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Small acts when multiplied by millions of people can transform the world

  In less than a month, we have gone from the first case of coronavirus in New Zealand on 26th February, to now 39, and growing every day. In that same period we commemorated the massacre against human life that…

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South Island Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency postpones conference due to Covid-19

  Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu is postponing its annual symposium which was to have taken place in Ōtepoti (Dunedin) at the end of this month (25 – 27 March 2020). Around 350 people were due to attend the symposium…

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It’s all in the how!  Just raise your brow

  Our eleven year old son sneezed this week.   Hardly breaking news. But with the context of coronavirus now permeating every conversation it wasn’t long before he was asking how would we know if he had caught the virus…

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The Sun Sets on Beauty

  This week the sun set on two beautiful men, the pillars of their whānau, the heart and soul of their community.   Our love and condolences are extended to the whānau pani of Pāpā Arama Hula Cooper and Matua…

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Stretching High

  Iti rearea teitei kahikatea ka taea   The bellbird (rearea) is one of the smallest birds in the forest, yet it is capable of reaching the top of the kahikatea. I love the motivation that whakatauki provide.   Iti rearea reminds us that no matter…

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Te Haa o Tangaroa

  The road to Kaikoura is always an exercise in excitement.   You can be driving along, oblivious to the landscape, until suddenly, Tangaroa presents himself – the wide expanse of the seashore horizon encouraging us to lift our thoughts…

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Surfing the waves of life

   Wānanga – Learning, Connectivity and participation Wānanga @ Rapaki 2020 Once upon a century ago when I was sweet sixteen, I had a beautiful romance with a surfer. At that time of my life, all the issues of the…

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Wearing my Waitangi Hat

  “I am a hat. I am worn out here and there. I have a fewm holes, and even a few weeds sticking out. But I am still very much a hat. A very happy hat” A Happy Hat (Cecil…

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Sparking up the Conversation

  On Monday, under the blazing heat of a Wairau sun the people gathered to celebrate the unique crystallisation of solutions emerging out of Tū Pono: Te Mana Kaha o te Whānau. Tū Pono began from the inspiration and instigation…

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The creation of an Icon of our time

  PANIA OF THE REEF  Many people have heard of the story of Pania of the Reef – a beautiful sea maiden who would swim towards the shore at the setting of the sun, hiding herself in the clump of…

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