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University of Auckland news for staff | Vol 43 | Issue 3| 14 March

Special Honour Dame Anne with Governor-General, Rt Hon Sir Jerry Mateparae

Dame , Distinguished Professor “It was so moving and so special to me the Pacific. She has many honours and titles to of Māori Studies and renowned because it came from the grassroots and flax her name, including a 2011 KEA World Class author, has received the title of New Zealander roots of New Zealand. It was an extraordinary New Zealander Award, has served on a number of the Year for her services in Māori and evening,” says Dame Anne. of boards and has chaired the New Zealand Pacific studies. Vice-Chancellor Professor Stuart McCutcheon Historic Places Trust. She is a former Pro The title, awarded by Kiwibank, acknowledges expressed the University’s pride in Dame Anne’s Vice-Chancellor (Equal Opportunities) of the her outstanding service to the country and the outstanding service to New Zealand and New University and is project sponsor for the Starpath inspiration she has given to New Zealanders Zealanders. “lt is an honour to have her on staff Partnership for Excellence, which aims to ensure through her achievements. at the University, and on everyone’s behalf I that Māori, Pacific and low income students The award was presented at a gala dinner offer her our heartfelt congratulations.” achieve their potential through education. held at Auckland’s Langham Hotel on 28 Dame Anne is author of seven award-winning Dame Anne received a custom-made New February. books and a myriad of articles on Māori life and Zealand trophy and $5,000 towards her work cross-cultural encounters in New Zealand and from principal sponsor Kiwibank.

Te Waka Huia national winners More than 15,000 people attended on the final day. Angie Smith, Career Consultant in Careers Angie was a founding member of Te Waka Development and Employment Services, has Huia, which won its inaugural performance in every reason to be pleased and proud. 1986 and has since taken the top title four more Te Waka Huia, renowned throughout New times: in 1992, 1994, 2009, and now in 2013. Zealand for its prowess in Kapa Haka, has won Angie’s father-in-law Ngapo Wehi holds a New Zealand’s top title for the fifth time at the record seven wins, having led Waihirere biennial Te Matatini National Kapa Haka alongside his wife Pimia Wehi in the early 1970s Festival, held this year at the Rotorua and won the national title twice with that team. International Stadium. Continued on page 3

University news is published by Communications, Fisher Building,18 Waterloo Quadrant, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142. EMAIL [email protected] www.auckland.ac.nz/universitynews Editor Judy Wilford PHOTOGRAPHY Godfrey Boehnke, Chris Marshall, Judy Wilford Design AND PRODUCTION The Inaugural creative writing awards Although the Auckland MCW is a newish degree, creative writing has had a long and proud history in the University’s English Department, from , W. H. (Bill) Pearson, , C.K. Stead, , , and Emily Perkins, to name only a few, to current writers and teachers like Michele Leggott, Murray Edmond, Lisa Samuels and Selina Tusitala Marsh. Distinguished Professor - noting Auckland’s record in writing at the city, University, and English Department levels, its share of the national population and its dominance in the New Zealand publishing industry, and the University’s new sponsorship of the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, the It’s never too late to branch out. The awards aim to encourage developing country’s foremost - decided it was time that the Sir James Wallace has long been known as writers with high potential into the MCW and to appeal of the Auckland MCW matched that of one of Auckland’s most generous patrons, provide the opportunity for the top-performing ’s more established programme at especially of music and the visual arts - most student to spend the months needed to turn a Victoria. spectacularly, through the thousand of works in course project into a publishable book. He also thought Sir James Wallace the ideal his collection we can now enjoy at the Pah Says Margie Thomson: “The MCW has left me person to approach, which was confirmed by Homestead. But he had never before supported with a massive manuscript which needs to be reading Sir James’s August 2012 op-ed column creative writing. Now he has. re-thought and rewritten considerably. My goal in the NZ Herald lamenting the marked On 28 February Sir James, a law alumnus, is to complete a second draft by the end of the underfunding of the world-class Auckland was back on campus at Alfred Nathan House to year. It’s great to have the $5,000 from the Sir Philharmonia in comparison with the equally present the first of the annual Sir James Wallace James Wallace award - I will feel a lot less guilty world-class but -based New Zealand Awards in Creative Writing. An award of $5,000 giving time to my manuscript - and it’s been Symphony Orchestra: “an entrenched case of for the student who submitted the best quite a confidence boost, as well.” Wellingtonitis”. Both Brian and Sir James hope end-of-year work for the Master of Creative Margie, who is now a ghost writer for various the creative writing programme at Auckland will Writing in 2012 was presented to Margie publishers and has worked in the past as a increase the number of world-class writers the Thomson, and two fees scholarships for the features writer and books editor for national English Department, the University and the city students with the best portfolios in the current magazines and newspapers, also spent time in will produce - to carry on a record that runs all intake for the MCW were awarded to Tessa the late 1990s as editor of The University of the way from Allen Curnow to playwright Toa Priest and Liz Langbrown. Auckland News – predecessor to UniNews. Fraser and poet Robert Sullivan.

