Paul Hamer

Title

Senior Associate

Profile

Paul Hamer is an historian by training who has mainly worked for the Waitangi Tribunal and Te Puni Kōkiri.  In recent years his specialist area of knowledge has been the migration of Māori to Australia.  He authored a research report on this subject for Te Puni Kōkiri in 2007 after having been a visiting fellow at Griffith University in Brisbane in 2006.

He has been a Senior Associate of the Institute of Policy Studies since April 2008 and, in July 2009, joined the team working on the 'Missing Men' research project led by Paul Callister. 

In July 2010 he published a working paper on 'The impact on te reo Maori of trans-Tasman migration’. This paper looks at the number of Māori moving to Australia who speak or teach te reo and the extent to which te reo is being maintained as a community language in Australia.

In 2010 he also began working as project coordinator on the Emerging Issues Programme post-Treaty settlement issues project.’ 

Paul has an MA in history (Distinction) from Victoria University.  His Masters thesis was a study of evolving Pākehā attitudes to the indigenous in New Zealand.  Aside from his current work for the Institute of Policy Studies, he is also contracted by the Tribunal as a report writer.

Selected Recent Publications

Hamer, P. ‘The Split Tōtara: Te Reo Māori and Trans-Tasman Migration’
(forthcoming Te Reo 54, 2011)

Hamer, P (2010), 'Kiwi Keith and Kinloch: A Closer Look at Holyoake's "Proudest Achievement"', New Zealand Journal of History, vol. 44, no. 2, pp 157-173.

Hamer, P (2010) ‘The impact on te reo Maori of trans-Tasman migration’ Institute of Policy Studies Working Paper 10/11 (Wellington: Institute of Policy Studies)

Hamer, P (2009), 'One in Six? The Rapid Growth of the Maori Population in Australia', New Zealand Population Review, 33/34, pp 153-176.

Hamer, P (2009) Measuring Māori in Australia: Insights and Obstacles, Social Policy Journal of New Zealand,36, pp 77-81

Hamer, P (2008) 'Māori in Australia: Voting Rights and Behaviour' Policy Quarterly , Vol.4(3)

Hamer, P (2008) 'Rumour has it wrong about lure of the mines' New Zealand Herald, May 2.

Hamer, P (2008) 'Living and dying in the lucky country' New Zealand Herald, February 12

Hamer, P (2007) Māori in Australia: Ngā Māori i Te Ao Moemoeā (Wellington: Te Puni Kokiri)

Hamer, P (2004) 'A quarter-century of the Waitangi Tribunal: Responding to the challenge' in Janine Hayward and Nicola Wheen (eds), The Waitangi Tribunal: Te Roopu Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi (Wellington, Bridget Williams Books), pp 3-14