It’s been a big week for the New Zealand National Party with Judith Collins stepping into the role of new leader. National MPs Alfred Ngaro and Agnes Loheni share their thoughts on the party and what lies ahead.
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The trailer for new Kiwi feature film Savage has been released ahead of its nationwide general release this September. The film stars Australian actor Jake Ryan (Home and Away, Wolf Creek, Underbelly) alongside local faces John Tui (The Legend of Baron To’a, Solo: A Star Wars Story) and Chelsie Preston Crayford (The Luminaries, The Bad
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A change in the programme for Pasifika Festival 2021 has left a lot of the smaller island villages feeling “frustrated”.
ATEED (Auckland Tourism Events and Economic Development), the branch of Auckland Council that oversees the event, have announced that the number of villages will be reduced for next year’s event from 11 villages down to seven. This means Tuvalu, Tokelau, Kiribati, Tahiti, Solomon Islands and Hawai’i villages will no longer have their own stage but be grouped into one.
Tuvalu village coordinator Molia Alama Tulafono has spoken up about this.
The Pacific Education Centre (PEC) launched their new premises in Manukau and received a $3.9 million funding boost over four years from the Government to continue providing free Pacific language classes in Aotearoa.
PEC is New Zealand’s oldest not-for-profit, Pacific community-based education provider. It was established more than 40 years ago as an organisation to support Pacific peoples new to Aotearoa New Zealand to learn English.
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Fresh off his first-ever national mini-tour, rising star Joe Daymond has sold-out one of the countries most prestigious venues across two nights.
Tagata Pasifika’s Nayte Matai’a-Davidson sat down with Wainuiomata’s very own, ahead of his SkyCity show.
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Join host Alistar Kata and our panel of guests every week as they discuss the upcoming election from the Pasifika perspective. This week we get to know a few new Pacific candidates.
Papali’i Fuiavailili Ala’ilima from the New Conservative Party, Labour Party’s Nerissa Henry and Lourdes Vano from the Green Party talk about National’s new leadership and the biggest issues the Pacific community are currently facing.
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Niue’s longtime premier, Hon Sir Toke Tufukia Talagi (KNZM), has passed away. The 69-year-old joined his ancestors on Wednesday afternoon after years of ailing health. Talagi had flown to New Zealand last week, where he received medical treatment in Auckland, and returned to Niue on Sunday. In a statement on Facebook, Talagi’s family acknowledged Niue
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National’s Pacific MP Alfred Ngaro says he is confident in what his new leader Judith Collins can deliver to Pasifika voters. Ngaro says the Papakura MP understands the importance of different communities given her experience as a former Cabinet minister and also her marriage to Chinese-Samoan businessman David Wong Tung, whom she shares one son.
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This week marks the inaugural Kiribati Language Week in New Zealand. A community gathering was held in Ōtara, South Auckland on Sunday to launch the cultural celebration.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has denied the likelihood of an approved air-bridge between the Cook Islands and New Zealand in the next week. A spokesperson from Ardern’s office said Ardern spoke to Cook Islands’ Prime Minister Henry Puna yesterday to convey that she has asked officials to work on timelines for reopening with Realm countries. “There
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