Celebration of achievement New Zealand business for many years including at Sheffield Ltd; Kim Goldwater, a pioneering Waiheke Island winemaker who has won medals around the world; Dr Jilly Evans, a scientist who has led major drug development programmes in Canada and the United States; Andrew Patterson, an internationally award-winning architect; and the Young Alumnus of the Year, Simon Denny, who, at age 30, has already established an international career as a artist. A photo gallery and video coverage of speeches and performances can be viewed on the Alumni and Friends Website: www.alumni.auckland.ac.nz/uoa.

The Honourable Jim McLay, New Zealand’s Guests numbering nearly 500 applauded the Permanent Representative to the United six, following the formal awards presentation on Nations in New York (pictured, standing), was the stage in the Alumni Marquee in the grounds one of six exceptional alumni to be honoured of Old Government House. at the Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner Fellow alumni to be celebrated at the event on 1 March. were Norman Godden, who has been a leader in

2 14 March 2013 Alive with energy From the Vice-Chancellor

The University has a long-standing and on-going commitment to ensuring equity of access for Māori and Pacific communities. It is therefore pleasing to note that this year we received close to 1,900 applications from Māori and Pacific There was movement at the atrium: the word evening is in the variety it offers – with the school-leavers, an increase of 11.5 percent on last had passed around – that this year’s Auckland Distinguished Alumni representing such diverse year. So far, the University has made close to 850 Live event was not to be missed. fields as law and politics (The Hon Jim McLay), firm offers of places to Māori and Pacific More than 200 people gathered at the AMRF wine-making (Kim Goldwater), business (Norman school-leavers, an increase of around 24 percent Auditorium off the central atrium at the Grafton Godden), science and drug development (Dr Jilly on comparative figures from the end of March Campus on 28 February to hear the personal Evans), architecture (Andrew Patterson), and fine last year. There has also been a marked increase views and stories of this year’s illustrious round-up arts (Simon Denny). in numbers of these students who have been of Distinguished Alumni – for a function called Finlay Macdonald, media commentator and offered places in NICAI and in Science, and I am Auckland Live: 20/20 Vision — a follow-up to last facilitator, also an alumnus of the University, is a particularly pleased at the record 109 places year’s highly successful inaugural event. part of the formula for success, keeping the offered to Māori and Pacific students in Auckland Live has created a great formula for audience laughing with a generous dollop of Engineering. It is clear from these increases that a successful function: first a welcome, with drinks, humour while also asking some searching this University is not only playing an important nibbles and opportunities to chat, then a meeting questions that encourage the participants to give part in Government’s strategy to grow the total of creative minds on stage, as six people selected some real insights into their worlds, their ways of numbers of Māori and Pacific students at for one of the University’s highest honours are thinking and the pattern of their lives. universities but also making a key contribution to encouraged to talk about their world vision and improving their participation rates in STEM Photo: From left to right are Kim Goldwater, Andrew qualifications. what has led to their successes. Godden, Dr Jilly Evans, Finlay Macdonald, The Rt Hon One of the keys to the excitement of the Jim McLay, Andrew Patterson and Simon Denny. This is the result of a concerted and collaborative effort by dedicated staff from a Te Waka Huia national winners continued from page 1 number of departments and service divisions who Angie was “ecstatic” at the win, “after a long statement about who they are and where they contributed to a variety of co-ordinated initiatives training campaign with real challenges for come from; the moteatea or traditional chant; ranging from the marketing, recruitment and fitness and work/life balance”. She added with a the waiata-a-ringa or action song expressed community engagement events and activities to smile that she was