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Is bias one-sided? Bill Oliver
Muriwhenua Land Report Waitangi Tribunal GP Publications, $99.95 If academic historians need a reminder that they do not have a corner on the past, they could not do better than read this report. It is a formidable and elaborate intellectual…
Tagged with: Bill Oliver, GP Publications, Issue 28, Summer 1997, Waitangi Tribunal
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Settling the matter, Bill Oliver
Maori Sovereignty: the Maori Perspective Hineani Melbourne Hodder Moa Beckett, $24.95, ISBN 1 86958 208 x Maori Sovereignty: the Pakeha Perspective Carol Archie Hodder Moa Beckett, $24.95, ISBN 186958 209x Return to Sender: what really happened at the fiscal envelope…
Tagged with: Bill Oliver, Carol Archie, Hineani Melbourne, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 22, Office of Treaty Settlements, Reed, Wira Gardiner
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Getting facts on your side, Bill Oliver
Waikato Raupatu Claims Settlement Act 1995 For the most part history is published in books and journals and the people who do it are named. Anyone who reviews a historical publication is expected to keep a sharp lookout for errors…
Necessity or choice, Bill Oliver
Justice and Identity: Antipodean Practices Margaret Wilson and Anna Yeatman (eds) Bridget Williams Books, $39.95, ISBN 0 908912 60 9 Many of the essays in this book are written in what I have come to recognise as a post‑modernist manner.…
Tagged with: Anna Yeatman, Bill Oliver, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 18, Margaret Wilson, Winter 1995
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Pandora’s envelope: it’s all about power, Bill Oliver
Crown Proposals for the Settlement of Treaty of Waitangi Claims Hon Douglas Graham, Department of Justice Though the text of the Crown Proposals is a good deal less euphoric in tone than the hype which accompanied their release in December,…
Tagged with: Autumn 1995, Bill Oliver, Department of Justice, Hon Douglas Graham, Issue 17
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
The virtue of defeat, Bill Oliver
I am not sure why I or anyone else should bother about the politics of a poet, especially of a poet whose typical response to politics varied only between contempt and rage. Still, he wrote a considerable number of political…
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An anxious Kiwi psyche, Bill Oliver
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