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Sometimes I'm a bit torn about what to put in this column. There are generally two directions things can go. Firstly, and the most tempting, is I can have a bit of a rant about something. That is, if nothing else, cathartic. It might be picking at the Oscars like last week, and wasn't that a show? Though in retrospect I would tend to add another four-letter word beginning with “s” in front of “show”. Or I could be banging on about some local annoyance, though occasions for that have certainly decreased now the seven dwarfs, or however many councillors there were, have been temporarily...

(Pictured L-R: Tūmanako Silveira, Erehana Taumanu, and Rawiri Waititi feature in the ‘Proud to be Māori’ campaign) Te Whānau O Waipareira’s brand new, heavy-hitting Proud To Be Māori campaign, developed by Motion Sickness, reflects the optimistic, passionate and aspirational spirit that guides the West Auckland urban Māori support network.   Founded as an advocate for its people – those who came to the city seeking work ­– the organisation acts as a navigator to light the path for its community by supporting positive life changes for whānau. Launching this week, Proud To Be ...

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‘This one was personal’: Mihi Forbes on the new Tainui wars documentary The latest documentary in the New Zealand Wars series hit different for presenter Mihingarangi Forbes. She explains why to Leonie Hayden. Content warning: contains descriptions of the murder of women and children, and sexual assault. The military campaign by the British Crown to suppress Māori sovereignty and acquire Māori land for the new settler colony played out in different parts of New Zealand, over a number of battles and massacres between 1845 and 1872. In Waikato, that campaign began in 1863. Governor George...

26 February 2021 The third epic chapter in RNZ’s award-winning series – NZ WARS: STORIES OF TAINUI – screens on Māori Television on Wednesday 17 March 2021 at 8.30 PM. Great Southern Television and Aotearoa Media Collective have teamed up with RNZ to create a digital documentary project that vividly illustrates how the battles looked, sounded and felt.  The 1863 invasion of the Waikato was a defining conflict in New Zealand history, reinforcing the Crown’s power, giving rise to land confiscations and entrenching one of the country’s oldest political institutions – the ...