Mentions of University of Otago in New Zealand Parliament debates
University of Otago has been mentioned in 98 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Adjournment 6 Oct 2011
Hon ANNETTE KING ... outstripping wages, people are working harder than ever, and they are not getting ahead. We need only to look at the Otago University study that recently said that it cost an Auckland family, mum and dad and two teenage kids, about $300 a week for ...
Video Camera Surveillance (Temporary Measures) Bill
Third Reading 6 Oct 2011
Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... generous comments about the Law Society, and other individual submitters like Associate Professor Andrew Geddis of Otago University. I thank the Hon David Parker who, in all my dealings with him, for example on legislation concerning the foreshore ...
Taxation (Annual Rates, Returns Filing, and Remedial Matters) Bill
First Reading 27 Sep 2011
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... me again make it clear—Labour will reduce the rate of GST to zero on fresh fruit and vegetables. On the advice of the University of Otago medical school, that will clearly increase the consumption of healthy food to the benefit of children and families—[Inter...
Finance
Cost of Living—Reports 14 Jul 2011
Rahui Katene Is the Minister aware that in a recent Otago University study into food insecurity involving a survey of 19,000 people researchers found that people who are food insecure had ...
Smoke-free Environments (Controls and Enforcement) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 14 Jul 2011
Hon TARIANA TURIA ... Research; Te Ohu Rata o Aotearoa, the Māori Medical Practitioners Association; the department of public health at the University of Otago; End Smoking NZ; the Public Health Association of New Zealand; the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners; ...
Instruction to Committee 13 Jul 2011
RAHUI KATENE ... advance tobacco control. George Thomson, Nick Wilson, and Richard Edwards from the department of public health of the University of Otago laid down the challenge fair and square: “New Zealand political parties now need to engage with the idea of the end of ...
Budget Debate 8 Jun 2011
GRANT ROBERTSON ... speech without being nasty. [ Interruption] Mr Finlayson is correct; I presented the award that is in his name at the University of Otago Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival. It is the “Christopher Finlayson Award for Nastiness”. That is what the award is; ...
Hamilton City Council (Parana Park) Land Vesting Bill
Third Reading 4 May 2011
Dr CAM CALDER ... educational purposes in whatever manner they so wish. As a young boy growing up in a single-parent family and off to Otago University, I received a donation from the J R McKenzie Trust, which was gratefully appreciated at the time, and indeed is ...
Appointments - Abortion Supervisory Committee
Abortion Supervisory Committee 7 Apr 2011
Hon SIMON POWER ... for her contribution to the committee. Dame Linda Holloway, previously pro vice-chancellor of health sciences at Otago University, is a highly respected health professional, who was made a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit ...
General Debate 23 Mar 2011
Hon STEVEN JOYCE ... get the show back on the road. There are also other institutions a little less affected, like Lincoln University and Otago University, which have not only looked after their own people but offered help to other institutions. I have looked at the ...
Education Amendment Bill (No 2), Health and Safety in Employment Amendment Bill - Third Readings
Third Readings 11 Dec 2010
DAVID SHEARER ... have talked about the fact that this legislation is not addressing the real issues. I acknowledge Richie Poulton from Otago University in Dunedin, who is head of the longitudinal study. He picked up the Frank Josef prize of 1 million Swiss francs in ...
Electoral Referendum Bill
Second Reading 7 Dec 2010
GRANT ROBERTSON ... I should not say that. In 1992, when the original referendum was going through, I was a student politician at Otago University, as I was in 1993 when we had the second referendum. It would be fair to say that as students we put a lot of effort ...
Taxation (GST and Remedial Matters) Bill
Second Reading 24 Nov 2010
RAHUI KATENE ... and fairness if ever I heard one. I will share with the House the finding from Professor Tony Blakely from Otago University’s public health department. He has been looking into whether price discounts change people’s eating habits. The study ...
Alcohol Reform Bill
Second Reading 13 Sep 2011
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... from off-licensed premises than from on-licensed premises. It is a measure of inequity, as well. A study done by Otago University showed that lower socio-economic suburbs were likely to have more liquor outlets than any other suburbs. That is ...
