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Pricking the South Sea bubble: from fantasy to reality in Labour–led New Zealand
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posted on 2023-06-07, 20:32 authored by Tim BaleThe fact that so few people either know or care very much about New Zealand may occasion same passing regret and even a little frustration among its inhabitants. But it is not the national obsession that some make it out to be. Recent efforts to exploit interest in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, filmed in New Zealand, do not simply reflect the understandable, if pathological, desire of a small island nation to be noticed. They have rather more to do with the hard-headed hope that Frodo and friends will further boost the tourism that plays an increasingly important role in an export sector still dangerously dependent on primary production. Likewise, the attention paid to the America's Cup (a regular gathering of rich men messing about in expensive boats) has as much to do with bringing dollars into downtown Auckland and its super-yacht industry as with the desire to show the world a thing or two in spite of the decline of the once-dominant All Blacks.
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Political QuarterlyISSN
0032-3179Publisher
Wiley-BlackwellExternal DOI
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2Volume
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202-213Pages
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- Politics Publications
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2012-02-06Usage metrics
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