GANG MUMS: A series of interviews with 4 women affiliated with some of NZ's most notorious gangs. On
@TVNZ
+ now.
Women are the most silenced and invisible members of gangs. This is her story, in her words.
'Why doesn't she leave?'
Passed first year law papers with distinction while working full-time early shifts, co-raising 4 kids and volunteering in my community.
Sharing because I just think WOMEN can do anything they want!!!
“The most I worked was 40 to 50 hours in a school week. I work to support my family with bills and groceries.” - These are the stories NZ's record low-attendance rates don't tell.
Multiple brave & resilient students shared their stories with us
@NZQandA
Not enough broken heart emojis for me to use 💔. Went for a bike ride at 10pm. We are so so worried for everyone 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🇹🇴🇹🇴🇹🇴🇹🇴 Koe 'Otua mo Tonga ko hoku tofia ❤❤
Today I discovered the Reo Māori kupu for ADHD = Aroreretini. It means mind/attention on many things. The term ADHD is disempowering. Aroreretini explains a super power. As a māmā of a child with Aroreretini, I absolutely resonate with this!!
#notadeficit
#nodisorder
#Aroreretini
Thank you all for the kind words! I'm feeling incredibly thankful. Not easy leaving my RNZ &
@firstuprnz
family who I adore and respect so much but it was impossible for me to pass up the opportunity to work with the amazing
@Breakfaston1
team. Nervous but excited! Malo 'aupito!!
We're excited to welcome Indira Stewart to the Breakfast team as our new newsreader. She'll be on your screens alongside John, Jenny-May, and Matty soon - tēnā koe e
@Indiratweets
, nau mai ki tā tātou tīma!
Doesn't this bring some hope ❤
Shout out to our Maori and Pasifika providers in South Auckland who've been working hard these past few weeks, even going door to door, to get all our communities vaccinated!! Y'all are the real MVP's!!!!!!
An entire newsroom is being shut down. Heritage TV current affairs shows holding power to account - gone.
Fewer voices to tell Zealanders' stories.
Here's Minister of Broadcasting Melissa Lee.
A picture says a thousand words. Had it been Matt Doocey standing over Julie Anne Genter and behaving in the same way, today's coverage would've hit a different tone.
OMG....I just unwrapped this on my desk. Did I get the BEST Twitter
#SecretSantaNZ2020
person this year???!! This is just 1 of the gifts he gave me!!! I am SPEECHLESS!!!! 😭😭🙏🏾🙏🏾 He also couldn't have known how significant the turtle symbol is to me and my family ❤️❤️😭
One generation on from my own relatives being dawn raided, I'll host TVNZ's
@NZQandA
show on Sun wearing my traditional Tongan kiekie, talking to a Pacific panel on the govt's apology and how we move forward.
Don't think my family ever imagined a future like this.
#ProudPasifika
This Sunday it's mālō e lelei to
@Indiratweets
, who's in for
@Jacktame
! We'll be discussing the upcoming Dawn Raids apology, the latest Covid developments and meeting two first-term faces. Catch her from 9am, TVNZ 1.
#NZQandA
#nzpol
Luxon-speak is often a mix of Christianese + sprinkling of toast masters. If you grew up in church you can hear it. 'You can't keep doing the same thing and expect different results. You've got to do things differently to get a different result' Classic sermon on true repentance.
Former Newstalk ZB host Kate Hawkesby's on-air comments that "Māori and Pacific patients are being moved to the top of surgery waitlists" were "misleading and discriminatory", the broadcasting regulator has ruled.
In the TVNZ studios, the sis Jenny-May Clarkson and Te Karere Scarborough from The Parenting Place sitting on the couch conversing in Te Reo Māori during the entire ad-break... feels amazing to be in the same room and to know that this is the Aotearoa we live in today ❤
I'm at the home of a Samoan foster family where social workers are about 2uplift a pakeha child who has been here for a year and doesn't want to leave.Her bio family say she's thriving here. Can't describe how heartbreaking and heavy the atmosphere is as they pack her belongings
"David Seymour? or David See-less? ... it's giving 'David See-less' because we feel like he only sees from a really small perspective"
@NZQandA
Justin Moore camera
Cara Darvill video editor
South Auckland student to David Seymour: 'We know our worth'
Also, throughout the entire night, this was the only time that NZ's leading conspiracy theory party was brought up, and thankfully it was given all the respect it deserved, and precisely none more.
This public interest content is the guts of our journalism. The Sunday team are the best of the best in this storytelling craft. It is devastating to think about the impacts to come for all New Zealanders as we watch our industry fold across the board.
Thank you
@rodemmerson
for organising this beautiful piece so we could gift it to Faʻanānā Efeso Collins' daughters as part of our si'i alofa. Proud of our Pacific Media peeps from across more than a dozen platforms who united to pay their respects as a collective today ♥️
This afternoon we visited our Fes 💚 I was lucky enough to present Fia and the aiga with this framed piece for his beautiful daughters from
@rodemmerson
himself!
