Sport plays a special role in New Zealand society, and one sport, rugby, dominates all others in terms or time, interest and participation. The 'national game' has helped to shape New Zealanders' perceptions or themselves, ...

The exile of Maori prisoners to Dunedin in 1869 and again in 1879, was due to the Northern wars and the confiscation of land in Taranaki by the Government. Maori never accepted the 'justice' imposed on them and active ...

The development of a superannuation policy in New Zealand since 1970 has been the result of a search for effectiveness in an area of large Government spending on welfare. The positions developed by the two major political ...

INTRODUCTION: Man's interaction with his environment involves facing risk and uncertainty in the form of environmental hazards. These threaten life and property, and the normal functioning of individuals and societies ...

The Vietnam war stimulated one of the great protest movements of the 1960s, not only in the United States, but also in New Zealand and Australia. This study of the protest movement in Dunedin examines one aspect of the ...

The swagger has been preserved for posterity in the writings of John A. Lee in ‘Shining With Shiner’, ‘Shiner Slattery’, and ‘Roughnecks, Rollingstones and Rouseabouts’, as well as Jim Henderson's ‘Swagger Country’. But ...

The basis for this essay has been founded on the regulations that were introduced into New Zealand in the early twentieth century to curtail the activities of quacks, with all their fallacious and therapeutic will-o-the-wisp ...

One of the main attractions which brought early settlers to New Zealand was the perceived opportunity to acquire land. To own land, especially a farm, continued to be th aspiration and expectation of many twentieth century ...