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The News and musings from the yards, barrel halls and tasting panels, and from on the road traveled between.

How news items represent Maori: A checklist for news media consumers to assess news stories.

This four-page resource lists media frames, use of sources and te reo Maori, and absences to indicate whether a news item may be postive, neutral, negative or unbalanced in its…continue reading

Posted on 15 October 2012 |

Media and te Tiriti o Waitangi 2007

This study analysed newspaper and television news items about Maori issues and te Tiriti o Waitangi. It found mass media used persistent negative themes about Maori, Pakeha news frames and…continue reading

Posted on 15 October 2012 |

Neo-liberalism, Ideas for a Community Based Workshop

Posted on 15 October 2012 |

Spotlight on the Australian not-for-profit sector

This is an update on financial reporting in the not-for-profit sector in Australia. This article was prepared in June 2009.

Posted on 15 October 2012 |

Financial reporting in Australia

This powerpoint file contains slides presented at the ANZTSR workshop held on 25th November 2008.

Posted on 15 October 2012 |

Global Learning for Sustainability – With Peoples’ Wisdom

Based on observed giving, BERL estimated that New Zealanders gave between .24 billion and .46 billion during the 2005/2006 year. Our best estimate in this range suggests total philanthropic funding…continue reading

Posted on 15 October 2012 |

The relevance of the Treaty today

The Treaty is not widely seen as a framework for considering the future – more often it is regarded as the cause of grievances!

Posted on 15 October 2012 |

Goodwork – A New Way of Addressing the Employment Issue

Employment, employees, employers, self-employed, unemployed, voluntary work

Posted on 15 October 2012 |

Let’s Move – from Rights to Ethics

This paper explores the case for a move away from the current individual rights system of social relationships. The goal is to put in place a community ethics-based system which…continue reading

Posted on 15 October 2012 |

Worthy Invisible Education

This article comments on the loss of government attention to adult and community education.

Posted on 15 October 2012 |

Work and Time – Seeing the Unseen

One of the real challenges of educational work is how to get into peoples’ consciousness and not just remain talking to the converted. It is my analysis that experts must…continue reading

Posted on 15 October 2012 |

Sustaining our communities

Seeing the unseen activities that contribute to sustaining our communities is vital in determining how to live more sustainably. This initiative arose out of concern that the data available for…continue reading

Posted on 15 October 2012 |