Volume 6 | Number 2 | Issue 23 | June 1996 Letters, June 1996 Steve Maharey: Luke Trainer (ed), Republicanism in New Zealand Colin Knox: Graham Bush, Local Government and Politics in New Zealand Brian Easton: David G Green, From…
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Editorial – Issue 23
Letters – Issue 23
Res non publica, Steve Maharey
Republicanism in New Zealand Luke Trainor (ed) Dunmore Press, $27.95 ISBN 0 86469 2560 Back in 1993 I went on a study tour to Britain. The two people who have done more for the republican cause than anyone else, Princess…
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Tagged with: Dunmore Press, Issue 23, Luke Trainor, Spring 1996, Steve Maharey
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Fighting local lunacy, Colin Knox
Local Government and Politics in New Zealand Graham Bush Auckland University Press, $39.95 ISBN 9 781869 401269 In the beginning there was Governor Hobson. In 1840 he was instructed by the Colonial Secretary of Queen Victoria’s Imperial Government to divide…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Colin Knox, Graham Bush, Issue 23, Spring 1996
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
The bankruptcy of the new fundamentalism, Brian Easton
From Welfare State to Civil Society: Towards Welfare that Works in New Zealand David G Green New Zealand Business Roundtable, $24.95 ISBN 1877148 016 In Making a Difference, Ruth Richardson says that she was “more likely than Jim [Bolger] to…
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Tagged with: Brian Easton, David G Green, Issue 23, New Zealand Business Roundtable, Spring 1996
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Whose values should apply? Tom Berthold
Social Assessment and Central Government Judith Davey (ed) Institute of Policy Studies, $22.00 ISBN 0908935 005 Governments, especially in democracies, have to carry out some kind of social assessment if they are to adapt their policies to changing circumstances and…
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Tagged with: Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 23, Judith Davey, Spring 1996, Tom Berthold
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Flasher trash and democracy, Bill Southworth
Revolution in the Air! Paul Smith Longman, $29.95 ISBN 0582 878101 Dangerous Democracy? News Media Politics in New Zealand Judy McGregor (ed) Dunmore Press, $34.95 ISBN 086469 2595 When confronted with 50 or 60 television channels in a North American…
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Tagged with: Bill Southworth, Dunmore Press, Issue 23, Judy McGregor, Longman, Paul Smith, Spring 1996
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
You cannot forget it, Tom Beard
Sheet Music: Poems 1967-1982 Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, $24.95 ISBN 086473 3003 My Sunshine Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, $19.95 ISBN 086473 2953 Touching on song The iconography of song has always been important in Manhire’s poetry and…
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Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Issue 23, Spring 1996, Tom Beard, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review