Judy Bethwaite, Victoria University of Wellington – 12/2/98 More in an occasional series about an economist’s approach to life and the universe! Judy Bethwaite When it was announced in 1990 that the family benefit was to be scrapped, an off-the-cuff comment by Prime Minister David Lange seemed to attract rather more attention than the policy…
Dorothy – 6/2/98 Colin and Jill Clarke gave up their jobs to start a Bed and Breakfast and Guiding business at Lake Rotoiti. Colin sitting on a rock with a backdrop of mountain country (Click here for a larger version) Making the change Three years ago Colin was working at Landcare Research at the University…
Dorothy – 6/2/98 The New Zealand Special Olympics Foundation and the 1997 Fourth New Zealand Special Olympic National Games “Everyone is a winner just by participating in these games.” Terry Carboon, Chairman of the Special Olympics Foundation, in his message of welcome to the South Island games in 1996. Saying this he emphasised the motivating…
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…
Dorothy – 30/1/98 Day or half day walks The Peninsula Nature Walk (1.5 to 3 hours) If you want to build up your fitness gradually I would recommend that you start with the Peninsula Nature Walk. The track follows the shore of the peninsula, and is undulating and easy walking. The views of the lake…
NZ Music review – Conrad – 30/1/98 Bike is New Zealand guitar pop at its best, producing 40 minutes of shimmering melodic moodiness in their first full length CD ‘Take in the Sun’. Bike is the new vehicle for Andrew Brough’s international class song-writing, previously heard through StraightJacket Fits, one of New Zealand’s most successful…
Dorothy – 23/1/98 Lake Rotoiti looking from Kerr Bay (Click here for a larger version) Why do the visitors come? It is the beauty of the lake, the mountains and the bush which draws most visitors to the area more than a century after Haast first rejoiced in it, although a few still go to…
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’…
– Dorothy – 16/1/98 “An interview with Eric Foley, Director of Budget Backpackers Hostels NZ Ltd.” A New Zealand-wide network The original two storey house at Foley Towers In 1986 Eric Foley in Christchurch and Mark Dumble in Taupo formed a company, Budget Backpackers Hostels NZ Ltd (BBHNZ), which would develop a network of backpacker…
– Anthony Terry – 9/1/98 Today’s modern pig farms are tantamount to concentration camps where death is the only thing that brings relief. Many of the 800,000 pigs in New Zealand are kept in conditions far beyond what most people could think imaginable. Animal rights campaigners throughout the country have launched a campaign to highlight…
