Into the fire again

Good Night Blue composed and performed by Peter Cleave

California Burn

Saw You, composed and peformed by Peter Cleave

Last Gasp Cafe 103

Song for a Contender. Idol composed and performed by Peter Cleave

Last Gasp Cafe 102

Song for a Fire. You're Free, composed and performed by Peter Cleave

Last Gasp Cafe 101

Saw You composed and performed by Peter Cleave

Last Gasp Cafe 100

Idol on a single string. Idol composed and performed by Peter Cleave

Last Gsasp Cafe 99

Song for a Ghost. Long Black Jar composed and performed by Peter Cleave

Last Gasp Cafe 98

Red Bus on a Blue Planet. Red Bus composed and performed by Peter Cleave.

Last Gasp Cafe 97

Last Gasp Cafe 97
Good Night Blue composed and performed by Peter Cleave

Wheeler's Corner

43 18th October 2007

Now before I get started, many have asked me if Wheeler’s Corner will continue now that my circumstances have changed. The answer is yes but any issues discussed in part two of council will not be discussed until they are public knowledge. As always I shall be polite and charming as a tame tiger…"who said what and when" is the key to open communication and I hope I will continue to practice that art…for art is what it is.

This Week: 1. Election has ended 2. Who came and went? 3. Thanks: 4. ‘Roosters’ 5. Opening up the council: 6. Farting in the library: 7. My God meets Chris.

The people [well some of them] have decided. The votes have been counted. I think a shock for many has been the sad loss of the Mayor Heather Tanguay. She was up against huge spending and a great deal of disruption to her campaign. She was also up against a seriously organised ‘Clique and cliché driven public campaign’. I for one admired greatly her work in the community and especially with her effort in supporting those new arrivals to our city and communities. She is a wonderful person and I wish her and her family all the best for the future. Heather’s long spell as a councillor and then mayor will not be forgotten. It takes a lot of courage to stand as mayor alone when your opposition hedges their bets. Her sponsored forums on specific issues of community importance were the highlight of her three-year term.

Palmerston North is cruel to its mayors for it dumps them after three years, is there a message there for Jonathan? It’s almost as if everyone wants to be mayor. There are hundreds if not thousands of citizens who will remember Heather with pride mainly in the smaller working class communities. Hero’s come and go, but some will not be forgotten and Heather is one of these. A working class success story.

2. Only two sitting councillors lost their seats both Gordon Cruden of Hokowhitu and Ian Cruden of Takaro. But Gordon Cruden slipped back in because Jonathan Naylor was elected mayor. It’s great to have a second chance.

Newly elected were Michael Feyen, Annette Nixon, Chris Teo-Sherrell, Ross Linklater, Jan Barnett, Bruce Wilson, David Ireland and myself and this means almost half the councillors will be new this coming term. It is a great responsibility that they have undertaken. An alert eye will have to be kept on future activities but with a new and community minded CEO’s support, the council may bring back under control the massive borrowing that has been undertaken. Improve communication with ratepayers and cease the division simply because the tight eight has now all but disappeared.

3. To all those candidates who campaigned, especially those in the Awapuni Ward I say thank you and I wish you all the best for the future. I wish also to thank Gwen Morris, Val Wilkinson, John Bos, Janice Feyen and Marilyn and Bruce Bulloch for their hard work and support. Together the impossible is possible. To all those readers of my weekly newsletter or listeners to my Access Manawatu radio broadcast and others who sent best wishes or who assisted in any way I also say thank you. I also need to thank the Trustees of Access Manawatu, The management committee of Age Concern, The members of the Palmerston North Residents Association and lastly the Community Services Council for my lack of performance over the past couple of months.

4. No doubt the local press played a part, a large part, in the mayoral campaign, it would appear that the ‘Roosters’ have done well…be that as it may, last weeks Radio NZ media watch programme was of great interest to this candidate. This is just to let the editor of the Manawatu Standard know that the Roster has landed.

5. The first major step is to review the Milson Line closure spending to see if millions can be saved in the short term. The second is to keep the Ward Committee progress advancing to assist in opening up the council to the citizens. Awapuni, Ashhurst, Papaioea, Fitzherbert and Hokowhitu had a functioning ward, while Takaro did not. We must not let this happen again. We must not allow channels of communication to close. I’m also deeply interested and getting an insight into how easy it seems to be for various property investors to be able to transform council direction over matters like the bridge and lake…I will need your help over these and other matters. I’ll keep you informed as to clinics once a location is known. I would expect the first to be held in the New Year.

6. Hello Peter,
"Just heard the results, well done! I'm suddenly looking forward to the new term and what it produces! By the way, John Wall also suspended my son for farting in the library. My son readily and happily owned up to this dramatic transgression. But he refused to bend over and be caned as a punishment! I still can't understand the severity of the offence! Sincerely, Thanks for that. Boy it must have been some fart to shake the library on its foundations!


7. My God was looking through the last council agenda [8th Oct] and she was shocked. On page 107 Cr. Peter Claridge was reported as saying that he regretted that he supported ‘The cock’ tower…and on page 114 in the apologies Chris Teo-Sherrell, was called Christ…this shocked my God. From my perspective having a Christ in council could be a big help to the new mayor. She agreed and added that since Christ is her son she’s putting adoption papers into the system to claim Chris Teo-Sherrell as her own. Let me tell Chris that if my God starts speaking to you as she doe’s to me, you’re in for a few home truths…

That’s it for this week, I’m a day early because on Wednesday its non-stop and besides that I have nothing more to say. Never forget you are the most important people in the world.

Papers to Conference

Papers to Conference




Peter Cleave












A new collection of old work.