looking forward to “some free uniformly through the hands, eyes, face and the case management of prospective Māori and weekends”. body; the poi; the haka; and the whakawatea, Pacific students through our application, Te Matatini festival takes place over four days the exit song for the group. Performances are admission and enrolment processes. every two years in different parts of New judged according to set criteria by judges The University is also committed to ensuring Zealand, attracting more than 40,000 appointed from around New Zealand who are that we provide opportunities to Māori and Pacific participants and spectators. This year Te expert in their respective disciplines. The three students, who show potential and who, as our Matatini alone is estimated to have brought up top groups from three pools move on to the research shows, will succeed with some initial to $20 million in to Rotorua. finals, where it becomes a new competition. All assistance and support. To this end, I am Preliminaries are held during the first three nine groups perform again and the judges start delighted the new Certificate in Academic days, with groups performing across a range of anew – they choose the winner from the nine Preparation Programme has had a resoundingly compulsory and non-compulsory disciplines – groups and rank every team accordingly. This positive response from our stakeholders. The 67 compulsory items include the whakaeke, the year it was Te Waka Huia’s day. students in the inaugural cohort, along with their entrance song, where groups can make a families, were welcomed to the University in January and have all begun their tertiary studies with great excitement and energy. I am confident Adding an accolade that those enrolled in this Certificate, together with the increased numbers of Māori and Pacific An extra name should have been included in Rachel was invited to work on the WUN students in our Tertiary Foundation Certificate, the story in the last issue of UniNews about project entitled “Bridging health promotion and Certificate in Health Science and Foundation the University’s success in the Worldwide sustainability science: Transition to the green Certificate in Education, will realise their potential Universities Network Awards: that of Dr economy” by its leader Professor Maurice and benefit greatly from the opportunity and Rachel Wolfgramm from the Faculty of Mittlemark (from the University of Bergen, support that has been presented to them by these Business. Norway). She then invited Dr Kim Dirks to foundation programmes and the staff who collaborate on the project. manage and teach in them.

The University of Auckland News 3 Auckland Arts Festival

The Auckland Arts Festival is underway and there staff with diverse expertise from The University are many talented staff and students taking part. of Auckland and is funded through the Some highlights at the following venues include: University’s Transforming Cities Research Initiative. The dates are 23-24 March from Auckland Central Library 10am-5pm, Rosebank Rd, Avondale. Visit http:// That’s funny. For one night only the work of 14 rosebankartwalk.wordpress.com. Elam School of Fine Arts students and graduates is on show at the Auckland Central Library. The Wynyard Quarter works respond to the context of the Library and 1000 Lovers is a site-responsive performance the format of White Night as a public event. journey that travels from the sea to the city by The time to note is 16 March, 6pm-midnight MAP (Movement_Architecture_Performance) (White Night). choreographed by Associate Professor Carol Brown (Dance Studies). Walk the haunted, Gus Fisher Gallery restless landscape of the Waterfront with More Than We Know. 6-22 March. mythical-real men and women and hear their An exhibition by Kalisolaite ‘Uhila and Jeremy sounds, stories and dances on 14 March, 7pm Leatinu’u, and a season of contemporary Pacific and 16 March, 6.30pm and 8pm (White Night). performance curated by Ioana Gordon-Smith. Performances start at the Gantry, Silo Park, and Visit www.auckland.ac.nz/morethanweknow finish at Te Wero. Rosebank Road The Fluid City, a roaming interactive installation Image: Georgie Goater in 1000 Lovers taking part in the Rosebank Art Walk, makes a space for a close encounter with water from our urban streams, creeks and rivers. The Fluid City is the result of a collaborative project between Photo: Carol Brown.

