Amanda Gillies
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2,614 appearances
49 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
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Amanda Gillies’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Wairinga Ahika battle effectively saw control of the region swing away from Māori and into the hands of the Crown.
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And by the end, at least 71 from the pā were killed, while many more were wounded, captured and deported to the Chatham Islands.
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To find out exactly what happened and why we don't know much about it and why it's still so relevant today, I talked to the team behind the documentary, presenter and executive producer Mihi Narangi Forbes and journalist and executive producer Annabel Lee Mather.
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I start by asking them why the small settlement with a community of 800 and about 10km inland from modern-day Gisborne was attacked in 1865.
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Annabel responds first.
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How deadly, vicious, cruel was this war?
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That's magical.
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Interestingly, I'm born and raised in Gisborne.
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I went to school, probably three, four Ks from where this happened, yet I didn't know anything about this at all.
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Did you guys, or is that something you're hearing where people are like, I had no idea this happened?
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It's a huge responsibility what you guys are doing.
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When you research something like this, how do you make sure that it is factually accurate and correct?
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Because this is now going to be a document that we're going to look at and study and hopefully be through our schools.
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Well, that was part of the celebrations last year, wasn't it?
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They were saying, no, we're not going to hold on to that anger and stuff.
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It's about moving forward.
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A beautiful moment, though, was seeing young Nikki, 18, retelling these stories, that responsibility.
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But you could see the rawness and the pain in her, the tears fell.
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Here's a snippet from the doco where Nikki talks about the women putting earth from the ground on their skin as they marched from their pa.
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You smeared it on their skin, on their face, because they knew they weren't going to come back.
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