How lucky are we to have our community and to be able to say our goodbyes in person. Love you Fes.
Omg, crying!!! How gorgeous!!! The beautiful Tupou Neiufi from Mangere Southside!! We are so proud!!!!!!! ❤ ❤ 🇹🇴 🇳🇿
Tokyo Paralympics: Tupou Neiufi wins New Zealand's first gold in 100m backstroke S8
As a migrant girl, English was my second language - often wasn't as good at communicating as some of my peers. But my Dad said I'd make a good reporter because I was good at gossiping! Ha! Stoked to be a finalist but even more humbled to be among people I've admired for years!
Thread:
1) For all those saying bathroom tap water, next to toilet, is fine. Consider different context: sharing a bathroom with family - everyone has Covid, toddler age to elderly. All experiencing fevers, headaches, body aches, stress... taking regular pain relief meds...
Families from AOG cluster in Novotel MIQ facility forced to drink water from a bathroom tap, next to a toilet, after being asked to pay for extra water bottles.
Night Duty Manager said bathroom tap was "clean, filtered and drinkable."
via
@1NewsNZ
Can DC members do some useful painting for once and come paint this man's fence please.
To our Rainbow fam - we love you and we love seeing you shine bright in our communities! ❤️ ❤️
@WakaKotahiAkNth
@aucklandcouncil
more beautiful 🌈 crossings in AKL please!! 🙌🏾
"We received a call late one evening... when I got to the school, he was actually physically being held up by some of his peers. He could barely stand.
I instantly knew my son needed to go the hospital."
Wesley College 'Manhunt' game hospitalises student
Presenting this morning with a huge lump in my throat. Last
@FirstUpRNZ
show with this beautiful team 😔😔❤ Incredibly proud of them and the mahi we have produced! ❤ 💙❤
This is the story of The 'Wesley Way': a culture of violence now called out as a horrifying tradition. We can confirm more current students have reported abuse. Moana Pasifika Captain, former Wallabies prop Sekope Kepu is one of many breaking silence.
@DamonSalesa
on
@Breakfaston1
talking about his Dad, factory worker 44 years. Damon graduated with his Masters, 1st class honours, completed his doctoral studies at Oxford University. Prizewinning historian and former Rhodes Scholar. NOW AUT VICE CHANCELLOR. THAT'S THE TWEET!!💯
Understand conflict of interest here. That aside.. he bought airport shares as a teenager???!! BRUH
Transport Minister Michael Wood stood down after airport shares controversy
Researching this story took me down some wild rabbit holes and the challenge was making it all make sense. Israel has been maneuvering in the Pacific for decades.
Israel and the Pacific – a surprisingly close ‘friendship’
5)To be so dismissive of those asking for more than 1x 600ml bottle of water a day, considering the context, baffles me.
Where is the compassion? Happy for our people to be your essential workers. Not happy when they ask for more water when isolating due to contracting Covid.
This is devastating and will have impacts across NZ media. More voices in the media landscape builds a healthy democracy. This is a huge loss.
Newshub set to close in June, staff told
Bittersweet for us 💔💔❤❤. He'll be Chief Correspondent at TVNZ but we know the Samoan community gave him the chief title years ago. He's been "Chief" to us since ages ago. Our big bro Toleafoa
@JohnJCampbell
is going to smash his next role as he always does.We love you bro!!❤
Heavy thoughts going to bed thinking about all that is going on in the Ukraine... and knowing the early morning will almost certainly bring more horrific and terrible news.
We take peace for granted here.
Labour translating their campaign advertisements into Pacific languages. Is National or any other party doing this? If not, seems like a missed opportunity. Also, this is years overdue.
Chris Luxon left Tova's podcast in such a rush he forgot to remove his microphone.
He was captured saying this:
"Classic tabloid stuff from stuff."
Was it reasonable for
@TovaOBrien
to question the PM on his many hypocritical actions or is Luxon entitled to go criticism-free?
A well known fact about our beautiful LGBTQI community in Tonga: they are the first to volunteer and help others but the last to ask for help for themselves. Glad to see this direct channel of support established for the Tonga Leitis Association 🌈 ❤🇹🇴
#LGBTQI
people are disproportionately affected in crisis situations, with vulnerabilities amplified. Want to support our community in
#Tonga
in the aftermath of the volcano and tsunami? This is how👇
The beautiful Margaret Urlich... one of the most unique vibratos and NZ voices. Will never forget her rendition of "I Don't Know How to Love Him" in Jesus Christ Superstar. "Escaping" is still one of the most iconic jams Saddest news but a life full of incredible achievements❤️❤️
Aue! Aituā e!!!
