Photos and Story provided by Taputukura Raea Last week was the launch of the Virtual Pacific Museum – Digital Pasifik with a celebration event at the National Library Te Puna Matāuranga o Aotearoa, hosted by the Australian High Commission. The launch had a fitting pacific-style celebration with talanoa, food and dance. Hon Jan Tinetti and …
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Written by Tauraki Rongo This week we celebrate the life of one of our greatest leaders, Dr Joseph Williams. As the event began to shape up through the last two to three weeks planning, I suddenly realised that two great leaders that the Cook Islands have ever had passed at the same time. I believe …
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If you’ve been following the Pink Shirt Day Campaign, you would have seen five videos, each with their own message of encouragement, hope, understanding, and support to stand up against bullying. Capturing those stories would not have been possible without Lasskohl Visuals, owned and operated by Luke Siaki. Here is their story. “Lasskohl Visuals was …
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Principal’s Greetings This term saw the completion of new student gardens, the clam survey, a focus on study skills, International Literacy Week, drumming classes, learning about food security and food miles, what goes into making a t-shirt and a unit of work on advertising. Students are learning critical thinking skills, gaining an understanding of environmental …
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Written by Tauraki Rongo I watched some of the productions done by our youth towards Pink shirt day. So this is all about bullying right? Trying put an end to bullying because of the mental health consequences suffered by some victims. Some really good stuff came out. I love the testimonies shared by some people …
Story Written by May Seager Caption: Daniel Lewis with Charlize (aged 10, left) and Jairome (aged 11, right) during Managed Isolation at their hotel in South Auckland Having space to play footy with his son and for his daughter to run around. Those are the things that Daniel Lewis is most looking forward to, after two …
Returning home after 16 years – A family in self-isolation Read More »
I call dad “the wheel that doesn’t squeak”. When in 2015 he was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to health and the Pacific community in 2015, I was staggered reading the citation and becoming aware of what he had done and achieved in his life – not only career-wise, but …
Kia Orana, Last year we ran the very first Pasifika dedicated Pink Shirt Day. It was a reflective moment where our community came together to speak on what we could be doing more or less of to ensure that our LGBTQIA+ Pacific community felt safe, encouraged and confident to express themselves. Due to Covid-19, instead …
Written by Florence Syme-Buchanan – Opposition Media Release Cook Islands Opposition leader Tina Browne has said they will not support the passage of the To Tatou Vai Authority Bill through Parliament if it remains in its current form. “There is no way that the Democratic Party Opposition will support the bill the way it is …
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Saturday 2nd August 2020, saw the launching of the Are Taunga as part of the Opening to the Cook Islands Language Week. The Are Taunga forms the head of a proposed structure to oversee the development of a holistic approach to reviving Cook Islands language in New Zealand. CIDANZ Language & Cultural Lead Tauraki Rongo …
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