Multicultural

Sharing the joy: What Christmas means for New Zealand’s multicultural workers

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With 12,000 employees from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds, The Warehouse works hard to make end-of-year celebrations as inclusive and warm as possible. Dina Gharbo may not celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, but says it’s hard for her not to get swept up by the good vibes of the New Zealand festive season.  … Read more

New Zealand is a far more multicultural place today – its mainstream media is not

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Jacinda Ardern and Simon Bridges at Diwali in Auckland

Commercial media, a business that requires public trust and goodwill, is in a tough financial position right now. Gaurav Sharma says that’s in part because of its poor job of reaching immigrant communities, in the first of a new monthly column for The Spinoff. Let’s start with a test, about references to Indian people in … Read more