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A place for the heart

hen I first went to Waitangi on Waitangi Day, I was a young recruit for the TV show , among seasoned, knowledgeable Māori journalists and producers. I’d only just started learning Māori, and I still cringe at the memory of mispronouncing the word kaupapa (topic, theme, issue) in front of a group of fluent speakers. One of them gently

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