First Reading 11 Nov 2010
SUE KEDGLEY ... drink-driving. That is a perfect recipe for maintaining a heavy-drinking culture, or, as Professor Jennie Connor from Otago University put it, the measures proposed in this bill are like “fighting a bush fire with a couple of garden hoses for the next ...
Electoral (Disqualification of Sentenced Prisoners) Amendment Bill
In Committee 10 Nov 2010
GRANT ROBERTSON ... that the whole House, and indeed New Zealand, owes a debt of gratitude to Associate Professor Andrew Geddis from the Otago University school of law, because he—
Employment Relations (Film Production Work) Amendment Bill
First Reading 28 Oct 2010
Hon DAVID PARKER ... ‘independent contractors’ and ‘employees’ as it relates to the local film industry.” I think Professor Roth at the University of Otago called it right in one of the major dailies in New Zealand last week when he said that this is just banana republic ...
Motions - Food Standards—Folic Acid in Bread
Food Standards—Folic Acid in Bread 12 Oct 2010
Hon KATE WILKINSON ... of the folic acid standard before the amendment expires in May 2012. This research includes work to be undertaken by Otago University to provide a comparison of the concentration of folate in red blood cells before and after the voluntary fortification ...
Royal Society of New Zealand Amendment Bill
In Committee 6 Jul 2011
GRANT ROBERTSON
... their regular work, they do get recompense. In a previous life, before being in Parliament, when I worked for the University of Otago I knew of a number of Otago University academics who spent time on Royal Society projects. The university would have ...
... In a previous life, before being in Parliament, when I worked for the University of Otago I knew of a number of Otago University academics who spent time on Royal Society projects. The university would have been reimbursed for that time by the ...
GRANT ROBERTSON ... Royal Society and are covered by clause 9. One of those is Richie Poulton, who runs the multidisciplinary centre at Otago University. That is the centre that works with a cohort of people born in 1972 at Queen Mary Hospital in Dunedin. That ...
GRANT ROBERTSON ... of people: Len Cook, the former Government Statistician, Jean Fleming from the Centre for Science Communication at Otago University and also—I think I am right—a member of the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification, as well. The people who play a ...
In Committee 4 May 2011
GRANT ROBERTSON ... It includes Garth Carnaby, who is currently also the president of the council. It includes Keith Hunter from Otago University, who is a member of the council, but it also includes outsiders. It includes, for instance, Phil O’Reilly from ...
MOANA MACKEY
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I congratulate the Otago University on the work being done there. When my colleague David Shearer and I visited the University of Otago we saw that it was doing a lot of what is called multidisciplinary work, where it was bringing together not just social ...
... time we have been doing that. For a long time they have existed very separately from each other.
I congratulate the Otago University on the work being done there. When my colleague David Shearer and I visited the University of Otago we saw that it was ...
Second Reading 23 Mar 2011
MOANA MACKEY ...ssions—that due consideration is not given to that research. The multidisciplinary research that is being done at the Otago University has shown the absolutely important and crucial role that quality early childhood education can play in the long-term ...
First Reading 22 Sep 2010
GRANT ROBERTSON ... this House, I worked very closely with an organisation called the Centre for Sustainable Cities, which is based at Otago University’s medical school. It brings together people from the pure sciences—such as physics and energy research—right through ...
MOANA MACKEY ... the outcomes are outstanding. I recently visited the centre for the study of agriculture, food and environment at Otago University, which is not a centre of research excellence but a multidisciplinary group. It brings together economists, ...
Financial Markets (Regulators and KiwiSaver) Bill, Auditor Regulation and External Reporting Bill - First Readings
First Readings 21 Sep 2010
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... fact, I am informed tonight that they were at school together at Christ’s College from 1978 to 1984. They studied at Otago University, doing B Com degrees together at the same time, and they then worked together at Spicers Portfolio Management, where ...
Land Transport (Road Safety and Other Matters) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 5 May 2011
RAHUI KATENE ... article by a team of writers, including a distinguished researcher from the Ngāi Tahu Māori health research unit at Otago University, John Broughton. The paper was entitled “Road safety attitudes and opinions of newly licensed Māori car drivers: New ...