King Lear beneath the ClockTower Colloquium

The flurry of busyness (and beard growing) is University hosts experts in child law the culmination of weeks of administration, auditions and rehearsals - for the Trust, which, as The University of Auckland’s Law School part of its remit for the anniversary, wanted a will host an international colloquium on significant performance of a major play to mark 25 March to examine how well legal sys- the occasion. tems listen to children and young people. “King Lear offers enormous scope of action This marks the 20th anniversary of and poetic achievement, with remarkable vigour Aotearoa/New Zealand’s ratification of the and staging of incident,” says Tom, “for the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, actors, characters and the audience”. with child law experts from all over the Tom reckons King Lear is a huge undertaking world gathering to share and discuss best because of the emotional size of the play. He is practice in giving children a voice in legal It’s that time again. The annual Summer impressed by the “energetic commitment” from cases. Shakespeare production is making its presence the students, who are learning not only about The colloquium will allow critical analysis known in the little area between the Clock how to develop a role working alongside of how well this country is fulfilling its Tower and Old Government house. professional actors, but also about mounting a international obligation in this area. There The scaffolding is erected, sound bites of production of this size and working with will be acknowledgement for New Zealand’s melody and gunfire can be heard, and there is Shakespeare. success in keeping young people out of the an air of anticipation about the place on the This special production of the Summer criminal justice system and dealing with days of the performances: Tuesday to Saturday Shakespeare series has seen people who have them in family group conferences. At the until 16 March and then Wednesady to Saturday worked on past productions invited to come back same time experts will be critical of current until 30 March. and be involved alongside the current and past law reform proposals, which fall short of “Everyone should come and pray for good students of the University. Professor Michael international standards. Alison Cleland and weather,” says Tom Bishop, Professor of English Neil and Michael Hurst are not only working Khylee Quince from the Law School will at The University of Auckland and founding behind the scenes as Trust members; they are discuss the place of children and young member of the The AUSA Outdoor Shakespeare also acting in the play as King Lear and the Fool people’s views in New Zealand’s youth Trust (pictured). Most recently, Tom has taken on respectively – having acted in various justice family group conferences. the gait and beard of loyal servant “Oswald”, productions over the years. Lisa Harrow, who the part he is playing in the 50th Anniversary appeared as a young actor in the very first production of King Lear. production back in 1963, is directing King Lear.

