Thursday, June 23, 2011

Re: [pima.nius] NZ aid needs more Pacific focus - think tank

6:26 PM |

. . .

Interesting - Maxim Institute is a "free market" advocate supported by the US-based Atlas Economic Research Foundation which has been linked with tobacco interests in the past. Atlas is also part of the climate of denial about climate change in the US. My impression is not so much compassionate conservatism as conservative compassion - very conservative.

Hope that's not too fast or loose for anyone.

jas

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NZ aid needs more Pacific focus - think tank
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/201106/s3251197.htm

Updated June 23, 2011 08:26:51

A new report on New Zealand's aid says it should be more focussed on the Pacific.

The report, published by the Maxim Institute, recommends New Zealand focuses aid programs on the Pacific instead of giving aid to poor countries around the world.

Currently, 56% of the country's aid goes to the Pacific with majority to Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.

Presenter:Claudette Werden
Speaker:Annette Pereira, communications manager, Maxim Institute

Listen:

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CARRERA: When you have lots of money come from lots of sources into one country, or when you have one country giving lots of little bits to lots of different places, it can end up complicating things. It's difficult to build strong relationships with a country under a situation like that. So that's one of the main reasons that we're recommending that New Zealand really begins to focus its aid in a clearer way on the Pacific. New Zealand's a small country, our aid budget's small, and really this is the opportunity to focus on an area where we actually have the opportunity to make quite an impact.

WERDEN: Fifty-six per cent of the aid money goes to the Pacific anyway, where does the rest go?

CARRERA: It goes to a range of places from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, it's spread really right across a lot of the classic aid recipient countries.

WERDEN: So you're suggesting that New Zealand shouldn't concentrate on Asia or Africa, but just focus on the Pacific?

CARRERA: Yeah and when we say that we're talking about New Zealand's government aid, so we're talking about the New Zealand aid program. Obviously there's a whole lot of aid that already goes through NGOs, and they have lots of reasons for why they're spread, so we're not recommending it for NGOs. We're recommending it for the New Zealand aid program itself. Yeah basically we're talking about a small budget, we're talking about a small country, and New Zealand already has strong relationships with the Pacific, understands the Pacific, so yeah there's the opportunity to really strengthen that.

WERDEN: How much money are we talking about? How much is the government aid budget?

CARRERA: From memory it's about four-billion.

WERDEN: And you say the largest amounts go to Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, should they stay focussed on those two countries, or should that four billion be spread to other countries in the Pacific?

CARRERA: At this stage we're not making any specific recommendations about that. We're just saying that regionally the area that New Zealand has the opportunity to make the most difference in is the Pacific.

WERDEN: And has it? Have you through your research worked out how significant the aid has been to those countries?

CARRERA: Yeah that's a fantastic question because it comes to another one of the recommendations in our report, which is to do with the need for more effective evaluation to take place. Absolutely it looks like there's some great stuff happening, but in terms of the measurement, the way these things are being measured, there's an opportunity for improvement. So at the moment the main way the effectiveness of that is measured is actually just through the outputs. So what is it that we're doing, we will sort of compile data about the number of text books being sent or the number of roads being built, but not necessarily about what kind of outcomes that's producing. So is that increasing the literacy of the community? Is that increasing the opportunities for trade and transport? Those are the sorts of things that we'd really love to see being evaluated in a much more vigorous way.

WERDEN: Do you have the ear of the government?

CARRERA: We don't in that, well I guess in the same way that any other organisation does or anyone who gets a little bit of attention. So we're delighted that this report has been noticed. We were pleased to say yesterday actually on some of the news reports that the government were saying that they actually are largely in agreement with a lot of the directions that were mentioned in the report. So yeah, it'll be interesting to see whether or not that translates in the coming years.

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[pima.nius] NZ aid needs more Pacific focus - think tank

12:27 PM |

NZ aid needs more Pacific focus - think tank

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/201106/s3251197.htm

Updated June 23, 2011 08:26:51

A new report on New Zealand's aid says it should be more focussed on the Pacific.

The report, published by the Maxim Institute, recommends New Zealand focuses aid programs on the Pacific instead of giving aid to poor countries around the world.