Second Reading 6 Apr 2011
KRIS FAAFOI ... three knew they would not be safe behind the wheel. Again, in the Otago Daily Times on 9 April, Otago University public health physician and epidemiologist Jennie Connor said that drivers with a blood-alcohol level of 80mg were ...
First Reading 16 Sep 2010
DAVID SHEARER ... of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood, let me quote one physician, Professor Jennie Connor, an epidemiologist from Otago University. She said that reducing the level from 80 to 50 will have four times more impact in terms of fatal road crashes. ...
Goods and Services Tax (Exemption of Healthy Food) Amendment Bill
First Reading 8 Sep 2010
RAHUI KATENE ... conditions, and poor health status for children in low-income families in New Zealand. Professor Tony Blakely from Otago University’s public health department has made a substantial contribution to this debate through his study surveying the health ...
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 28 Jul 2010
GARETH HUGHES ... get an F. I think he has been a failure as a Minister. Right now, if you want to study at Victoria University, the University of Otago, Waikato University, Massey University, or Auckland University, the chances are that you might not get to be enrolled, ...
Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill 2009
Third Reading 20 Jul 2010
CHRIS HIPKINS It may be a one-off fee, but people on low incomes, students in particular—and Katrina Shanks talked about Otago University students—now potentially face another fee on top of all the fees that they have to pay at the beginning of the year in ...
Tariff (Malaysia Free Trade Agreement) Amendment Bill
In Committee 24 Jun 2010
GRANT ROBERTSON ... of what we are doing. We have a good history with Malaysia in that area. I know that the university I attended, the University of Otago, had a significant number of Malaysian students over the years, including people who have risen to the heights of being ...
In Committee 24 Jun 2010
GRANT ROBERTSON ... of what we are doing. We have a good history with Malaysia in that area. I know that the university I attended, the University of Otago, had a significant number of Malaysian students over the years, including people who have risen to the heights of being ...
In Committee 24 Jun 2010
GRANT ROBERTSON ... of what we are doing. We have a good history with Malaysia in that area. I know that the university I attended, the University of Otago, had a significant number of Malaysian students over the years, including people who have risen to the heights of being ...
First Reading 20 Apr 2010
Hon PETE HODGSON ... relationship between New Zealand and Malaysia is already quite good. I have the pleasure of representing Otago University. Even today, if one looks at the numbers of foreign students at Otago University, one sees that, after the US, ...
Obituaries - Raihā, Lady Māhuta
Raihā, Lady Māhuta 23 Mar 2010
Hon JOHN KEY ... for her Waikato-Tainui links, but she also acknowledged her northern tribal connections. She studied physiotherapy at Otago University in the 1960s, where she met her future husband, Robert Māhuta. Following the death of her husband, Sir Robert, in 2001,...
Student Loan Scheme (Exemptions and Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 25 Feb 2010
JO GOODHEW ... In fact, I have a story from close to home, a story about a retro party that is happening tonight in Dunedin, at Otago University. My daughter has purchased a bright orange frock from an op shop, and she is adding that to her bright yellow shoes—so ...
Accident Compensation Amendment Bill 2009
In Committee 24 Feb 2010
Hon DAVID PARKER ... now reversing that trend, and I think this is a shocking example. It relates to a programme that was developed at the University of Otago Faculty of Medicine, and has now been rolled out through most parts of New Zealand. It is the Otago Exercise Programme ...
Hon DAVID PARKER ... one of the great problem areas is the growth in falls by the elderly in their homes. A programme developed by the University of Otago Faculty of Medicine is directly targeted at the most at-risk group, which is made up of people who are more than 80 ...
Hon RUTH DYSON ... area of injury prevention for those people through the National Falls Prevention Strategy. I say all credit to Otago University for the amazing work—led, in particular, by Professor A John Campbell—that was done with that injury prevention ...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... a downturn, a downsizing, or a reduction in attention to injury prevention, or if more programmes of the ilk of the University of Otago Faculty of Medicine falls prevention programme are to be cut, I want the Minister to explain to the Committee why he ...
Children, Young Persons, and Their Families (Youth Courts Jurisdiction and Orders) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 10 Feb 2010
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... the Chief Family Court Judge and all the researchers who spoke at that meeting that day, such as Richie Poulton from Otago University and David Fergusson from the longitudinal study in Canterbury. We had there everyone with a long-term interest in ...
