Taranaki

WOMAD: The weekend the world comes together for a party in Taranaki

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Rosie Morrison travels to WOMAD where colour and music and dance and food define the spirit of Taranaki’s famous festival. Heading north from Wellington, my festival companion and I knew we were getting closer to WOMAD territory when we stopped in Whanganui for a kebab and the woman at the counter told us they’d had … Read more

A place for returning: injustice, legacy and reconciliation at Parihaka

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Taranaki will tomorrow witness a formal reconciliation and settlement with the Crown. And like so much Māori history, it is about mana surviving, despite the odds, writes historian Danny Keenan. The Parihaka community in Taranaki will tomorrow meet with Crown officials, including the minister of treaty settlements, Chris Finlayson, to hear an apology, and to receive … Read more