In Level 4 2020, it was all about Tiger King and Schitt's Creek. Now, we're all here for Ted Lasso and The White Lotus. Nik Dirga takes us through 10 streaming picks to beat the lockdown blues.
While the conch shell is passed between living legends Tigilau Ness, Dr Melani Anae, Will’ Ilolahia and Wayne and Alec Toleafoa, you move across the narrative as a witness, ally, confidant, and teina. It feels humbling to share in the inner world of this movement and those brave enough to pay the high price of fighting for justice at a time when it wasn’t fashionable. Some of the Polynesian Panthers did time, some hid from the world for years, they bear the scars of a path forged for those who came after them, and by some miracle, their spirits are not broken.
But the caretaker Human Rights Protection Party of caretaker prime minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi has welcomed the second election. Already, HRPP material is plastered around the country, and the party s campaign machinery is - again - in full swing.
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The leader of the HRPP party, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi. The former main opposition party, Tautua Samoa, which was wiped out of parliament in April s election, has also welcomed the opportunity for a second chance at re-entering parliament. The HRPP s member for Faleata West, Leala ilepule Rimoni Aiafi, said the new ballot is about getting the country back up and running.
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Steve Braunias: The lost and found - A portrait of life inside a rest home
26 minutes to read Summer in Auckland can often turn dark and oppressive. On days when the slow approach of a tropical thunderstorm turned the sky black and drained the Waitākere ranges of colour, I dreaded heading out to the Roseridge rest home in Henderson. It was deathly weather and it trapped the residents inside as surely as lockdown. They were housebound, feeble. Old age is a slope of decline and fall – the physical indignities, the mind wandering into some lunar wasteland. A visit on days like that seemed a bleak and cheerless way to spend my time but in fact every time I visited Roseridge in the summer of 2020-21, I left on a high, as though I had emerged from some strange and magical kingdom.