I’m still puzzling over the academic who told Radio New Zealand’s listeners yesterday that he didn’t agree with me that New Zealand was remote: “we are, after all, in the middle of this great ocean, the Pacific”. I keep looking at the globe, conscious that perhaps I have a eurocentric view of the world, but….we still look about as remote as they come. And it is a sort of remoteness which, historically, hasn’t been conducive to really high levels of economic performance for lots of people (see Tristan de Cunha, St Helena, Bouvet, and even Samoa, Kiribati, or Fiji). Henry Kissinger is reported to have described Chile as “a dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica”. Much the same could be said of New Zealand, one of the Antarctic Rim countries.
But, on another topic, I noticed that Kiwibank and NZ Post were in the news this morning.
Late last week, Radio Live…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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