‘We Have Given Birth to a Very Busty Infant’: Post-War Origins of Sports Medicine in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Bruce Hamilton ◽  
Greg Ryan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Sports Medicine ◽  
Post War

scholarly journals AGRICULTURAL AVIATION AT THE CROSS ROADS

1984 ◽  
pp. 9-14
Author(s):  
O.G. James
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Aviation Industry ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
Threefold Increase ◽  
Important Development ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Post War

Thank you for the opportunity to present this address in my home district, from where I started my business career in aviation in 1949. The 34 years have been eventful, stimulating and satisfying, particularly when it has been said so many times that the agricultural aviation industry has been the single most important development in post war years, in arresting the lost production from New Zealand hill country. The main contribution tq,the threefold increase in stock unit numbers has been the service provided by the aviation industry. It is a record that we, who created it, and spent our working lifetime on, can be justly proud.

scholarly journals Tanah Papua, Asia-Pacific news blind spots and citizen media: From the ‘Act of Free Choice’ betrayal to a social media revolution

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-178
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Free Choice ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Mariana Islands ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
West Papua ◽  
Foreign Correspondence ◽  
Post War

For five decades Tanah Papua, or the West Papua half of the island of New Guinea on the intersection of Asia and the Pacific, has been a critical issue for the region with a majority of the Melanesian population supporting self-determination, and ultimately independence. While being prepared for eventual post-war independence by the Dutch colonial authorities, Indonesian paratroopers and marines invaded the territory in 1962 in an ill-fated military expedition dubbed Operation Trikora (‘People’s Triple Command’). However, this eventually led to the so-called Act of Free Choice in 1969 under the auspices of the United Nations in a sham referendum dubbed by critics as an ‘Act of No Choice’ which has been disputed ever since as a legal basis for Indonesian colonialism. A low-level insurgency waged by the OPM (Free West Papua Movement) has also continued and Jakarta maintains its control through the politics of oppression and internal migration. For more than five decades, the legacy media in New Zealand have largely ignored this issue on their doorstep, preferring to give attention to Fiji and a so-called coup culture instead. In the past five years, social media have contributed to a dramatic upsurge of global awareness about West Papua but still the New Zealand legacy media have failed to take heed. This article also briefly introduces other Asia-Pacific political issues—such as Kanaky, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinean university student unrest, the militarisation of the Mariana Islands and the Pacific’s Nuclear Zero lawsuit against the nine nuclear powers—ignored by a New Zealand media that has no serious tradition of independent foreign correspondence.

“Because it's there …” A consideration of the decision to commit New Zealand troops to Malaysia beyond 1971

1971 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-31
Author(s):  
Keith Jackson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Pacific War ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
National Trauma ◽  
Recent Innovation ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

Direct diplomatic relations between New Zealand and Malaya/Singapore are a relatively recent innovation dating back only to 1955, and, significantly, the original decision to station troops in the area in peacetime preceded the establishment of formal diplomatic links. It is true that even before the Second World War there had been a growing consciousness of the strategic significance of the area, but it was seen in terms of Singapore as a link in the chain of Imperial defence, never as a region in its own right. Regions were subsumed in the worldwide defence strategy of the British Empire. Thus New Zealand contributed financially to the construction of the base for the Royal Navy at Singapore, but her military commitments were in helping to guard the Suez ‘lifeline’. New Zealand air-force units were stationed in Singapore in 1940, but despite the national trauma associated with the fall of the base and the apprehended threat to New Zealand’s own security, the ground forces remained in the Middle East. Indeed, New Zealand's formal Commonwealth responsibilities were to remain in the Middle East until 1955 and public interest continued to focus on that area to a surprising degree. The lessons of the Pacific War for New Zealand, therefore, were less concerned with the strategic importance of any particular area than with the indispensability of a United States alliance. As one research group put it, ‘in the immediate post-war years New Zealand showed a greater sense of international awareness, but no sense of particular involvement with the Far East; still less with South-East Asia.

Polska Nowa Zelandia: Emigracja lat 1945-2006

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dariusz Zdziech
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
World War ◽  
World War 2 ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Recent Group ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
Polish Government ◽  
Considerable Detail

A brief history of Polish emigration to New Zealand until the end of the World War 2 is presented first, setting a background to the main topic of the book. Then in the next chapter, all attention is given to the post-war period. Each wave of newcomers, beginning with groups of ex-soldiers arriving to join with members of their family and ending with a recent group of mostly young professionals aiming at making a successful career on the antipodes, has been analysed with considerable detail. The following chapter looks at the stance the Polish immigrants took towards the Polish communist Government in Warsaw including its diplomatic post in Wellington. This has been thoroughly analysed. It shows the patriotism of the Polish communities. With admirable determination they felt allegiance to and strongly supported the Polish Government in London – in exile until 1990. The final chapter deals with the attitude of Polish immigrants toward the host country and the local government in Wellington. Legal matters regarding residency, citizenship, work and so on, together with motives of coming and settling in this country, becoming a loyal citizen, are all presented in attempt to determine the national consciousness of the immigrants – are they still Polish or more New Zealanders by now? Although there is no one answer to that question, it seems certain that regardless of the opinion one or another individual holds toward their home country, in times of trouble or glory, they do remember their Polish roots. The source of the wide material presented in this book came from extensive queries done in New Zealand, Great Britain, Switzerland, Austria and Poland. Most valuable were numerous interviews with ‘Polish Kiwis’ living in various places in New Zealand. They were conducted while the author was on his New Zealand leg of his research.