Carter Observatory Act Repeal Bill
Second Reading 19 May 2010
DAVID SHEARER ... University has always welcomed experts from other universities to share that observatory—from Victoria University, Otago University, and Auckland University. So, in a sense, we are not losing anything here, but are regrouping our resources in a much ...
First Reading 22 Oct 2009
DAVID SHEARER ... and support for astronomy. Canterbury has always welcomed outside users of its telescope, particularly from the University of Otago and the University of Auckland. It would be situated in the University of Canterbury’s Mount John Observatory, which is ...
Sentencing (Vehicle Confiscation) Amendment Bill, Summary Proceedings (Vehicle Seizure) Amendment Bill, Privacy Amendment Bill - Third Readings
Third Readings 21 Oct 2009
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... In a study published by the Ngāi Tahu Māori health research centre and the injury prevention research unit at the University of Otago, a key finding was that youth was an important risk factor, with two-thirds of Maori casualties aged between 15 and 34 ...
Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 28 Sep 2011
RAHUI KATENE
... the issues around students associations and their fate under this bill. That email stated: “As a past student of the University of Otago and a past tumuaki of Te Roopu Maori, Maori Student Association at Otago University I would like to express my thanks ...
...tated: “As a past student of the University of Otago and a past tumuaki of Te Roopu Maori, Maori Student Association at Otago University I would like to express my thanks to you and the Party for attempting to suspend the progress of this Bill. I also ...
Third Reading 28 Sep 2011
MICHAEL WOODHOUSE ... (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill would pass in this term of Parliament. I did say that, to Logan Edgar at the Otago University Students’ Association and to David Do of the New Zealand University Students’ Association. It is, however, complete ...
In Committee 7 Sep 2011
GRANT ROBERTSON ... It was a dissertation; I should not overstate what it was. I am sure it has been one of the highest interloans the University of Otago library has ever had! I will talk about two additional clauses that are being proposed by Labour. In particular, I ...
DAVID SHEARER ... at the way that the different institutions vary amongst each other. The students association in a large body such as Otago University might be somewhat different from that in a small polytech or even a private training establishment in the way that it ...
In Committee 3 Aug 2011
Hon RICK BARKER I seek the leave of the House to table a submission on behalf of the Otago University Students’ Association as supplementary submission No. 5.
Hon PETE HODGSON ... of Dunedin North, wherein lie more students than in any other electorate in the country, nearly all of whom come from Otago University. Most of the remainder come from Otago Polytechnic, and the remainder of those who are not in secondary school are ...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... Mr Tau Henare to answer his question. His question was “Why?”. Why would it be that on the passage of this bill the Otago University Students’ Association might become seriously weakened? It is an important institution in Dunedin. My answer is that ...
In Committee 23 Mar 2011
CHRIS HIPKINS ... next one, because if he keeps going along those lines, I am sure we could have quite a rigorous debate about it. Otago University estimated that it had the help of 598 volunteers in 2009, who provided over 20,000 volunteer hours amongst them. All ...
Second Reading 20 Oct 2010
RAHUI KATENE ... of the people with the House. Towards the southern end of my electorate of Te Tai Tonga, Te Roopu Whai Pūtake, the Otago University Māori Law Students Association, opposed the bill on the basis that it “attacks the Māori student voice and their ...
GRANT ROBERTSON I seek leave of the House to table the constitution and rules of the Otago University Students’ Association, including section 5 on the question of membership and the ability to object to membership.
First Reading 23 Sep 2009
DAVID GARRETT ... Association treasurer, Wi Nepia, was jailed for stealing $161,000 of student money. Last but, sadly, not least, Otago University’s Te Roopu Maori, the Māori students association at that university, collapsed amid allegations of financial ...
Maiden Statements 2 Jul 2009
Dr CAM CALDER ... School and New Plymouth Boys’ High School gave me a solid grounding and allowed me to proceed to further study at Otago University. After post-graduate study in Australia, I set off from Melbourne with a pack on my back. I took a boat from Perth to ...