Currently, 56% of the country's aid goes to the Pacific with majority to Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.

Presenter:Claudette Werden
Speaker:Annette Pereira, communications manager, Maxim Institute

Listen:
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CARRERA: When you have lots of money come from lots of sources into one country, or when you have one country giving lots of little bits to lots of different places, it can end up complicating things. It's difficult to build strong relationships with a country under a situation like that. So that's one of the main reasons that we're recommending that New Zealand really begins to focus its aid in a clearer way on the Pacific. New Zealand's a small country, our aid budget's small, and really this is the opportunity to focus on an area where we actually have the opportunity to make quite an impact.

WERDEN: Fifty-six per cent of the aid money goes to the Pacific anyway, where does the rest go?

CARRERA: It goes to a range of places from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, it's spread really right across a lot of the classic aid recipient countries.

WERDEN: So you're suggesting that New Zealand shouldn't concentrate on Asia or Africa, but just focus on the Pacific?

CARRERA: Yeah and when we say that we're talking about New Zealand's government aid, so we're talking about the New Zealand aid program. Obviously there's a whole lot of aid that already goes through NGOs, and they have lots of reasons for why they're spread, so we're not recommending it for NGOs. We're recommending it for the New Zealand aid program itself. Yeah basically we're talking about a small budget, we're talking about a small country, and New Zealand already has strong relationships with the Pacific, understands the Pacific, so yeah there's the opportunity to really strengthen that.

WERDEN: How much money are we talking about? How much is the government aid budget?

CARRERA: From memory it's about four-billion.

WERDEN: And you say the largest amounts go to Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, should they stay focussed on those two countries, or should that four billion be spread to other countries in the Pacific?

CARRERA: At this stage we're not making any specific recommendations about that. We're just saying that regionally the area that New Zealand has the opportunity to make the most difference in is the Pacific.

WERDEN: And has it? Have you through your research worked out how significant the aid has been to those countries?

CARRERA: Yeah that's a fantastic question because it comes to another one of the recommendations in our report, which is to do with the need for more effective evaluation to take place. Absolutely it looks like there's some great stuff happening, but in terms of the measurement, the way these things are being measured, there's an opportunity for improvement. So at the moment the main way the effectiveness of that is measured is actually just through the outputs. So what is it that we're doing, we will sort of compile data about the number of text books being sent or the number of roads being built, but not necessarily about what kind of outcomes that's producing. So is that increasing the literacy of the community? Is that increasing the opportunities for trade and transport? Those are the sorts of things that we'd really love to see being evaluated in a much more vigorous way.

WERDEN: Do you have the ear of the government?

CARRERA: We don't in that, well I guess in the same way that any other organisation does or anyone who gets a little bit of attention. So we're delighted that this report has been noticed. We were pleased to say yesterday actually on some of the news reports that the government were saying that they actually are largely in agreement with a lot of the directions that were mentioned in the report. So yeah, it'll be interesting to see whether or not that translates in the coming years.

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[pima.nius] Pacific demo against NZ health cuts

12:24 PM |

Pacific demo against NZ health cuts

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/201106/s3251994.htm

Updated June 23, 2011 17:35:02

Around 200 Pacific Island protesters demonstrated at New Zealand's Parliament earlier today, calling for the Government to reverse its cuts to funding for health services.

The demonstration included health care providers and church leaders, who said they are concerned about the effects of the cuts on the well-being of communities in the largely Pacific Islands area of Porrirua, just north of Wellington.

The opposition Labour Party's spokesperson for Pacific Island Affairs, Su'a William Sio, has criticised the Minister of Pacific island Affairs, National Party MP Georgina Te Heuheu, for calling the event a celebration of pacific services, calling her remark condescending.

Presenter: Bruce Hill
Speaker: Su'a William Sio, NZ opposition Labour Party's spokesperson for Pacific Island Affairs

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Re: [pima.nius] Business Insider | Journalism Tops List Of The Most Useless College Degrees

4:51 PM |

. . .

Oh, yes, all funding models have their problems.
Private media can be overly beholden to advertiser and investor interests. Public media,
to the government of the day. But at this point in time, it is the private media that is clearly
failing, and failing bad. Again, at this point in time, it is my view that public funding is urgently
needed to plug the gaping holes in journalism, and the knock-on effects this is having on society,
worldwide.

