{"id":1217,"date":"2021-08-02T10:38:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T22:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2021-08-02T10:47:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T22:47:52","slug":"1217-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/1217-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Schaaf offers commentary on Dawn Raids apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2021\/08\/jacinda-ardern.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1218\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2021\/08\/jacinda-ardern-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2021\/08\/jacinda-ardern-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2021\/08\/jacinda-ardern-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2021\/08\/jacinda-ardern-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2021\/08\/jacinda-ardern-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2021\/08\/jacinda-ardern-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2021\/08\/jacinda-ardern.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It is great when Te Tumu academics are called upon to comment on important national events as they happen.\u00a0 Yesterday the Prime Minister made an formal apology for the dawn raids of the 1970s when Pasifika people were indiscriminately targeted by the police and officials as &#8220;overstayers&#8221;.\u00a0 The PM also took part in an ifoga ceremony to assist with healing these traumatic events.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/one-news\/new-zealand\/govt-apologises-dawn-raids-in-historic-three-hour-ceremony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here for the full One News account<\/a>, with extensive commentary from Pacific Islands Studies lecturer, <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Dr. Michelle Schaaf<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is great when Te Tumu academics are called upon to comment on important national events as they happen.\u00a0 Yesterday the Prime Minister made an formal apology for the dawn raids of the 1970s when Pasifika people were indiscriminately targeted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35262],"tags":[85007,74429,67457],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific-islands-studies","tag-apology","tag-dawn-raids","tag-ifoga"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}