This is where I'll be putting links to audio-visual and other material for POLS 102 New Zealand Politics during Semester 2, 2024. It is currently under construction and will be modified throughout the semester.
New
Zealand/Aotearoa Music Videos- Selected from a Wide Range of
Alternative Music Genres but all by Musical Artists with Strong Links to
Aoteroa
2024 Music Video Screenings
• Vagina Dry - My Voice My Choice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuTvNclWXa4
• Die Die Die - Sideways Here We Come
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV9f4w9SXEc
• LAB - In the Air
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI5usbhzmbY
• The 3ds - Outer Space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePvmxGA2vqU
• Marlon Williams - Beautiful Dress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lrNMdiWDUs
• The Clean - Beatnik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol3JHWlSRzc
• Pearly - Post Key PCP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQKuCDm6leA
• The Phoenix Foundation - Bob Lennon John Dylan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=digLC94vx2I
• Emily Fairlight - The Escape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzW-HUXjAj4
• Lorde - Green Light Live at Glastonbury
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3urw1bnEMM
• The Chills - Pink Frost (Live 1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PghRoiz6TFA
• The Chills - Heavenly Pop Hit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvYihKlgzOg
• The Chills - Kaleidoscope World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILvY3FoTQF8
• Avantdale Bowling Club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqPls3tfI5c
•Six Sixty - Before You Leave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sz8kZTDy4c
The Bats - North by North
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC4SX4c50Ig
• Tiki Taane - Dub Soldier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP-xlCFhdjk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHq2CELf_Ic
• Che Fu - Misty Frequencies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0acHcgPiLLU
•Shihad - My Mind's Sedate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBMlNiXyR44
•Marlon Williams - Can't Always Get What you Want
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsJIDptF-2c
• Bic Runga - Winning Arrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P93apT2p4PI
• Three Houses Down - Love & Affection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io5lzCMHcWU
•Marlin's Dreaming - Lucky Stars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEvUAR59Ilc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx6G0NGZJxU
Lecture 21
• The Verlaines - Joed Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8bZN_FBrUc
Lecture 22
• Sisters Underground - In the Neighbourhoodhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw_uFUttGKQ
• Straightjacket Fits - She Speeds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMIddxUAAQw
Lecture 23
• Scribe - Dreaminghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLGncTl9r78
•The Veils - The Letter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpkJ0WFM7XU
Lecture 24
• Don McGlassan - Miracle Sunhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-FW7JY3gik
• The Beths - Expert Dying in a Field
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KACt6YhOyY&t=84s
• Princess Chelsea - The Cigarette Duet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TV_128Fz2g
• The D4 - Party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9VLyMpmmjY
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• Here are links to some of the more important official government websites:
• New Zealand Government: Information and Services
This is a gateway website providing links to all official government websites and the websites of the political parties with MPs.
https://www.govt.nz/
• Electoral Commission
This is where you will be able to find out more about the electoral system and election results.http://www.elections.org.nz/
• Statistics New Zealand
This is where you will find a comprehensive range of statistical information about New Zealand's society, economy and polity.
http://www.stats.govt.nz/
• Treasury
This is where you will find a comprehensive range of information about the economy and the government's approach to managing it, as well as the budget and all main areas of government policy-making.
http://www.treasury.govt.nz/
• Ministry of Social Development- Household Incomes
This is where you will find some of the most important facts and figures with respect to the distribution of income, wealth, and poverty in New Zealand since 1982. https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/monitoring/household-incomes/
• Maori Land Loss, 1960-2000 Interactive Map of North Island
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/interactive/maori-land-1860-2000
New Zealand's Political History, 1935 to the Present
• First Labour Government 1935-1949
• The 1935 Election. A reasonably OK video on the 1935 election. I haven't had the time to carefully fact check it, but worth watching if taken with a grain of salt. Good collection of images from the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiHnV0aTLz4
• 1935 Election Victory Speech by Michel Joseph Savage - two short exerts):
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/speech/49/m-j-savage-reassuring-new-zealand-about-the-labour-government
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/speech/34030/michael-joseph-savages-victory-speech-1935
• Second (Holyoake) National Government, 1960-1972
•
1963 Interview with National Prime Minister Keith Holyoake- gives a
sense of a very different period in NZ's political history.
