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Human Rights and Decolonisation
No full textThis article provides a brief introduction to Professor RQ Quentin-Baxter and Alison Quentin-Baxter's papers found in this journal. They reveal insights which the authors derived from their personal involvement in areas of both national and international decision-making: the international implementation of human rights, and the transformation of Niue from its position as a colony to a self-governing state in a relationship of free association with New Zealand
The Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau as Parts of the Realm of New Zealand
No full textThe focus of This Realm of New Zealand by Alison Quentin-Baxter and Janet McLean was on the constitutional monarchy and its relationship with the laws of mainland New Zealand. This article complements This Realm of New Zealand by focusing on the constitutional monarchy and its relationship with other countries of the Realm of New Zealand – the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau
Sustained Autonomy - An alternative political status for small islands?
No full textThis article originated as a paper presented at the Pacific Regional Seminar, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 8-10 June 1993, of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. Alison Quentin-Baxter first discusses what she sees as the problems with both free association and integration of small island communities. She then advances an alternative model which she labels "sustained autonomy"
The New Zealand Model of Free Association: What does it Mean for New Zealand
No full textUsing Professor Angelo's work in Tokelau as a starting point, Alison Quentin-Baxter examines the model of "free association" relationship that New Zealand has with the Cook Islands and with Niue, and was also to be the basis of Tokelauan self-government. She looks at both the legal and practical obligations that such relationships place on both parties, but particularly on New Zealand. The form of the model means the basis for New Zealand's obligations to an associated state are quite different from its provision of aid to other states
The Problems of Islands
No full textThe paper reproduced in this article was given at a public seminar held at Waitangi, Chatham Islands, on 5 and 6 February 1995 to discuss "Island Development and its Future". In it Alison Quentin-Baxter compares the legal situation of the Chatham Islands with the past and present situations of the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau, concluding that the Chatham Islands are not a non-self-governing territory but are an integral part of New Zealand. She then discusses the consequences of this status for the Chatham Islands, particularly in relation to the fish resources of their surrounding waters and suggests that the goal of self-government is not a realisable one. She proposes instead a dialogue with New Zealand Ministers in an effort to reach acceptable, pragmatic solutions, perhaps involving some legislative changes of a constitutional nature giving greater authority to local government in the Chatham Islands or modifying the application there of some Acts of Parliament, so as to take account of the practical problems that offshore islands experience
Parental joblessness, financial disadvantage and the wellbeing of parents and children
No full textThis paper used Longitudinal Study of Australian Children data to analyse links between parental employment and the wellbeing of families.The study found that jobless families and families with short part-time hours (fewer than 21 hours) were at considerable financial disadvantage compared to families with full-time or long part-time hours of employment.Of the children in the study, 5 per cent were living in a family with short part-time hours, and 11 per cent lived in a jobless family – this figure includes half of the children of single parents. Developmental outcomes for these children were lower than those for children in families working more than 21 hours. Joblessness and short part-time hours contributed to these poor outcomes for children through the effect of financial stress on parents.Authored by Jennifer Baxter, Matthew Gray, Kelly Hand, and Alan Hayes
Debatable lands : exploring the boundaries of fiction and nonfiction through family history
No full textThis thesis consists of a work of life writing accompanied by a critical essay that examines the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction. It tells the story of a Victorian family from Cornwall, whose lives were transformed by the age of steam and empire. The men went to sea as sailors or engineers, while the women became schoolteachers and governesses. These were ordinary people who left only a faint mark on history but I show how, starting from a few family relics and official documents, it is possible to reconstruct a complete life. To bring my characters alive I decided at critical moments to fictionalise, to put words into their mouths and thoughts into their heads. My narrative uses imagination to round out the facts of biography with the aim of producing a story that rings true.
In Chapter 1 of the critical essay, I examine the relationship between family and public history and consider the role played by inherited objects, myths, and secrets in reconstructing the past. I argue that while the family archive resembles and overlaps with museum collections and official records, it has a different resonance and sometimes a different relationship to the truth. In Chapter 2, I consider family history as a form of life writing. I compare how the different genres of biography, history, and historical fiction deal with what is known and unknown about the past, and I identify three ways in which fiction and nonfiction narratives may differ. The first is invention, or making things up; the second is interiority, or access to the thoughts and feelings of characters who are long dead; and the third relates to narrative structure. But the boundary between fiction and nonfiction is, I conclude, not one that can or should be policed. By allowing the two to coexist, I am proposing one possible solution to the dilemma of how to write everyday lives in a way that gives them the interest and significance that I believe they deserve
Repositioning the graphic designer as researcher
No full textIn academic terms, the discipline of graphic design is relatively young. Consequently the position of the discipline within academic territory, and the role of the designer, continue to be debated. In part, these debates have been a product of attempts to define and defend the discipline’s borders from within, in order to establish a sense of the role of graphic design and the graphic designer as commensurate with other disciplines both within and beyond art and design. In recent years graphic designers have variously been defined as ‘authors’, ‘producers’ and ‘readers’, yet none of these definitions seem to have provided any kind of productive or lasting impact within the academy. This paper suggests that rather than continue to seek territorial definitions and positions from within, it could be more productive to look beyond the confines of the discipline. Gaining a broader, interdisciplinary perspective on, and understanding of, qualitative research methods from other disciplines may enable the graphic designer to more fully position his or her practice within the wider academy. Such a perspective could help facilitate the repositioning and redefinition of the graphic designer as ‘researcher’ - a move that would be productive in relation to the future development of postgraduate research within the discipline
The UN Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People - The International and Constitutional Law Contexts
No full textThis article is an edited version of one of the six papers presented to the International Law Association/International Commission of Jurists seminar on the UN Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples which was held in Wellington on 23 August 1997. The author discusses the New Zealand Government policy towards the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She first identifies key issues of international law, explores the relationship between the Draft Declaration and the Treaty of Waitangi, and looks at some implications of both for the New Zealand legal system and our national society. In doing so, the author focuses on the political rights of indigenous peoples – particularly the principles underlying those rights, not the way they are expressed in the text. The author concludes that most, if not all, the significant changes in the international community and in the lives of nations have been brought about by acts of good faith. Accordingly, it is the author's belief that the end product is likely to be the strengthening of the national societies to which the indigenous peoples of the world belong. 
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