has taken on elements of a ‘tech war’, in which national security concerns replace economic logic. The area for win–win gains is reduced, as both countries pursue policies of greater technological autonomy. The bilateral rift creates challenges for companies and third parties who have no wish to take sides and complicates APEC’s goal to promote growth and accelerate regional economic integration
Māori Mārx: Some Provisional Materials
Get PDFThis article gathers together some provisional materials for the construction of a Māori Mārx. I begin by following Marx’s thought as he continually complexifies his understanding of the determinants of history in his search for the proper starting place for a materialist dialectics. I leave historical Marx at the close of his life, occupied with the passionate study of Indigenous modes of life. Returning his gaze, I read Marx from an Indigenous perspective, sketching some of the lineaments of a Māori Mārx for whom whakapapa is the central concept. From this perspective, I describe an Indigenous, comparative, and historical materialism, termed ‘geometry of life’, that seeks the consistency between modes of life and the modes of thinking that emanate within them. I close by suggesting that we must conceive of ourselves as part of the ensemble powers of a proletarian Papatūānuku if we are to conserve the earth and abolish capital
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