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All the Juicy Pastures: Greville Texidor and New Zealand
Get PDFIf you type the name Greville Texidor into a Wikipedia search bar, you may be asked if you mean instead ‘grevillea teodor’. Alternatively, you’ll be redirected to biographical websites for Maurice Duggan, one of postwar New Zealand’s most famous short story writers, or Kendrick Smithyman, editor of Greville Texidor’s volume of selected fiction, In Fifteen Minutes You Can Say a Lot. To learn anything about Greville Texidor herself, you need to read All the Juicy Pastures: Greville Texidor and New Zealand, by Wellington-based writer Margot Schwass. Beautifully written, deeply researched, richly illustrated, this critical biography addresses the question of why we should care about the career of a woman writer born in England in 1902, who died by her own hand in Australia in 1964, and who in her lifetime published only seven short stories, a post- Spanish Civil War novella called These Dark Glasses, a few translations of Lorca poems, and a smattering of other non-fiction pieces. Schwass also tackles the question of why we should care about Greville Texidor as a New Zealand writer
Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age
Get PDFIn the opening piece in this extraordinary collection of essays, Bill Gammage discusses fire management in Indigenous communities in Australia. Almost as an aside, he comments that “of course you need to appreciate fire as a management tool before the use of no fire can be detected” (43). This profound but simple remark might be taken as a guiding statement for the collection and the worlds of interpretative possibilities that it opens up: which tools and techniques do we recognise in our approach to colonial histories? How can we learn to recognise what is missing when we don’t even really appreciate what is already visible and tangible? To what extent does our scholarship recognise the “fire” of Indigenous work, let alone comprehend what we’re looking at when we see no fire
Conversations about Indigenous Rights: The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Aotearoa New Zealand
Get PDFThis collection brings together a range of viewpoints and disciplines to emphasise the importance of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the Declaration). Authors reflect on the Declaration’s impact 10 years after it was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, and on ways to continue the journey towards implementation
The Langham Private Hotel: an iconic merger of architecture, urbanism, and decoration in Edwardian Newtown
Get PDFCompleted in 1908, the Langham Private Hotel in Newtown, Wellington - now known as Ashleigh Court - embodied optimism and grand ambition indivisible from its surrounding community. The building was designed to have maximum visual effects on a high-profile triangular site and was conceived during the suburb of Newtown's heady days of rapid and substantial expansion in the decades around the turn-of-the-twentieth century. Located within a precinct composed mainly of two-storey, timber commercial buildings, the three-storey masonry building housing ground-level stores and a hotel far outstripped its neighbours in size, materials, and architectural articulation. The masonry wedge with its continuous façade along two street fronts featuring superbly executed plaster decoration could only impress.
This paper will explore how the Langham Private Hotel's excellence in design resulted from an enlightened merger of architecture, siting, and decoration within Newtown's otherwise uniform commercial streetscape. It will consider its relationship to the typology of plastered, masonry commercial buildings that came to define modernity and progress in late-Victorian and Edwardian Wellington. Finally, it will attempt to understand the ambitions and meanings present in its eclectic plaster decoration that would have been evident to contemporaries. In nearly every design dimension, the Langham Private Hotel can be considered an apex of urban design in Edwardian New Zealand
Māori Girl with a Typewriter, 1906
Get PDFThis paper takes its title from a photograph held by the Alexander Turnbull Library. Recorded by Stefano Webb Photographic Studio of Christchurch, it is a studio study that falls somewhere between being a portrait, commercial illustration or candid record. The subject for the photograph - as the name reveals - is a young Māori woman sitting in front of a typewriter. Her fingertips touch the keys of the machine but her relationship to this quintessential object of the "modern" office-place is juxtaposed against surfaces that are distinctly indigenous: the woman wears a feather cloak and the typewriter is placed on another flax one. In turn this display is situated in a generic office environment. In totality the photographic is thematically and pictorially enigmatic, and we might reasonably wonder what purpose it served? In this work I conduct a comprehensive visual analysis and suggest that there may not be one main motivation behind it but a series of experiments, both conscious and unconscious to the photographer, that govern the creation and interpretation of this photograph. Central to my reading is the presence of an architectural mise-en-scene that organizes and activates the pictorial mystery, and so, while this does not depict an heroic architectural object it nonetheless depends upon an appreciation of how architecture might organise a photographic record
Digitisation, Copyright and the Glam Sector: Constructing a Fit-For-Purpose Safe Harbour Regime
Get PDFCopyright law does not currently align with the legitimate activities of galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs). The GLAM sector plays a central role in collecting and promoting access to cultural works. Increasingly, GLAM institutions are employing innovative digital technologies to expand access to culture and foster greater levels of cultural participation. Despite the utility underlying digitisation, copyright limits the use of digital technologies within the GLAM sphere. This article examines current copyright limitations and demonstrates copyright's significant limiting effect. It argues that reform is necessary to strengthen the right to participate in cultural life and to remedy harms inflicted by the current copyright regime. Creating a fit-for-purpose safe harbour would empower institutions to employ digitisation within a framework of reasonable copyright constraints. Accordingly, this article constructs a potential safe harbor that permits non-commercial GLAM digitisation, while also protecting copyright holders and tikanga Māori. The Copyright Act 1994 is currently under review. New Zealand ought to seize the present reform opportunity to invigorate participation in cultural life and enrich the cultural fabric of society
A Duty of Good Management? Protected Interests and the Employment Contract
Get PDFThis essay in honour of Gordon Anderson's contribution to employment contract law reviews the extent to which it is true to say that the law of the employment contract does in fact protect the employee's interests in a well-managed workplace, where the harm suffered is financial or psychological/psychiatric. It will be suggested that the law has evolved less radically than Lord Slynn's dictum might suggest
From the Code Noir to Entrenched Rights
Get PDFThe celebration of the service of a longstanding and much valued colleague is here taken as the opportunity to comment briefly on the employment law of Seychelles and to indicate, by reference to a few key cases, that the employment decisions reflect, perhaps unsurprisingly, significant features of contemporary Seychelles society. This article presents an historical overview of the labour law of Seychelles, followed by some case studies and a brief conclusion
Family Law – Solidarity or Disarray?
Get PDFProfessor Gordon Anderson and labour law are synonymous in New Zealand. Gordon has provided a vision for the future of labour law. This article is offered in a similar spirit. It was prepared for a conference on "The Future of Family Law", held in Auckland on 20 September 2018 with distinguished guest, Lady Brenda Hale, President of the United Kingdom Supreme Court. The history of family law in New Zealand is full of remarkable landmarks. Many align with the rights of various groups: children, women, Māori, those with intellectual disabilities, LGBTI+ communities and abuse victims. If we dig deeper, we find that the various parts do not make a very coherent and harmonious whole. The law is tugged in different directions. This article draws on the concept of "family solidarity", refashioned for New Zealand purposes as "family and community solidarity". Could this help develop a unifying theme? Could it form the basis for future family law reform? Developments such as legislation on child poverty reduction, the Ministry for Children and relationship property law are briefly explored. 
A Conversation about the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Get PDFThe Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 is the first piece of legislation prepared pursuant to the revision powers contained in the Legislation Act 2012 which allow, inter alia, for several Acts to be combined and reworded in accordance with modern language and drafting style. This article, which is written in the form of a conversation between a law student and her contract professor, seeks to evaluate the Act. The tenor of the conversation is that the Act has failed to achieve its primary purpose of making the law more accessible
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