Conrad – 17/12/99 It is often said that a week is a long time in politics and this was certainly true several times over during the three weeks after the 1999 New Zealand Election was held. The political future of the country was somewhat in the balance after the results on the night came through,…
Dorothy – 26/11/99 In the nineteenth century women worked together and in 1893 New Zealand women gained the right to vote. New Zealand was the first country in the world to grant suffrage to all women over twenty one. What has happened to New Zealand women in the political sphere since? Some milestones since 1893…
Graham Stairmand – 10/9/99 What are electors voting for? On polling day together with the casting of votes for both the electorate candidate and the party of choice there will be at least two referendum questions to be answered, one on the size of Parliament and the other on penalties for violent crime. At this…
Steve Cowan – 27/6/98 The National-NZ First coalition have recently launched what is likely to be just the first of many attacks on beneficiaries. In the gun first are the unemployed; as from October unemployed people will be forced into ‘community work’ for twenty hours a week. They will receive a token $21 for this…
Robert – 16/5/98 If you haven’t already, you may like to read Page 1 of this article. If we choose to care about this issue we should as a country and as individuals do everything we can to advance the appeals for global abolition. After Mr Clinton taking the lead with sanctions are we supposed…
– Nimrod – 13/2/98 So many people are concerned about the deterioration of New Zealand society. New Zealand has, in recent years, become notable for social problems. Increasing poverty, crime, deteriorating health standards, disintegration of families and increasing numbers of suicides indicate things are not well in godzone. At each election political parties campaign on…
Michael Mulheron & John B. Turner – 6/2/98 “For a very small expense the publick can facilitate, can encourage and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.” Adam Smith, from The Wealth of Nations (1776). The values of Public Education are…
John B. Turner – 23/1/98 John Turner is a Senior Lecturer in Photography, at the Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland. He is the Director and Managing Editor of PhotoForum Inc, and is a council member of the Society for Photographic Education in New Zealand (SPENZ). The `Tertiary Education Review Green Paper’…
