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New Zealand Labour Party
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Australia and New Zealand
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. Australasian neighbors, once part of the same vast land mass known as Gondwanaland, Australia and New Zealand share a similar recent history. Both were British colonies settled largely by emigrants from England, Scotland, and Ireland, and both... Read more |
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Anzus Treaty
Anzus Treaty , defense agreement signed in 1951 by Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. The name Anzus is derived from the initials of the three signatory nations. As a result of the reestablishment of peace between Japan and the United States in 1951, Australia and New Zealand asked for... Read more |
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North Island
North Island (1996 pop. 2,718,188), 44,702 sq mi (115,777 sq km), New Zealand. It is the smaller but more populous of the two principal islands of the country. The principal cities are Wellington , capital of New Zealand, and Auckland . Separated from South Island by Cook Strait, North Island is... Read more |
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Waikato
Waikato , river, 264 mi (425 km) long, rising in Lake Taupo, central North Island, New Zealand, and flowing NW into the Tasman Sea. It is New Zealand's longest river. The Waikato power plants are the main source of hydroelectricity on the North Island. Coal is mined from fields including reclaimed... Read more |
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Raglan
Raglan, New Zealand, UK New Zealand (North Island): founded as a mission station in 1835 and named after Field Marshal Lord Raglan (1788–1855), 1st Baron Raglan and first British commander‐in‐chief during the Crimean War (1853–6). He took his title from the town in... Read more |
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Hastings (New Zealand)
Hastings city (1996 pop. 58,495), SE North Island, New Zealand, close to Napier. It has extensive food-processing industries, including meatpacking, canning, and dairy processing.... Read more |
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Auckland
Auckland , city (1996 pop. 345,768; urban agglomeration pop. 991,796), N North Island, New Zealand. It is situated on an isthmus and is the largest urban region and chief port of the country. The chief exports are frozen meats, dairy products, wool, hides, and iron and steel. Petroleum, iron and... Read more |
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Maori
Maori , people of New Zealand and the Cook Islands, believed to have migrated in early times from other islands of Polynesia . Maori tradition asserts that seven canoes brought their ancestors to New Zealand. The Maori language is closely related to Tahitian, Hawaiian, and other languages spoken on... Read more |
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Ernest Rutherford
RUTHERFORD, ERNEST(b. between the settlements of Brightwater and Spring Grove, near Nelson, New Zealand, 30 August 1871: d. Cambridge, England, 19 October 1937)physics, chemistry.Both of Rutherford’s parents were taken as youngsters to New Zealand in the mid-nineteenth century. His father, James,... Read more |
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MAORI ENGLISH
...term for a variety of NEW ZEALAND ENGLISH. Its features...down on marae throughout Aotearoa at the feet of the manuhiri...Philip Whaanga, New Zealand Listener, 5 Apr. 1986...soon emerge. See NEW ZEALAND ... |
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Aotearoa
Aotearoa Maori name for New Zealand, literally ‘land of the long white cloud’. |
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New Zealand, Christianity in
New Zealand, Christianity in. The first...British annexation of New Zealand in 1840 there was extensive...The Anglican see of New Zealand was set up in 1841, with...Maori was consecrated Bp. of Aotearoa to ... |
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Maori: Aotearoa) Occupied from c.1400 by the Maori people who called it Aotearoa ‘(Land of) the Long White Cloud’ from...The first European to discover New Zealand was Abel Tasman†. At the end... |
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Anglicanism
...Canterbury and York, the main Churches and Provinces are in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia; Australia; Brazil; Burundi; Canada...Korea; Melanesia; Mexico; Myanmar; Nigeria; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Rwanda; Scotland; SE Asia... |
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...IslandNGNigeriaNINicaraguaNLNetherlandsNONorwayNPNepalNRNauruNTNeutral ZoneNUNiueNZNew Zealand (Aotearoa)OMOmanPAPanamaPEPeruPFFrench PolynesiaPGPapua New GuineaPHPhilippinesPKPakistanPLPolandPMSt Pierre and MiquelonPNPitcairnPRPuerto ... |
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land
...region of northern Canada, characterized by its stunted vegetation).Land of the Long White Cloud New Zealand (translating the Maori name Aotearoa).Land of the Midnight Sun any of the most northerly European countries, where the sun can be seen... |
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Ratana Church
...religious group among the Maoris of New Zealand, with headquarters at Ratana Pa...held up to all four Maori seats in New Zealand's parliament and have exercised...Absolute Established Maori Church of Aotearoa, and has remained very small. |
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Asia/Pacific: Aotearoa/New Zealand.(Reports on Union Negotiations)
UNITING CONGREGATIONS OF AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND (formerly FORUM OF COOPERATIVE VENTURES): The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia; the Associated Churches of Christ... |
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Alive and Well: Lesbian Writing from Aotearoa New Zealand
...Lesbian Writing from Aotearoa New Zealand A literature, its production...postcolonial context of Aotearoa New Zealand the feasibility...communities in Aotearoa New Zealand, ... |
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Mathematics teaching and learning in the early years in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
...mathematics education within Aotearoa/New Zealand and identify possible...first in a series of new curriculum documents...development in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and it took...TIMSS) showed that ... |
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Performing Aotearoa: New Zealand Theatre and Drama in an Age of Transition
...Maufort and David O'Donnell, eds, Performing Aotearoa: New Zealand Theatre and Drama in an Age of Transition (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2007) With Performing Aotearoa: New Zealand Theatre and Drama in an Age of Transition, co... |
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Focus on Aotearoa/New Zealand.
THE COUNTRY OF AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND is located in the earth's...addition to Maori and Pakeha, Aotearoa/New Zealand has large immigrant populations...from Asia. Did You Know? "AOTEAROA, the Land of the Long ... |
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Taha Maori and Aotearoa/New Zealand clinical psychology: developments at the...
...Maori (Ministry of Health, 2002). Reviews of Aotearoa/New Zealand Clinical Psychology training programmes (Abbot...the Code of Ethics for Psychologists Working in Aotearoa/ New Zealand (2002) and the overall aims of the ... |
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Women for Aotearoa: feminism and Maori sovereignty. (Special Aotearoa/New...
...History of Women's Organisations in New Zealand,(1) which did not include Women for Aotearoa. The paper concentrates on providing...position of Marxist feminist theory of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Ten women met in Ponsonby, ... |
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Marc Maufort and David O'Donnell, eds.: Performing Aotearoa: New Zealand...
...O'Donnell, eds. Performing Aotearoa: New Zealand Theatre and Drama in an Age of...Marc Maufort, "Performing Aotearoa in an Age of Transition" (13...Questioning National Identity in New Zealand Drama" (17-26); Christopher... |
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FEMINIST THOUGHT IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND: CONNECTIONS AND DIFFERENCES.(Review)
...and political writing, "Feminist Thought in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Connections and Differences" is a remarkable...professional engagements with feminist thought in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The authors provide strong ... |
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Home Land or Homeland? : Taking Root in the Land of Aotearoa/New Zealand
...difficulty of creating a homeland for Päkehä in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Bitter Calm is about conflict over land and...post-settler legacy of European settlement in Aotearoa/New Zealand, from the perspective of over one hundred ... |
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