Climate Change Response (Emissions Trading Forestry Sector) Amendment Bill 2009
Third Reading 30 Jun 2009
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... science forum. I think the Assistant Speaker Mr Roy was there. We heard a presentation from an eminent academic at Otago University who talked about a phenomenon that was new to me: the increasing acidification of the oceans thanks to human-related ...
Budget Debate 4 Jun 2009
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... Philippa Howden-Chapman, a public health research pioneer at the Wellington school of medicine and health sciences at Otago University. Professor Howden-Chapman secured around $7 million to undertake research into the impact of unhealthy home ...
Privilege - Consideration of Report of Privileges Committee, Freedom of Speech of Members of Parliament—Court Orders
Consideration of Report of Privileges Committee, Freedom of Speech of Members of Parliament—Court Orders 2 Jun 2009
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... Philip Joseph of Canterbury University, one of my old lecturers, and Associate Professor Andrew Geddis of the University of Otago. Members might also note that the committee heard evidence from Tim Pankhurst and Tim Murphy from the New Zealand ...
Local Government
Water-quality Standards—Reports 29 Apr 2009
Brendon Burns: I seek leave to table two papers from Otago University that show that New Zealand has some of the highest recorded rates of gut infections caused by cryptosporidium and ...
General Debate 8 Apr 2009
TIM MACINDOE ... such a warm tribute from all members, regardless of their political allegiances. As a former history student of the University of Otago, I am also looking forward to the valedictory address of my former lecturer, the Hon Dr Michael Cullen, as he takes his ...
Education
Schools—Staff-pupil Ratios 18 Feb 2009
Hon Rodney Hide ... second document I tabled was a newspaper clipping reporting Metiria Turei complaining about the police operation on University of Otago students. Again, I did not manufacture that document. The two documents showed precisely the point that I sought leave ...
Maiden Statements 17 Dec 2008
MICHAEL WOODHOUSE ... we are at risk of not fulfilling our intellectual and entrepreneurial potential. Our universities and, in particular, Otago University, are founts of awesome knowledge and research capability. The challenge for government is to encourage them to ...
Maiden Statements 16 Dec 2008
... for our families of decisions made in this House. I am a former teacher, a former public servant, a former Otago University student politician, a former student of Dr Michael Cullen—and of the deputy mayor of Wellington—a former prison tutor ...
Sentencing (Offences Against Children) Amendment Bill
First Reading 13 Dec 2008
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... I quote the words not of a politician, or of somebody who is partisan in this House, but of a learned expert, Otago University professor Geoff Hall, who, as members will know, specialises in sentencing in criminal law. He said that section 9(1) ...
Hon PHIL GOFF ... in New Zealand, written by the foremost expert on sentencing. That expert is Professor Geoffrey Hall from the University of Otago. I will read out what Professor Hall says about this legislation. He stated that section 9(1)(g) of the Sentencing Act ...
Bail Amendment Bill 2008
Second Reading 12 Dec 2008
Hon PHIL GOFF ... window dressing—the accusation made against Mr Power by the pre-eminent expert on sentencing and criminal law at Otago University, Professor Geoff Hall. It is window dressing. Why are we sitting here, under urgency, passing legislation that is ...
In Committee 12 Dec 2008
Hon PHIL GOFF ... to the Committee that he is into window dressing rather than reality, as he has been accused of by a professor at Otago University? Given that this legislation is patently window dressing, will he acknowledge that it really does not change things? ...
Maiden Statements 11 Dec 2008
NIKKI KAYE ... for coming. My professional and academic background has been diverse. I have a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Otago, majoring in genetics, and I hope to complete a law degree soon. My professional experience includes working in ...
GRANT ROBERTSON ... At university I became involved in the fight against user-pays in education. I ended up as the student president at Otago University and, in turn, here in Wellington for the New Zealand University Students Association. I learnt a great deal as a ...
Building and Construction
Leaky Homes—Government Initiatives 1 Jul 2008
Hon Dr Nick Smith ... from Local Government New Zealand that $800 million is to be spent on litigation over leaky homes, and the report by Otago University that states that over $474 million will be spent on health costs associated with leaky homes, as well as causing an ...
