AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoMatariki & Māori visitor economy: Tātaki Auckland Unlimited has added eight Māori-owned businesses and new Places of Cultural Connection to its “Treasures of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland” platform, spotlighting how Matariki is boosting Auckland’s visitor economy through a Māori lens. Pacific languages in print: A new multilingual poetry anthology, The Ocean Remembers, brings together poems in Cook Islands Māori, Niuean, Sāmoan, Tongan and Solomon Islands Pijin, backed by Tala: Sharing Pacific Stories to grow Pacific publishing in ancestral languages. Youth climate action: Tauranga is among the first NZ cities to win Bloomberg Philanthropies Youth Climate Action Fund support, with grants for rangatahi-led local projects. Digital rights & identity: Documents released to the Free Speech Union raise concerns that the digital Kiwi Access Card could be used for social media age checks without Parliament voting on it. Culture & community events: A portable planetarium is taking Matariki space education “from Levin to the edge of the universe,” while Spada renews calls for a streaming levy to fund Kiwi screen content. Justice in the spotlight: Alan Hall’s miscarriage of justice case continues, with a retired officer now testifying as a defendant.
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