scholarly journals The New Zealand podiatry profession – a workforce in crisis?

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Carroll ◽  
Hannah Jepson ◽  
Prue Molyneux ◽  
Angela Brenton-Rule
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Private Practice ◽  
Sports Medicine ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
New Graduates ◽  
The North ◽  
New Graduate ◽  
Survey Responses

Abstract Background This is the first study to explore workforce data from the Podiatrists Board of New Zealand. The study analysed data from an online survey which New Zealand podiatrists complete as part of their application for an Annual Practising Certificate. Methods Survey responses between 2015 and 2019 were analysed. Data was related to work setting, employment status, work hours, location, professional affiliations, and number of graduates entering practice. Survey data was downloaded by a second party who provide data security for the Podiatrists Board of New Zealand workforce data. All data supplied for analysis were deidentified and could not be re-linked to an individual practitioner. Results In 2019 there were 430 podiatrists who held an Annual Practising Certificate. Eighty percent of podiatrists who work in New Zealand are in private practice, with 8% employed in the public health sector. Podiatrist’s work is a mix of general podiatry, diabetes care and sports medicine. The majority are self-employed (40%) or business owners (19%). Approximately 40% work between 31 to 40 h per week and 46 to 50 weeks per year. The majority are female (67%) with most practising in the North Island (69%) and located in the Auckland region (33%). On average 76% of new graduates were issued an Annual Practising Certificate between 2015 and 2019. Conclusion The New Zealand podiatry profession is small and growing at a slow rate, consequently there is evidence of a workforce shortage. To maintain a per-capita ratio of podiatrists approximate to Australia and the United Kingdom an additional 578 podiatrists are required in the New Zealand workforce. There are not enough new graduate practitioners entering the workforce and once practising, the majority enter private practice in the face of limited public health employment opportunities.

scholarly journals Sports medicine in New Zealand.

1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-26
Author(s):  
C J Milne
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Sports Medicine

scholarly journals The New Zealand Workforce: 1950-2000

1970 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Rankin
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Labour Supply ◽  
Income Effects ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Working Age Population ◽  
Post War ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Household Incomes

In this paper, the author presents an historical perspective on the New Zealand labour market, placing the present employment crisis into its post-war perspective. The structural recession which commenced in the mid-1980s has placed huge stresses on the working age population. Just as the 1930s depression had a long-term impact on female workforce participation, the present crisis can be expected to permanently modify labour supply trends. The analysis focuses on income effects, with particular reference to responses to expectations of and changes in household incomes.

scholarly journals Memory, evidence, and artifice: the overseas journal in New Zealand post-war architectural historiography

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 34-44
Author(s):  
Michael Dudding
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The Other ◽  
Simple Fact ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Architectural Review ◽  
Hard Evidence ◽  
Difficult Position ◽  
Personal Testimony ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Many

This paper is based upon the premise that US architectural journals have had a much greater significance on the development of post-war New Zealand Modernism than has thus far been admitted to be the case. This is a rather difficult position to defend, not just because of a lack of hard evidence, but because the established orthodoxy posits the English Architectural Review as the ‘bible' to this generation of architects. The privileging of the Architectural Review in recent historiography is easily traced to a 1994 interview, conducted by Philippa Hoeta, with five architects who belong to that post-war generation. As a "fact," this privileging can easily be taken at face value: there is evidence in the many libraries and collections that subscribed to the Review; and there is the personal testimony provided in the interview itself. It is fairly safe to say that the statement is valid. But somewhere along the process, which sees simple fact become historiographic truth, other truths are overlooked, skirted around, rejected, or forgotten - perhaps there was more than one gospel? In the Hoeta interview, the conversation was redirected after only a few seconds - the journal discussion was not returned to. This paper restarts that discussion, extends it, and probes deeper to find the role and significance of the other journals that sat next to the Review on local architects' shelves. New Zealand architectural historiography has shifted into its second-generational phase; where the canon is largely set and new histories are able to operate uncritically within its scope, its structure and main narratives have become entrenched, and the key truths are almost self-evident. This paper picks up on one such truth, examines the historiographic process from which it arose, and investigates what has been obscured by uncritical adherence to its complete veracity.

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