Author: Kennedy Warne

Heke Tangata: The ebbing tide

For a decade or more, there have been no marked gains in economic progress for Māori. Instead, there’s been stagnation and even some setbacks.

Remembering the mother of the nation, Whina Cooper — a tough, uncompromising mother who understood the power of protest and the political fray.

Kennedy Warne finds a connection between Parihaka and a memorial to the thousands of African-Americans who suffered the horror of death by lynching.

Bob Jones’s column on Māori was “mean, malicious and infantile”, but it gets a Press Council pass under the humour defence.

Posted by Kennedy Warne | Apr 8, 2018 | Reflections

Kennedy Warne reflects on the days leading up to Martin Luther King’s death, 50 years ago.

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