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7:19 pm, May 8th, 2024 - 3 comments
Categories: disability, foreshore and seabed, Maori Issues -
Tags: BHN, fast track approvals bill, hikoi, Whaikaha, Whatanui Flavell
Big Hairy News with Pat Brittenden and Chewie_NZ will be livestreaming from 9pm tonight. They’re talking to Whatanui Flavell, the director of Hikoi – Speaking our Truth, the film about the Foreshore and Seabed hikoi 20 years ago currently available on demand at TVNZ.
BNH will also be talking about the Ngāti Toa protest against the Fast Track legislation, and the removing of the Māori name Whaikaha from the Ministry of Disabled People.
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Nice – much more listenable than "The Working Group" with Bomber's insufferable libertarian mate
such a good conversation tonight with Whatanui Flavell. I'm also enjoying the generational aspect (they were all young when the S/F Act happened).
Some of the things Clark said on camera were shocking but that was the cultural norm of just 20 years ago. Shameful. And the cynical attitude to the Foreshore and Seabed Act, triangulating for votes, set the LP back for years.
A family member has the book "No Maori Allowed" which describes the climate of racism of Pukekohe in the 1960s and 70s. There was active segregation and mistreatment of Māori. It's a tough read. A lighter version would be the movie "Mount Zion" starring Temuera Morrison and Stan Walker.