Ka nui te aroha ki te whānau.
Incredibly sad to hear about the passing of Margaret Urlich, after a two-and-a-half-year battle with cancer.
"The mother of a young man who escaped from the Novotel MIQ yesterday has apologised to the public for his actions..says she was saddened by the events.
She also revealed it was the 2nd time her son had breached Covid-19 protocols since testing positive."
"Many on the political left are aghast that Robertson and Hipkins had six years, including three years with a historic majority, to push through any radical tax reform they wanted, but are only now talking radically."
Senior staff say the cuts are "savage" and "insane". It comes after the internal watch-dog team (proposed to get cut) investigated and recorded 895 incidents of abuse against kids last year alone. That number has risen every year since 2019.
6) Consider the context before you come at these families with your "bathroom tap water is fine" comments. If that's what you got from this story, you have missed it.
A worker at the voting booth in Henderson announces at 11:56am a decision has been made: everyone who was in the cue before 12pm will still get to place their vote today. Lots of cheers. Has that ever happened before? (Pic taken 2hours ago) line was still huge when we left.
"The traditional TV companies might be poor, but without something meaty in place of Newshub, Sunday and Fair Go, our society and our democracy are poorer too. And by the very nature of the work they do and the vital stories they tell, we will never know what we have lost."
This
@FairGoNZ
reel looking back on the stories of NZers who have fought for a fair go is sending me 😭😭 An absolute icon of a show. Lots of beautiful, hilarious and stunning stories. Thank you to the members of this brilliant team over 47 years👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Pacific MPs in govt will go down from 11 to... 1 Pacific MP under National Coalition govt.
And that's PENDING SPECIAL VOTES in Te Atatū, currently the tightest race in NZ with a margin of 30 votes.
Judging a Tongan festival tonight. This is what a Tongan music score looks like. It's a notation system similar to the Nashville Numbers system and the standard Jazz number system. This is what our church choir singers and brass band musicians read when learning their songs.
Reports from more than 500 current and former members alleged racism, “cult-like behaviour”, sexual assault and conversion therapy... the external review called for the entire board to resign.
Important result from
@davidfarrier
's investigative work. 👏🏾
Stories like these hit hard. We know there are many families who couldn't evacuate because they didn't have vehicles to go anywhere. Communal and extended family living means having young children and elderly at home making it harder to travel on foot 💔
My mom called before the network went down in Tonga 🇹🇴. Dad is in Haapai and they dont have any places to go 💔💔😭😭 koene lea maipe, “ Kou ofa atu ikai ai hamau mealele ke mau alu kiha feituu malu.” And the phone died 💔💔
Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, leader of Samoa's FAST party who won last month's election will be on
@Breakfaston1
shortly. Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled in favour of FAST, clearing the way for a new Prime Minister in Samoa and for Fiame to become Samoa's first Female Prime Minister
A world-first study has found young people whose mothers didn’t have enough to eat during pregnancy are far less likely to pass NCEA levels or reach university.
Rode a 30km bike trail from Lake Hawea to Wanaka township with 5 kids and a toddler. An AMAZING trail, breathtaking views. As Pacific migrant, holidays always meant flying back home or traveling to family if we could afford it. But I have missed out on
The biblical references on TVNZ tonight:
@JohnJCampbell
"Hannah Tamaki more distant than the Old Testament" 🤣🤣 (About 7000 votes behind the leads)
@MorganGodfery
"Terribly close to 666" 🤣🤣(she was on 664)
Last night was magical! ❤️❤️❤️🥹🥹 Woke up with a full heart. We are so grateful to all who came to celebrate with us - Signature Choir and NZ Symphony Orchestra at Spark Arena. The most generous spirits!! Our pasifka crowd participation is always 🔥🔥❤️❤️🥹
#ManaMoana
#Pasifika
Got in trouble multiple times in highschool by school librarian for failing to return the book 'Cousins' by Patricia Grace. Then finally saved up and bought my own copy. Read it multiple times and fell in love with Grace's writing. I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE MOVIE 😭😭❤️
It's stories like these that make you feel so privileged as a journalist that you get to have an insight into someone's beautiful life.
Thank you to the Oliver family who shared this beautiful story with me for our
@FirstUpRNZ
programme <3
#ThisIsNZtoo
This is the special story of how the world's largest dairy exporter, Fonterra, changed their entire milk tanker schedule in one district so that Andrew Oliver would go to bed on time.
When NZ’s last hospitalised Covid-19 patient was sedated in ICU for over a month, doctors told her family to prepare to say their goodbyes.
But instead, they prayed 🙏
55-year-old Samoan Lilian Su'a shared her story exclusively with us
@FirstUpRNZ
Two of my kids had an argument last night when I was out (Dad was home). I got all sides of the story, for balance of course.
