Michael Field
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Journalist & writer on South Pacific. Invincible strangers: Biography of 20th Century Samoa.
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa
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Let it be known that hundreds of people turned out to sweep, by hand, Tonga's international airport of volcanic ash. They were not paid.
#Tongaeruption
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Sāmoa, pop 196,000, declared completely
#COVID19
free: last 12 samples tested negative and 259 travellers quarantined for 14 days cleared. Border now closed.
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Striking picture from Kiribati showing new Chinese Ambassador Tang Songgen welcomed off a plane.
Children lying face down on the ground & ambassador is walking across them. Kiribati national anthem is "Teirake Kaini Kiribati" - “Stand up, Kiribati”
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New Zealand flies in emergency administrator to Canberra with Winston Peters steering country back to democracy around 2022. President Jacinda Ardern says NZ can not risk failed state next door destabilising South Pacific
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Tonga's airport on Tongatapu is likely be knocked out - but 70,000 people are going to need relief aid pretty quickly - one hopes
@NZNavy
loading up HMNZS Canterbury now
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Just heard that business folk who think Jacinda's departure is good for business, are now planning on returning three years worth of Covid subsidies they collected to the taxpayers. Good on them...
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Struggling to catch what the Kiri Allan "controversy" is about... two people in an office did not get on? Is that it?
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How is it that new Labour MP is sworn in at New Zealand Parliament using a language of religious oppression & caste superiority? Sanskrit is mark of Hindutva - mark of fundamentalism. What of Labour's working class values or is
@gmsharmanz
a token?
@Gaurav
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Now circulating - the world's first seven dollar bill featuring a women's rugby team
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Gosh, you were right
@chrisluxonmp
- this co-governance thing! There are marae across Tamaki which, with no legislative authority, are helping people in a storm. You must stop this...!
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"Havala Laula," last Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel of Kokoda, died today Lest we Forget
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So the Samoa election knife edge result did not make TV news in New Zealand at all. Multiculturalism only goes so far
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Talking about Aotearoa NZ's worst ever government, as trolls would have it: you have to be in your 50s now to have any memory of it. When Rob Muldoon illegal stole superannuation, forever rendering the country a minor economic player. He led the NZ National Party
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Latest New Zealand
#COVID19
update:
+ 451 confirmed and probable cases
+ 83 new cases over last 24 hours
+ 50 recovered - 11 percent of all cases
+ 12 people in hospital - two in intensive care
+ No deaths
+ Most cases still linked to overseas travel
- Ministry of Health
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Jacinda Ardern to speak to the US Democratic convention this week.
@chrisluxonMP
wasn't asked.
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Had they been Samoan, the identity of the Aucklanders who flew to Wanaka would be well known by now
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What does it take to get New Zealand media interesting in the South Pacific...?
Tonight I am up covering a coup in Samoa, dangerous Covid outbreaks in Fiji & Kiribati, & an astonishing crime story in Fiji involving drugs & beheading? What can Prince Harry do to top that?
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Incredible how relaxed
@jacindaardern
looking in her electorate today... that PM gig she had looked brutal.
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Does some one have to formally complain about the radio extremists, or can the Broadcasting Standards Authority actually do something about standards themselves? Or do more people have to suffer listening to these clowns?
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Instagram has come up with this: Tonga eruption super-imposed over France
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In midst of election campaign
@jacindaardern
delivers tough & depressing news to New Zealand's biggest voting bloc. She acts based on science & medicine, one has to say she among the bravest leaders we've had.
#COVID19
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Dismay & disbelief in international marine circles that
@ChrisluxonMP
govt cancelled ferry build. S'Korean yards had given NZ discount as sovereign, reliable buyer as seen in HMNZS Aotearoa. Discount & reputation now blown away as we will see when NZ next wants a new warship
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Tonga's main island of Tongatapu is to go into a seven day
#Covid19
lockdown from midnight tonight - Tonga Prime Minister Pohiva Tu'i'onetoa announces
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Hopeful-PM
@chrisluxonmp
says his message to world is that NZ "is open for business again..." what an astonishing insult to all the hundreds of people and businesses that have been busily trading in the world for all these years. His slogan mantra is pathetic
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While we Aucklanders are panicky & anxious, spare a thought for that family who have suddenly found themselves with four members, including a pre-schooler, confronting one of the world's most feared viruses. Thinking of their terrible nightmare
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Italian astronaut Samantha Christoforetti, who has been aboard the ISS since April, with quite a snap... Aotearoa
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Not quite effect hoped for: anti-
@jacindaardern
pamphlet distributed in her Mt Albert electorate fast becoming collector's item - grumpiness from some mailboxes that missed out
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As a journo I’ve been in four coups, two uprisings and several assorted unrests verging on coups; Wellington is a long way off, but when police remain silent to lawbreaking in front of them it’s reasonable to fear they have taken a side…
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Seems a number of those arrested on live webcams at Parliament the other day had other lives. Employers who didn't know... and who are now sacking them. Some quite prominent in their contracting fields
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Hindsight is magnificent: at the time MIQ saved tens of thousands of lives.
