A Window on the Stout Centre: Its Stained Glass and Origins

A feature of the Stout Research Centre's seminar room is a group of three Victorian stained-glass windows, retrieved by the Centre's first and founding director, Jock Phillips from the burnt-out Stout family home. In recounting the circumstances surrounding this act of restoration he also gives an intriguing insight into the founding of the Stout Centre

Are workers with a disability less productive or less understood? An empirical investigation from an entrepreneurial business planning perspective

This study investigated selected work-performance data of a large call centre using the entrepreneurial business planning paradigm as a theoretical framework and tested the hypothesis that levels of productivity would be different for each group between workers with a disability and workers without a disability. On five measures of productivity, no significant differences were discernible but on a sixth measure, length of employment, it was found that disability workers remained in employment significantly longer. These results strongly refute the &lsquo;intuitive wisdom&rsquo; that workers with a disability are less productive. The results support a growing body of corporate experience and descriptive research indicating that workers with a disability perform as well as or better than their non-disability colleagues. Yet workers with a disability remain disproportionately under-employed. The key to translating the growing evidence of this research into higher levels of employment of workers with disabilities will depend upon employers adopting an entrepreneurial approach to the planning of human resource management.<br /

A Window on the Stout Centre: Its Stained Glass and Origins

A feature of the Stout Research Centre's seminar room is a group of three Victorian stained-glass windows, retrieved by the Centre's first and founding director, Jock Phillips from the burnt-out Stout family home. In recounting the circumstances surrounding this act of restoration he also gives an intriguing insight into the founding of the Stout Centre

Minority youth, crime, conflict, and belonging in Australia

In recent decades, the size and diversity of the minority population of contemporary western societies has increased significantly. To the critics of immigration, minority youth have been increasingly linked to crime, criminal gangs, anti-social behaviour, and riots. In this article, we draw on fieldwork conducted in Sydney, Australia's largest and most ethnically diverse city, to probe aspects of the criminality, anti-social behaviour, national identity, and belonging of ethnic minority youth in Australia. We conclude that the evidence on minority youth criminality is weak and that the panic about immigrant youth crime and immigrant youth gangs is disproportionate to the reality, drawing on and in turn creating racist stereotypes, particularly with youth of 'Middle Eastern appearance'. A review of the events leading up to the Sydney Cronulla Beach riots of December 2005 suggests that the underlying cause of the riots were many years of international, national, and local anti-Arab, anti-Muslim media discourse, and political opportunism, embedded in changing but persistent racist attitudes and practises. Our argument is that such inter-ethnic conflict between minority and majority youth in Sydney is the exception, not the rule. Finally, we draw on a hitherto unpublished survey of youth in Sydney to explore issues of national identity and belonging among young people of diverse ethnic and religious background. We conclude that minority youth in Sydney do not live 'parallel lives' but contradictory, inter-connected cosmopolitan lives. They are connected to family and local place, have inter-ethnic friendships but are often disconnected to the nation and the flag. © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media B.V

Māori and Royal Visits, 1869-2015: From Rotorua to Waitangi

This article examines the ways in which Māori met royal visitors to New Zealand. The New Zealand Government wished to present Māori as a loyal people who provided the country with a unique culture, and to show that New Zealand had excellent race relations. Māori had different concerns. They believed that Māori had a special relationship to the Crown because Queen Victoria was the other signatory to the Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840. In honouring her descendants they would honour the Treaty. Some Māori also believed royalty might help challenge some of the actions of the settler government. After some difficulties on the three visits of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, in 1869-1871, these diverse aims were largely achieved on royal visits in 1901, 1920, 1927, 1934, and in the first visit of Elizabeth II in 1953 by one large gathering of the tribes at Rotorua. Not all Māori were happy about this policy, especially the Māori King, who wished to meet royalty on his own ground. From 1953 royal visitors did meet the Māori King at his home in the Waikato; and after that date the large Rotorua gathering ceased. Instead, gatherings of all the tribes began to occur at Waitangi, most notably when Elizabeth II visited for the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty in 1990. </div

The New Oxford History of New Zealand [Book Review]

Review(s) of: The New Oxford History of New Zealand, edited by Giselle Byrnes, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 2009, xvii, 738 pp. ISBN 9780195584714

The New Oxford History of New Zealand [Book Review]

Review(s) of: The New Oxford History of New Zealand, edited by Giselle Byrnes, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 2009, xvii, 738 pp. ISBN 9780195584714