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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
1 year
Calling on my Pākeha countrymen and women to speak up and stand up for te reo. It's so much better when we do this together. Kia kaha te reo Māori. 🫶 #HeTaongaTeReo
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
4 years
Do we have to say "the South Auckland family" would we say "the East Auckland family" or would we say the family, who lives in West Harbour? Serious question.
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
My Koro died yesterday. His name was Tāmaki ironic because I'm stuck in Tāmaki while he goes home to Maniapoto to lay with his twin Mōkau. Ahakoa te mamae I believe in strict lockdowns. Mō tātou ❤
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
The lovely man that just took my blood at LAB Test is exhausted. He said he earns $22.80 an hour and it hasn't changed for the last five years. These are our critical workers Team 5.5 million. We can do better.
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
Following the Chch earthquake Tonga raised "a massive T$833,867 (NZ$705,000) for the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal Fund." Stuff 2010 Something for us to remember.
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
It's the first time @dbseymour has declined a @TheHui interview. It was to be on vaccination equity. So @dbseymour I'll ask again. Haere mai, come on our show and have a good robust discussion.
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
4 years
If you are Pākehā and learning te reo please be gentle with Māori who haven't had the same opportunity to learn their language. E mihi ana te ngākau.
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
2 years
I'm convinced now my most important role is to raise respectful, loving, balanced boys. Our future depends on it. Kia kaha wāhine mā ✊🏾
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
1 year
After all the efforts to revitalize te reo Māori, it's gutwrenching to see it booted around like a political football. He taonga te reo.
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
1 year
Police are investigating the home invasion of Hana Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, meanwhile some people on here question whether she's telling the truth. Can you not just for a moment put your politics to the side and condemn the violent threat aimed at a young woman?
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
6 years
When a Māori youth offender tells Māori psychiarist Hinemoa Elder that he doesn't know much about himself. She says this ❤
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
73% of Māori and 88% of all NZers have had at least one vaccination. Helpful to remember when some are convinced it's dividing the country.
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
Kia ora @schofe who are your sources because Auckland is very busy, cafes are full, streets are congested, people are out running. You don't need to be outraged on our behalf. Aro atu ki tō whenua.
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
4 years
Māori are enrolling in their droves with with 38,049 (8.1%) new enrollments since May. So exciting, get it whānau!
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
2 years
Youth crime has decreased by 60% in 10 yrs. Young people are generally doing well. A small number of them are committing crimes in groups many known to OT. 90% of kids in OT has a learning disability. Inflation affects the poorest families. Join the dots.
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
As an indigenous female broadcaster, there a certain things you don't get away with in Aotearoa. You have to be cool, calm and collected. All the things my tuakana @Indiratweets is 🌺
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
4 years
It should be mandatory for Pākehā broadcasters with massive platforms to learn about Te Tiriti, colonization and white supremacy. #SharpenUp
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Mihingarangi Forbes
6 years
NZ we're in that uncomfortable stage when you feel vulnerable because others are raising points that might have truth. Stay in the conversation, listen and try not to attack. Let's learn something about racism.
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
8 months
Kua hinga te totara, a Chief has fallen and its being felt across the motu and across Te Moananui ā Kiwa. Fa'nānā Efeso, thank you for your service, Chief. Kia au te moe. Whakaaronui ki tō whānau
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Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
I can only imagine the convoy coming down the Waunuiomata hill turning left to the marae and seeing the Wainuiomata league club standing on guard.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
Hearing some loud Pākehā voices elevating themselves onto platforms to protest learning our combined history and I feel nothing for them or about them. We are moving from Niutīrenitanga to Aotearoatanga, he tauira mo te ao. ❤️🖤🤍
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
5 years
Social engineering was when the government banned te reo Māori in schools and beat up our grandparents for speaking it.
