title: Policy solutions to social housing stigmatisation in Aotearoa

authors: Southey, Kim

abstract: This policy brief discusses social housing stigmatisation as a process and experience that has detrimental effects on social housing tenants. The brief also highlights the role social housing policy must play in addressing stigmatisation, thereby, ensuring the wellbeing and community inclusion of social housing residents. The discussion and recommendations in this brief are based on a review of evidence for the WERO (Working to End Racial Oppression) research project, examining how neighbours’ perceptions as well as policies and practices of social housing provision impact social housing tenants’ experiences of wellbeing and neighbourhood inclusion.

text: Policy solutions to social housing stigmatisation in Aotearoa This policy brief discusses social housing stigmatisation as a process and experience that has detrimental effects on social housing tenants. The brief also highlights the role social housing policy must play in addressing stigmatisation, thereby, ensuring the wellbeing and community inclusion of social housing residents. The discussion and recommendations in this brief are based on a review of evidence for the WERO (Working to End Racial Oppression) research project, examining how neighbours’ perceptions as well as policies and practices of social housing provision impact social housing tenants’ experiences of wellbeing and neighbourhood inclusion.

year: 2025-02

title: Distributive justice, employment-at-will and just-cause dismissal

authors: Harcourt, Mark

subjects: dismissal

abstract: Dismissal is a major issue for distributive justice at work, because it normally has a drastic impact on an employee's livelihood, self-esteem and future career. This article examines distributive justice under the US's employment-at-will (EAW) system and New Zealand's just-cause dismissal system, focusing on the three main categories of dismissal, namely misconduct, poor performance and redundancy. Under EAW, employees have limited protection from dismissal and remedies are restricted to just a few so-called exceptions. Comparatively, New Zealand's just-cause system delivers much more just outcomes, both in terms of remedies and punishments. Despite a few shortcomings, it should be considered as a reasonable reference for policy changes in the US.

text: Distributive justice, employment-at-will and just-cause dismissal Dismissal is a major issue for distributive justice at work, because it normally has a drastic impact on an employee's livelihood, self-esteem and future career. This article examines distributive justice under the US's employment-at-will (EAW) system and New Zealand's just-cause dismissal system, focusing on the three main categories of dismissal, namely misconduct, poor performance and redundancy. Under EAW, employees have limited protection from dismissal and remedies are restricted to just a few so-called exceptions. Comparatively, New Zealand's just-cause system delivers much more just outcomes, both in terms of remedies and punishments. Despite a few shortcomings, it should be considered as a reasonable reference for policy changes in the US.

year: 2012

title: Overcoming ‘Being’ in Favour of Knowledge: The fixing effect of ‘mātauranga’

authors: Mika, Carl Te Hira

subjects: knowledge

abstract: It is common to hear Māori discuss primordial states of Being, yet in colonisation those very central beliefs are forced into weaker utterances. In this process those utterances merely conform to a colonised agenda. ‘Mātauranga’, a tidy term that overwhelmingly refers to an epistemological knowing of the world, colludes nicely with its English equivalent, ‘knowledge’, to further colonise those core contemplations of Being. Its plausibility relies on an orderly regard of things in the world. In education, historical and current practices of schooling pave the way for things in the world so that they amount to mātauranga for Māori, and even the term ‘ako’ will conspire in its own way. Both Novalis and Heidegger have the ability to identify subtly colonising philosophies, and may even propose some theoretical solutions for Māori.

text: Overcoming ‘Being’ in Favour of Knowledge: The fixing effect of ‘mātauranga’ It is common to hear Māori discuss primordial states of Being, yet in colonisation those very central beliefs are forced into weaker utterances. In this process those utterances merely conform to a colonised agenda. ‘Mātauranga’, a tidy term that overwhelmingly refers to an epistemological knowing of the world, colludes nicely with its English equivalent, ‘knowledge’, to further colonise those core contemplations of Being. Its plausibility relies on an orderly regard of things in the world. In education, historical and current practices of schooling pave the way for things in the world so that they amount to mātauranga for Māori, and even the term ‘ako’ will conspire in its own way. Both Novalis and Heidegger have the ability to identify subtly colonising philosophies, and may even propose some theoretical solutions for Māori.

year: 2012