title: Paper trains

authors: Abbott, Amber

subjects: poetry

abstract: In the end, it keeps coming back to that. How we’ve got to move past each other. I tell your story 
in a way that somehow still makes it all about me. I count the trains, burn Bible paper. I’m left 
inconsolable on the dance floor. I try to paint a bowl of fruit and it always ends up being a self-portrait. I suppose that’s life. You reach your hands out for others, but they’re still your hands.

A train is late to the station. Dogs howl in the night. A kitchen tap drips without sound. Lungs fill 
with lake water. Books remain unread. Words, unspoken.

Paper Trains is a narrative-driven collection of poems exploring how people move through grief 
and the places it can take them. After losing her best friend, the narrator of these poems latches 
on to everything she can to keep herself afloat. Bad omens, old jackets, blue paper cranes.

We follow her journey as she navigates both devastating loss and the unrest of her early 20s. 
There are ways to stay busy: house parties, coffee shops, home renovation, self-pity, gardening. 
She moves through spaces to delay moving on.

We witness the effects that death has on her relationships with others and the burdens that she 
must now carry. 

This is a tale of violence, anger, and isolation. Of forgetting and remembering 
again. Betrayal. Begrudging hope. Superstitions and bad life choices. Trains always running late.

text: Paper trains In the end, it keeps coming back to that. How we’ve got to move past each other. I tell your story 
in a way that somehow still makes it all about me. I count the trains, burn Bible paper. I’m left 
inconsolable on the dance floor. I try to paint a bowl of fruit and it always ends up being a self-portrait. I suppose that’s life. You reach your hands out for others, but they’re still your hands.

A train is late to the station. Dogs howl in the night. A kitchen tap drips without sound. Lungs fill 
with lake water. Books remain unread. Words, unspoken.

Paper Trains is a narrative-driven collection of poems exploring how people move through grief 
and the places it can take them. After losing her best friend, the narrator of these poems latches 
on to everything she can to keep herself afloat. Bad omens, old jackets, blue paper cranes.

We follow her journey as she navigates both devastating loss and the unrest of her early 20s. 
There are ways to stay busy: house parties, coffee shops, home renovation, self-pity, gardening. 
She moves through spaces to delay moving on.

We witness the effects that death has on her relationships with others and the burdens that she 
must now carry. 

This is a tale of violence, anger, and isolation. Of forgetting and remembering 
again. Betrayal. Begrudging hope. Superstitions and bad life choices. Trains always running late.

year: 2024

title: Dealing with a quandary: Funding outdoor education in Aotearoa New Zealand

authors: Campbell-Price, Margi

subjects: outdoor education, funding, equity

abstract: School websites are one of a number of ways that schools communicate their vision, values, programmes, successes, and about their community in the public domain. An initial stimulus for this article was a study conducted by one of the authors investigating the presence and profile of outdoor education on secondary school websites in Aotearoa New Zealand. The cost associated with some senior outdoor education offerings compared with other resourceintensive subject options was a finding that provoked our collective attention. This is particularly so when Ministry of Education policy prohibits schools from compelling parents to pay fees for outdoor education courses that are part of the curriculum of a school. This article catalogues the questions and quandaries that surfaced from our consideration of outdoor education funding issues, particularly in senior outdoor education in some schools. We speculate about the importance of outdoor educators considering their ‘bottom-lines’ and what learning opportunities are possible if outdoor education experiences are seen to be a ‘right’ of all students.

text: Dealing with a quandary: Funding outdoor education in Aotearoa New Zealand School websites are one of a number of ways that schools communicate their vision, values, programmes, successes, and about their community in the public domain. An initial stimulus for this article was a study conducted by one of the authors investigating the presence and profile of outdoor education on secondary school websites in Aotearoa New Zealand. The cost associated with some senior outdoor education offerings compared with other resourceintensive subject options was a finding that provoked our collective attention. This is particularly so when Ministry of Education policy prohibits schools from compelling parents to pay fees for outdoor education courses that are part of the curriculum of a school. This article catalogues the questions and quandaries that surfaced from our consideration of outdoor education funding issues, particularly in senior outdoor education in some schools. We speculate about the importance of outdoor educators considering their ‘bottom-lines’ and what learning opportunities are possible if outdoor education experiences are seen to be a ‘right’ of all students.

year: 2017

title: Alum dosing of Waitangi Stream: Biomonitoring of aluminium 2021-2023

authors: Tempero, Grant Wayne

abstract: Continuous alum dosing of the Waitangi Stream at Lake Rotoehu commenced in 2011 to reduce concentrations of dissolved reactive phosphorus in this inflow to the lake and improve water quality. The Bay of Plenty Regional Council contracted the University of Waikato to undertake monitoring of biota in the Waitangi Stream for potential impacts due to alum dosing. Macroinvertebrate community analysis and tissue aluminium concentrations in kōura (Paranephrops planifrons) and goldfish (Carassius auratus) have been undertaken annually since 2013 to determine the impacts and bioaccumulation of aluminium.

text: Alum dosing of Waitangi Stream: Biomonitoring of aluminium 2021-2023 Continuous alum dosing of the Waitangi Stream at Lake Rotoehu commenced in 2011 to reduce concentrations of dissolved reactive phosphorus in this inflow to the lake and improve water quality. The Bay of Plenty Regional Council contracted the University of Waikato to undertake monitoring of biota in the Waitangi Stream for potential impacts due to alum dosing. Macroinvertebrate community analysis and tissue aluminium concentrations in kōura (Paranephrops planifrons) and goldfish (Carassius auratus) have been undertaken annually since 2013 to determine the impacts and bioaccumulation of aluminium.

year: 2024