As Robie points out, there are still plenty of places where media are thriving, especially in the
East and parts of Africa. Heck, even the NZHerald reports increased circulation - but only after
years of decline. Plus, global corruption is centred mainly in the west and mainly, I feel, due to
corporate capture of private AND public media a la Rupert Murdoch, and, the monstrously
undermined BBC news services.

My informal complaint against AUT and other academic centres is that while other regions have
held numerous meetings and other academic activities on the journalism crisis, here (and in
Australia) there has been deafening silence - until the letter signed by 61 academics. That's some
three YEARS after the issue first started coming up. Glad to hear however that at least one
academic has been raising the issue privately. Did he suggest any solutions?

. . .

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Dominika White <dominika.mail@gmail.com> wrote:

That's interesting, I didn't get that vibe from AUT in fact one lecturer Wayne Hope was an avid and open challenger of the way the industry was disappearing due to existing business models. But public funding of the fourth estate publicly would have problems as well. What's your view on this?

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:26 PM, avaiki - jason brown <avaiki.nius@gmail.com> wrote:

. . .

thanks dominika,

I think what Business Insider laid out was comparing the rate of journalism grads with job growth (or loss in our case) ... providing a fact based approach to how useful degrees are in getting paid work.

Agreed, it is most useful to learn about bias and other dangers of mass media. And it is encouraging to learn that students were warned about the lack of job prospects in journalism.

But I don't agree I imply that students are naive. What I am trying to say is that, like the news media, AUT and other unis appear to favour corporate-speak about "new" business "models" and technical "innovation" for journalism rather than challenging wholesale decimation of an industry profession essential for the safe functioning of society and democracy.

We are fond of talking about the fourth estate but compared with the first, second and third estates, journalism is getting peanuts - or maybe just peanut skins!

thanks for the comment,

jas

. . .

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Dominika White <dominika.mail@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Jason,

As a journalism graduate I was fully aware that jobs would be very limited before I started the degree and was reminded about this during my studies at AUT. You seem to imply that students naively go into a journalism degree without knowledge of this.

I didn't think my communications degree was useless at all, it made me understand the dangers of mass media such as biases, inaccuracies - something I think a lot more people should know.

Dominika

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:30 AM, pima news <pima.nius@gmail.com> wrote:

via pacific journos

On 20 June 2011 16:04, avaiki - jason brown <avaiki.nius@gmail.com> wrote:

. . .

Further to questions raised for Robie at AUT, here is an article from Business Insider in the US:
Journalism Tops List Of The Most Useless College Degrees

Be nice for journalism students to know how similar NZ is to the US and, more importantly, how few jobs will be available after they've paid tens of thousands of dollars into AUT coffers. Most likely response: more personal insults instead of facts ?

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Re: [pima.nius] 7513 NZ: PMC's David Robie honoured with Vice-Chancellor's award

3:17 PM |

Congratulations to David for this award - well deserved for his passion and advocacy for Pasifika students and journalism...

Malo David.

Marama.

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:21 AM, pima news <pima.nius@gmail.com> wrote:

Title – 7513 NZ: PMC's David Robie honoured with Vice-Chancellor's award

Date – 22 June 2011

Byline – Yvonne Brill

Origin – Pacific Media Watch

Source – PMC Online, 21/6/11

Copyright – AUT/PMC

Status – Abridged

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AUT HONOURS BATCH OF INNOVATIVE TEACHERS

http://www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/pmc-blog/2011-06-21/aut-honours-batch-innovative-teachers

By Yvonne Brill

AUCKLAND (PMC Online/Pacific Media Watch): Pacific Media Centre director Associate Professor David Robie is one of a group of AUT University academics who were awarded a Vice-Chancellor's award for excellence last night.

Recipients were nominated by students and colleagues for the VC's Award for Excellence in Teaching for their outstanding contribution and innovative style.

"Being nominated came out of the blue. I feel both honoured and humbled to achieve this at AUT which has so many innovative and gifted teachers on its staff," said Dr Robie.

