Vincent O'Malley

Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 05:50 UTC

"None of the key concepts contained in the proposed principles are truly present in te Tiriti. Instead, the proposed principles are built on additions, omissions and distortions of the original text".

www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 05:38 UTC

Today marks the 160th anniversary of the battle of Te Ranga, where Tauranga Māori and their allies from other iwi suffered devastating losses, followed by the confiscation of 290,000 acres of land. Watch Stories of Tauranga Moana for more on this history.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnah...

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 09:39 UTC

Yeah, definitely. Spend a week in Auckland and you get 20 hours max of research. Some of us pointed this out at the time the cuts were first proposed and initially they changed it to open 8 hours for 3 days instead but then went back to 4-hour days with no explanation.

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 06:09 UTC

Wouldn't it be great if they opened Saturdays for people like you working all week? They should be increasing accessibility, not diminishing it.

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 06:06 UTC

I wrote about why all this matters for the Spinoff back in 2020. thespinoff.co.nz/books/05-02-...

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 05:58 UTC

When Archives NZ announced they were slashing their opening hours in 2019 they cited two main reasons: declining user numbers and the need to focus on digitisation. 1. They are a public service, not a commercial radio station. 2. The digitisation programme has now been canned.

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 05:57 UTC

See the odd one out here? NZ archives open on a part-time basis when the others allow full-time research, some even opening at weekends (great idea in terms of public accessibility).

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 05:55 UTC

In London, the National Archives are closed Mondays but otherwise open
 
Tuesday
09:30 to 19:00
 
Wednesday
09:30 to 17:00
 
Thursday
09:30 to 19:00
 
Friday
09:30 to 17:00
 
Saturday
09:30 to 17:00

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/visit-...

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 05:54 UTC

In Washington, the US National Archives are open 9am-5pm Mon-Fri.
 
www.archives.gov/dc

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 05:53 UTC

In Canberra, National Archives of Australia is open 9.30am-4.30pm, Monday-Friday.
 
www.naa.gov.au/visit-us/aus...

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 05:51 UTC

In Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin you’ll be gone by lunchtime (open 9am-1pm, Mon-Fri).
 
www.archives.govt.nz/research-gui...

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 05:50 UTC

A thread on some different archival reading room hours. In NZ you can theoretically get in 5 hours a day at Archives NZ in Wellington if happy to skip lunch (open 10am-3pm, Mon-Fri).

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 05:20 UTC

Delighted to be taking part in 'Raise the Roof for Randell Cottage: Letters Live', a fundraising event for Randell Cottage, in Wellington on 15 July, featuring Emily Perkins, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Hinemoana Baker, Anna Fifield and other letter readers.

authors.org.nz/raise-the-ro...

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 05:42 UTC

‘The whenua needs to come back to the whānau’.

www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/06/07/n...

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 08:53 UTC

“Within the history of global colonisation, the Irish people have been both the ‘dispossessed’ and the ‘dispossessors’ and I believe that we have much to discover from the experiences and worldview of the Māori people.”

www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/06/07/w...

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] May 27, 2024 at 06:42 UTC

Submissions on the Ō-Rākau Remembrance Bill, which would vest the Ō-Rākau battle site in the names of those who fought there and provide for Maniapoto, Raukawa and Waikato to jointly exercise the rights of owners, are open until 14 June.

www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 19:58 UTC

"English law in nineteenth century New Zealand was not some neutral system for dispensing justice but a weapon of colonisation directed against Māori."

newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/23/a...

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 07:07 UTC

The complete closure of Archives NZ's digitisation programme is not just going to impact researchers. NZ book publishers who might want to include images in their works have been informed digitisation on demand for these purposes will no longer be available from 24 May.

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 05:49 UTC

And here is the New Fellows Seminar from @joannakidman.bsky.social 'Māori scholarship in uncertain times'

www.royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/o...

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 05:44 UTC

Here's the 10-minute seminar I gave as part of the induction for new Fellows of the Royal Society Te Apārangi a few weeks ago: 'Defining Conflicts? The New Zealand Wars'.

www.royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/o...

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] May 10, 2024 at 08:02 UTC

Also what does "transitioning more towards digital collections management" actually mean (getting rid of physical records?) and how does that work now that digitisation has stopped completely.

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] May 10, 2024 at 05:15 UTC

Archives NZ says it has enough space - for now

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] May 09, 2024 at 06:05 UTC

Archives NZ shutting down digitisation programme
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] May 08, 2024 at 06:01 UTC

Seems like one extreme to the other. First they said they had to cut reading room hours to focus on digitisation. Now that is stopping completely. That would appear to leave the Archives 2057 strategy in tatters since that was entirely premised on digitisation.

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social [ View ] May 03, 2024 at 06:01 UTC

Tickets for our New Zealand Wars session at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival next Sunday afternoon are nearly sold out, but there is also a livestreaming option if you want to watch it from elsewhere. www.eventfinda.co.nz/2024/the-new...

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