⚠️ Please keep away from the area surrounding Halsey Street in Central Auckland for the time being if you are able. Early this morning there was what at this point appears a gas explosion on a construction site and five people have been hospitalised.
Kia ora koutou.
A Rāhui is now in place at Lyall Bay Beach due to the sudden passing of a woman.
Please do not collect Kaimoana (seafood) or enter the water until Tuesday 5 July.
Our thoughts are with the family. Take care everyone.
Only one more sleep until the launch of this zine. (Thanks @PNCityCouncil, @WriteCMassey & @Sqinfo!)
Fourteen more published Pasifika writers. Woohoo!
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We meet the Tauranga couple returning millions of dollars of church land back to mana whenua. National Leader @chrisluxonmp speaks to @Mihi_Forbes and we pay tribute to Moana Jackson. #TheHui streaming Mon 8:45pm on https://t.co/uzSC5RYyMA and FB and Tues after Newshub Late on 3.
"Swimming became my daily prayer. I would walk into the water, plunging my head under, feeling the different temperatures (warm on the top, cool below) dance between my arms and legs. I would float, face up to the sky, ears filling with water."
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SUCH an honour, to win the Tom Fitzgibbon Award yesterday, for my soon-to-be published mid-grade novel A Perfect Failure. Thanks to @StorylinesNZ, @scholasticnz & my wonderful fāmili. (Especially ‘Amelia, who made my beautiful kahoa siale - I smelt AMAZING!!!) 🥳🎉🎊