NEW ZEALAND IN THE PACIFIC

John Overton

Outline:

1. A Colonial Domain

2. Decolonisation

3. The ‘Arc of Instability’

4. The New Zealand ‘Realm’

1. A COLONIAL DOMAIN

• Richard Seddon: NZ as “the Britain of the South”

1. A COLONIAL DOMAIN

• Richard Seddon• Hector Larsen

Pack up a thug, and the one that he loves. To Niue 'cross the Pacific, to enforce administration. With bigotry, Empire’s pride, colonial rule, Island style. A hefty fist, judicial smile, the Crown sends in Larsen. Hector Larsen

from Bug my Ride by mr sterile Assembly 2009

1. A COLONIAL DOMAIN

• Richard Seddon• Hector Larsen• Mau

2. DECOLONISATION

• Samoa 1962 ... • A Negotiated Process• Constitutional Legacies• Remaining Questions?

3. THE ‘ARC OF INSTABILITY’

• Refocusing on Melanesia• Coups, corruption and crisis• Poverty alleviation and aid

Target 5.AReduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio

Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births1990 2008

Developing Regions 450 290

Sub-Saharan Africa 870 640Latin America and the Caribbean 140 85Eastern Asia 110 41Southern Asia 590 280South-Eastern Asia 380 160

Oceania 290 230

Developed Regions 16 14

Ranking of NZ ODA RecipientsRanking of NZ ODA Recipients

1985 1990 1995 2000 2006 2010

1 Cook Islands Cook Islands Cook Islands PNG Solomon Islands Solomon Islands

2 Samoa Niue Niue Samoa PNG PNG

3 Fiji PNG Samoa Indonesia Indonesia Tokelaus

4 Niue Samoa PNG Niue Niue Vanuatu

5 Tonga Fiji Tonga Tokelaus Tokelaus Niue

6 Indonesia Tokelaus Tokelaus Cook Islands Tonga Tonga

7 PNG Indonesia Fiji Solomon Islands Samoa Indonesia

8 Tokelaus Tonga Indonesia Tonga Vanuatu Samoa

9 Vanuatu Solomon Islands Solomon Islands Vanuatu Cook Islands Cook Islands

10

Solomon Islands Vanuatu Vanuatu Fiji Fiji Fiji

3. THE ‘ARC OF INSTABILITY’

• Refocusing on Melanesia• Coups, corruption and crisis• Poverty alleviation and aid• A region in need?

2. THE NEW ZEALAND ‘REALM’

• The ‘Realm’ and the ‘Realm territories’• Suburbs of NZ• Implications for relationships