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The Clydesdale report: Issues of media and academic responsibility

One of New Zealand’s leading daily newspapers, The Dominion Post, greeted its readers on 20 May 2008 with a front page headline declaring that Pacific migrants were a ‘drain on the economy’. This was claimed in a study released by Massey University...

The Māori Party and the media: Representations in mainstream print leading to the 2005 election

Race issues featured in political campaigns leading up to the 2005 election. A speech made by the leader of the National Party, Don Brash, at Orewa, 27 January 2004 decrying racial separatism and accusing the government of supporting race-based...