Trade
New Zealand - Japan—Trade Relationship 20 May 2008
Hon PHIL GOFF ... the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has not done its own detailed analysis of it, independent analysis by University of Otago economists this year estimated the benefits at around US$395 million a year, and that is simply the gain from removing ...
Debate on Crown Entities, Public Organisations, and State Enterprises - In Committee
In Committee 14 May 2008
JUDITH COLLINS ... All the commission has to do is to start to look at the really great research that is already being undertaken at Otago University and Canterbury University, and that is now being undertaken at Auckland University, as well. The longitudinal studies ...
Justice
Election Advertising—Financial Agent Authorisation 11 Mar 2008
Hon PETE HODGSON ... law. If he is intent on going tit for tat, then that is what we will do. I can advise Mr Smith that last month, at Otago University, National Party member of Parliament Dr Paul Hutchison was giving out National Party parliamentary material whilst at ...
Hon PETE HODGSON At Otago University a few Wednesdays ago, the National Party had a stall from which people passed out parliamentary National Party material,...
Misuse of Drugs (Classification of BZP) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 5 Mar 2008
HONE HARAWIRA ... the Ministry of Health, the New Zealand Social Tonics Association, the New Zealand Drug Foundation, Care NZ, and the University of Otago. The Youth Parliament’s report, tabled in this House on 11 July 2007, stated: “The Health Committee has come to the ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 13 Feb 2008
Hon TARIANA TURIA ... stakeholder group on the margins. Let us look to the innovation of the indigenous mind for solutions. Last week an Otago University study described the rich and enthusiastic way in which Māori mothers appeared to talk to their children as being a ...
Research, Science and Technology
Research and Development—Technology Transfer Voucher Scheme 28 Oct 2010
Hon Dr WAYNE MAPP ... and they get their research done by these institutions. The initial six institutions are the University of Auckland, Otago University, the University of Canterbury, Auckland University of Technology, WelTec, and Industrial Research Ltd, covering, of ...
Science—New Zealand Breakthrough 21 Nov 2007
Hon PETE HODGSON ...dystrophy; and news of a wound-healing gel derived from squid has just been made public by the chemistry department at Otago University. I think it is appropriate for this House to commend those remarkable advances, and I am sure we all do.
Food Safety
Food-borne Illness—Government Initiatives 15 Nov 2007
Sue Kedgley ... warning labels to be placed on all fresh chicken sold in New Zealand stating “May contain campylobacter”, given the University of Otago’s recently released research that found that most chickens in New Zealand are contaminated, and that New Zealand should ...
Education (Tertiary Reforms) Amendment Bill
In Committee 15 Nov 2007
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... campus up in Auckland was told that it was out of region and to go down to Palmerston North, or, likewise, if the Otago University campus up here in Wellington was told that it was out of region and to go down to Dunedin. The commission has ...
Crimes (Repeal of Seditious Offences) Amendment Bill
In Committee 23 Oct 2007
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... support for the bill, most were short and provided comments such as that of Associate Professor Geddis of the University of Otago faculty of law. He stated: “My submission is brief. I support this bill for the reasons outlined in the Law Commission’s...
Education (Establishment of Universities of Technology) Amendment Bill
First Reading 25 Jul 2007
Hon BRIAN DONNELLY ... of universities. Those two were very aristocratic institutions. In New Zealand our first university, the University of Otago, was established in 1869. The first lecture was given by G S Sale, the professor of classics, in which he claimed that ...
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 17 Jul 2007
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... for 5 or 6 years—but only one centre, out of 26, received this award. It was regarded as an absolute fiasco by the Otago University vice-chancellor, Professor David Skegg. The next in line, Professor White, said that the weakness was in the process ...
Evidence Amendment Bill 2007
Second Reading 28 Jun 2007
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... been interested, in the context of such questions, to learn about the establishment of a legal issues centre at the University of Otago, which has been set up to provide such a bird’s-eye view. The dean of the University of Otago’s faculty of law, ...
Rural Affairs
Medical Services—Rural Areas 21 Jun 2007
Hon DAMIEN O'CONNOR ... to spend a year working and studying at Whangarei Hospital and smaller hospitals in Northland. Thirdly, the University of Otago has been given $300,000 to develop a curriculum for a rural medical immersion programme at two rural district health ...
