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He Mokopuna He Taonga l Our Children are Precious. Waha means ‘to carry’ while kura is derived from the Maori oriori or lullaby Pine Pine te Kura referring to a baby or something that is precious. The Wahakura Project was developed from matauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) practices as a safe sleeping place project by Dr […]
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One of my favourite alto saxophonists is veteran jazz legend David Sanborn, I’ve loved him forever. Well, as long as there’s been an ‘As We
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My friend Haami (pronounced Har-me) Moeke QSM is a kaumatua. That is, a respected elder in the Maori community. I call him matua. To me, he’s like the Ruahine Ranges that have an abiding presence across the eyeline of
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It’s funny what your mind gets to thinking and turning over as you drive. Mine was ripping through the gears, packed to the gunnels with unfamiliar names to put together with two or even three times met faces in places best described as the ‘back of beyond’ in that shy way that being new to […]
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Auckland city is the region that spans from the west coast with it’s rugged coast lines, black sand beaches, over mountain ranges, through the cosmopolitan ‘City of Sails’, over to the white sandy beaches of the east coast and on out to the islands of the Hauraki Gulf.
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