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/video/interview-with-prime-minister-keith-holyoake-1963
• Third (Kirk, Rowling) Labour Government, 1972-1975
•
New Zealand Labour Party TV Campaign add for the 1969 election-
illustrates the influence of the wider political context of the time.
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/video/labour-party-tv-ad-1969
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Interesting report on Labour at the time of the 1972 election. As
above, it highlights the influence of the political context over the
Labour Party.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z0mmhQAFeM
• Short speech from Norman Kirk opposing French nuclear testing in the South Pacific.
https://teara.govt.nz/en/speech/27/norman-kirk-speaking-at-the-official-farewell-to-hms-otago
"Prime Minister Norman Kirk told the 242 crew of HMNZS Otago that their Mururoa mission was an ‘honourable’ one − they were to be a ‘silent accusing witness with the power to bring alive the conscience of the world’.
France had conducted atmospheric nuclear tests at Mururoa (or Moruroa), an atoll 1250 km south-east of Tahiti, since 1966. When the French refused to accept an International Court of Justice injunction against atmospheric testing, New Zealand’s Labour government decided to alternately station two frigates, HMNZS Otago and Canterbury, in international waters outside the test area. A Cabinet minister would accompany this daring protest. Kirk put all their names into a hat and drew out that of Fraser Colman, the minister of immigration and mines. The opposition National Party declined an invitation to send an MP on Otago.
The protests had some success. In 1974, by which time 41 atmospheric tests had been conducted at Mururoa, the new French president, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, decided that future testing would be held underground. Even so, the atoll remained a focus of anti-nuclear protest. The test site at Mururoa was dismantled following France’s last underground explosion in 1996."
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/hmnzs-otago-sails-for-mururoa-test-zone
• 1975 National Party Election Anti-Labour Advertisement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbevFguT6NE
• The Rise of Sir Robert Muldoon (late 1960s to 1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPNJzxyL9IM
• 1984 General Election
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFyJvtM3uy0
It's also worth looking at this documentary - Fortress New Zealand. It documents the transition from Keynesianism to Neoliberalism (From Muldoon, to Lange, to Richardson).
It includes great interviews.
Part 1 Muldoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZXpeUQ0tD8
Part 2 Lange's first term: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7drcQVvpM0
Part 3 Lange's second term and downfall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhTgrSiiXDk
Part 4 After Lange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsvmVKqkX_o
• In a Land of Plenty: The Story of Unemployment in New Zealand
For a more systematically critical account, see the following excellent video documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vzp2_K9d2s
AV Material on the Labour Party
• David Shearer on Budget 2013- illustrates the ideology and political rhetoric of the Labour Party at this time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LKZl9HyLGk&feature=c4-overview&list=UUiz_HNe4CVNzP-yeYoFydQw
AV Material on the National Party
• John Key on Budget 2013- gives a clear illustration of the pragmatic conservatism of the National Party and the government that he led.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROiDCagPC9U&list=PL2B847CA387E265AF
2017 Election Campaign
Jacinda Ardern - Labour Campaign Ad: "Let's Do This!'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_kycR6u0Tg
• Maori Party–www.maoriparty.com/
• Conservative Party– http://www.conservativeparty.org.nz/
• International Socialist Organisation– http://www.iso.org.nz
• Funny and informative introduction to Marx's life, ideas and politics. It's a play scripted by the famous left-wing American historian - Howard Zinn - and performed brilliantly by the American teacher, actor, activist and socialist - Brian Jones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2baw7stI6U
• Animated 11 minute summary of David Harvey's Marxist analysis of the global financial crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0
• For National's presentation of its 'plan that's working' and policies as of 2014-2016 go to:
https://www.national.org.nz/plan/plan
https://www.national.org.nz/policies
• Budget 2015, including Bill English's Budget Speech, can be downloaded from:
http://www.treasury.govt.nz/budget/2015
• Treasury's 2015 economic and fiscal update provides useful information on the state of the economy and government finances since 2000.