4 14 March 2013 Record numbers at Orientation Research Funding News

HFSP Research Grants Human Frontier Science Programme (HFSP) Research Grants are given in support of interdisciplinary, international and collaborative basic research into fundamental biological problems. There is a separate award for Young Investigators who are within five years of obtaining an independent position and ten years post-PhD. If you intend to apply but have not yet been in contact with the Research Office we recommend you do so now to receive helpful resources, including “tips for applicants” as part of our support for HFSP applications. Please note that Letters of Intent should be submitted for internal approval via the Research Funding Module by 21 March 2013, which is also the deadline for registration on the HFSP portal. Further information can be found at www.hfsp. org. The Research Office contact is David Saunders, International Fund Specialist [email protected], ext. 84886. Smiles, songs and sunshine infused the through the Equity Office, which are here to help University’s recent 2013 Māori and Pacific our students flourish both academically and Orientation. personally. We invite you all — students and Rutherford Discovery Fellowships The Royal Society of New Zealand Rutherford A record turnout of more than 800 students families — to please take advantage of the Discovery Fellowships aim to support the and their whānau and friends were welcomed support we offer.” development of future research leaders and onto the grounds of the Waipapa Marae, where Following the powhiri, the Pacific cohort was assist with the retention and repatriation of New a range of speakers, including the Vice- welcomed by Cook Island drummers into the Zealand’s talented early- to mid-career Chancellor, Professor Stuart McCutcheon, Fale Pasifika. The Māori and Pacific groups then researchers (between three and eight years welcomed them to their “University of Auckland began their own Orientation programmes which post-PhD). Ten prestigious fellowships of five family”. included faculty-specific Tuākana sessions, a years in length will be awarded on a competitive As the first member of his own family to question and answer session for families, and an basis, for research based in a New Zealand host attend university, the Vice-Chancellor overview of the support mechanisms available institution. The award amount is up to $160,000 acknowledged the vital role of whānau and at the University. The day wrapped up with a each year. The fellowships will develop and foster family in supporting students through their hangi and live music in the quad. future leaders in the New Zealand science and university experience. He also congratulated the The Equity Office’s Pacific Adviser, Seiuli Terri innovation system by encouraging their career students and their families for their achievement Leo-Mauu, said she and her Equity Office development and by enabling them to establish of being admitted to The University of Auckland, colleagues, who organise the annual a solid track record for future research, and will which is ranked in the top one percent of Orientation, were “extremely happy” with the promote multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary universities worldwide. And he assured the event. links across the science and innovation sector. audience that the University takes seriously its “We wanted everyone who attended to know The deadline at the Research Office via the responsibility to look after the wellbeing and just how many people are here to support our Research Funding Module is 3 April 2013. academic success of all of its students. students and their communities. We hope and Contact Chris Tews, Fund Specialist, c.tews@ “We want you to be aware of the wide range believe everyone at the event now feels they are auckland.ac.nz, ext. 88301. of support systems at the University, including part of our University family,” said Terri.

AMRF Travel Grants Auckland Medical Research Foundation (AMRF) Law reunion for class of '88 Travel Grants for travel after 1 June, Travelling Fellowships and Repatriation Fellowships are all closing in the Research Funding Module on 12 The University is pleased to welcome Law The programme includes drinks and nibbles at April 2013. More information can be found at alumni of the graduating class of 1988 to be a Old Government House, brief updates from your www.medicalresearch.co.nz, contact Jing Liu, part of the Law reunion celebrating 25 years peers and special guest speaker, law alumni and Research Administrator, [email protected], since graduation. fellow class of ’88 graduate, comedian and ext. 89860 The reunion will take place on Thursday 21 columnist James Elliot. March 2013 from 6pm to 9pm at Old Please address queries to Rebecca Brown, Government House on the corner of Princes Special Projects Manager in the Faculty of Law. Street and Waterloo Quadrant, Auckland. Email [email protected] or phone The dress code is for business attire and the 09 3737599, ext 87149. cost is $40.

