The Undermining of a National Myth: The Treaty of Waitangi 1970-1990

Renwick, William

doi:10.26686/jnzs.v1i4.245

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“…There is dispute over the translation of two of the three articles [17,18]. The English version captures the principles of the Doctrine of Discovery; the Māori version asserts a plan for a future bound more in respectful separation [19,20]. 1 Aotearoa New Zealand has a unicameral Parliament which has no formal limits to its law-making power [21,22].…”

Section: Te Tiriti O Waitangimentioning

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Hauora Māori – Māori health: a right to equal outcomes in primary care

Sheridan,

Jansen,

Harwood

et al. 2024

Int J Equity Health

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Background For more than a century, Māori have experienced poorer health than non-Māori. In 2019 an independent Tribunal found the Government had breached Te Tiriti o Waitangi by “failing to design and administer the current primary health care system to actively address persistent Māori health inequities”. Many Māori (44%) have unmet needs for primary care. Seven models of primary care were identified by the funders and the research team, including Māori-owned practices. We hypothesised patient health outcomes for Māori would differ between models of care. Methods Cross-sectional primary care data were analysed at 30 September 2018. National datasets were linked to general practices at patient level, to measure associations between practice characteristics and patient health outcomes. Primary outcomes: polypharmacy (≥ 55 years), HbA1c testing, child immunisations, ambulatory sensitive hospitalisations (0–14, 45–64 years) and emergency department attendances. Regressions include only Māori patients, across all models of care. Results A total of 660,752 Māori patients were enrolled in 924 practices with 124,854 in 65 Māori-owned practices. Māori practices had: no significant association with HbA1c testing, ambulatory sensitive hospitalisations or ED attendances, and a significant association with lower polypharmacy (3.7% points) and lower childhood immunisations (13.4% points). Māori practices had higher rates of cervical smear and cardiovascular risk assessment, lower rates of HbA1c tests, and more nurse (46%) and doctor (8%) time (FTE) with patients. The average Māori practice had 52% Māori patients compared to 12% across all practices. Māori practices enrolled a higher percentage of children and young people, five times more patients in high deprivation areas, and patients with more multimorbidity. More Māori patients lived rurally (21.5% vs 15%), with a greater distance to the nearest ED. Māori patients were more likely to be dispensed antibiotics or tramadol. Conclusions Māori practices are an expression of autonomy in the face of enduring health system failure. Apart from lower immunisation rates, health outcomes were not different from other models of care, despite patients having higher health risk profiles. Across all models, primary care need was unmet for many Māori, despite increased clinical input. Funding must support under-resourced Māori practices and ensure accountability for the health outcomes of Māori patients in all models of general practice.

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Section: Te Tiriti O Waitangimentioning

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Hauora Māori – Māori health: a right to equal outcomes in primary care

Sheridan,

Jansen,

Harwood

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Int J Equity Health

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“…Since the 1970s, Te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Māori language version) has been increasingly recognised by the executive branch of the New Zealand government. (For an overview of how this has shaped a developing New Zealand national identity seeRenwick (1991). A critical development as documented by Sir Geoffrey Palmer (2013) was the Labour Government's aim in 1984 to amend the public service culture to take the Treaty seriously by adding Treaty-recognition clauses to legislation in the 1980s reforms, and developing a government policy around key principles for Treaty partnership by the Crown.As the New Zealand political discourse began to acknowledge the indigenous Māori world view (Te Ao Māori) and cultural values, this has also begun to be seen in the discourse of public servants.…”

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Agents, ideas and microprocesses: What happens in the early stage of a public service reform?

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<p><strong>This thesis explores the question ‘What happens in the early stage of administrative culture reform?’ by examining an exemplar of this type of reform in the New Zealand public service. Reforms of administrative culture are frequently proposed in Westminster democracies like New Zealand, Australia, and the UK. However, public administration has yet to attach much importance to what occurs at macro, meso and micro levels while administrative culture reform is occurring. Top-down, ex-post perspectives obscure what agents do in the ‘time lag between talk and change’, leading to a blind spot in our practical knowledge of reform. A constructionist methodological approach is used to capture an exemplar of administrative reform in the New Zealand public service focused on the idea of stewardship, using a nested case study. Interviews and documents are analysed using Vivien Schmidt’s Discursive Institutional analysis framework to provide insight into unfolding reform through the realised stewardship meaning and practice. The research question is answered by using a framework resulting from synthesis of the case findings and scholarship on reform and change in other contexts. In the early stage of administrative culture reform, agents drive five interacting dynamics for collective action with the aim of solving issues in local contexts by adapting or adding practice. The thesis concludes that agents modify reform ideas after they are introduced and take up reform ideas to address issues within their own context, not necessarily the wider reform problem. The framework in the thesis provides insight into why administrative culture reform take-up is patchy and varies from what was intended. The thesis makes four contributions: a theory-based conceptual framework of early-stage administrative culture reform dynamics; a novel research strategy for capturing context, ideas, and practice changes in a ‘live’ reform for further analysis, it fills a gap in the literature around formation of stewardship practice, and captures stewardship reform in New Zealand at the time when it was new and unfolding.</strong></p>

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Dominy

1995

American Ethnologist

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The anthropology of postcolonialism has tended to neglect or homogenize the varied expressions of cultural and national identity of British settler descendants. Against the backdrop of research with white settler descendants who farm large Crown pastoral lease properties in the South Island high country of New Zealand, this article examines evidence they presented before the Waitangi Tribunal about their attachment to land as a politicized expression of belonging, of one set of Pakeha voices. It analyzes how high country runholders speak about and symbolically construct belonging and suggests that the high country landscape is a central metaphor in the conceptual systems of its inhabitants, providing them with a way of thinking about their cultural distinctiveness within the arena of contestations in the meanings of cultural identities defined by the Waitangi Tribunal. [postcolonial settler identity, New Zealand high country, land claims, sheep station life, anthropology of place]

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The Undermining of a National Myth: The Treaty of Waitangi 1970-1990

Abstract: From a seminar at the Stout Research Centre, which was originally presented as a paper at the American Ethnological Society Spring Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, 1991.

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Hauora Māori – Māori health: a right to equal outcomes in primary care

Hauora Māori – Māori health: a right to equal outcomes in primary care

Agents, ideas and microprocesses: What happens in the early stage of a public service reform?

white settler assertions of native status

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