Intercountry Adoption in New Zealand - A Child Rights Perspective

"That was then, but this is now": historical perspectives on intercountry adoption and domestic child adoption in Australian public policy.

This paper brings historical perspectives to bear on the ambivalent and contradictory position of adoption in Australian public policy. It examines the divergent histories of Australian domestic and intercountry adoption (ICA) since the mid-1970s and the impact of these histories on adoption policy in Australia. It identifies tendencies in contemporary ICA to repeat elements of pre-reform era d...

Child labour in India: a health and human rights perspective.

Child Labour has become a growing phenomenon across the world. Millions of children are working in hazardous and exploitative conditions harmful to their physical, mental and moral development. When we talk of health of child workers, most of the children work more than 12 hours, inhuman conditions which result in physical deformities and make them vulnerable to several infectious and other dis...

Wood Quality: A Perspective from New Zealand

Forest products are commodities and subject to cyclical trends; yet resource-hungry countries offer exporters a period of sustained growth for those with the right products. Products have their distinctive requirements, e.g., finishing timber (colour, stability), structural (strength stiffness, stability), paper (fibre length and tear strength). The failure to incorporate such key properties in...

CLASSROOM ACOUSTICS A New Zealand Perspective

Indigenous trauma: a New Zealand perspective.

The study of indigenous health is an emerging specialty and differs from other health disciplines in that the traditions and beliefs of indigenous people must be considered in developing health policy. New Zealand Maori and Australian Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders face similar health issues but have followed a different historical path. New Zealand was settled by the Maori from Easte...