Accept the `Tuia Challenge´ this Waitangi Day
(WorldNews Asia)

Media release: 28 January 2020 All New Zealanders are invited to accept the `Tuia Challenge` this Waitangi Day 2020, say Tuia 250 Co-Chairs Dame Jenny Shipley and Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr. While the Tuia 250 Voyage is complete, the challenge it posed continues. `Last year`s national commemoration Tuia 250 acknowledged that for many of us our understanding of New Zealand history has been unbalanced. Tuia 250 provided an exceptional opportunity to begin a journey to put that right,` says Dame Jenny. `During Tuia 250, thousands of people learnt more about the discovery of Aotearoa by Pacific voyagers, the reality of what happened...