@dbseymour
David Seymour
5 years
Pushing compulsory Māori in schools shows Labour is deeply committed to social engineering. Too many children leave school without having acquired basic literacy skills. The idea that we would force kids who already struggle to learn another language seems like a cruel joke.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
2 years
This man was taken from his family as a child and put in a borstal, he is alive to tell his story and it is horrific. We should long and hard about incarcerating children again in Aotearoa.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
These women are the best ambassadors, they are full of aroha, skilled in mātauranga, respectful and operate in kotahitanga @BlackFerns
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Mihingarangi Forbes
2 years
A bit of talk about bikes. Thanks to a safe bike track, my 11 year old bikes to school now, his brother will join him in a few years. It will save us 7,200km a year dropping them. Less emissions, less congestion and healthy kids makes a lot of sense.
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
2 years
Bailing out South Canterbury finance cost more than all the Treaty claims together. Just think about that for a moment. Thank you @MattNippert
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Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
As a journo I have always felt safe at protests, most understand we have a job to do but the "Freedom and Choice" protests feel different. "Fuck the Media" is the new catch phrase. It's dangerous. Kia kaha te hunga pāpaho.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
1 year
I know at least 10 Māori journalists who would provide balance and perspective to the current "health inequities" story. The problem is that there is an inequity of platforms for Māori, so you aren't hearing them.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
Okay my idea for young adults/youth vaccinations. On the 3rd Saturday of December plan mass concerts across the country, give it a name, bring in the best artists, make alcohol and food avail and tell anyone between 18 and 35 they only need a vaxx cert to enter.
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
5 years
Sounds f#$king ridiculous but resisted tāmoko for years in case I worked in MSM. Have decolonised some more and now I'm wearing my moko on the outside. #ManaMarks #KarangaInc
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
10 months
Fancy telling NZers in 2023 they can't speak Māori.
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
6 years
This @FlyAirNZ tā moko policy is outdated, hypocritical and discriminates tangata whenua. For consistency your planes shouldn't have koru displayed.
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
9 months
Te iwi Māori e ngunguru nei ...
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Mihingarangi Forbes
4 years
Listening to US Covid outbreaks makes me think, we are so flippin fortunate here in NZ
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Mihingarangi Forbes
1 year
The irony of the news platform that once apologised to Māori and then runs polls on a co-governance referendum knowing Māori represent just 16% of the population, you know exactly what you are doing.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
Native Americans were given the actual vaccines to administer to people. They bought ultra cold fridges, threw out the protocols, vaxxed frontline/health/teachers first. Native nurses drove vaccines to whānau. They are 70% fully vaxxed vs US 59%.
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
4 years
It was the Kaikoura marae that fed everyone including tourists at no cost following the earthquake too.
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Shane te Pou
4 years
So folks are upset about the 100 Million Marae got yesterday. My Marae is in Waimana when it floods we house and feed All. Manaakitanga.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
1 year
Listening to Tāmaki College student who works from 6pm to 3am and then goes to school should make us all ashamed. This is what poverty looks like. #tvnzdebate
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Mihingarangi Forbes
1 year
On the Māori Roll you get to ✔️ 1 x vote for candidate 1 x vote for party Exactly the same as the General Roll
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Mihingarangi Forbes
2 years
NZ each year: Welfare Fraud 26,000,000 Tax evasion 1,000 000,000
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Mihingarangi Forbes
4 years
I don't get why NZers returning home are so pissed they're being asked to contribute. We are all contributing and our children will be paying for years to come. It's like a koha at the marae - everyone gives a little at the gate and we all get fed.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
About 800 people live in Kaiaua which is 10mins from Mangatangi. My Uncle said the village was vaccinated 2 weeks ago by a mobile Vax clinic. Whānau are committed to getting tested today at the marae.
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
6 years
Okay here I go. @RicardoSimich I'm 46 yrs old, a married mama of 4 children, 24 yrs as a journo. But this week you defined me as someone else’s ex-partner. I am not property I am not defined by a relationship that ended a decade ago. My mum is super pissed at you.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
1 year
You need to keep your ears tuned for people who flip the script on racism. For example in health, keeping the status quo where certain ethnic groups die 7 years earlier, is actually institutional racism.
