scholarly journals The Ghost of New Zealand’s Terrorism Past and Present

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Battersby ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
The Past ◽  
Local Experience ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Message ◽  
Key Events ◽  
New Zealanders

The attack on two Christchurch Mosques in March 2019 was met with shock by New Zealanders and those from many other countries. There were clear assumptions expressed in the media, by commentators, politicians and even a few supposed ‘experts’ that this was a new experience for New Zealand. Overseas expertise was instantly sought to deal with a problem apparently not encountered before. This article addresses the assumption of the non-existence of terrorism in New Zealand by outlining its impact here over the past 50 years, and contends that local experience should be given strong consideration in approaching current and future terrorist threats. While the scale of the Christchurch attack was unprecedented, lone actors driven by extremist ideologies to engage in violence to send a political message to New Zealanders, is nothing new. New Zealand would not have been caught so unprepared if it had paid more attention to key events in the recent past, and taken steps to mitigate terrorist risks that could have been foreseen.

Racism and silencing in the media in Aotearoa New Zealand

2021 ◽  
pp. 117718012110154
Author(s):  
Liana MacDonald ◽  
Adreanne Ormond
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Racial Discourse ◽  
European Descent ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Zealanders

Racism in the Aotearoa New Zealand media is the subject of scholarly debate that examines how Māori (Indigenous Peoples of New Zealand) are broadcast in a negative and demeaning light. Literature demonstrates evolving understandings of how the industry places Pākehā (New Zealanders primarily of European descent) interests at the heart of broadcasting. We offer new insights by arguing that the media industry propagates a racial discourse of silencing that sustains widespread ignorance of the ways that Pākehā sensibilities mediate society. We draw attention to a silencing discourse through one televised story in 2018. On-screen interactions reproduce and safeguard a harmonious narrative of settler–Indigenous relations that support ignorance and denial of the structuring force of colonisation, and the Television Code of Broadcasting Practice upholds colour-blind perceptions of discrimination and injustice through liberal rhetoric. These processes ensure that the media industry is complicit in racism and the ongoing oppression of Indigenous peoples.

The Origins of New Zealand Speech

1998 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Gordon
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The Past ◽  
Written Comments ◽  
New Zealanders

New Zealand English has evolved in the past 150 years, at a time when it is possible to find both written and spoken evidence of its development. This paper takes evidence gained from an analysis of written comments on early New Zealand English and compares this with data taken from an analysis of spoken New Zealand English obtained from recordings collected in the 1940s of old New Zealanders born in the 1850s-1890s — the period when the New Zealand accent was developing. By putting the written data beside the spoken data it is now possible to assess the accuracy of written records as a basis for the reconstruction of the earliest form of New Zealand English.

Court on Camera: Television Coverage of Australian Legal Proceedings

2001 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-127
Author(s):  
Jane Johnston
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Federal Court ◽  
Court System ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
The Past ◽  
Legal Perspective ◽  
International Environment ◽  
The Media ◽  
Television Coverage

Despite widespread legal analysis and critical review over the past 20 years, television access into the Australian court system has been slow and piecemeal, with Australia falling behind Canadian and New Zealand initiatives in this area. A recent major report into camera access in the Federal Court has refocused attention on this area, but analysis continues to be primarily from a legal perspective rather than a media one. This paper considers the televised court coverage in Australia to this point, analyses change in the international environment and suggests possible futures for the televising of Australian courts, while also attempting to lay some foundations for discussion beyond the legal, and into the media, domain.

scholarly journals Employment Relations- the New Direction under Labour

1970 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Clark
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Economic Management ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dynamic Economies ◽  
New Zealanders

Central to Labour's overall approach to economic management is the belief that New Zealand needs to organise itself better and work together if we are to realise the opportunities open to us as a nation. We need to rebuild after the painful economic restructuring of the past decade. We know that the present limited economic recovery cannot deliver either the jobs or the increased living standards New Zealanders need and want. On present policies, New Zealand wlll continue to trail the more dynamic economies as it has for years.

New Zealand: Troubles in Paradise

Worldview ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 26 (9) ◽  
pp. 16-18
Author(s):  
David Finkelstein
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
The State ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
New Zealanders

Lulled by a serene exterior and enchanted by exquisite scenery, visitors to New Zealand continue to look upon it as “God's own country.” Roughly the size of Japan or the state of Colorado and populated by ten million cows, seventy million sheep, and a mere three million people, how could it be otherwise? Even the venerable James Reston has swallowed the line that New Zealanders are free of the problems that vex the rest of the world. “Otherwise, all is as silent here as the sheep in the fields,” he wrote after a visit to the Antipodes several years ago, “and this may be their most serious dilemma. For they make no trouble and therefore make no news.” No news, perhaps, but like most places throughout the world, New Zealand has its troubles.For the past decade New Zealand has been having increasingly serious economic difficulties; and since the country is generally twelve to eighteen months behind major international economic movements, predictions are that conditions will continue to deteriorate, at least through 1983.

