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An end to cultural thumb-sucking, Gordon McLauchlan
Great New Zealand Argument: Ideas About Ourselves ed Russell Brown Activity Press, $29.95, ISBN 95826340X For decades after 1930, a year seldom passed without a book or long magazine article by a New Zealander or a visiting scholar examining New…
Swamp thing, Elizabeth Smither
Elizabeth Smither seeks out A Girl of the Limberlost. I can still remember my fear of the swamp. Was it because of The Hound of the Baskervilles? But A Girl of the Limberlost held a deeper kind of fear when…
Poem — Jan FitzGerald
McLaren Falls in this place the river rises to meet us & rungs of spray swing from bank to sky ducks pedal down to Freshwater Atlantis in this place indefinable grapnels to granite & lake-loving cypress tai chi in the…
You had to be there, Simon Upton
Creating a National Spirit – Celebrating New Zealand’s Centennial ed William Renwick Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734751 How many people can recall New Zealand’s 150th birthday? And of those who can, what is it that is most vividly remembered?…
Tagged with: Issue 70, Simon Upton, Victoria University Press, William Renwick, Winter 2005
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Yes, Minister, Bob Gregory
The Tie That Binds: The Relationship Between Ministers and Chief Executives Colin James Institute of Policy Studies and the New Zealand Centre for Public Law, Victoria University of Wellington, $25.00, ISBN 0908935676 Public service reform was not a major election…
Tagged with: Bob Gregory, Colin James, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 70, New Zealand Centre for Public Law, Winter 2005
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Dealing with the fallout, Nick Matwiyoff
Nuclear New Zealand: Sorting Fact from Fiction Andrew McEwan Hazard, $39.99, ISBN 187727058X In July 2002, on the 36th anniversary of the first French nuclear tests on the Mururoa Atoll, John Doom of Papeete’s Association Mururoa e Tatou announced that…
Tagged with: Andrew McEwan, Hazard, Issue 70, Nick Matwiyoff, Winter 2005
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Science
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Science
Take me there now, Garth Baker
A Tramper’s Journey Mark Pickering Craig Potton Publishing, $29.99, ISBN 1877333174 Ride: The Story of Cycling in New Zealand The Kennett Brothers The Kennett Brothers, $39.95, ISBN 095834907X Just this week, someone I know who cannot bear to be more…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, Garth Baker, Issue 70, Mark Pickering, The Kennett Brothers, Winter 2005
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
One-night stands, Christine Johnston
Next to Gods: A Cleaner’s Story Don Franks Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958251487 On Getting Old Kevin Ireland Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958251479 On Going to the Movies Peter Wells Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958251460 I have…
Tagged with: Christine Johnston, Don Franks, Four Winds Press, Issue 70, Kevin Ireland, Peter Wells, Winter 2005
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Women on top, Linda Burgess
Posted in Comment