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
2 years
"Mum is looking forward to being there when you start school this year" says @jacindaardern PM as she resigns. #MataMedia
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
6 years
Today in 1987 Te reo Māori was recognised as an official language. Tau kē tātou.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
1 year
There should be a Leaders Debate though a Māori lens because the inequity for Māori/PI is so different to a mainstream lens. We certainly wouldn't be talking about buying 1st homes at 24.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
Wharekawa Marae ended the day testing 477, 66% of the community. Proud of Ngāti Pāoa. Tomorrow vaccinations begin. 👏
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Mihingarangi Forbes
1 year
People hiding behind fake profiles saying horrible things about people not behind fake profiles are just boring. You are the guys who did dumb shit at school, never owned up and we all missed lunch. No one likes you.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
2 years
The low turnout in Auckland means just 10% of actual Aucklanders voted for Wayne Brown. Do we need a voting day asks @JohnJCampbell
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Mihingarangi Forbes
7 years
It's my last day at RNZ, today this little bicultural team did 5 hours of live radio. It needs to be everyday - not just Waitangi Day. Kia kaha tātou!
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Mihingarangi Forbes
5 years
Broadcasters use words like "protesters" when indigenous people consider themselves "protectors". #Ihum ātao #MaunaKea
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Mihingarangi Forbes
6 years
Thinking of all the descendants of Parihaka today. This day in 1881,1600 Colonial Soldiers invaded their peaceful village committing atrocities on women and children and arresting their men. E kore e warewaretia.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
1 year
When people suggest the "KKK" quiz group didn't know what they were doing, just remember they took a petrol can as a prop.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
2 years
When reporting on the Treaty, its important to remember of the 500 plus rangatira who signed, almost all signed the reo Māori version.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
Damn it, if only we had dealt to racism, housing crisis, inequity and inequality before this pandemic, we might not be seeing Māori vax rates trailing the average by >20% ❤🤍🖤
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
4 years
Thinking of the young woman in centre of text story. Kia kaha.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
2 years
Using Rātana, one of the earliest co-governance/Māori arrangements (1934) to protest "co-governance" is bonkers. TW Rātana favoured Labour because it consulted Māori before writing policy, the earliest form of the idea of co-governance one would think.
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
4 years
I moved to AK 12 years ago as a solo mum, was impossible applying for rentals with my name. An amazing work colleague offered to be my referee, had a house within days. I'm lucky. Ngaa mihi @JohnJCampbell 😇
@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
4 years
Landlord racism: Wahine Māori exposes prejudice with name change
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Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
Was lucky to wear @ShonaTawhiao #TheHui photoshoot 2021
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Mihingarangi Forbes
7 years
All my life Pākehā men have asked me what percentage Māori I am. No one bothers to ask how Scottish, Italian or English I am. #ToolsOfColonisation
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
4 years
Iwi are impressive, some are already placing kaumatua into bubbles and thermal testing at current tangi. When I'm old I want to be cared for like this 🧡
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Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
PM says no one should have to crowd fund a vaccination bus - BUT they did need to crowd fund a bus.
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
4 years
Meanwhile in Canada @manucaddie
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Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
Tammy who broke the AK border describes herself as "a white lady in a mint chrysler" @nzpolice pick her up please - it's 11 weeks in lockdown I'm not even joking anymore.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
6 years
On the eve of Te Wiki o te reo Māori can we please not give the platforms to te reo haters. It's only one week they have the other 51 to talk kaka. #Kaka as in not the bird.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
4 years
Struggling to find the right word to describe this move its not amazing, incredible, brave or courageous its simply tika and pono. Its the right thing to do e mihi ana ki a kooutou @NZStuff
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@Mihi_Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
That guy on @radionz telling Kim Hill the fetus in a womb isn't the woman's body. Fark that wombless ass. My womb created my four babies!