State versus Trait Loneliness in Elderly New Zealanders

1996 ◽  
Vol 78 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1329-1330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loma Hector-Taylor ◽  
Peter Adams
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcome ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Living Alone ◽  
The Past ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Loneliness Scale ◽  
New Zealanders

505 elderly people in Auckland, New Zealand were administered state and trait versions of the Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale, Version 3, and a battery of psychosocial and health measures. The Pearson correlation for scores on the loneliness measures was .86. Neither age nor gender was predictive of state or trait loneliness scores. Less education, insufficient income, and living alone were predictive of state but not trait loneliness. Having experienced the death of a spouse within the past year was predictive of trait but not state loneliness. The predictive variance for all health outcome variables was lower for trait than state loneliness.

scholarly journals Book Review: ISIS: An Introduction and Guide to the Islamic State

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Brent D. Singleton
Keyword(s):  
Islamic State ◽  
Reference Book ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
Book Format ◽  
Key Events

In the past two years there has been a proliferation of books aimed at educating readers about all aspects of ISIS and its development. While this work falls within this corpus, it is unique in its hybrid reference book format. The first part of the work provides nine sections of topical snapshots such as, “What Is In a Name?: IS, ISIS, ISIL, Da’ash,” “The Attraction of ISIS,” and “ISIS and the Media.” Within some of these sections there are encyclopedic entries arranged topically, for instance under “Leaders of ISIS” four biographies are given. The next part of the work is a typical A-Z encyclopedia of nearly seventy people, places, and ideas associated with the group. The entries are subdivided into sections including, “What is important?” or “Why does it matter?” and “Key events in his life” when discussing people. For subjects covered earlier in the topical portion of the work, there are “see” references back to that section.

Narrating history: New Zealand’s “Black Budget” of 1958

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 481-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Vosslamber
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
General Public ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Zealanders

Government taxation measures are rarely recalled for long; yet the New Zealand Labour Government’s 1958 budget remains proverbial more than half a century after it was delivered. Commonly referred to as the “Black Budget”, this narrative is still used by politicians, advertisers, the media, and the general public. Although the Black Budget is grounded in historical events, the events themselves are largely forgotten by most New Zealanders. Rather, the story of the Black Budget may be theorised as a type of landmark narrative, where putative conditions are constructed as a problem, and the effectiveness of that narrative no longer depends on the factual base upon which it was constructed. This article revisits the Black Budget, and highlights the role of claimsmakers in perpetuating the narrative. The Black Budget illustrates the tension between historical events and how (and by whom) they are related.

scholarly journals Review: The other side of the Tūhoe raids

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 192
Author(s):  
Kata Alistar
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
National Flag ◽  
Waitangi Tribunal ◽  
New Zealanders

Kata, Alistar. (2015). The other side of the Tūhoe raids. Pacific Journalism Review, 21(2): 192-194. Review of The Price of Peace [documentary], directed by Kim Webby. English and Te Reo Māori. 2015, 87min. www.nziff.co.nz/2015/auckland/the-price-of-peace/Most New Zealanders will remember when Tūhoe activist Wairere Tame Iti shot the national flag, during a powhiri ceremony, at a Waitangi Tribunal Hearing in 2005. New Zealanders will also remember when Iti, along with three others, was tried and found guilty of firearms charges as part of what the media coined, the ‘Urewera Four’ (Gay, 2012) trial. The man with a full facial Tā moko is regarded throughout the mainstream media as somewhat of a rebel, and by the state as a ‘dangerous proto-terrorist intent on infecting New Zealand’ (Hill, 2012).

scholarly journals If it bleeds, it leads? Changing death coverage in The New Zealand Herald

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyn Barnes ◽  
Elesha Edmonds
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Front Page ◽  
Human Interest ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
Over Time

Death has become more prominent in the news in the past four decades. Articles about a murder or accident, which in the past may have featured on page five or seven of daily newspapers, now often take up all of the front page of The New Zealand Herald. New categories have also emerged, including the threat of death or near death. This is evident from the increase in human interest stories which not only report the details of the incident but also capture emotion. This article follows the increased visibility of death stories on the front page of New Zealand’s largest newspaper, The New Zealand Herald, and investigates how that coverage has changed over time. International scholars have examined the visibility of death in the media closely. However, research is sparse about exactly how this large body of work correlates with New Zealand print media. Therefore, this study aims to close this gap by using content analysis to discuss the prominence of death in The New Zealand Herald over four decades from the 1970s, and the reasons for increased coverage of threats of death or near death.

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