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The need for success, Sir Geoffrey Palmer
Leap Into The Dark – The Changing Role of the State in New Zealand Since 1984 Andrew Sharp (ed) Auckland University Press, $34.95 One of the depressing features of New Zealand is the lack of sustained intellectual policy debate on…
Tagged with: Andrew Sharp, Auckland University Press, Issue 14, Sir Geoffrey Palmer, Winter 1994
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
A rare breed, Michael Morrissey
The literary politician. Sounds faintly implausible? Like a ballerina plumber or a crocheting bricklayer? I am referring of course to the politician who writes poems, novels or plays rather than the politician who is a mere apologist, pamphleteer or self…
Prolific and professional, Norman Bilbrough
Focus and the Death‑Ride; The Ghosts of Triton; Shadow of Phobos, Ken Catran HarperCollins, $14.95 New Zealand children’s writers have come of age. They have reached a maturity that adult fiction writers in this country often fall short of. The…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 14, Ken Catran, Norman Bilbrough, Winter 1994
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Bricks and bouquets, Ron Macintyre
Ties of Blood and Empire: New Zealand Involvement in Middle East Defence and the Suez Crisis 1947‑57 Malcolm Templeton Auckland University Press in association with the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, $34.95 Malcolm Templeton, who retired as Deputy Secretary…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 14, Malcolm Templeton, New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, Ron Macintyre, Winter 1994
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
The thrill of discovery, Christine Tremewan
Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Maori, by James Herries Beattie Atholl Anderson (ed) University of Otago Press in association with Otago Museum, $59.95 The South Island has not been as fortunate as the North with tribal histories. The slim…
Tagged with: Atholl Anderson, Christine Tremewan, Issue 14, James Herries Beattie, Otago Museum, University of Otago Press, Winter 1994
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Attending and avoiding, Elizabeth Webby
Journal of New Zealand Literature No 11, 1993, “Janet Frame Issue”, Department of English, University of Otago, $12.00 Paper‑givers and delegates at the conference which this issue of JNZL records came from Canada and Britain, as well as from…
Tagged with: Department of English, Elizabeth Webby, Issue 14, Janet Frame, University of Otago, Winter 1994
Posted in Literature, Review
Posted in Literature, Review
So far, the easy part, Donal Curtin
A new approach to central banking: the New Zealand experiment and comparisons with Australia Sir Frank Holmes Institute of Policy Studies, $15.00 There is an economists’ joke about economists: it says an economist is someone who looks at something in…
Tagged with: Donal Curtin, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 14, Sir Frank Holmes, Winter 1994
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review