Development discourses and academic development knowledge reflect to a large extent the interests of the North . The Antipodes Australia and New Zealand - share an ambivalent location as countries of the North' in wealth, development and dominant intellectual genealogies but South' in latitude and history. Approaches to development have been shaped by the colonial dispossession of indigenous peoples, paternalist development relationships with impoverished and marginalised neighbours, and concerns with national security. In the 21st century they find themselves located at the edge of a...