The University of Auckland News 5 From the collection

“Everything Hotere touches turns to black,” the new Music School in Symonds Street in 1985, writer David Eggleton once said, noting that Hotere worked on site to create Black Drop, an Hotere’s use of both the colour and the word enormous eight-metre enamel on corrugated “black” are key characteristics of many of his iron work. Dame Jenny Gibbs, the University’s works. There are 13 works in The University of Pro-Chancellor, visited to bestow Auckland Art Collection and ten of them have Honorary Doctor of Literature degrees from the the word black in the title, including this one, University on both the artist and his friend the Black Rainbow 1987, painted to commemorate poet in 2005. the sinking of the boat Rainbow The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stuart Warrior at Matauri Bay in 1985. He was McCutcheon, noted: “In choosing his subject particularly outraged at the sequestering of the matter, has been true to the perpetrators of the bombing, French secret University’s obligation to act as a ‘critic and service agents Dominique Prieur and Alain conscience of society.’ But even more than this Mafart, on an atoll in the South Pacific before he has fostered a new generation of visual their return to France. artists, who hopefully will carry on his strong Often motivated to make his works as a social commitment.” The Vice-Chancellor also response to political and social issues, Hotere observed how fitting is was that they were being was outspoken in his opposition to the huge honoured jointly, as Ralph Hotere had aluminium smelter proposed during the Think incorporated Hone Tuwhare’s poetry into his Big years to take advantage of cheap electricity work, and the poem “Hotere” is one of Tuwhare’s to process bauxite due to be located on the most famous poems. It ends: precious bird nesting grounds in the sand dunes Well-known for his use of black and his at Aramoana. An active protestor in the But when you score a superb orange collaboration with New Zealand writers, the marches against the Springbok rugby tour of circle on a purple thought-base celebrated New Zealand artist Ralph Hotere New Zealand in 1981, he commemorated Steve I shake my head and say: hell, what died of pneumonia in on Sunday 24 Biko, and other heroes of the struggle against is this thing called aroha February. apartheid in in works on corrugated Born in , Northland, in 1931, Hotere iron. The on air reference to Kofi Annan as a Like, I’m euchred, man. I’m eclipsed? was one of 15 children in a Roman Catholic “cheeky darkie” resulted in a “White Drip” family. His name, Hone Papita, translates as painting, which addressed Mister Paul Holmes John the Baptist, the name of the most famous directly using roofing iron as the support. In the Linda Tyler Catholic bishop of the North, Jean-Baptiste Black Window, Black Phoenix and Black Rainbow Pompallier. In 1952 he moved to Dunedin to works, “Black” is a contextual symbol, a form of specialise in art, and within ten years had left for protest against colonialism, imperialism and Ralph Hotere, Black Rainbow 1987, acrylic on Europe where he studied until 1965. He repression. It has been suggested that black for board, 960 x 580mm travelled widely, visiting the grave of his brother Hotere symbolises anger, annihilation and Jack, buried in the Sangro River War Cemetery apocalypse. in Italy, and took up a residency in Vence, near Commissioned by The University of Auckland the Matisse Chapel in the south of France. to create a wall sculpture in corrugated iron for Books

This book, published in 2012 by Dunmore Orator’s grace, his wit and above all his decided Press, contains a selection of addresses by penchant for apt quotation”. Emeritus Professor Nicholas Tarling (formerly “One was listening to a public orator who was in the History Department), broadcaster and in a special class,” wrote Professor C Ikoku, sometime actor, now Fellow at the New Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria. Zealand Asia Institute. “Thank you for your kind remarks and for what Many were given while Nicholas was the you didn’t say as well!”” (Dame , University’s Public Orator, and honoured such Governor-General) figures as Dean Martin Sullivan, Kendrick Sir John Ingram welcomed “a scintillating and Smithyman, Sir Lewis Ross, Dame Kiri Te very funny toast. It was absolutely brilliant.” Kanawa, Maurice Paykel, Dame Dorothy To obtain a copy of this publication, contact Winstone, Prime Minister Dr Mahathir bin the author, Professor Nicholas Tarling, on Mohamed, H E Mme Sadao Ogata, Paakariki [email protected] Harrison, Sir Donald McIntyre, Sir and Sir Colin Maiden. Others were given on less joyous or public occasions. None were without what the late Charles Nalden called “the Public

