Dr Rangi Mātāmua
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316 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Jul
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Not really.
I mean, like, who doesn't want a holiday?
It wasn't overly difficult to sell.
There was some political to-ing and fro-ing, like the opposition in Parliament.
didn't support it, and not because they weren't supportive.
I think it was just they didn't want to support the other side of the house.
So it was a political thing, but no, there was no one that really pushed back against it.
I mean, I guess it's connected to where we are in the world, right?
Yeah.
It's connected to, and I think Kiwis,
starting to come of age as a nation.
We're starting to realise, actually, instead of looking perhaps to Great Britain to kind of mimic our identity, we have stuff here and stuff that's connected to where we are in the world.
And that's becoming a little bit of a, you know, part of our national identity, who we are as we grow as a nation.
So, yeah, not too much pushback.
Yeah.
You know those stars?
are the oldest and most well-recorded group of stars in human history.
Wow.
They are painted on a cave in southern France 17,000 years ago.
They're the first astronomical reference in China as to the blossom stars.
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