‘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 Grey built his supply line – what we know today as Great South Road – to transport more than 18,000 troops from Auckland all the way down to the Mangataawhiri River, the northernmost border of more than a million acres of sacred Tainui lands. King Taawhiao, the second Māori king, had warned that crossing Mangataawhiri would be considered a declaration of war.
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 Kiingitanga movement.
The hour-long programme is presented by Mihingaarangi Forbes and features historian Dr Vincent O’Malley alongside esteemed iwi historians Rahui Papa, Brad Totorewa, Tom Roa, Mamae Takerei and Kawhia Muraahi.
Friday, 26 February 2021, 3:08 pm
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 Kiingitanga
movement.
The hour-long programme is presented by
Mihingaarangi Forbes and features historian Dr Vincent
Friday, 12 February 2021, 7:16 am
NZ
Wars: Stories of Tainuiis the next compelling
chapter in RNZ’s award-winning documentary project on the
New Zealand Wars, released today on
rnz.co.nz and
accompanied by a three episode podcast presenting a wider
look at the events leading up to the war, the motivations of
the people who fought, and its impact on history.
The
1863 invasion of the Waikato was the defining conflict of
New Zealand, reinforcing the Crown’s power, entrenching
one of Aotearoa’s oldest political institutions (the
Kiingitanga) and resulting in land confiscations that
continue to shape New Zealand today. Once again,
A family campervan holiday to Northland
12 Sep, 2020 09:30 PM
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A campervan holiday with family. Photo / 123rf
Setting out
There is a moment two hours into every family road trip when this all suddenly feels like a very bad idea.
The young ones are restless. Driving is boring (it s hard to argue with them on long stretches of motorway leading out of the city centres). Your destination is too far, your lofty ambitions of showing them the country too high.
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But most of the fun of campervans is in using your vehicle as a home, and not in using your home as a vehicle. By which I mean: campervans aren t that great to drive, but they are a lot of fun to live in. For that reason, plan short spurts of driving from the get-go. An hour here, a quick leg stretch there. Another hour on the road, then the long-promised icecream at the next dairy you pass.