6 14 March 2013 action packed timetable, the event Thursday 21 March desired. Contact Lorraine on (021) 572202 What’s on will also delight with music, art and or [email protected] Thursday 14 MARCH language to enrich your world. Film, Television and Media Studies Blockhouse Bay coastal: Three-dble Visit www.cbr.auckland.ac.nz/brainweek seminar bdrm + study, spacious exposed beams Law Distribution Days Elam @ the Central City Library Jake Mahaffy: It’s about time: 1960s home in tranquil tree-filled garden 10am-4pm, Maclaurin Chapel, Princes That’s funny. 6pm-midnight, Auckland Filmmaking with minimal means. with sea views. Large living space, alarm, St. Runs until 15 March. Central Library. 4.15pm, Pat Hanan Rm 501, Arts 2. dble garage internal access. Walk to Come along to find out more about beach, shops, primary school, bus stop. For one night only the work of 14 More Than We Know summer clerkships and graduate $600 pw neg. Contact Peter, (021) 128 Elam School of Fine Arts students Nastashia Simeona (sound): Untitled. recruitment programmes. 5324 or [email protected] and graduates is on show. The works School of Chemical Sciences 5-5.30pm, Gus Fisher Gallery, 74 Grey Lynn. Spacious, sunny bdrm with seminar respond to the context of the Library and Shortland St. own private bthrm, built in wardrobes Scott McIndoe, Dept of Chemistry, the format of White Night. and desk, opening out onto a courtyard University of Victoria, BC: Mass 1000 Lovers and back garden - part of architecturally- spectrometry-led catalyst discovery. 4pm 6.30pm and 8pm, Wynyard Quarter. Friday 22 March designed addition at the back of aging Performances start at the Gantry, Silo Rm 407. More Than We Know villa. Share new kitchen and two living Park and finish at Te Wero Island. Film, Television and Media Studies Jeremy Leatinu’u and Kalisolaite ‘Uhila, rooms with owner who works and studies Headset hire: Auckland Arts Festival at the University. Would suit academic/ seminar drumming vocals and soundscape. Stand, Silo Park. To reserve a headset professional. $320 pw double or $290 pw Geoff Lealand, Screen and Media 5-5.30pm, Gus Fisher Gallery, 74 email [email protected] single - includes all expenses, plenty of wifi Studies, University of Waikato: In Shortland St. love with Shirley Temple: A story of More Than We Know etc. Phone Tess 923 4149 (wk) 376 2996 cultural memory, Hollywood .... and Pukepuke ‘O Tonga (dance). 7.30pm, (home) or (021) 0251 2451. Mt Eden: Fully furnished recently Christchurch. 4.15pm Pat Hanan Rm Gus Fisher Gallery, 74 Shortland St. SATURday 23 March renovated three bdrm, two bthrm villa 501, Arts 2. The Auckland-based Tongan dance group will present a medley of dances, Exhibition talk within walking distance to University and Department of History seminar Alice Tyler talks about the costume including developed sections from hospitals. Suit family or couple. Available Prof Donald L Fixico, Arizona State and textiles in the John Buchanan Hau ‘o Momo and Sei ‘o fafine, August to mid-October although dates are University, Temple, Arizona: The exhibition in conjunction with flexible and can be extended either way. choreographed by Sesilia Pusiaki. medicine way of American Indian Collections/Recollections: the 12th Phone (022) 617 5860 or (022) 659 8133

history, ethos and reality. 4pm, Room annual symposium of the Costume and or (09) 631 5207. $750 pw negotiable. 59, History Dept, 7 Wynyard St. Textile History Section of the Auckland Professional staff member seeking a Queries to [email protected] MONday 18 March Museum Institute. 4.30pm, Gus Fisher toddler-and-cat-friendly, non-smoking, More Than We Know More Than We Know Gallery, 74 Shortland St. Queries to quiet-living grown-up to rent a sun- A season of contemporary Pacific Darcell Apelu: Untitled. 5-5.30pm, Gus [email protected] flooded, fully-furnished master bedroom performance curated by Ioana Gordon- Fisher Gallery, 74 Shortland St. Fluid City with French doors/deck in three-bdrm Smith. A performance that utilises the body 10am-5pm, Rosebank Rd, Avondale. house in Pt Chevalier (easy walk to buses, Niu Navigations (sound): Untitled. as a means of producing sound, A roaming interactive installation supermarket, beaches & amenities). References requested. Available mid-April. 5-5.30pm, Gus Fisher Gallery, 74 encompassing often overlooked sounds as part of the Rosebank Art Walk. Shortland St. Runs until 24 March. Visit http:// Please email [email protected] such as breathing and heart beats. Visit www.auckland.ac.nz/ rosebankartwalk.wordpress.com/ morethanweknow or www.fluidcity.auckland.ac.nz ACCOMMODATION REQUIRED

