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Mandatory Savings: the saviour of New Zealand’s welfare state
Get PDFNew Zealand faces an impending cost spiral of public spending on healthcare and pensions, as well as ongoing and substantial payments to those out of work. None of the solutions conventionally proffered, such as generating markedly higher productivity growth or levying significantly higher taxes, seems plausible. Mandatory savings accounts, however, offer more promise. Ending unnecessary transfer payments to businesses and wealthy individuals would allow health, out-of-work and retirement savings accounts to be set up and funded for all individuals. This policy change could secure the future welfare needs of low earners, enhancing opportunity, dignity, choice and fair treatment. It would also alleviate fiscal pressures, encourage efficiency gains and reduce wealth inequality
Examining the Case for Decentralisation
Get PDFThis article examines international evidence for the benefits of decentralisation based on new information published recently by the OECD. It finds benefits from decentralisation, but notes that whether these are realised or not is influenced by the nature of the multi-level governance framework. The applicability of decentralisation to New Zealand is also considered
Mātauranga Māori and the high-tech interface
No full textE tino whai nei a Science for Technological Innovation (SfTI): Kia Kotahi Mai - te Ao Pütaiao me te Ao Hangarau - kia whakanuia ngā pūkenga i Aotearoa ki te whakamahi i te pūtaiao, i te pūhanga, i te hangarau hoki hei whakatipu ake i te ōhanga. Ahakoa te tokoiti o te hunga Māori e tautōhito pū ana ki tēnā, ki tēna o ngā momo hangarau, kua waihangatia mai e SfTI tētahi mahere whakamahinga – ko Te Tihi o te Maunga – e whakanui nei i te rite ā-hiranga o te āheinga whakawhanaunga me te āheinga tangata e pā ana ki te pūtaiao hou, hei arumoni, hei whakamahinga hoki mā te iwi Māori, me te iwi Māori anō hoki. Mā roto mai i tēnei tuhinga, ka tirohia whānuihia te whakawhana-ketanga o te mahere me ngā whakaaroaro o muri, ka tahi; ngā whakamahinga o te mahere kia ākina te huringa o te whakaaro e taea ai te mahi tahi ki te hunga Māori kia āta panoni rā pea, kia kanorau rā pea te pūtaiao me te hangarau, ka rua; ka mutu, ko te anga whakamua a SfTI.
Science for Technological Innovation (SfTI): Kia Kotahi Mai - te Ao Pūtaiao me te Ao Hangarau - has a mission to enhance New Zealand’s capacity to use science, engineering and technology for economic growth. Despite the small numbers of Māori with domain-specific technical expertise, SfTI has developed a mod-el - Te Tihi o te Maunga (Mountain Summit) - that emphasises the equal importance of relational and human capacities to commercialise and use novel science for and with Māori. This paper provides an overview of the model’s development and the theory behind it; how the model is being used to assist the mental shift required to work with Māori in a way that may transform and diversify science and technology; and, finally some future directions for SfTI
Book Review: 'Mountains to the Sea: Solving New Zealand’s Freshwater Crisis'
No full textMike Joy has become a scientist known widely by Kiwis because he regularly sticks his head above the parapet to argue for our freshwater environments and the critters that live in them. The new book he has edited aims to sidestep arguments and focus on finding ways of thinking that lead to solutions. The title Mountains to the Sea: Solving New Zealand’s Freshwater Crisis should cause any reviewer to ask whether the authors truly deliver solutions. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the answer is both: yes, and no
“Free-Standing, Wooden, Upright”: The Evolving Cladding and Structure of the New Zealand House, 1858–1981
Get PDFThe timber-framed, weather-board-clad, corrugated-iron-roofed, stand-alone building has become the image of New Zealand housing. Its evolution is explored using census data from 1858 to 1981 for walls and from 1961 to 1981 for the roof. Four wall claddings (wood, brick, boards and concrete) were used in two-thirds or more of dwellings. The 1981 census reported 46 percent had timber cladding but analysis shows 85 percent had timber framing (structure). Timber cladding has been replaced by materials including brick-veneer and fibre-cement boards. From the 1970s, concrete walls became more widely used, replacing both structure and cladding. In 1981, 90 percent of roofs were corrugated, galvanised iron or tiles, while 55 percent of all dwellings had both a corrugated-iron roof and timber framing. While popular opinion considered timber construction as little better than temporary, the ready availability of timber and industry creativity in these seismically active islands have ensured the ongoing importance of timber housing
