The Bulletin: Country waking up to heightened alert levels
Good morning and welcome to The Bulletin. In today’s edition: 72 hours of lockdown incoming for Auckland, vaccinations of border workers to begin imminently, and hospo businesses facing a difficult week.
A new set of three Covid-19 cases in the community has been found, and the alert levels have shifted as a result. The cases are all part of a family group – a mother, father and teenage daughter. The mother works at LSG SkyChefs, an airport laundry and catering facility, and is part of a regular testing cycle, though her case was not picked up through that process. She sought a further test when she became ill, which Dr Ashley Bloomfield said was the right thing to do. The new cases are reportedly the UK strain of Covid-19. Further live updates over the course of Monday can be found here.
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Writer and essayist Talia Marshall. This Summer my reading is not really for pleasure. Although, I recently stayed in an amazing bach in Aotea where Te Rauparaha had fought against Northern invaders before making his way south from Kawhia on his Musket War heke.
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Te Rauparaha. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. The caretaker of the bach said Te Rauparaha is known as a terrorist in these parts as he eyed the old pā to my left. I am meant to be reviewing Te Rauparaha’s son Tamihana’s slickly produced version of his life,
A Record Of The Life Of The Great Te Rauparaha (AUP, edited by another descendant, Ross Calman).
Wiremu Kingi Te Awe Awe of Rangitāne reflects on the relationship between Māori and the media. As Carmen Parahi wrote in her editorial, “the superiority of European, mainly British, migrants, and the inferiority of Māori was repeated over and over by our editors and newspapers. It was racist”. That racism existed through the decades and centuries, up and down the country, and one of the aspects of the investigation I found most illuminating was the region-by-region examination of our reporting. The
Taranaki Daily News,
Stuff’s oldest newspaper, said it needed to “account for the legacy of our journalism forefathers”, which, in the case of Parihaka, involved reporting which “was complicit in the calculated attack by the Crown. We purposefully sided with the Government to protect the economic aspirations of settlers in Taranaki to the detriment of the rights of Māori”.