After lockdown, we will need to take a hard look at how we rebuild. ‘Infrastructure’ means a lot more than motorways, writes Dame Anne Salmond. In the wake of Covid-19, as New Zealand gets ready to make a graduated exit from lockdown, ministers, officials and other leaders are thinking hard about how to kickstart the … Read more
Once again, New Zealanders are caught up in world events that will test our mettle. This time, the battles will be fought at home, writes Dame Anne Salmond. When I was a little girl, I knew that my Mum and Dad had lived through World War II, and the Depression. I grew up with wartime … Read more
On Wednesday the Spinoff Review of Books published a negative review of historian Anne Salmond’s latest work, Tears of Rangi, which claimed Salmond reduced her Māori subjects to ‘cardboard caricatures’. Here’s her response. This is a very interesting review. As Ranginui Walker used to urge, scholarship is like a marae, and one must be ready … Read more
The acclaimed author and academic Ranginui Walker was farewelled over recent days by hundreds of mourners at Auckland’s Ōrākei Marae. Among those who spoke at the tangi was his former colleague Dame Anne Salmond. Ko te wai e hora nei, ko Waitematā, Ko te marae e takoto nei, ko Tumutumuwhenua, Ko koutou āku rangatira kua … Read more