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Textual territories: Gendered cultural politics and Australian representations of the war of 1914–1918
If, having passed through the long courtyard where the walls are inscribed with the names of thousands of Australian war dead, you enter the inner sanctum of the Australian War Memorial, the Hall of Memory (quietly, as you ...
Poverty, Dependence and ‘Women’: Reading Autobiography and Social Policy from 1930s New Zealand
This essay explores the construction of ‘women’ in New Zealand during the 1930s, when the social legislation of the First Labour Government was being formulated and enacted. It examines the documentation produced by the ...
Dependant Reproduction of Alternative Modes of Agriculture: Organic Farming in New Zealand
Recent studies of organic agriculture are characterized by an assumption that it is relatively easy for agribusiness to transform the meaning of organic food and marginalize the position of small-scale organic producers. ...
Crucifixion, State Terror, and Sexual Abuse
A reading of crucifixion informed by Latin American liberation theology, which foregrounds the Roman use of crucifixion as an instrument of state terror, and identifies the elements of sexual humiliation and sexual abuse ...
'Green Protectionism' and Organic Food Exporting from New Zealand: Crisis Experiments in the Breakdown of Fordist Trade and Agricultural Policies
The exporting of organic produce from New Zealand is a response to the ongoing breakdown of Fordist regulatory measures for agriculture in destination markets. The unambiguous neoliberal revolution in New Zealand has ...
Cultural values and personal selling: a comparison of Australian and Hong Kong retailers’ promotion preferences
This paper compares the promotional practices and perceptions between two countries of disparate cultural backgrounds, namely Australia and Hong Kong. The paper argues that the preference for a particular promotional tool ...
Comfort Letters - Let the Issuer Be Aware!
Comfort letters are controversial. They are usually the result of a compromise. The issuer, while wishing to ensure that the recipient will participate in the implementation of the underlying transaction (commonly a loan ...
Compulsory Caesarian Section
This article discusses the English Court of Appeal case R v Collins, which set aside a High Court order that authorized a compulsory caesarian section on a pregnant woman against her express wishes. The author analyses the ...
The Recovery of Money — Recognising the Potential of the Claim for Money Had and Received
‘Money had and received’ is the name of a common law claim available to recover money paid to another in a range of situations, ie payments made under mistake. It is a personal claim, in that it results in an order that ...
The Remedial Restitutionary Proprietary Remedy an Evaluation of the Extent to Which Preferential Recovery Should Be Available for the Recovery of Money
A proprietary remedy confers preferential recovery, in the sense that the claimant obtains ownership rights in respect of a particular asset, for example money which the claimant has mistakenly paid to another. This article ...