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“At a time when “TV is tabloid and channels are ghettoising current affairs”, Māori Television will be covering and challenging New Zealand stories with Māori perspectives in a new, prime-time current affairs show ironically dubbed – NATIVE AFFAIRS.
Covering subjects such as suicide and educational achievement amongst Māori boys, the team is dishing up four field-based video segments a week and one studio-based interview or panel.." www.maoritelevision.com; 11/06/2007
MĀWHERA
The Māwhera Corporation is under fire from the district council in Greymouth for removing pillars from their own land.
LANDLESS
Māori in Nelson are landless in their own hometown but have been gifted land in Stewart Island.
APOLOGY
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gave an apology to the ‘Stolen Generation’ earlier this year.
PANEL
Deputy Prime Minister Dr Michael Cullen offers his view on where the treaty settlements will be in 2020.
PETER ARNETT
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett is Southland-born and of Ngāi Tahu descent. He has interviewed Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and has been a war correspondent for US media for over 50 years.
TUNNELS
The tunnels of Arras, in the north of France, were mined by NZ soldiers during WWII to assist the French Resistance. Three brothers from one whānau have their names scratched into the walls.