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What Does a Second Trump Term Mean for US Environmental Policy?
Full text linkWhat can we expect in environmental, energy and climate policy from a second Trump term? Given the slim Republican majorities in the House and Senate, legislative change in core environmental laws is unlikely. The new administration’s impacts will be felt in budgets and regulatory actions under existing laws. Where there are statutory mandates, such as the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, opportunities for deregulation will depend on the care taken to justify actions and the outcome of judicial reviews. The most significant effects of the new administration will occur in climate mitigation, where there is little existing law and the incoming president has expressed hostility to acting
Te Atatu Me: A Retrospective
Full text linkJohn B. Turner (b. 1943) is one of New Zealand’s preeminent documentary and art photographers. This article explores a particular collection of images of the west Auckland suburb of Te Atatū Peninsula, which Turner took over a period of seven years (2005-2011), and which were published in the book Te Atatu Me: Photographs of an Urban New Zealand Village (2015). The focus here is on how such photography can contribute to the historical archive as visual evidence through the intersection that it is able to achieve between documenting scenes in the form of photographs, and using the aesthetic dimensions of the medium both to project forms of meaning onto those images and as a device of cultural preservation.
 
Adam Smith’s Islands: New Zealand’s Incomparable Restructuring: 1980-1995.
Full text linkCritics of the restructuring of the New Zealand economy in the 1984 to 1993 period have suffered from there being no good defence of the changes that were made. There are memoirs by various actors and the odd academic article, but they do not address the two elephants in the room. Namely: why was the restructuring associated with the decade of a stagnant economy (and why were there no changes in the underlying growth rate afterwards) and why was it necessary to downgrade the role of equity in economic policy and substantially increase economic inequality? One might therefore welcome a study by Canadian historian John Weaver, a Distinguished University Professor at McMaster University. But one will be greatly disappointed
Class in Colonial Aotearoa: An Alternative Historiography
Full text linkThe question of class in colonial Aotearoa has vexed past historians. Yet the historiography has often been foreshortened by narrow understandings of class-as-consciousness and sociological approaches that attempt to confine people into ever-expanding categories. Drawing on heterodox Marxist thought, this paper argues for a relational approach to class. A critique of the stratification approach is followed by a reading of class as a social relation of struggle, via the revolt of emigrant labourers in 1840s Nelson and rural incendiarism between 1865-1900. Viewing class as a relationship and process has the potential to reappraise key events in Aotearoa’s past
Becoming Aotearoa: A New History of New Zealand.
Full text linkAlthough Michael Belgrave notes in the Introduction to Becoming Aotearoa that national histories are currently unfashionable, he believes they provide an opportunity to weave together disparate aspects of the past into an overall framework that can help to reveal what was, and possibly still is, distinctive about New Zealand. His overall interpretive position thus corresponds with a long tradition that explains New Zealand history in terms of its exceptional characteristics
Beyond Hostile Islands: The Pacific War in American and New Zealand Fiction Writing.
Full text linkThe value of Daniel McKay’s Beyond Hostile Islands, a study of treatments of the Pacific War in fiction from the United States and New Zealand, is its range. McKay follows master narratives and images from war writing across decades, and through archives many readers are unlikely to look in or move between
The Content of Content Semantics
Full text linkIn this paper, we investigate Brady's content semantics, which was an early attempt to get around the infamous incompleteness of the standard axiom systems for quantified relevant logics with regard to constant domain expansions of ternary relation semantics. We investigate this semantic framework by showing equivalence to a variation on a recently proposed algebraic version of semantics due to Mares and Goldblatt
Merger Control Law in Australia and New Zealand: Some Reflections on the Australian Reforms and Recent New Zealand Developments
Full text linkThere have been significant recent policy and case law developments relating to the application of competition law to mergers and acquisitions in New Zealand.This article is in two parts. The first addresses the current policy review into both procedural and substantive issues under pt 3 of the Commerce Act 1986. This policy review follows upon the detailed review of merger controls in Australia, which was completed at the end of 2024. The key process issue under the current review relates to the pre-notification of mergers to the Commerce Commission. It is argued that the current voluntary notification regime should be retained in New Zealand, despite the recent introduction of a mandatory notification regime in Australia. This article also traces the substantive changes which are open for consultation, the most significant being the extension of the substantial lessening of competition test to capture incremental increases in market power.The second part of this article provides critiques of two recent merger decisions of the Commerce Commission, namely the Serato and Foodstuffs decisions. This critique includes discussion of the Commerce Commission's approach to the assessment of mergers where there may be different competition effects over several markets. It is argued that the correct approach under s 47 of the Commerce Act in this setting is to apply a net competition test under which both the pro- and anti-competitive effects must be balanced
The Department of Tourist and Health Resorts and the Creation of the "Finest Walk in the World"
Full text linkThe Milford Track – dubbed "the Finest Walk in the World" as early as 1908 – stands among New Zealand's most significant and best-known tourism destinations. This moniker stems from a combination of the exhilarating natural beauty encountered along the track as well as its essential visitor facilities that were developed and sustained for tourism. It was in the first decades of the twentieth century that the Milford Track, along with other places of cultural and natural interest, established tourism as an essential component of national pride, identity, and the burgeoning economy of colonial New Zealand. This paper will explore the establishment of the Milford Track with a particular focus on the development of the walking path and its facilities, and how they contributed to the creation of an early, codified visitor experience that has remained remarkably consistent for well over a century
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