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Has Local Loop Unbundling Increased New Zealand's Broadband Uptake?

Howell, Bronwyn (2009)

Current Comment is an occasional series providing economic commentary on topical issues. This second issue looks at local loop unbundling and whether this has increased New Zealand's broadband uptake.

Has the Evidence Act Been a Successful Codification? Is it a True Code?

Croxford, Sarah (2015)

This paper examines the Evidence Act 2006 to determine whether it has been a successful codification of the law of evidence in New Zealand. It firstly looks to define what the definition of a code is, and then what values ...

Hatching Prosperity Together: A Dynamic Assessment of Relationships in Business Incubation in New Zealand

Starnes, Brock (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

The concept of business incubators has attracted much attention in recent years, both as descriptive of an increasingly important phenomenon and as an effective public intervention in the economies of lagging cities, ...

Hate speech and holocaust denial: The prohibition of false historical discourse in modern society

McKeown, Tessa (2014)

The existence and magnitude of the largest genocide of the twentieth century, the Holocaust, are now being denied by individuals worldwide. This paper analyses the European legislation criminalising Holocaust denial from ...

Haumanu Ipukarea reviving tūrangawaewae, identity and place

Hatton, William (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Landscapes are a fundamental component for the identity of people. This is evident through the eyes of the indigenous Māori people who express, like many indigenous cultures, that identity is formed from ones interconnected ...

Have we Dropped a Stitch? Collecting Born Digital Documentary Heritage in New Zealand Cultural Heritage Institutions

Thompson, Julia Mary (2010)

This study explored the factors affecting the nature and extent of the collection of born digital materials for long-term retention by collecting repositories in New Zealand cultural heritage institutions, below the ...

‘Having It All’? : Pre-Teen Girls Negotiate Successful Femininity

Cossens, Sophie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Depictions of girls and young women as powerful, unconstrained and outshining boys and men characterise the modern postfeminist cultural climate and imbue femininity with wide reaching success. However, research into ...

Hazardous geomorphic processes in the extratropical Andes with a focus on glacial lake outburst floods

Iribarren Anacona, Pablo (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This study examines hazardous processes and events originating from glacier and permafrost areas in the extratropical Andes (Andes of Chile and Argentina) in order to document their frequency, magnitude, dynamics and their ...

HDR luminance measurement: Comparing real and simulated data

Au, Peony Pui Yue (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

The objective of this research was to determine the adequacy of Android devices capturing High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography, and using it as a tool for daylight analysis in New Zealand’s commercial building stock. This ...

Healing Spaces: Investigating the Therapeutic Potentials of Architecture in Semi-Rural Central Java

Lee, Corinne (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

The right to health as defined by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) includes any service or facility that aids to bridge the gap between health and sickness (OHCHR 25). Whilst still ...

Healing the past or harming the furure? : "large natural groupings" and the Treaty settlement process

Birdling, Malcolm David. (2003)

Healing the race relations rift : the use of cultural understanding in conciliation

Davies, Deborah. (1997)

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015: Intention, implementation and outcomes in the hill country livestock farming industry

Neal, Bronwyn Patricia (2016)

The recently enacted Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 is intended to apply across all industries in New Zealand. The unique workplace environment and industry culture of the hill country livestock farming sector makes ...

Healthcare in the Digital Age - The Future of Health Records

Slevin, Eliot (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Electronic Health Record software (EHR), is used by medical professionals regularly to interact with patient records. The functionality of this software is key to public health, however the quality of this software does ...

Healthcare-seeking behaviour for sexually transmitted infection testing in New Zealand: A mixed methods study

Denison, Hayley (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a global public health problem. Sequelae for infected individuals can be serious and STIs impose a substantial financial burden on healthcare systems. Duration of infection is one ...

Health in the Name of Justice: Does Justice Require a Right to Health

Horwood, Morgan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Upholding and seeking justice in society has been important for philosophers and religious thinkers throughout the ages. Debates of different conceptions of justice have ranged from Plato’s conception of the just individual, ...

Health Needs Assessment: Impact on Planning and Purchasing in the Public Health Sector in New Zealand

Coster, Gregor David (Victoria University of Wellington, 2004)

Health needs assessment (HNA) is one of the features of the New Zealand health system established by the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000. District Health Boards (DHBs) are to conduct HNAs, and planning ...

The Health of Resettled Refugee Children: a Modified Systematic Review 2001-2009

Beauchamp, Jessica Ruth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Background: New Zealand regularly accepts refugee children and their families for resettlement. Refugees as a population have been reported previously as having high health needs in resettlement. A search for current ...

Health Practitioner Notification of Competence Concerns: Career Suicide v Patient Safety?

Miller, Anita (2015)

The Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights 1996 (Code of Rights) confirms that patients are entitled to health services that are provided with reasonable care and skill, and that comply with legal, ...

Health Promotion in One New Zealand Primary School: a Case Study

Pearson, Janet Ruth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2002)

This research investigated the way in which one low decile New Zealand primary school in the greater Wellington region practised health promotion, as defined by the World Health Organisation when specifying a health-promoting ...

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