What is the size of the Samoan culture? What is the difference between Micronesian, Melanesian and Polynesian? Who are the indigenous Polynesian peoples of New Zealand? Who were the Polynesian explorers? What is Kilwa culture? What Polynesian island uses fire twirling in its traditional dance?
Geographically, Australia is also considered a continent, comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the smallest of the seven continents but is the sixth-largest country in the world by total area. This dual status as both a...
Aged residential care (ARC) admission needs are increasing beyond the available capacity in many countries, including New Zealand. Therefore, identifying modifiable factors which may prevent or delay ARC admissions is of international importance. Hearing impairment is common among older adults and thought...
(hazard ratio, 1.36; 95% confidence interval, 1.14 to 1.54; P < 0.05) and technique failure (hazard ratio, 1.17; 95% confidence interval, 1.07 to 1.26; P < 0.01), except among patients of New Zealand Maori/Pacific Islander origin, for whom there was no significant relationship between ...
“equitable”, companies have been discouraged by regulators to use them, with the consequence that now for even the simplest of jobs people must waste four years and lots of money to be considered, which of course affects the most the people that regulations are presumed to help (perversely,...
New Zealand will have its mature ethnic comedy when there's no political agenda at all just some funny brown guys writing down the things that make them laugh. Endnotes (1) A Maori word for Europeans, often considered a racial pejorative. (2) A Maori word meaning sacred, restricted,...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) hasestimatedthat we would need to “plant 1 billion hectares of forest by 2050 to keep the globe from warming a full 1.5 degrees C over pre-industrial levels.”Ethiopia,Australia,Ireland,Holland,India,Armenia,New ZealandandChina, among other ...
The diversity in languages spoken demonstrates the ethnic heterogeneity of the population; the six most common spoken languages in Auckland on the 2013 Census were English, Māori, Samoan, Hindi, Northern Chinese, and French, respectively (New Zealand Census 2013). Auckland is now considered the ...
The implications of such impacts have not been widely considered, and our research aims to elucidate these concerns. This article uses a systematic literature review to examine the prevalence of climate change as a focus for published research in JOEE and its predecessor, AJOE. We conducted a ...
Household food insecurity is a serious public health concern in rich countries with developed economies closely associated with inequality. The prevalence of household food insecurity is relatively high in some developed countries, ranging from 8 to 20%