New Zealanders woke up to a hard truth recently when we learnt of the historic mass abuse of children in state care, in our care. I don’t think anyone who watched this episode of The Hui will ever forget the harrowing stories of helpless children being forcibly removed from their homes and repeatedly abused by those trusted to care for them.
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Evelyn Marsters: My post-hui blues
On Sunday I reached a milestone in my career. I was on the closing panel at the European Society for Oceanists conference in Munich, and I spoke alongside the much-admired Māori academic Associate Professor Mānuka Hēnare and emerging Micronesian scholar Myjolynne Marie Kim. Before speaking I was proud, worried, excited, and shaken. I had a sense of academic “arriving” and I was shit-scared.
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