The Reserve Bank's inflation calculator only goes back as far as 1862 but is still a useful tool for historians. For example, the 14,750 pounds paid Ngāi Tahu for around half NZ's landmass is equivalent to around $2.1 million today (based on 1862 values). www.rbnz.govt.nz/monetary-pol...
Nothing planned for the near future, but you never know!
Thanks Julie. Great to hear. That is what I really hoped to achieve with it.
The cover comes from a Neil Pardington photo of the turret of the gunboat 'Pioneer' used during the invasion and now at Ngāruawāhia. neilpardington.com/tai-moana-ta...
Neil Pardington is a contemporary Māori artist / photographer in Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington Aotearoa /New Zealand, his whakapapa is Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Mamoe, Ngāti Kahungunu
That is the situation many iwi, hapū and whānau before court now are currently confronted with as a result of the proposed changes to the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011. As Sir Geoffrey Palmer observes, this is arbitrary and unjust. 2/2 newsroom.co.nz/2024/08/23/g...
Opinion: Constitutional law expert and former Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer takes a deep, concerned look at the risks this Government is taking with hasty law changes
I'd start here. forms.justice.govt.nz/search/WT/re...
It is an OIA response to me. DIA might post the full document on their website at some point. www.dia.govt.nz/Official-Inf...
Also, we might be seen as breaking the law with our cuts in public access, but what the heck, let's go for it (even though we don't know if there are any real benefits in doing so).
Not really. He was always pretty conservative when I knew him back in those days.
Yeah, definitely. Spend a week in Auckland and you get 20 hours max of research. Some of us pointed this out at the time the cuts were first proposed and initially they changed it to open 8 hours for 3 days instead but then went back to 4-hour days with no explanation.