Appointments - Abortion Supervisory Committee
Abortion Supervisory Committee 14 Jun 2007
Hon MARK BURTON ... of the legislation. Professor Linda Holloway, who was previously pro vice-chancellor of health sciences at Otago University, was appointed chair of the National Health Committee in 2006, having been a member of it since 2002. She is a ...
Budget Debate 23 May 2007
GORDON COPELAND ... the need to provide tax incentives for savings with Professor Graeme Fogelberg, the then Vice-Chancellor at Otago University. We lamented the lack of such tax incentives, and I remember his trenchant criticism of those here in New Zealand who ...
Social Security (Entitlement Cards) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 15 May 2007
TARIANA TURIA ... intended. The concerns around microchipping are influenced by a paper from Dr Paul Roth, a professor of law at the University of Otago. In his paper Workplace Privacy Issues Raised by RFID Technology, he describes a case in 2004 where a Mexican Attorney-Ge...
Immigration Advisers Licensing Bill
Third Reading 1 May 2007
METIRIA TUREI ... fees and their air tickets, and they have been here ever since. The children are again at school. One has gone to Otago University and is doing very well there. This family are committed to this country, and their treatment at the hands of the ...
Student Loan Scheme Amendment Bill (No 2) 2006
In Committee 21 Mar 2007
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... across the board in terms of all socio-economic areas and ethnicities. I think that is tremendous. When I was at Otago University I was told that fewer than 0.05 percent of the students down there were Māori. As I understand it, the figure is now ...
Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Bill
In Committee 28 Mar 2007
CHESTER BORROWS ... a threat to his or her child. Who will it send a message to? Which children are they actually seeking to protect? The Otago University longitudinal study found that children raised in a safe, loving, and nurturing home who were smacked achieve all the ...
In Committee 14 Mar 2007
CHRIS TREMAIN ... date—I am right into it. No decent research has shown there should be a commencement date for this bill. The Otago University study implied there should not be a commencement date. It says that children who are smacked in a reasonable way had ...
Sale of Liquor (Youth Alcohol Harm Reduction: Purchase Age) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 8 Nov 2006
MARTIN GALLAGHER
... of the injury prevention research unit, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago and his team. As members will be aware, they were engaged in an exercise for the American Journal of Public Health and ...
... the age of purchase has clearly not worked and has been very detrimental in our country. Professor Langley, of Otago University, and a team of international researchers concluded that there were significantly more alcohol-involved crashes among ...
Dr WAYNE MAPP ... this matter. They want a sensible solution. Front-line police want a sensible solution. The injury prevention unit at Otago University has stated that the rate of injuries sustained by young drivers has not declined to the same extent as that of all ...
Hon JIM ANDERTON
Studies by the injury prevention research unit of the University of Otago show that hazardous alcohol consumption is the leading modifiable cause of injury in New Zealand. It accounts for 78 ...
... a big difference the other way round—absolutely. The proof of that is irrefutable. If any members have not read the Otago University studies in that regard, they should. Professor Langley from the injury prevention research unit at Otago University ...
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... the drinking age was lowered in 1999, should we just turn a blind eye? When the injury prevention research unit of Otago University advises us that hazardous alcohol consumption is the leading modifiable cause of injury and accounts for 78 percent of ...
Geographical Indications (Wine and Spirits) Registration Bill
In Committee 7 Nov 2006
TIM GROSER ... the characteristics of wine, he or she will have only as much experience as he or she will have acquired at the University of Otago—it may be rather more than at other universities—through the consumption of wine up till that point. To make decisions ...
Health
Primary Health Organisations—Māori Enrolments 20 Jun 2007
Hon MITA RIRINUI ... issues in that area. I also receive other reports on a regular basis—for example, from Ngāti Porou Hauora and the University of Otago on their Ngāti and Healthy programme, which is run through the Tairāwhiti District Health Board. To cut a long story ...
Health Services—Value for Money 22 Feb 2007
Hon PETE HODGSON ... I had the opportunity or the pleasure of spending part of the day in my own electorate of Dunedin. There I found the Otago University health centre offering an iPod for registration. I doubt that the member would consider that unethical, and I wonder ...
