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Learning to live with the 'messy, complicated history' of how Aotearoa New Zealand was colonised

  • Written by Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University
Learning to live with the 'messy, complicated history' of how Aotearoa New Zealand was colonisedMt Taranaki on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand.Shutterstock

Not I, some child born in a marvellous year / Will learn the trick of standing upright here.

The final couplet in Alan Curnow’s poem “The Skeleton of the Great Moa in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch” can be read in many ways. One is to see in it a...

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