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Jack Vowles
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LOCATION: Auckland, New Zealand
Professor of Political Studies; Chair of the Department, 2003–06, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Political Science and Public Policy, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 1989–2002.
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New Zealand, island country in the South Pacific Ocean, the southwesternmost part of Polynesia. New Zealand is a remote land—one of the last sizable territories suitable for habitation to be populated and settled—and lies more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Australia, its nearest…
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