Tagata Pasifika

The Pacific voice on
New Zealand television
since 1987

Tagata Pasifika

The Pacific voice on
New Zealand television
since 1987

Tagata Pasifika

The Pacific voice on
New Zealand television
since 1987

Meet marketing entrepreneur Amatailevi Stella Muller | SunPix Awards 2020

Meet MFAT Pacific Enterprise Award Winner Amatailevi Stella Muller. Amatailevi is the Director of marketing agency Bright Sunday and has run campaigns for feature films Vai, Waru, The Legend of Baron To’a and For My Father’s Kingdom. This year she was instrumental in organising Government Covid-19 messages for Pacific peoples, and for the first time nine Pacific languages were being heard of national television networks.

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Meet Auckland plumber Robert Teina | SunPix Awards 2020

Meet MFAT Pacific Enterprise Award Winner Robert Teina. Rob is the owner of Supreme Plumbing in West Auckland, a family company that has strong links to the community, volunteer work and sponsorship of local sports clubs. During Covid he gave away $1000 to help other struggling businesses, reaching out to five different companies and giving them a helping hand.

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Meet the CEO of the Pasifika Medical Association | SunPix Awards 2020

Meet CEO Debbie Sorensen of the Pasifika Medical Association, recipient of the PHARMAC Pacific Service Excellence Award at the 2020 SunPix Pacific Peoples Awards. PMA took a leadership role during the Covid-19 lockdowns in Aotearoa providing information, support and keeping our communities in touch with one another.

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Service Excellence Award Winner Talanoa Ako | SunPix Awards 2020

Meet the team behind Talanoa Ako (Ministry of Education), recipient of the PHARMAC Pacific Service Excellence Award at the 2020 SunPix Pacific Peoples Awards. Talanoa Ako is a parent education programme that embraces Pacific values and empowers parents to champion their children’s education.

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Meet Clinical Nurse Director Safaato’a Fereti | SunPix Awards 2020

Meet Pasifika Futures Pacific Health & Wellbeing Award Winner Safaato’a (To’a) Fereti. As Clinical Nurse Director of Medicine at Counties Manukau Health, Chair of the New Zealand Nursing Council and President of the Pan Pacific Nurses Association, To’a has contributed significantly to multiple health projects locally and internationally and is a leader in the Covid-19 nursing response.

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Meet health leader Dr Apisalome Talemaitoga | SunPix Awards 2020

Meet Pasifika Futures Pacific Health & Wellbeing Award Winner Dr Api Talemaitoga. Dr Talemaitoga is Chief Advisor, Pacific at the Ministry of Health, Chair of the Pasifika GP Network and has two GP practices in Christchurch and South Auckland. During the Covid-19 lockdowns in New Zealand he could be seen on our screens giving crucial clinical information and messages of hope.

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Pollywood Pasifika Film Festival turns 18

Since 2002 the Pollywood Pasifika Film Festival has been a platform for up-and-coming and established Pacific filmmakers to promote and exhibit their work. But in the wake of the pandemic as film festivals around the world go digital, are postponed or cancelled, Pollywood Director Craig Fasi also wondered what would become of his beloved festival.

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Covid-infected ship in American Samoa to remain offshore

Source: RNZ Pacific A ship anchored off American Samoa with three Covid-positive crew members on board will remain there for at least seven days. The container ship, the Fesko Askold, has 17 crew on board. It arrived in Pago Pago on Sunday afternoon and sailed out of the main harbour at nine yesterday morning. It

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