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Item The Social Role of Small Business(Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand (SEAANZ), 2020) Jurado TItem Australia and New Zealand in the Pacific Islands: Ambiguous Allies?(Australian National University, 2018-10-28) Powles A; Wallis JDivergences in Australia and New Zealand’s policies and practices raise questions about the status of their alliance and how the two states will work together to address challenges in the Pacific Islands. It is not clear how compatible New Zealand’s purportedly principles-based ‘Pacific Reset’ is with Australia’s more security driven plan to ‘step-up’ its engagement in the region. It is also not clear how the two states will reconcile their apparently different approaches to the United States and China, both in the region and beyond.Item Australia in the South Pacific(Australian Strategic Policy Instutute, 2016-03-07) Powles ARCommissioned piece on the Australia in the South Pacific following the release of the 2016 Defence White PaperItem 'Fighting reputations' : combat effectiveness in the Western Desert campaign : a comparison of the 9th Australian and 2nd New Zealand Divisions, 1941-1942 : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand. EMBARGOED to 19 January 2026.(Massey University, 2022) Mawdsley, ShaunFew Second World War campaigns have garnered the attention of the Western Desert campaign of 1940-1942, and it has spawned hundreds of publications. The international composition of the British Eighth Army was a distinguishing feature of the campaign, and Australia and New Zealand’s participation received great interest both during the conflict and in the decades since its end. Much of this has centred upon the 9th Australian and 2nd New Zealand Divisions, which played critical roles in famous battles, like Tobruk, Sidi Rezegh, and El Alamein. Despite this, there has been a distinct lack of transnational analysis concerning both Australian and New Zealand performances in the campaign. In a similar vein, there exists many combat effectiveness studies, however their focus remains broad and covers both historical and contemporary topics for historical and predictive purposes. No study has utilised combat effectiveness as the main discursive methodological tool of analysis in the Western Desert campaign, and still none have assessed combat effectiveness at the divisional-level. This thesis identifies the major themes that governed combat effectiveness in the Western Desert by canvassing primary and secondary sources and combines various approaches to create a holistic framework and definition of divisional-level combat effectiveness in the campaign. It employs the 9th Australian and 2nd New Zealand Divisions as vehicles for analysis across environmental, operational, organisational, and intangible elements of combat spanning seven case studies –– Tobruk, Operation Crusader, Minqar Qaim, First Alamein, and Second Alamein, with the last two separated into Australian and New Zealand chapters. The research reveals that despite similar origins, the two Divisions underwent divergent combat experiences. Their different operational roles coincided with the dissimilar character of the Divisions’ commanders, both of whom influenced their respective formation’s organisational learning abilities. Nevertheless, the thesis found that common elements remained crucial to determining combat effectiveness at the divisional-level, however it also challenges long-held ideas of how and why the two Divisions adapted to battlefield conditions, and just how successful (or not) they were in doing so. It results in a more accurate analysis of the two Divisions’ capabilities, and ultimately, their fighting reputations.Item Business communication of drivers and barriers for climate change engagement by Top New Zealand, Australian and Global Fortune 500 Corporations(Public Relations Institute of Australia (PRIA), 18/06/2019) Thaker JA small number of corporations are responsible for two-thirds of historical global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. While many studies have evaluated business communication about climate change, they have several limitations, including an understudy of businesses outside the U.S. and Europe, and a lack of cross-country benchmarking. This study compares 30 of the largest New Zealand companies with top Australian and Fortune Global 500 businesses on communication of drivers and barriers related to climate change engagement. A quantitative analysis of 90 corporations’ latest reports finds that the most frequently reported drivers are external and internal stakeholders, regulatory concerns, and commitment to a low carbon economy. Few organisations report barriers such as economic growth, process and technology factors, and regulatory uncertainty. New Zealand companies lag behind Australian corporations who communicate equally as well as the top Global 500 on different dimensions of drivers and barriers for engagement. Factors driving business engagement with climate change and its implications on business communication, are highlighted.Item Objective measures for the assessment of post-operative pain in Bos indicus Bull calves following castration(MDPI AG, 2017-09) Musk GC; Jacobsen S; Hyndman TH; Lehmann HS; Tuke SJ; Collins T; Gleerup KB; Johnson CB; Laurence MThe aim of the study was to assess pain in Bos indicus bull calves following surgical castration. Forty-two animals were randomised to four groups: no castration (NC, n = 6); castration with pre-operative lidocaine (CL, n = 12); castration with pre-operative meloxicam (CM, n = 12); and, castration alone (C, n = 12). Bodyweight was measured regularly and pedometers provided data on activity and rest from day -7 (7 days prior to surgery) to 13. Blood was collected for the measurement of serum amyloid A (SAA), haptoglobin, fibrinogen, and iron on days 0, 3 and 6. Bodyweight and pedometry data were analysed with a mixed effect model. The blood results were analysed with repeated measure one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). There was no treatment effect on bodyweight or activity. The duration of rest was greatest in the CM group and lowest in the C group. There was a significant increase in the concentrations of SAA, haptoglobin, and fibrinogen in all of the groups from day 0 to 3. Iron concentrations were not different at the time points it was measured. The results of this study suggest that animals rest for longer periods after the pre-operative administration of meloxicam. The other objective assessments measured in this study were not able to consistently differentiate between treatment groups.Item Monster(Overland, 1/06/2015) Makereti TRM; Gracewood, JWhy look to fiction to take the temperature of a country? You might as well ask the canary to issue a detailed report into working conditions in the coalmine. The task of the writer is to sing her own song, which may be entirely at odds with the atmosphere in which she finds herself. And yet: these three stories alert us to something in the air in Aotearoa New Zealand. The barometer swings, conditions change, and people are buffeted by circumstance, challenged by fresh strangeness. The location of each story is absolutely local – we know where we are – but the threat is diffuse, worldly, universal. As always, it’s an interesting time to be a writer in New Zealand. We are all luminaries now, writing not in the shadow but by the light of Eleanor Catton’s brilliant success, which blazes like a signal fire on the beach. Not a problem, to use the vernacular. We’ve been here before, with Katherine Mansfield’s ‘little lamp’, and we’ll be here again. Engaging the world beyond our shores, tangling with its cultural economies, and then plunging back into the hinterland, the harbour, the bare cupboard, mining our own dark past – and present and future – for literary gold.
