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A Guide to Ivan Orlov's "The calculus of the compatibility of propositions"
No full textIvan Efimovič Orlov’s paper “The calculus of the compatibility of propositions”, published in Russian in 1928, is fascinating for anyone interested in the early history of relevance, modal or intuitionistic logic. This is a guide that outlines Orlov's life and work, analyses the content of the paper, and relates it to work of his contemporaries and successors
Will Migrant Pacific Workers Be a Part of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Farming Futures? A call to design future agritech industry transformation plans with a reciprocal framework
Get PDFIn 2020 and 2023 the New Zealand government depicted a vision for technology-enhanced farming futures in the Agritech Industry Transformation Plan. However, the plan overlooks the critical role of seasonal, migrant Pacific workers in sustaining Aotearoa New Zealand’s horticulture industry. It also contains little practical planning for what a transition from a largely human to a largely robotic workforce should entail. We show how these omissions reflect an extractive framework which threatens workers’ wellbeing and the sustainability of Aotearoa New Zealand’s horticulture industry. We provide recommendations for how future agritech industry plans can consciously adopt a more sustainable reciprocal framework
Democracy and te Tiriti
Get PDFKo te wai e hora rā, ko Raukawa-moana. Ko te marae e takoto rā, ko te Whare Pī. Ko koutou āku rangatira kua pae nei i te pō nei, tēnakoutou, tënä koutou, tēnā tātou katoa. My thanks to the School of Government for their very kind invitation. I guess I ought to feel at home here in the shadow of Parliament, because, as they say, in politics it’s dog eat dog, whereas in academia it’s precisely the reverse. It’s a good recipe for humility, in any case.In this lecture in honour of Sir Frank Holmes, with his exceptional contributions to both academia and politics, I’d like to offer some thoughts, well researched I hope. It’s not a matter of ‘laying down the law’, but of sharing ideas about matters of national importance
Eroding Trust: how democratic deficits have undermined the public’s confidence
Get PDFWhile political trust has declined in democracies the world over for several decades, New Zealand historically defied this trend. However, since 2021, New Zealand’s political trust has also been on the decline. According to the Acumen Edelman Trust Barometer 2024, it now sits below the global average. This article explores the decline in political trust in New Zealand and argues that placing limits on the use of parliamentary urgency is one action we can take to rebuild it. Constraining the use of urgency will not fix our trust problem outright, but it constitutes a good place to start
Automated Traffic Congestion Charging Systems: Privacy considerations for New Zealand
Get PDFNew Zealand is considering implementing congestion-charging technologies to improve traffic flows and reduce emissions in city centres. This article reviews current congestion-charging technologies against New Zealand’s Privacy Act 2020 and identifies varying privacy risks with these technologies. In particular, using global navigation satellite (GNS) systems and an on-board unit can pose a risk of collecting data that exceeds congestion management requirements. Additional issues arise from data processing for purposes other than congestion charging. Overall, the findings indicate the need for stricter control over who can process what type of personal data and the use and retention of such data
The Whakaari/White Island disaster. An analysis informed by sociological theories of risk
Get PDFOn December 9, 2019, the volcano on Whakaari/White Island, a popular New Zealand (NZ) tourist destination, erupted. Twenty-two people died. Drawing on sociological theories of risk, most particularly on systems-thinking, this qualitative analysis describes the origins of the disaster, formulates questions for the authorities and suggests actions to reduce the chances of a repeat. It is concluded that the safety culture of NZ’s adventure tourism (AT) industry requires attention. It is also concluded that bureaucratic devices such as the adventure tourism insurance cover provided by NZ’s Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) may have encouraged, through a risk-compensation dynamic, greater risk-taking. It is suggested that improved oversight will deliver a safer adventure tourism industry. It is recommended that the authorities investigate to what extent insurance cover influences business practices
Worth the risk? ISO 35001: Biorisk management in New Zealand laboratories
Get PDFISO 35001: 2019 – Biorisk management for laboratories and other related organisations was released five years ago to address the global need for regulation of biorisk management. This article seeks to explore the performance evaluation clause of ISO 35001 in the context of a biocontainment laboratory, with examples of implementation from overseas. The need for ISO 35001 and the barriers to certification are discussed, especially in relation to the New Zealand biocontainment laboratory. Implications for health and safety in New Zealand are also noted
Health and Safety Law from the Industrial Revolution to the New Zealand Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Get PDFThis article reviews the development of work health and safety legislation from the late 18th century to the New Zealand Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
A Sea Change is Needed For Adapting to Sea-Level Rise in Aotearoa New Zealand
Get PDFSea-level rise is accelerating globally and will continue for centuries under all shared socioeconomic pathways. Although sea-level rise is a global issue, its impacts manifest heterogeneously at the local scale, with some coastal communities and infrastructure considerably more vulnerable than others. Aotearoa New Zealand is poorly prepared to deal with sea-level rise impacts, and some places are already approaching the limits of adaptation, short of relocation. Maladaptive choices threaten Aotearoa’s ongoing ability to adapt going forward. Development of climate-resilient pathways requires an immediate adoption of non-partisan, long-term, systemscale approaches to governance and decision making (from local to national), that integrate effective adaptation and emissions mitigation. This also requires proactive and collective action underpinned by indigenous and actionable knowledge (e.g., NZ SeaRise projections) designed for our unique circumstances. There is still time to put in place sustainable, equitable and effective solutions, but funding and governance models need urgent attention
Outside the Crazy House, New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, Wellington
Get PDFWriting on public buildings for the war time publication series Making New Zealand, Paul Pascoe described the Centennial Exhibition at Rongotai, Wellington, as displaying the degree of modernity that was then generally accepted and approved of by New Zealanders. An accompanying photograph (in all probability selected for inclusion by Pascoe's brother, John) shows Edmund Anscombe's Moderne tower building, and it is noted in the caption that the exhibition drew favourable comment from overseas visitors. At a moment in New Zealandʹs history when the heat of World War was once more accelerating, Anscombeʹs restrained stream‐lined modernism was met with approval. But not excitement. That reaction was reserved for Playland, the collection of amusement park attractions operating on the periphery of the exhibition grounds, and which, for many, offered the most compelling argument for attending. Of the varied offerings in Playland, the most popular attraction was The Crazy House where visitors were promised to encounter ‐ without warning! – innumerable diversions and never‐ending sources of mirth‐making. The Crazy House, like all elements of the Centennial Exhibition, was temporary, but unlike the latter, very little documentary of it remains. The few photographs of it present a modest façade with little hint of mirth, and of the interior of we have no descriptions at all. With reference to historic developments in entertainment attractions, this paper assembles what little information we have of The Crazy House to make a case for its significance as a defining development in New Zealand architecture. Just as the academic assurances of the Exhibition buildings would become a swansong to architectural stylism, The Crazy House would signal the appearance of demands on architecture that it now compete in an emergent field of international architecture called "popular entertainment.
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