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Introduction

The present collection starts with a paper about Samoan and Maori. That paper is seven years old but is the most recent here. People are writing to me about older material rather than more recent work. So this collection of older material is intended to meet present demand.

I am not sure that this is the right approach. The references in the collection are sometimes well out of date. Sometimes it all seems to be from another day. Some of the debates seem quaint in hindsight and so on.

Having said that, some of the papers , the opening one for example, seem more useful today than when they were written. For reasons that escape me the last essay on literacy seems to be opening more doors now than then. I even wonder now whether it is about literacy. Whatever that paper is about it has drawn a lot of comment.

One debate that may not be quaint or out of date may be the one discussed in the review of Francis Pound and Wystan Curnow from the early nineties. We might well ask what happened to this discussion. We might well also ask what the conditions for a talk like this are in 2007.

The essay on the Pa Maori which is really just a review of Best's book has always seemed to me to leave questions unanswered in the wider literature and I still think that the idea of Kai signs might be worthwhile.

There is, I suppose, a nod to other work that I find really interesting such as that discussed in Native Voice. Some of the journal work in Aotearoa, especially that found in Illusions in the nineties is, I think, important.

The discussion of o and a, the so-called case system in Maori is here through demand. This does go with a lot of other publishing in 2007. It is also, I think, a discussion of commentators which is unusual in this area. By contrast to the the work on literacy and the Pa Maori the social work papers won prizes and were published in international collections. In this sense the collection is a mix of the known and the obscure. I hope this makes up a little for the age of the collection,

Peter Cleave,
Wolfson College
2007






CONTENTS


1 Strengthening language: some more thoughts on Maori and Samoan
2007

2 Whatever happened to the Pa? Paper to the Social Anthropology Conference, Palmerston North, 1992

3 Native Voice, Illusions, 26.

4 FRANCIS POUND: HISTORY, ART AND THE SEMI-COLON, Paper to Applied Social Science noho marae at Taita in March 1996.

5 Fields of light, fields of pain; small group work in social work education in Aotearoa/ New Zealand. Following a paper to the International Federation of Social Workers in 1999.

6 On teaching o and a. Following a paper to the Sociology Department, Waikato University in 1980.

7 An ethic of empathy. Following a paper to the International Federation of Social Workers in 2001

8 What do we know about the mark on the wall? A paper written in the early nineties and presented on the internet in 2007.

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Papers of Contest

Papers of Contest


Peter Cleave





ISBN

978-1-877229-21-3


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Introduction

The theme of this collection of papers is contest. There is a challenge in each paper.

In the first paper conventional research is challenged with an idea of indigenous modes of inquiry.

The next paper looks at confrontational theatre and film in the 1990s.

The discussion of Francis Pound and Wystan Curnow considers images, symbols and the art of a place, a country, I suppose.

The review of Martin Blythe's book involves several of the themes so far considered as well as others and tries to describe an exciting analysis.

The consideration of the native, the outlaw and the frontier widens the perspective of the collection.

The rest of the papers in the collection take the idea of contest into different areas.

The discussion of Suzie Cato takes the discussion into mainstream media in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

By contrast the next article looks at work with perhaps more limited but nonetheless highly critical audiences and the construction of or the playing with a notion of the Pakeha-Maori.

The final paper is a consideration of the grotesque. This raises a number of questions that are left hanging and that, I suppose, is what happens in a collection with the theme of contest,

Peter Cleave






Contents
1 Wahi rangahau: places of inquiry

2 Native voice: 1981 and all that

3 Francis Pound: History, art and the semi colon

4 A review of Martin Blythe

5 Native, outlaw and frontier myth

6 Suzie Cato says 'Kia ora...'

7 Negotiating and constructing the Pakeha-Maori in 'The Piano', 'Monday's Warriors' and elsewhere

8 The projection of the grotesque; Maori and Pakeha-Maori in 'The Piano' and the construction of the ignoble savage in Aotearoa

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Papers on Social Work

Papers on Social Work



Peter Cleave



Second Edition









ISBN

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Papers on Social Work
Second Edition

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Introduction

These papers venture into several areas of social work but there may be some features that set the collection aside.

The first is an emphasis throughout on social work education. This interest is set out in in the first chapter where there is a comparison between local and European traditions. Work by Carola Khulmann and Peter Cleave appears early in the collection and is then taken further in subsequent papers.

One emphasis or theme which keeps coming up is to do with a ethic. This is touched in the comparison of social work in Germany and Aotearoa/New Zealand, looked at in the article, An ethic of empathy, and touched on again in the article on iwi social services.

Another theme is to do with indigenous ways of research. The paper on rangahau is the most discursive in the collection and the intention here is to take the arguments as far as they might go without necessarily coming to fixed conclusions.

Yet another pertains to the dynamics of small group work in social work learning and teaching. This work is perhaps the most widely published while some of the other papers are offered to a broader readership for the first time.

The consideration of broadcasting and social work is, I think, different from the other papers in many respects and, along with the paper on iwi social services, a little tentative in its conclusions These are both new areas of work for me and it shows. In later editions the intention is to refine and develop the arguments involved,


Peter Cleave









Contents

1 Ethics and Social Work Education

2 An ethic of empathy

3 Broadcast identity and social work

4 Social Work and Iwi Social Services: an historical approach

5 Wahi rangahau: Places of inquiry

6 Fields of light, fields of pain: small group work in social work education in Aotearoa/ New Zealand.

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Song for Ueno Park

Song for Ueno Park. Goodnight Blue composed and performed by Peter Cleave

Myanmar

Last Gasp Cafe 92

Song for a Plane. red Bus composed and performed by Peter Cleave

Song for a night on the Steppes

Saw You composed and performed by Peter Cleave. First time, one take.