The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern makes her announcement about a Dawn Raids apology.
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The apology s initial date of 26 June was postponed after a Covid-infected tourist plunged Wellington into alert level two.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Minister for Pacific Peoples Aupito William Sio and other government officials wouldn t have been allowed to enter large gatherings.
The rescheduled apology event will run from 3:00pm to 5:00pm, at the Auckland Town Hall.
At the Pasifika post-Budget breakfast this morning, Aupito told
RNZ Pacific there will be community meetings after the apology, intended to unite old and new generations of Pasifika for talanoa around the raids traumatising grip.
A petition asking for the Dawn Raids to be taught in New Zealand schools was accepted last week, in an emotional gathering on the steps of Parliament
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Dawn Raids petition accepted, special debate will happen
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MPs join the authors of the Dawn Raids petition in front of Parliament.
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Tualamali i expressed his thanks to the Polynesian Panthers, the face of Dawn Raids activism. We were part of a letter campaign off the back of the Polynesian Panthers and other matua who have been calling for this for some time. But we are just the young, young. We were not there at the time and not there at the beginning of this, but I just wanted to mihi and thank [the Polynesian Panthers] for their deep-lasting advocacy and effort.
Josiah Tualamali i opens the proceedings of the petition being handed to Parliament.
Parliament to debate Dawn Raids after accepting a petition from young Pacific Islanders
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