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Women Will Rise! Recalling the Working Women’s Charter.
Get PDFEditors Marie Russell and the late Gay Simpkin set out to share knowledge about the late 1970s campaign for the Working Women’s Charter with a younger generation. Their book provides interesting insights into the history of both the trade union movement and the struggle for women’s rights in Aotearoa/ New Zealand. The Charter was a set of sixteen demands aimed at redressing the inequity and oppression women faced in the workplace and beyond, like “a bill of rights for working women” (21). Its clauses ranged from demands for equality and an end to all discrimination, to access to childcare and reproductive rights. The first five chapters are largely focused on the efforts to win support for it within the labour movement
Overturning the Narrative: Steele and Goldie's Arrival of the Maoris in New Zealand, 1899
Get PDFNew Zealand’s best-known historical painting, Louis John Steele and Charles Frederick Goldie’s Arrival of the Maoris in New Zealand (1899), has influenced the way Māori history has been (mis)understood. Through a detailed examination of the historical, anthropological and artistic sources that informed the painting, a new understanding emerges. Rather than a generic imagined depiction of Māori arrival, a long-overlooked source for the narrative is found in the voyage of the Arawa waka and its encounter with the “throat of Te Parata.” The analysis gives new insight into the artists’ intent, enabling us to begin to address the uncomfortable place Arrival occupies in New Zealand art history and culture
A Neglected Design Style: Colonial Era Hybrid Architecture, Furniture and Interior Decoration in Aotearoa New Zealand
Get PDFColonial hybrid design has been a neglected style in Aotearoa New Zealand’s and design history. However, an overview of the corpus, its quantity and plurality, with both Māori and Pākehā makers working into the early twentieth century, indicates that a reappraisal is required. The case study of one Pākehā maker, J.H. Menzies, shows a combination of respect and ignorance of toi Māori (Māori art).[i] Despite the negative connotations of cultural appropriation, a kernel of genuine creative exchange is at the heart of this colonial phenomenon, as exemplified in his work.
[i] I use this term generically to include all forms of art customarily practised by Māori, including (but not limited to) hoahoanga (architecture), toi whakairo (the art of carving) and kōwhaiwahi (painted patterns)
Young Guns Reloaded: Evaluating Contemporary Māori Art of the 1990s
Get PDFThe “Young Guns” were an emerging generation of contemporary Māori artists in the 1990s. Their work was irreverent, and provoked uncertainty and controversy regarding its relationship to the genealogy of customary and contemporary Māori artists. This paper reviews notable works by Shane Cotton, Michael Parekowhai, Lisa Reihana and Peter Robinson, and their evolving critical reception, from complex readings through an internationalist, post-conceptual lens to accommodation within a vitalist Māori framework. The focus is on patterns of re-evaluation within Māori culture, whereby humour, belligerence, profanity and mundane materiality are mixed with the metaphysical, and “rubbish” becomes valuable art or taonga.
 
Banking While Insolvent: Issues Faced by Insolvent Banking Customers Around Account Closure or Suspension
Get PDFThis article presents evidence that suggests the major banks in New Zealand have had a practice of using their discretionary 'terms and conditions' powers to close or suspend the bank accounts of customers who go into an insolvency procedure. This can have a significant detrimental impact on the insolvent person and a blanket policy of this nature would not appear to be based on sound justification. This article suggests that an effective way to influence the banks' practices in this area could be through the conduct of financial institutions (CoFI) regime, expected to take effect in 2025.
 
Addressing the Colonial Legacies of Science: a Crown research institute case study
Get PDFScience needs to address its colonial legacies. While the Te Ara Paerangi Future Pathways envisioned reforms of the research, science and innovation system has lost momentum, individuals and organisations across Aotearoa recognise, and are reaffirming, that the country’s future prospects lie in embracing Tiriti-led policies and practices. In 2021 Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research (a Crown research institute mandated to ensure that the life force and vitality of the land is strong) committed to weaving the principles of te Tiriti o Waitangi into its fabric. As employees, we use social practice theory in this article to evaluate the changes our organisation is experiencing on its journey to being Tiriti-led, and assess the lessons, impacts, successes and failures. This case study highlights the values–action gaps currently evident across the science system and provides insights into the various elements required to enable transformative change and new social norms within knowledge production policies and practice
Marine Renewable Energy Research and Development in New Zealand in the Pre-Offshore Wind Era
Get PDFOver the last two decades there have been a range of efforts to develop a marine renewable energy sector in Aotearoa New Zealand. There have been a modest number of successes along with the inevitable stalled ideas and lost effort. With the rapid growth of offshore wind in New Zealand being foreshadowed, it is a suitable time to record some of these early initiatives. The various projects, researchers and ideas all sought to improve the nation’s energy emissions profile before climate mitigation options became limited
The Taskforce to now – Have we made progress?
Get PDFThe journey to improved outcomes for workers and others is a long and winding road that seems to expand as some risks improve and others materialise. Disasters, new laws and regulatory restructure have a limited impact, but the underlying challenges remain.
In this article the author reviews one part of that journey in New Zealand from 2012 to now but draws on his experience of over 45 years working in this field in the UK, including internationally and in New Zealand since 2004 and reflects on the successes and opportunities that lie ahead
A disgraceful tale of déjà vu: New Zealand’s repeated health and safety failures
Get PDFIn August 2023, the Business Leaders’ Health and Safety Forum (the “Forum”) published its inaugural State of a Thriving Nation (Eaqub, 2023) report. While many of those working closely with the health and safety system in New Zealand may not have been surprised by the report’s key findings – the $4.4 billion annual cost of New Zealand’s health and safety performance and how we’re continuing to drag behind comparable nations such as Australia and the UK in terms of worker harm rates – it caused many to stop and consider exactly what is going wrong in Aotearoa
A trade union perspective on the New Zealand health and safety system
Get PDFTrade unions at their core are a democratic collective of workers seeking to use their joint strength to enact positive improvements to their work and workplaces. Workers recognise that safe and healthy work is a fundamental aspect of good work and that it is workers who bear the brunt of poor health and safety practices. Ensuring that work is safe, and workers come home healthy is a critical component of union work. So too is ensuring that workers have agency in the design and operation of their work.
Key to the operation of any union is the concept that it represents workers collectively, it reflects the diversity of its membership and provides members with a voice. This enables many workers to speak up, knowing they can do so without fear of reprisal. healt
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