Hi, I am a retired engineer living in London in the UK. I found your overview of NZ history very helpful. As an astronomer and a history buff I found episode 3 very interesting, with Captain Cook's observations of the planet Venus's transit of the Sun. For the last few weeks, after seeing a folk show in London featuring a Maori team, I have been mining youtube for that lovely Maori singing. But from remarks in the youtube comments section it was obvious that some of the songs referred to dark episodes in Maori history. This series has explained all that. My favorite groups are The NZ Youth Choir, Gondwana Voices, St Joseph's Maori Girl's College choir, Maisey Rika, and Hayley Westenra. I also now know how to pronounce Aotearoa.
That was really insightful. Thanks for making! As a young person growing up through Muldoon and then Rogernomics this brings up memories of my lovely Dad, who as a carpet contractor with eight employees, ended up winding up the business when he lost all his govt contracts. It was a hard time for him and Mum. I never understood til now how it all fitted together.
Good series. I remember the Dawn Raids. I was in high school then, as a Samoan, I remember being relieved that I was a NZ citizen. I didn’t have to go through that trauma, just the endemic racism, you know, the usual.
This series of Aotearoa History is a fantastic resource for teachers, and for everyone to watch or listen to. A big thank you to Tim Watkin for his mammoth effort. Thanks RNZ and New Zealand on air.
I found this show on iTunes yesterday and have been listening to all of them up to maybe episode 10, then watched the rest here on youtube. Such a well put together show. I hope you continue to do more. Makes me happy to listen and watch all things about the history of our beautiful land of Aotearoa.
Love the less sheep bit. We sailed into Otago harbour to, not the sound of cows but the sound of sheep bleating their welcome and good morning. Yes, quite a few dairy farms on the other side of those northern hills in Otago but it certainly had us chuckling for a while. This has been a great series and am recommending it as often as I can
I loved to learn Aotearoa history with this series, thank you so much! Chur to the presenters, they were brilliant! I think now I know more about the history of New Zealand than about the history of the country where I'm living (Uruguay) haha. Kia ora!
As a child in the early 90s, I remember everything being fine and normal then suddenly we were starving and not able to go to school some days because we were too weak from hunger. We were directly impacted by the benefit cuts.
It's interesting and perpendicular how Labour the traditional left wing party reformed the economy in the same way as Margret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. The entire economy was built on sand and a lot of people went under because of these reforms, but it was a necessity.
THE VOTING STATS FOR MMP. THEY SAID 54% SAID YES BUT!!!!!!. Around half the voters did not turn up at the booths!!!! 54% of the voters that showed up voted yes. But that only represents about 25% of the voting population!!! 25% of NZ.....Changed the FPP political system to another system we voters absolutely had no idea about. I think many of us regret it a little now...
A somewhat biased presentation in minor ways. Pakeha have successfully isolated Labour and the Te Māori Party after the latest election 2023. 1 person 1 vote is what people fought for in WW2.just look at the Voice in Australia! You can’t keep treating Pakeha with contempt. Co Governance, 3 Waters, Māori Wards. You can’t distort democracy into a race based solution for cultural. Economic, social ills, caused by the same lack of social mores found to be lacking in a certain culture!
