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A proposed law change to the Public Records Act would let the New Zealand Defence Force seek an exemption from its legal duty to keep records if it is in multinational deployment. This could make any war crimes harder to prove.
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New Zealand’s clean slate scheme is meant to let people leave their criminal past behind. But people are waiting seven years to leave their past behind, hurting their job prospects.
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"There is little or no information recording where the taonga came from, who they belonged to, who made them, what their names were, or how they were used.” — Matariki Williams on how the majority of taonga stored in collections have been separated from their stories.
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The Chief Archivist Anahera Morehu sincerely apologises on behalf of Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga Archives New Zealand (previously the National Archives) for failing to effectively monitor Government recordkeeping
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New Zealand's Prime Minister has apologized to the hundreds of thousands of people abused while in state care, and acknowledged the “unimaginable suffering” inflicted in children's homes and psychiatric hospitals.
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Le premier ministre néo-zélandais a demandé pardon aux centaines de milliers de personnes victimes de violences alors qu’elles étaient prises en charge par l’État, et reconnu les « souffrances inimaginables » infligées dans des foyers pour enfants et hôpitaux psychiatriques.
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As New Zealand celebrates its annual Māori language week in the third week of September, the government is ramping up initiatives to remove recognition of Indigenous people and language from public policy and law.
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Some 200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults suffered abuse while in state and faith-based care in New Zealand over the last 70 years, a landmark investigation has found. It means almost one in three children in care from 1950 to 2019 suffered some form of abuse, including being subject to rape, electric shocks and forced labour, according to the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry. The publication of the commission's final report follows a six-year investigation into the experiences of nearly 3,000 people.
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The purchase of thousands of photos has come as a result of a new deal between the archive's foreign owner and the National Library of New Zealand. The historic archive includes important images of key figures in Māoridom and a significant section of images documenting political activation.
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The dangers of digital colonisation may not be obvious yet because, on the surface, technology seems to be advancing our reo and our connections instead of suppressing them.
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“Imprisonment and forced labour, here and for Indigenous people in the Pacific Islands, were a deliberate means of breaking property and traditional work practice into the mould of capital.” — Rob Campbell reviews 'Blood and Dirt'.
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“Imprisoned workers were essential to creating the basic infrastructure of New Zealand’s Pacific empire. Government agents needed government buildings, so offenders who couldn’t (or wouldn’t) pay their fines built residencies, courthouses and other imperial premises.” — Jared Davidson.
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“Aboriginal people, if they appear at all in the landscape, are presented as ornamental figures, framing devices, exotic touches. Only rarely is their humanity expressed . . . Mostly they are simply absent.” — Kennedy Warne on the erasure of Aboriginal people in colonial art.
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“Those in power are so accustomed to extreme privilege that anything less than maintaining that feels like oppression.” — Tina Ngata.
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“New Zealand’s history of colonialism with Banaba should be part of the current education curriculum. Students should understand how Banaba had to die for New Zealand’s grazing agriculture to live.”
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“I wanted to write something that puts Pākehā in the shoes of a colonised people. I want them to imagine a world in which their principles and values are routinely laughed at.”
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“When I see environmental destruction, ecological destruction, I’m compelled to do something. When I see human rights violations, I just feel aroha for people because, what's that saying? ‘There but for the grace of God go I.’”
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Anahera Morehu has been appointed chief archivist at Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga Archives New Zealand. Morehu is the country’s first Māori and wāhine Māori to hold this statutory role in a permanent capacity. She is currently the acting chief archivist, seconded into the role in November 2022. Her substantive position was kaihautū for Archives NZ.
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Cette restitution a permis de récupérer les dépouilles de près de 900 autochtones.
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The Human Rights Commission's Claire Charters (pictured in 2021) said the data painted a dire picture of the upholding of Māori civil rights.
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