This paper discusses the role of public inquiries as an instrument of public policy-making in New Zealand, using mental health as a case study. The main part of the paper analyses the processes and outcomes of five general inquiries into the state of New Zealand's mental health services that were...
Business format franchising in the real estate agency sector real estate brokerage industry in New Zealand is a recent phenomenon. Beginning in the early 1990s, it has taken firm hold. This paper reports on an ongoing study, initially focusing on the franchisor perspective. It identifies elements for franchise growth and...
This paper examines pay practices in selected Public Service organisations in New Zealand and analyses how those practices might lead to gender-based pay discrimination. It is found that there is a little awareness in the departments of potential gender biases in their pay systems and that departments have limited capabilities...
With the education industry becoming more competitive, tertiary institutes resort to various tools and techniques to improve their performance. This paper examines the use of Business Process Reengineering BPR in a tertiary education institute in New Zealand. The results of this research shed light on the challenges of implementation of...
Governments commonly acknowledge the need to improve the quality of government regulation, or to reduce undue regulatory burdens. This raises the question of what criteria should be used to evaluate the quality of a regulation. Economists and lawyers - constitutional lawyers or legal draughtsmen - tend to use different, but...
In this paper, examples of Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States where the author conducted field surveys during a period from 2000 to 2001, are presented. (Note; the opinions expressed in this paper are the personal ones of the writer, and do not represent those of...
Despite the ongoing global credit crisis and tumbling share prices across the globe, New Zealand listed companies looked healthy, AMP Capital Investors said.New Zealand's market had had a tougher start to the year than others, but had performed comparatively well in the last quarter, said Guy Elliffe, the fund...
New Zealand now has about 7000 millionaire households, but the country's rapid growth in personal wealth went into reverse last year.The Boston Consulting Group BCG's eighth annual Global Wealth Report said that personal wealth in New Zealand has become more concentrated.The number of millionaire households - those with at...
New Zealand Prime minister Helen Clark says a Labour government would present a mini-budget in December to deal with the effects of the international financial crisis."It's obviously affected the kind of policies we are going into the (November 8) election with," she said on Monday on TV One's Breakfast...
The Australian parent of the former Pacific Finance has gone into voluntary administration, further complicating the situation for New Zealand investors who put money into the finance company.The New Zealand investors will shortly receive a letter from director Jason Maywald saying that the appointment of a voluntary administrator to...
New Zealand union officials are worried that possible job cuts flagged on Thursday by the ANZ bank could be mirrored in Australia.ANZ Retail Banking managing director Wayne Besant on Thursday said the rise of internet and phone banking meant there had been a drop off in over-the-counter transactions in...
In this news release Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF urges New Zealand to avoid adopting copyright laws similar to the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA. In the U.S. the DMCA has proven dangerous to free speech, scientific research, and technical innovation. The EFF filing in New Zealand is part of...
The current global financial crisis is one of the most serious events the New Zealand economy has faced for decades, according to a new report.The draft report, released Friday by the New Zealand Institute and NZX, said New Zealand's response to the crisis needed to be "deliberate, serious and...
Introduction Neoliberal reforms are often assumed to have significantly affected public opinion towards the social rights of citizenship, as reflected in attitudes towards economic protectionism and the welfare state. This is because the transformation of Keynesian-welfarist institutions during the 1980s and 1990s is said to have fundamentally challenged...
1 When did Michael Schumacher win his first Formula One championship? 2 Which Football Conference team play their home games at the Broadfield Stadium? 3 Which batsman was named Durham's player of the season last week? 4 Name the three countries in England's group...
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Australian airline Qantas has reported that it will be reducing its fuel surcharges on international flights. The reductions are a result of recent falls in oil and jet fuel prices, Qantas stated. These changes include surcharges on flights...
A special Summit on the eve of this year's Frankfurt Book Fair to examine ways Canadian, Australian and New Zealand publishers can work more closely together is already over-subscribed, according to its organisers. In spite of strong competition from the two largest English-language markets (the United States and the United...
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-8 October 2008-Verizon Wireless and Vodafone to introduce BlackBerry StormC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Verizon Wireless, Vodafone Group (NYSE:VOD) (LSE:VOD) and Research In Motion RIM (Nasdaq:RIMM) (TSX:RIM) today (8 October) announced that the new BlackBerry Storm smartphone will be available exclusively from Verizon Wireless in the US and...
WASHINGTON AFP — Research in Motion Ltd RIM, maker of the Blackberry, released its first mobile phone with a touch-screen on Wednesday, its answer to the popular Apple iPhone. The smartphone, the Blackberry Storm, will be available later this year through Verizon Wireless in the United States and...
New Zealand Natural Ice Cream announcesthat they will now be available at the Staples LA Live Center in November2008. The company has quickly expanded from its original roots in NewZealand, the South Pacific, and Asia to now saturating the United States.New Zealand Natural Ice Cream first debuted in the...
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