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NZ PM Ardern was asked by
@realDonaldTrump
what US could do.
She told him: "My answer was sympathy and love for all Muslim communities".
Adern said:"he agreed"
PM Jacinda Ardern
@jacindaardern
#ChristchurchTerrorAttack
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So, a group of predominently Maori women save Aotearoa's dignity & honour. Wonder how
@chrisluxonmp
's gang will play this one
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Great thing about Dame Jacinda's gong is the way it will so completely irritate the wackos and fruitcakes of the country... especially as it is so deserved
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PM Chris Luxon does not know how much the job seeker allowance is, but he accuses unspecified number of people of exploiting it. Surely he knew how much the allowance was before he would be asked that ahead of weekly media round?
@NZMorningReport
@chrisluxonmp
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A model youth offender according to National Party MP Mark Mitchell on
@NZMorningReport
...
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The fellow passing on these memes is Judith Collin's husband. He's the one who runs the company out of China & digs up swamp wood near a major pipeline... His wife wants to be prime minister. Classy lot.
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Scary thing is that
@jacindaardern
is a classy player on global stage. Why would she want to remain PM in a small country where people call her Cindy & wage wild abuse of her...? She has a world...
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Went to celebrated Mt Albert fish & chip shop as usual old couple - Chinese originally - cooked my order & with smile handed it over. I said "so, where is your daughter... she used to take our orders..." He paused, smiled & said: "She doctor now, Auckland Hospital"
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Reliably informed a certain S'Korean shipyard that was building a replacement Cook Strait ferry is still annoyed at cancellation but ready to resume. There will, however, be
@NicolaWillisMP
penalties... considerable....
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Hard to imagine that design of a passport cover could be lifesaving… unless you pressed up against a fence in Kabul
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There was alway a question around whether Jami Lee Ross was a complete idiot - today he's helpfully removing all doubt
@jamileeross
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Sad to think that whinny & shallow New Zealanders can burn out a talented and inspired leader inside six years.
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BREAKING - France tells colony of French Polynesia (pop 278,000), as
#Covid19
sharply spikes, that people must "learn to live with Covid19". They will keep keep border open to tourists.
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New Zealand suddenly has a lot of unemployed journalists - many of them would be genius at
#covid19
contact tracing... its bread and butter work for the average journo
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Pacific news to celebrate - Fiji Banaban talent becomes full professor at Australian National University - Katerina Teaiwa
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Lived a while now, but have to say I have never seen such a sense of pride and joy at the way our Prime Minister has carried herself... and the way the world has received her. Did I mention she is from my electorate, Mt Albert...
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May come as a surprise, apparently, but there is a new scandal about to engulf
@chrisluxonmp
& National Party. Sadly, I am not in the know, other than to know there is something to know.
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In 1977 NZ PM Muldoon unexpectedly showed up in Samoa on calibration flight. My boss PM Tupuola Efi dropped everything to greet him. Today
@chrisluxonMP
arrived, on state visit to Fiji, but PM Rabuka sent another minister. Rabuka was at sports event. Says something
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Its always been tough for multimillionaire yachtsmen in Aotearoa NZ - all that subsidised AmCup stuff, tax breaks for all the boats & then you forbidden from killing dolphins... these poor buggers, and landlords, are the oppressed of this nation.
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Given the way he talks, expect this dairy owners voice to pop up as an Act or National candidate soon
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Samoa's defeated prime minister Tuilaepa demanding another week before leaving office: new prime minister Fiame has told him he has until 5pm today to vacate his office. Police will then assist him out.
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Let it be noted, Lisette Reymer in Maripol, Ukraine, is New Zealand's gutsiest journalist. Let us hope she remains safe.
@NewshubNZ
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TVNZ on Demand: Breathtaking.
When will Aotearoa NZ recognise, and properly honour Jacinda Ardern. She and her people saved us. Simple as that.
@TVNZ
@TVNZondemand
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And now
@nzherald
falls for the PR spin about the super yacht Bold not able to bring its millions to NZ for a refit... fails to say there is Covid aboard & that it was fined for violating Vanuatu's border.
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Why is
@chrisluxonMP
& wife holidaying in S'Pacific, & not at Normandy marking 80th anniversary of D-Day? Aotearoa New Zealand is represented by a mere ambassador at this historic (and last) commemoration. Foolish lack of history.
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Top half of front page of
@nzherald
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Nothing on Samoa political crisis. You can check, nothing on top half, or bottom half... these people have a race problem
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Heather du Plessis Allan and her employers are heading to the Broadcasting Standards Authority after she declared Pacific Islanders are "leaches"
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This week, been a journalist for 50 years. Thought some one might be interested
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Toxic sulfur dioxide gas from Tonga's eruption spreading out across the Pacific and wrapping itself around the remnants of Cyclone Cody
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On this day 36 years ago: as a journo covering it, I was slow to accept view that the French blew it up - they wouldn't do something so stupid, I reasoned....