http://www.treasury.govt.nz/budget/forecasts/befu2015
• A two minute media interview of Finance Minister Bill English about Budget 2015. Gives a good sense of the Government's justification of its neoliberal approach to economic management and policy-making:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBZk5UnBIQ4
• A three minute media interview of Prime Minister John Key about Budget 2015. Gives a good sense of the Government's justification of its neoliberal approach to economic management and policy-making:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltMDuBK118A&list=PL3ZQ5CpNulQm6tksFqnSEccOJg-PQurtj
• A defence of the Government in terms of its 'compassionate conservatism' by Bill English:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49dr8FPtCgQ&list=PL3ZQ5CpNulQm6tksFqnSEccOJg-PQurtj&index=2
• In 2013, Minister of Finance Bill English stated that:
"We don't believe there is 'a' solution to poverty in general. So I would not expect any large scale intervention. We've been focusing on reaching the hard to reach and intervening to improve their lives." http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/budget-2013/8670053/State-housing-revamp-on-the-cards
• An independent critical assessment of the Government's approach in Budget 2015 by the Child Poverty Action Group can be downloaded from: http://www.cpag.org.nz/assets/Budget/2015%20CPAG%20BUDGET%20REVIEW.pdf
The website is: http://www.cpag.org.nz/
• To critically assess the Government's performance with respect to economic management and policy-making it is worth considering the relevant official statistics.
For example, for current stats on growth, employment and offshore debt go to http://www.stats.govt.nz/ and follow the links. Balance of payments and offshore debt stats can be found here: http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/snapshots-of-nz/top-statistics.aspx
The best source of official statistical data on socio-economic inequality is here: https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/monitoring/household-incomes/
• The Politics of Climate Change and Global Warming
The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between them produced nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions generated since the dawning of the industrial age, new research suggests."
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/20/90-companies-man-made-global-warming-emissions-climate-change
• Princess Chelsea - Too Many People
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj2Xq5W7ywc
• Bic Runga - Get Some Sleep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTUSR3fbfU
• Crowded House - Four Seasons in One Day
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/four-seasons-in-one-day-1992
•The Checks - There is a Fieldhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utTOM2ZSYA8
• Dimmer - Power Cord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrIfY6aFPRM
• The Shifting Sounds - Let's Go Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d2XsSLGg8Q
•Tiki Taane -Faded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Q-oAar5DY
•Toy Love - Swimming Pool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUJsPihuR7o
• Concord Dawn - Morning Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F70ad21OM1U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csLeoYcbVOU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKX8ntjWeas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUYU5W0JVO8&list=PL4pbiHpxsbdyeUbZUbDVQA1EJCV33C4tJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HoPNCiilf4
• The Brunettes - Small Town Crew
• Die Die Die - Sideways Here We Come
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV9f4w9SXEc
• The Pheonix Foundation - Bob Lennon, John Dylan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=digLC94vx2I
• The D4 - Party!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS4q-ECzcZQ
• Shapeshifter - In Colour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Yx8VZvz1M&list=PL4pbiHpxsbdyeUbZUbDVQA1EJCV33C4tJ
• The Shifting Sands - All the Stars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cD1XAiFYw0
• Scribe - Dreaming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkgMt9BVsvQ
• The Adults - Nothing to Lose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx6G0NGZJxU
• The 3ds - Outer Space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePvmxGA2vqU
• Straightjacket Fits - She Speeds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLTtOXIhrow
• Astro Children - The One We Start With
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT1ReJoKttw
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The following NZ music videos have been suggested by students doing the paper in the past.
• Trinity Roots - Little Things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Hr6fl7zoI
• Ladi 6 - Like Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMfGodc7rzA
• Fat Freddy's Drop - Wandering Eye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCJg63SziL4
• Gin Wigmore - Oh My
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luhnj7ZPWL4
• Shunkan - Dust in Your Eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnzSkhvUDh8
• Lorde - Flume Remix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ATu1BiOPZA
• Fly My Pretties - Let's Roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmVXsNtC-_k
• The Chills - Kaleidoscope World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILvY3FoTQF8
• Don McGlashan - Miracle Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JWpNfH-onw
• Chris Knox - Not Given Lightly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaSV0ymL8jk
• Fly My Pretties - Garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLgPTeTRjeI
• Garageland - Finger Pops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rntb_E8-8fE
• Princess Chelsea - Ice Reign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYGvFvvzlBI
• Kane Strang - Winded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1SdFO7FTrQ
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• Strangely Arousing - Kupenga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOqiODEBtRE
• New Gum Sarn - Money Talks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIEAaAs1Y0E
• Death and the Maiden – Dear ______
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FaDrJuIh5w