Te Tāpihana
“He was a born adventurer. Neil Armstrong-astronaut class. He was also a Bear Grylls-type survivalist — though his dramas were for real, and not invented for TV.” — Lloyd Ashton on Phillip Tapsell.
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Author: Lloyd Ashton
‘You better send your uncle home’
They didn’t know how he’d died, where he had fallen — nor where he lay. There was no gravestone for Sonny. No place to visit. No place to mourn.
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With heads hung low
“We come with solemn sadness that the events of the past have cast such a long shadow on the generations that have followed, and left a legacy of injustice and controversy.”
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‘I was in prison and you visited me’
For decades, May Mackey provided “compassion and aroha and prayer support without judgment” to prisoners. Last week, the 98-year-old was honoured for that work.
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Tiki Raumati’s challenge for us
Even in death, Tiki Raumati chooses to live out his message of painful reconciliation.
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Fiji: ‘Facing an ordeal of the most grievous kind’
A week ago, Lloyd Ashton, back from a few days in Fiji, wrote these impressions of the impact...
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Dance on to heaven, Joe
Joe Le’ota could talk three tikanga: Tongan, Māori and Pākehā. Lloyd Ashton pays tribute to a fine...
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“I expect more from you”
For a number of years, Lloyd Ashton provided Mana magazine with many of its more memorable...
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