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Predator-free New Zealand

“Predator-Free New Zealand” has recently offshore islands; Great Barrier (Aotea) and the landscape. Detecting and preventing entered our national lexicon since the Stewart (Rakiura), where eradication of mammal reinvasion is where science can play the most prominent physicist Sir Peter Callaghan pests is already technologically feasible. important role. A recent pest summit identified introduced it just over a year ago. Completion of predator-free status for these two the major areas of research as developing new We are a unique country, being one of the islands could be achieved within ten years, but pest control tools and technologies, and last-populated places on earth and retaining over only if the pest control and conservation agencies optimisation of pest detection. Scaling costs from half our natural landscapes. This substantial work closely with the island communities towards small islands to the entirety of New Zealand natural capital is our greatest asset, a common goal. The greatest barrier to achieving gives a back-of-the-envelope price tag of 24.6 underpinning our agricultural, tourism and pest-free status on these islands is the absence of billion dollars, or about 12 percent of our GDP. lifestyle economies. a social dimension in pest control. Including all Staggering such a programme over ten years With people also came a suite of introduced island inhabitants in conservation management might be a plausible venture. species, particularly predatory mammals, and requires a constructive dialogue for resolving If we are to successfully embark on moving these have devastated our native ecosystem. conflicts. Researchers from all disciplines, science, towards such a goal as this, it would require the Over 40 percent of our terrestrial bird species humanities and business, have an important role endorsement of an overwhelming majority of the are now extinct. to play in assisting the development of this country. We would be creating a new core value New Zealand is internationally renowned for dialogue. for our country, which would need to be held as its conservation efforts, in particular our ability to On the main islands of New Zealand it is strongly as, say, those in the United States hold remove pest mammals from massive areas, expected that predator-free status would not, at the constitution - and its purpose would need to indeed entire islands; we lead the world in such least not at first, come about from an be defended. The concept of a “Predator-Free achievements. In a nut-shell, “Predator Free New orchestrated strategic plan, but instead through New Zealand” is bigger than a science challenge, Zealand” is the aspiration that if we can do this grass-roots community organisations already and bigger than conservation. It is about forging on small islands, why not aim for our largest existing across New Zealand. These groups would a national identity which is uniquely New islands – North (Te Ika-a-Māui) and South (Te Wai create predator-free “arks”, and over time Zealand and feeds back to us, enriching all Pounamu)? The conservation benefits alone, increase their halo influence by expanding the aspects of our lives. I think we already have this already exemplified on smaller islands such as scope of their programmes. Predator-free fenced value, but a Predator-Free New Zealand would be Tiritiri Matangi, would speak for themselves - but sanctuaries and peninsulas benefitting from an opportunity to flaunt it on the international we would also achieve eradication of bovine barriers such as rivers or even motorways and stage. tuberculosis from New Zealand, and massive cities, would emerge across the country. The reduction in crop damage. North Island north of Auckland is an obvious James Russell The general consensus is that an (introduced example, and indeed possums only colonised School of Biological Sciences and Department mammalian) predator-free New Zealand could be Northland in the last 50 years. of Statistics achieved in 50 years, provided we address a Once pests are removed from an island or number of challenges first. large area, the immediate challenge is Although we have been hugely successful at preventing re-invasion. Whereas island removing pest species from islands permanently, eradications are usually achieved over a period these successes have generally been limited to of one to two weeks, the timescale on larger James is the recipient of the Prime Ministers uninhabited islands. As a pilot experiment in islands would be commensurately larger, 2012 MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Award. scale we may wish to first target our two largest requiring a “rolling front” of pest removal across used for measuring neurophysiological function.

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