Annabel Lee-Mather
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
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Well, me and Mihi were very emotional at the premiere.
And then Mihi invited our friend Cameron Bennett, who directs and writes the factual for it.
And he was even more emotional than us.
Just speechless, just too emotional.
Too emotional.
He got there in the end and he did a really beautiful kōrero.
But Cameron talks about how he spent the first part of his career being an international war correspondent for TVNZ and going to all these places all around the world.
And he remains a war correspondent.
It just happens to be that he's reporting on those wars like 160 years ago.
and he's a war correspondent in his own country.
And I think people like Vincent O'Malley, incredible historian, Cam and our crew that works on it, these are amazing tangata tiriti who bring so much to the story, but also to be able to share that this is our shared story
in Aotearoa New Zealand, and while nobody holds each other's ancestors responsible for what happened, until we face it together as a nation and take away the shared learnings from it, it's hard to understand.
to move forward, and like those Tūranga iwi say, we don't want to be defined by this, but we can't forget it either, because we're doomed to repeat the mistakes of history if we don't know about them.
So there's so much in there for Pākehā New Zealanders, for new New Zealanders, for everyone.
It's really the story of the cost of building our nation, and it's important to remember that.
those who paid the ultimate price so that we can move on together in unity.
I look at young people like Nikki Pewhairangi who are kind of at the start of their lives and I look at, you know, the resistance to teaching the history of Aotearoa New Zealand in our schools and I kind of think...
Governments are temporary.
It is our rangatahi that will decide the future of our nation and people like Nikki Pēwhairangi.
So, you know, while it's disheartening to see the resistance to understanding our history, the resistance to having fairer representation for Māori politically, economically and health, all of those things that Mihi has mentioned today.
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