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“In some ways I believe I epitomise the average New Zealander: I have modest abilities, I combine these with a good deal of determination, and I rather like to succeed.”
Native Nations: Indigenous Tourism
The winner of this year's Toroa ā-uta, Toroa ā-tai Māori Tourism Award at the New Zealand Tourism Awards Nadine Toe Toe has recently returned from a cross-cultural exchange where she led a group of rangatahi to Australia and Canada to learn about indigenous tourism.
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Source. rnz.co.nz, 09.101.2024
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Parihaka: Remembering a legacy of peaceful resistance
Tuesday marks 143 years since the invasion of Parihaka, the once-thriving Taranaki settlement led by Māori rangatira, Te Whiti-o-Rongomai (Taranaki, Te Ātiawa) and Tohu Kākahi (Taranaki, Ngāti Ruanui). This small papakāinga, now a powerful symbol of passive resistance, was the site of Aotearoa's first recorded non-violent stand against colonial violence and land confiscation. Māori communities will be be remembering Parihaka.
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Source. rnz.co.nz, 05.101.2024
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Children key to changing farm safety attitudes
Children key to changing farm safety attitudes. Drawing on her own personal experience of loss, Bremner has written two children's books featuring farm safety, along with leading the 'think brain safe' campaign. This involved visiting rural schools where local farmers, police, and agents teach children safety modules. Examples include learning weight distribution on trailers, knowing the difference between farm chemicals, how to handle livestock and basic first aid training.
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Source. rnz.co.nz, 31.10.2024
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Should teenagers be pushed to do activities they aren't really into?
Fifteen is the age many young people lose interest in after-school sports and activities, studies show. Because of the brain benefits these experiences deliver, clinical psychologist Kathryn Berkett urges parents to encourage their teens to push through potential boredom and discomfort. "That's literally the most important thing for our brain - learning how to push through tolerable stress experiences," she told RNZ's Nine to Noon.
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Source. rnz.co.nz, 01.11.2024
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Michael Belgrave: telling the whole history
From early Polynesian navigators to missionaries, colonists and migrants, Massey University historian Professor Michael Belgrave has published the first major national history of Aoteaora New Zealand in 20 years. Becoming Aotearoa: A New History of New Zealand is a big and bold book taking March 2019 as the starting point to examine how tangata whenua and migrants have together built an open, liberal society based on a series of social contracts. Frayed though they may sometimes be, Belgrave tells Mihi and Susie these contracts have created a country that is distinct.
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Source. rnz.co.nz, 02.11.2024
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