Book Launch: Shaping Aotearoa/New Zealand by Colin James

Join Unity Books and political journalist Colin James as he launches his most recent book, Shaping Aotearoa/New Zealand: The Revolutionaries Who Reworked a Nation and its Culture.

About the book:
In the late 1980s, New Zealand underwent a ‘quiet revolution’ – quiet only in that it didn’t involve guns and physical violence. It was a revolution of values. A remnant colony shucked off its deference to empire, opened its economy, liberalised its society and mores and set course towards a self-defining bi-cultural Aotearoa/New Zealand. This was an adventure into ‘new territory’. Who drove this revolution? What drove their restless urge for change? What New Zealand did these upstarts inherit? What did they do when they supplanted their elders? What Aotearoa/New Zealand did they leave behind and what of the future? This book explores answers to these questions.

About the author:
Colin James is a political journalist of nearly 40 years' experience, and political columnist of the year in 2003. He writes a weekly column in the Otago Daily Times and a monthly column in Management Magazine and is an occasional commentator in other media. He has written six books plus several editions of a election guide for journalists. He is a fellow of the Institute of Public Administration and a life member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery and the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union.