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By Pokere Paewai of RNZ Huia Publishers has won the Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year, Oceania, at the Bologna Children’s Book...

Huia Publishers have won the Bologna Prize for the Best Children's Publishers of the Year, Oceania, at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in Italy.

Huia Publishers has been a trailblazer for publishing for 30 years, committed to providing a platform for Māori voices and perspectives. Robyn Bargh founded the business in 1991, when the publishers of the time weren’t producing the books she wanted to read, the books that spoke to her experience as Māori. Since then, the Māori-led business has produced more than 1000 books in te reo Māori, and thousands more fiction and non-fiction titles written in English. When Huia first began, boo...

Three years after helping to get rid of this upstart African democratic leader, the United States was instrumental in putting away Nelson Mandela for 28 years. The horror of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Chile, Grenada, Panama, Iraq (to name just a selection) were still to come…. 60 years on, Patrice Lumumba’s assassination stands as a gruesome reminder of post-colonial brutality by Peter Bolton Jan. 17, 2021 "Information Clearing House" – Exactly 60 years a...

Written By: lprent - Date published: 4:43 pm, January 17th, 2021 - 18 comments I have a problem with dimwits waving around a slogan of “free speech” without understanding it. Ignorant fools more interested in screaming slogans than understanding the constraints of their ‘right’. The events of the last 4 years in the USA have made that very clear. So I thought I�...

Written By: lprent - Date published: 4:43 pm, January 17th, 2021 - 18 comments I have a problem with dimwits waving around a slogan of “free speech” without understanding it. Ignorant fools more interested in screaming slogans than understanding the constraints of their ‘right’. The events of the last 4 years in the USA have made that very clear. So I thought I�...

Meet the residents: Huia Books publisher Eboni Waitere Lucy Revill’s The Residents is a blog about daily life in Wellington that has morphed into a stylish, low-key coffee-table book featuring interviews and photographic portraits of 38 Wellingtonians. In this extract, Revill profiles Eboni Waitere, owner and executive director of Huia Publishers. The Residents features names like Monique Fiso and Jacinda Ardern, a bunch of artists and musos, a cobbler, a professor, a parliamentary services ...

???? Chomsky does no such thing. Arguably the bombing of North Korea went beyond the principle of the least force necessary… Good, you got one thing right. Thats encouraging. RedLogix … Took another quick scan of your linked article – no mention of the Cold War that I can see. Maybe I missed it. If you want to understand an event properly, its essential to have a clear grasp of the context. The left is supposed to be good at this sort of thing. But stepping back from...