Then oldest daughter says "Mum, I have a recording." (3rd time she's done this)
Me: "Thank you."
🤣🤦🏾♀️🙄
#FutureJourno
Wrote something a bit personal. A little tribute to my parents, the songs our grandparents taught us and the joy of being around our Pacific choirs ❤️
As part of our 1News digital series on what makes us happy.
#Signaturechoir
#manamoana
School Principals say they told the govt for years students working long hours to help their struggling families was a growing crisis in some communities "but nothing was done."
"The issue is too big to handle for Jan Tinetti" (Minister of Education)
Punching, whipping, hitting in the genitals, beating with a bat, humiliating haircuts, threatening with a knife...
Frequent assaults, some sexual, between students at Wesley College discussed by staff in hundreds of emails between 2019 and May 2023
@Breakfaston1
this am. Halfway through our 3 hr programme: 10 people interviewed - 8 of them women and 7 of them women of colour. All leading voices on the issues they spoke about. 2 of them women MPs.
Some days you wake up and realise the world is slowly changing.
#Proud
Almost 25 yrs ago this guy tried to end his life on one of South Auckland's busiest roads.The incident rocked the close-knit Mangere community then.He said at 19yrs old he had no hope. Now he's a successful businessman, owns multiple properties and is on a mission to save others.
Suicide survivor Tuala Tusani has developed a hair wax made from Pawpaw to fund his suicide awareness campaign in the hopes that others who are suffering will reach out for help.
@Indira_on_tweet
has the story.
So people wanted to know who my amazing Secret Santa was who made me this awesome gift (just one of a few he and his wife sent me!). Thanks to
@SecretSantaNZ
, he has kindly agreed to reveal himself. It's
@LostArcNZ
💃💃💃🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
OMG....I just unwrapped this on my desk. Did I get the BEST Twitter
#SecretSantaNZ2020
person this year???!! This is just 1 of the gifts he gave me!!! I am SPEECHLESS!!!! 😭😭🙏🏾🙏🏾 He also couldn't have known how significant the turtle symbol is to me and my family ❤️❤️😭
Samoan, Tongan and New Zealand European. Daughter of a migrant, granddaughter of a NZ sheep farmer. NZ's first Deputy PM of Pacific descent and was NZ's first Tongan MP when she entered parliament in 2008.
Families from AOG cluster in Novotel MIQ facility forced to drink water from a bathroom tap, next to a toilet, after being asked to pay for extra water bottles.
Night Duty Manager said bathroom tap was "clean, filtered and drinkable."
via
@1NewsNZ
Update:
Wasseim Alsati, the barber who was caught up in the Christchurch, New Zeland tragedy, shot multiple times in a mosque along w/ his innocent 5-year-old daughter can finally go home after 4 months in the hospital. His daughter underwent 12 surgeries.
My heart 😭❤️
Third big earthquake this morning, last one 8.0 near Kermadec Islands. Tsunami warning issued for people from the BAY OF ISLANDS to WHANGAREI, from MATATA to TOLAGA BAY, and GREAT BARRIER ISLAND must MOVE IMMEDIATELY to nearest high ground.
@Breakfaston1
Zooming with 30+ people - cousins, Aunties, Uncles, Grandad & his brothers from around the world. 5hrs & still going, no one has left.. everytime someone says a speech, host plays a jam & we get up & dance. Almost feels like the real thing. What a time we live in eh..
#Covidlife
Today is *Mary's 1st Mother's day in prison. We visited her & her baby who she's been raising inside prison since last year.
Advocates say it's a move that's helped reduce reoffending & intergenerational incarceration for thousands of families.
@NZQandA
I've pretty much had the same taxi driver all year who drops me to work every morning. First thing he does is give me the 411 on what happened in overnight news and he's onto it! We've become good friends and this morning he gave me this - wrapped by his wife for my family 😭❤
I profiled 5 different women across Aotearoa who make incredible contributions to the fabric of our society but who wouldn't normally be given a public platform ❤️
Listening to these women gave me so much joy. It truly made my year.
Happy International Women's Day today!!!!!
Having reported over the yrs on people in the Pacific who had their sight restored with the help of this foundation... and 7 months after I was gifted Fred Hollows earrings by
@LostArcNZ
's wife 🙏🏾(Twitter secret Santa!), I'm proud to say I've joined the team as an ambassador❤❤
This week we welcomed broadcaster and TVNZ Breakfast newsreader Indira Stewart to Team Fred. Indira will be a Team Fred partner, helping us end avoidable blindness and vision impairment in The Pacific. We are delighted to have you on board
@Indiratweets
!
#BREAKING
🥇 Lisa Adams wins GOLD at the
#Tokyo2020
Paralympics.
Adams eased past her competition in her debut at the Games, setting a new Paralympic record of 15.12m in the Women's Shot Put - F37 classification.