"The efforts of my support crew and students in this award are hugely appreciated."

Director of teaching and learning at AUT University Dr Stanley Frielick described the purpose of the awards as to "ensure we recognise and reward excellent teaching".

Of the 7 academics honoured last night, 4 were awarded the VC's Award for Excellence in Teaching - including Dr Robie, while 3 were Highly Commended and one received Special Recognition.

Dr Robie, a specialist in Asia-Pacific journalism who has worked for 20 years in the media and almost two decades as a journalism educator, was recognised for his work within the School of Communication Studies in developing student and media publications such as Te Waha Nui, PMC Online and Pacific Scoop and his contribution to diversity.

He described his teaching method as based on experiential and problem-based learning, "reality" publication, broadcast and online conditions while "deploying critical thinking and a continuous drive for excellence".

Among students' comments were: "His passion for diversity journalism inspired me as a Pasifika student .. . and I thank him for establishing the PMC as a great learning environment."

The other recipients of the VC's Award for Excellence in Teaching were Rouxelle De Villiers from the Faculty of Business and Law, Lexie Matheson from the Faculty of Applied Humanities, and Dr Roy Nates from the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies.

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[pima.nius] 7512 NZ: Forum to explore future of public television

1:23 PM |

From yesterday - still waiting for updates on PMC

Title – 7512 NZ: Forum to explore future of public television

Date – 22 June 2011

Byline – None

Origin – Pacific Media Watch

Source – Victoria University, 22/6/11

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FORUM TO EXPLORE FUTURE OF NZ PUBLIC TELEVISION

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WELLINGTON (Victoria University/Pacific Media Watch): Is there a future for public television in New Zealand?

Is public television a luxury New Zealand can't afford? Or is it a crucial ingredient to a healthy and prosperous democracy?

A public forum at Victoria University today will seek to provide some answers to those questions, and map out a future for public television.

One of the forum organisers, Dr Trisha Dunleavy, a senior lecturer from Victoria's Media Studies programme says the forum will seek to provide solutions to the current public TV malaise, of which the decline of TVNZ 7 is just part.

"TVNZ 7 and TVNZ 6 have shown that public service channels can consistently offer choices that commercial channels do not. For the first time in many years Kiwis had local commercial-free entertainment and quality children's programming, exploration of art and cultural issues along with in-depth quality news and current affairs programmes," said Dr Dunleavy.

"However, the problems in our public television are broader than the loss of these channels. We are concerned about the sustainability of a New Zealand identity for our television in the context of a poorly regulated TV market where profitability is shifting to Sky at the expense of free-to-air networks. What we stand to lose are the local TV programmes that TVNZ and TV3 have helped to make accessible to all New Zealanders."

The forum will bring together stakeholders from industry, parliament, the state sector and academia to try and identify practical policy options to sustain public television. It will include panels focusing on the issues of funding and structural alternatives, sustaining local content, the challenges for free-to-air networks, and regulatory arrangements.

The forum originated from an open letter to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Broadcasting earlier this year, signed by 61 media academics from around New Zealand. In it, they urged the Government to reconsider the series of steps it has taken "to dismantle the little that is left of public broadcasting in our country," seeing this as a critical asset for New Zealand.

"Over the past five years, one government decision after another has undermined the health of New Zealand's broadcasting environment—including the failure of recent governments to make a success of the TVNZ Charter, the continuing demand for dividends from TVNZ, and … the decision to pull the plug on TVNZ 6 and 7.

"Universally accessible public service broadcasting is not a luxury—it is a means of helping the country to meet its goals of literacy, higher education levels, better health outcomes, and the smart, flexible, creative thinking needed to be competitive in today's world."

Presenters at the forum will include key representatives from Mediaworks, Think TV, Freeview, Stratos, SPADA, leading TV production companies, the Broadcasting Standards Authority as well as several leading academics in the television field.

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Thursday, June 23, 2011

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NZ aid needs more Pacific focus - think tank

12:27 PM |

NZ aid needs more Pacific focus - think tank

12:26 PM |

Image: Cerisse Palalagi Fumei Ink & acrylic on hard board 590 x 590mm

12:24 PM |

Pacific demo against NZ health cuts

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

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