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“To His Majesty, King Edward the Seventh”
Get PDFAt the turn of the twentieth century, Māori had given up the gun and turned to politics and petitions to Parliament to get resolution for the unjust, often illegal actions of the Crown. This essay discusses the evolution of a petition from Māori in the early twentieth century, which was originally addressed to King Edward VII, outlining a number of grievances with the settler government regarding their treatment of Māori in violation of guarantees made under the Treaty of Waitangi
The super-narrative effect. The resonance of written letters for whānau in the historical record.
Get PDFIn March 1988, my late aunt Onehou Phillis (1926-2012) and I visited the National Archives (as it was called then) and the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington. Onehou was our Māori language teacher at Edgecumbe College in the Eastern Bay of Plenty and was accompanying our seventh-form English class to Wellington as our kaumatua. We stayed at Bruce Stewart’s marae, Tapu Te Ranga, at Island Bay, and during the course of the week there was ample time to take in our capital’s highlights. One afternoon, Onehou and I took the opportunity to see what information was held at the archives concerning our Ngāti Awa and Tūhourangi tipuna Maata Te Taiawātea Te Rangitūkehu (c.1849-1929). My father and Onehou were first cousins and Maata was their grandmother.
 
From a Letter I Imagine.
Get PDFI feel so blessed to have been raised in the era which actualized the term mātua rautia - that is, to be raised by a number of elders. In reflecting on my early years, it felt like many of my memories were of the people I met, and it seemed everyone was an aunt, an uncle, a nanny or a koro. As such, I would also be privileged to go from house to house, marae to marae, and be loved/spoilt by all those adults. In addition, I got to play with all the cuzzies and eat at their homes or they at ours, or at our marae. But I would always return home to our small 1.5-bedroom house which accommodated six of our family of eight.
 
Care of Children Act 2004: Continuation of Cultural Assimilation
Get PDFThis article argues that the cultural assimilation of Māori family forms, originating in colonial private family laws, continues under the Care of Children Act 2004 (COCA). It finds that the opportunity to draft a law that was respectful of tikanga Māori and te Tiriti o Waitangi was lost when legislators ignored all the critiques of the operating principles and processes of the Pākehā legal system, provided by Māori during the 1980s and 1990s. The article argues that cultural assimilation continues through court decisions, since COCA principles require priority to be given to parents, with a corresponding marginalisation of whānau, hapū and iwi. The article concludes that incremental reform would be unlikely to achieve legislation that is fit for a bicultural Aotearoa New Zealand. It advocates for a transformational Māori-led family law reform process, guided by te Tiriti o Waitangi/the Treaty of Waitangi and by tikanga Māori
Managing Active Fault Surface Rupture Risk through Land Use Planning:: barriers and opportunities
Get PDFThis article reflects on the management of active fault surface rupture hazard after the Canterbury and Kaikōura earthquakes. To understand mitigation barriers, interviews were conducted with planners and natural hazard risk specialists in selected districts with active faults, but without land use provisions. The interviews revealed issues with the interpretation and implementation of the Ministry for the Environment’s Active Fault Guidelines, Planning for Development of Land on or Close to Active Faults: a guideline to assist resource management planners in New Zealand. The purpose and intended use of the New Zealand Active Faults Database (NZAFD) is also explored
The Practice of Science for Technological Innovation learnings and implications for Te Ara Paerangi
No full textAn effective science system needs to provide expertise and knowledge to respond to societal issues in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2022 the government released the white paper Te Ara Paerangi: future pathways to outline a vision for a future science system. This research explores how mission-led science has operated through the National Science Challenges, using Science for Technological Innovation as a case study. In the context of Te Ara Paerangi, the research examines the elements of Science for Technological Innovation’s practice and offers implications for future mission-oriented science programmes that will be relevant to government policymakers, universities, Crown Research Institutes and science leaders
Whistling in the Dark? Is the Protected Disclosures Act 2022 a form of placebo policy?
Get PDFThis article examines the development of the Protected Disclosures Act 2022, and evaluates the changes that it has made to previous legislation. It argues that it provides relatively few substantive improvements in the legal protections for disclosers and that even these are clouded by ambiguity. The article outlines alternative suggestions that were made throughout the passage of the Act and explores the extent to which it might be read as a placebo policy. It closes by looking at similar patterns of punch-pulling in other recent integrity initiatives
Inside-Out, or Outside-in?: Woman in a glasshouse at the residence of Louis P Christeson at 213 Willis Street, Wellington (ca 1890s)
Get PDFThis research draws its subject, and its sub-title, from a photograph taken by Louis P Christeson, in which a female figure is depicted tending to the potted inhabitants of a small conservatory. Using this image as a reference point, this paper discusses the conservatory as a transgressive space that is neither properly inside, nor properly outside, the houses and gardens they are associated to. Specifically, a conservatory enables the creation of fertile artificial climates to support flora specimens that would otherwise not find a horticulturally receptive environment. As an architectural technology, its history well precedes the 1890s, but it is in this decade that the conservatory's role expanded from its agricultural origins to affect representations of social and cultural transaction. Or, in simple terms, though the 1890s a conservatory was increasingly just as likely to feature people as it was plants.
With conservatories, simple divisions of interiority and exteriority, and normative expectations of public and private distinctions, become far more mobile in their spatial classifications. In this regard, the 1890s are a particularly important decade for the conservatory as it shifted from being a tool of horticultural propagation to become a new expression of social and cultural production that conflated the distinctions between interior and exterior, and linking this to individual economic progress. Bringing this argument back to my reference photograph, I suggest that for Louis P Christeson, the conservatory was profoundly important symbol of middle-class arrival as exemplified by home ownership and leisure interests, both of which utilised the conservatory as a "third-space." It cannot be claimed that the conservatory led societal evolution, but it does provide a useful architectural touchstone for registering how the relationship between interior and landscape changed as a consequence
Knowledgeable and qualified early childhood teachers: Tensions, constraints, and possibilities
Get PDFThe Early Learning Action Plan 2019-2029 (Ministry of Education, 2019b) Objective 3 is “Teaching staff and leaders are well qualified, diverse, culturally competent and valued” (p. 3). Tensions, constraints, and possibilities arise from analysing historical developments and positionings of early childhood teacher knowledge amongst policy aimed to provide well qualified and valued teaching staff. We advocate for investment in what we conceptualise as ‘knowledgeable teachers’ who educate children at the most important time of their lives
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