#RainbowWarrior
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It took NZ Defence Forces a week to get motivated to help in the Solomon Islands - Tonga will be in desperate trouble tomorrow and New Zealand's military hardware is easily the closest.
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On more modest boat I serve, we practice an emergency anchor drop in event of a power failure.... so we not forced aground. All the pictures today from Picton suggest Aratere did not drop her anchors.
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EXCLUSIVE: Academics and staff at the University of the South Pacific in Suva have been paying themselves millions of dollars in salaries and allowances they may not have been entitled to - secret report leaked
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Its vital
@judithcollinsMP
is immediately flown to Brisbane to advise them on travel bubbles. She knows all this stuff.
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Lufthansa just did a low farewell pass over the Waitemata and the harbour bridge before heading home
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Samoa update: Earlier tonight Parliament "Speaker" Leaupepe Toleafoa Faafisi rejected Supreme Court order to hold Parliament tomorrow. But Clerk Of Parliament now saying Speaker isn't speaker any more & parliament will open. This is a power struggle.
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Brij Lal, Fiji's treasured historian and writer, has died in Brisbane today.
Emeritus Professor of Pacific and Asian History at Australian National University, he was revered.
Born in Fiji, Bainimarama had exiled him
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Incredible
@NZAirForce
pix. Flight deck of nearly 50 year old C130 Hercules in action: imagine reaction of men who first flew it if told "your granddaughters will fly this some day...." And they are...
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Remind me: The MP Michael Woodhouse on preaching to Jan Tinetti on how to be a good MP is same chap who used leaked Covid data to expose sick people & wandered around Auckland looking for a homeless man?
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A small point: two NZ policemen arresting terrorist could have, US style, shot him. Or beaten him up, and shot him. That they did not, and that they acted with high professionalism, gives us hope
#ChristchurchTerrorAttack
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The same number of New Zealanders who died at Gallipoli, have now died of Covid.
Double the number of Australians who died at Gallipoli have now died of Covid.
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Odd how no one in New Zealand media has ever, in a hundred years plus, worried about way New Zealand has sucked people out of the Pacific when its convenient...
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I guessed no one noticed, but again, New Zealand's top four constitutional positions are held by women. Only the captaincy of the All Blacks remains secure
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Global Forecasting Systems - which has accurately predicted Auckland's storms - is projecting this in eight days.
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Seems government spent $109.50 to triple vax me against Covid. Appreciate it & am grateful that we all paid for everyone. Not socialism, but caring commonsense
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Declared by the highest court today - Samoa's new Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa
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+ Wallis & Futuna pop 15,000
+ France's pop 67 million.
Of the French national rugby side, six are from Wallis & Futuna.
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Pictures are beginning to come out from Nuku'alofa, Tonga... the volcanic eruption has left a lot of mess in areas - mainly from the tsunami rather than ash
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A mighty fish supreme in its environment is hunted down with high tech equipment, hauled out of the sea & killed by a man on holiday. Like killing elephants
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New Zealand Jewish community decided to shut its synagogues on Shabbat for the first time ever in an act of solidarity with the Muslim community in the country
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Right now, I am going to give Golriz Ghahraman the benefit of the doubt. This kind of accusation points to other issues in her life, and frankly being mean-spirited and judgmental might please many, but its not a lot of us.
BREAKING: Green MP Golriz Ghahraman stands aside from portfolios after allegedly shoplifting from boutique store
#ZBPLUS
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I do so wish we gave up on North & South Island - Te Ika-a-Māui and Te Waipounamu so achingly beautiful
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OFFICIAL - Aotearoa white people make up 8.3 percent of
#Covid19
Delta cases.
+ Pacific Islanders 62.6 percent of Covid cases.
+ Maori 19.5 percent.
It's not "Aucklanders" doing hard yards - its Polynesians making up 82.1 percent of Covid cases.
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Chinese company runs fishing boat onto French Polynesian atoll & does nothing about salvage or environment. Papeete waits for another Chinese boat in port, seizes it & will not release it until they paid the salvage & damage. A first
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A Karen announced in our lunch room today that as Maori were taking over, she had heard that all 111-emergency calls were now in te reo. That is why she supported
@winstonpeters
Aotearoa crammed with paranoid idiots; where did they come from?
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Love or hate Winston Peters, admit this is a classic photo of NZ foreign minister from Tagata Pasifika
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Next leader of NZ National Party Todd Miller displays his MAGA hat
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Locked out: Sāmoa’s Fiame Naomi and her FAST party gather in a tent outside Fale Fono or Legislative Assembly. Defeated HRPP has stolen the keys to the building
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