Community-based Clinics—At-risk Children 31 Aug 2006
Hon PETE HODGSON There is evidence from a number of sources, including a University of Otago study, that the Government’s plan will significantly improve access. The community model is also showing early, but ...
Tertiary Education
Earthquake, Christchurch—Assistance for Tertiary Institutions and Students 8 Mar 2011
Hon STEVEN JOYCE Firstly, I note that it is the intention of Canterbury University, Lincoln University, and Otago University to begin to restart classes in Christchurch next week on 14 March, and they will progressively increase their ...
Tertiary Education—Management of Enrolments 4 Aug 2010
Hon STEVEN JOYCE ... quoted are interesting numbers. The reality is that they are the numbers mostly quoted in the media. I notice that Otago University has closed its enrolments, and in actual fact has turned down 30 applications for the second semester of 2010. ...
University Courses—Restricted Enrolments 23 Jun 2010
Grant Robertson ... is the Minister standing by as Auckland University, Waikato University, Massey University, Victoria University, and Otago University all restrict entry far more than ever before; or is he no longer ambitious for New Zealand?
Medicine and Dentistry—Education Standards 12 Dec 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN As I indicated, this very substantial amount of increased funding is related to discussions with both the University of Otago and the University of Auckland around increasing activities in relation to the training of rural general practitioners. ...
Tertiary Education—Advertising and Marketing 29 Jun 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN Yes, but of course when Victoria University is trying to compete with Otago University, it has to use any gimmicks possible.
Consumer's Right to Know (Food Information) Bill
First Reading 28 Jun 2006
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... or indeed from post-harvest or post-fumigation treatments. This House may not be aware of recent research from Otago University, which revealed that several traditional Māori food plants are rich potential sources of cancer-fighting antioxidants. ...
Supplementary Estimates - Imprest Supply Debate
Imprest Supply Debate 20 Jun 2006
Hon PETE HODGSON ... in the 7 long years of this Government we began, first of all, a course in dental therapy at the dental school at Otago University, and, secondly, a second course in dental therapy at the Auckland University of Technology. Those courses have been ...
Budget Debate 23 May 2006
JO GOODHEW ... are much less likely to go back to those particular practices. The director of Te Waipounamu Rural Health Unit at Otago University, Dr Pat Farry, is feeling really, really unhappy about that, and he expressed his dismay in the article: “This looming ...
Debate on Crown Entities, Public Organisations, and State Enterprises - In Committee
In Committee 16 May 2006
Hon BRIAN DONNELLY ... Zealand, and a National Centre for Reproductive Sciences and Mammalian Genomics in Dunedin in partnership with the University of Otago. So we get some sense of the complexity of the arrangements that are taking place within our society. One of the ...
KEITH LOCKE ... up in one of the forums hosted by the Privacy Commissioner is the microchipping of people. This was in a paper by University of Otago Professor Paul Roth, about workplace privacy issues raised by radio frequency ID technology. He refers to the Mexican ...
Housing
Housing Statistics— 2 May 2006
Hon CHRIS CARTER Yes. The Housing, Crowding and Health study just published by the University of Otago shows that the health of tenants in State houses improves significantly once they move from the waiting list to a State ...
Urgent Debates - David Parker—Resignation from Executive
David Parker—Resignation from Executive 21 Mar 2006
Hon PETE HODGSON ... a bright guy. He managed to get himself through a law degree, a commerce degree, and his professionals in 5 years at Otago University. He worked while he was doing that as a woolstore worker, on roading gangs, in the port, and as a gardener. Soon after ...
Lawyers and Conveyancers Bill
Third Reading 2 Mar 2006
RUSSELL FAIRBROTHER ... was not a member of the independent Bar. We go on to Justice Robertson, who attended the University of Virginia and Otago University, and was a partner in a Dunedin law firm—which should not be held against him—and a Harkness Fellow in 1972-73. He has ...
Taxation (Annual Rates and Urgent Measures) Bill
In Committee 13 Dec 2005
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ...roblem—and for all that Southland country bumpkin thing, he is actually a first-class honours English graduate from the University of Otago—is that he knows these things. He knows that, in fact, giving a tax cut is the same as having an increase in spending ...