Wicked Wilhelmites and Sauer Krauts: The New Zealand Reception of Ernst Lissauer’s “Hymn of Hate”
Get PDFWhen the German poet Ernst Lissauer published his anti-English poem “Haßgesang gegen England” in the early weeks of the First World War, the effect was electric. The poem, translated into English and dubbed the “Hymn of Hate,” echoed around the globe, reaching as far as New Zealand where newspapers sedulously followed its international reception and published local responses. Given the nature of New Zealand’s relationship to Britain and the strength of the international press links, it is not surprising that news of the poem reached New Zealand in the early months of the war. However, the sheer volume of coverage given to a single German war poem in New Zealand’s press over the course of the war and after, as well as the many and varied responses to that poem by New Zealanders both at home and serving overseas, are surprising. This article examines the broad range of responses to Lissauer’s now forgotten poem by New Zealanders during the Great War and after, from newspaper reports, editorials and cartoons, to poetic parodies, parliamentary speeches, enterprising musical performances and publications, and even seasonal greeting cards
He Kupu Tuku Iho: Ko te reo Māori te tatau ki te Ao
Get PDFTōia, tōia, tōia mai ko te kupenga-whāriki rangi e! Whano koe i tō kapo wairua ki runga rā he tiki noa mai i te tī, i te tā kua huri rā i te whatinga tai o te ora kia eke, eke ake! E Tara, āta whārikihia tō hao mai i Te Murumāra, i Te Wharehuia, kia ruia ki te rangi kia whetūrangitia. E Mū, e takoto. Wharehuia, e takoto. Waiho ake rā ko ō mahuetanga mai hei tiki ake i ngā mahi i makere mai i ō kōrua ringa - Ko te pō ki a kōrua, auē, ko te moe ki a kōrua
Soldiers, Scouts and Spies: A Military History of the New Zealand Wars 1845–1864
Get PDFMilitary historian Cliff Simons says one of the inspirations for Soldiers, Scouts and Spies was “hearing a well-known Pākehā host on national radio vehemently declare that ‘Māori never lost a battle’” during the New Zealand Wars (21). At its launch, fellow military historian Richard Taylor described the new book as a “watershed publication” that marked a new era in research on the New Zealand Wars, supplanting the allegedly flawed work of James Belich.[i] It is a bold claim to make for a history of the role of military intelligence in some (but not all) of the conflicts fought between 1845 and 1864, especially given the omission of all of the wars fought after that date through until 1872. Simons himself makes some further claims for the work, suggesting that his own background as an officer in the New Zealand Army gives him special insights into the wars not available to other historians and writers from a non-military background.
[i] Launch speech for Soldiers, Scouts & Spies, by Lieutenant Colonel Richard Taylor, 15 October 2019, https://www.masseypress.ac.nz/news/2019/october/launch-speech-for-soldiers-scouts-and-spies
Settler Anxiety at the Outposts of Empire: Colonial Relations, Humanitarian Discourses, and the Imperial Press
Get PDFWhile New Zealand historians have sometimes been influenced by the new imperial history, this increasing body of work focusing on empire in its international and comparative dimensions has remained on the periphery of the country’s historical imagination. This is even true in the study of nineteenth-century colonialism. Despite the central role of humanitarianism in New Zealand history, many historians have been more concerned with exploring Māori history in increasingly local settings than considering the broader pattern of imperial relationships. Tony Ballantyne’s work is a leading exception, and a number of legal historians have explored issues of Aboriginal title, while sharing a limited subset of the concerns explored by the new imperial history. 
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