ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the post-September 11 'new times' of belligerent democracy, embodied in the tactics of the 'war on terrorism' embraced by the United States and Australia, is actually rooted much more deeply in the failure of liberal multiculturalism to provide meaningful cultural recognition. It looks at an intersection in law and policy discourses on 'raced' immigration and the indigenous Maori people. The chapter also argues that the shift to the new enterprise society resulted in shifts to immigration law and policy to conform it to the production of an entrepreneurial society. The shift in New Zealand's immigration policy to conform it to the new enterprise society created tensions in the largely homogenous white British population, as well as within the bicultural national identity. The blurring of Asian immigrants with foreign investment in New Zealand corporations and formerly state-owned assets, a prominent neo-liberal economic policy, illustrates their embodiment of economic policies.
