Third Sector Review - Indigenous communities and disaster research: Maori and the Christchurch earthquakes of 2010-2011 (APAFT) - Informit

Third Sector Review - Indigenous communities and disaster research: Maori and the Christchurch earthquakes of 2010-2011 (APAFT) - Informit



An article on our research with Maori after the Christchurch earthquakes, 2010-11. Full download us $4 and helps fund the Australasian and New Zealand Third Sector Research review.

GeoNet Response to the Valentines Day 2016 Quake

Eighteenth-Century Letter-Writing and Native American Community

Eighteenth-Century Letter-Writing and Native American Community

Unemployment by ethnicity and age...

In response to a very important comment a while ago (apologies for the delay in responding :) I tracked down this data:

We see significantly greater unemployment in Maori and Pasifika 15-24 year-olds - 28-29% - and also in the 25-34 age group.

StatsNZ post a useful, unashamed, historical overview of the impacts of neoliberalism on Maori unemployment here. A better, academic, analysis by Brian Easton is here.

Occupation Outlook: missing indicators?

The just released 'Occupation Outlooks Report' from MBIE scores jobs accoridng to three broad - but fundamental - criteria: income, fees (i.e., for education and training), and job prospects.

All good.

But out of curiosity, and in the interests of having a korero on suicide, how do the 'best' ranked jobs according to this government stack up in terms of mental health?

What I've done is found the NZ job dashboard score for each of the top ten jobs for suicide in the US (can't find equivalent data in Aoteroa - any clues to a reliable source?); the score below each figure is the rate above the national US average for suicide. Rough cut but interesting...

1.87 x average suicide rate

1.67

1.54 (this is the US figure; poor buggers are armed...)

1.54

1.51

1.38

1.36

1.33

1.32

                                            1.29 x average US suicide rate.


Of course, income and job prospects are no protection against mental health crises. I'm interested in the farmers of this country and how they look after themselves or how we as a society look after them. They're getting a lot of stick at the moment and it ain't helping...