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Mihingarangi Forbes
5 years
Out with my kids today and this was left on my car ❤ "Kia ora, listening to you speak te reo has made my day. Please keep doing it. It rocks. Aroha"
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Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
Tamaki's bikes mates held up an intersection I pulled up to today and my daughter says "what is that gang?" Me "Destiny Church". Her "what a cheek calling yourselves Iwi Tapu." Can't fool our kura kids.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
2 years
It's one thing to change a law, another to change the founding document of a nation.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
1 year
What is a referendum on Te Tiriti anyway like, what is the actual question we are answering as a nation?
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Mihingarangi Forbes
2 years
The @actparty plans to scrap Māori, Pāsifika Women, Human Rights, & Ethnic Ministries.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
5 years
I asked a supermarket worker who was restocking shelves how she was and she started crying. I couldn't even hug her. Finally she told me she is tired and worried. #Whakaarohiat ātou.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
1 year
Sophie Brown you brave woman 🙏🏽 didn't expect to have such a reaction to your story. I guess having daughter the same age did it. Mauri Ora ki a koe.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
4 years
Five years ago we walked away from #NativeAffairs , this year @huihoppa is Executive of the Year and I won Best CA presenter. We are grateful for the blessings and support.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
6 years
Epsom.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
1 year
Do people miss flights in Ireland because of the signage?
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Mihingarangi Forbes
1 year
Did not realize National's Bootcamp programme would use laws to separate children from their families. This is a very important point that @rebeccawright raises, and there should be evidence provided. We are in the middle of the State Abuse Royal Inquiry.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
9 months
"An illiterate white supremacist in power is dangerous" key speaker Te Tiriti expert Dayle Takitimu #taakiritiatemanamotuhake
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Mihingarangi Forbes
7 years
Leaving the @rnz_news building with all my farewell gifts. Haere Rā
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Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
This guy might be quitting but the reality is Aotearoa New Zealand won't tolerate this behavior anymore. It takes brave people to speak up.
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Stuff
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Unrepentant Troy Bowker to quit Hurricanes shareholding after racial controversy
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Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
The belligerence of "freedom" protesters performing Te Rauparaha's haka on Ngāti Toa whenua after being warned not to.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
9 months
Opinion: The dramatic exodus of brown women from parliament is no surprise
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Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
What can we do immediately to reduce emissions? Walk, cycle, public transport, eat less meat, fly less, work from home.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
6 years
How broadcasting should be Māori and Pākehā at the helm. Ka pai @TVNZ keep it coming.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
2 years
Rangiānehu Mātāmua, Astronomer - New Zealander of the Year. 🖤❤️🤍
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Mihingarangi Forbes
5 years
My girl turned 18 today. She says "Yes, I can finally go the the clubs". I remind her about Easter Sunday. She's like "Whaaat!!!!" Happy Easter home girl.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
5 years
Here I am feeling boohoo about lock down and my son says " I love lock down it means we can all be a family together". I'm pulling my head in as we speak.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
4 years
You really should lay your challenges down on the marae @FranOSullivan then you allow a fair response to your points below. But instead you've used your privileged platform @nzherald the one that often talks about being more diverse 💤
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Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
A good protest takes responsibility for the collective action. I'm not hearing that from #Convoy2022NZ
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Mihingarangi Forbes
1 year
This story should be leading every platform but it's not.
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Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
New Zealand is one of the worst greenhouse gas emitters per-head of population. What a shitty legacy!
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Mihingarangi Forbes
3 years
Women around the world who are free, now is the time to stand with our sisters in Afghanistan ❤
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Mihingarangi Forbes
1 year
When I think of every free karakia, translation, hui, wānanga, waiata, haka, hohou rongo Te Ati Awa has undertaken for the Crown ......
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Mihingarangi Forbes
2 years
Feels like all my mates have or have had the Rona. I looked at WHO and only 26% of New Zealanders have contracted Covid since Feb 2020. That means 73% haven't. #MasksAllDay
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