November 21, 2024 | News
Green MP Teanau Tuiono says last night's unanimous vote passing the Citizenship (Western Samoa) (Restoration) Amendment Bill was a recognition of an injustice that has affected generations of Samoan aiga in Aotearoa.
November 18, 2024 | News
The 50th anniversary of the Dawn Raids of the 1970s in Wellington was partly commemorated at Te Papa over the weekend, with exhibitions and expert panels reflecting on those traumatic times for Pasifika people—and even Māori, who were often mistaken for being Pasifika.
October 23, 2024 | Paakiwaha
Bella Kalolo-Suraj multi-talented Shortland St actor, soul singer, and musician of Ngāti Porou, Samoan and Tongan descent joins on Ata Tū to talk about her return to stage to perform in Pacific Underground and Auckland Theatre Company's production of Dawn Raids by Oscar Kightley, playing at the Wellington Opera House 23-24 October for three performances only. Tickets from Ticketmaster
March 21, 2024 | Paakiwaha
Fifty years ago this month, police carried out the first in a series of Dawn Raids on Pacific ‘overstayers’ in Auckland.
March 11, 2024 | News
The Greens' Pacific Peoples' spokesperson Teanau Tuiono is lobbying for his private members bill to restore New Zealand citizenship to about 5000 elderly Samoans.
May 11, 2023 | Paakiwaha
Calling on Government to provide amnesty for all overstayers following recent reports of Dawn Raids
May 5, 2023 | News
A Pacific Island leader says Immigration New Zealand has lost the confidence and trust of the Pacific community.
May 3, 2023 | News
A lawyer who fought the dawn raids of the 1970s says it's outrageous Immigration New Zealand is continuing a practice the Government formally apologised for just two years ago.
May 3, 2023 | Paakiwaha
Less than two years after the government issued an official apology for the infamous dawn raids of the 1970s, a Pacific overstayer has been detained in a dawn raid in South Auckland last week.
May 2, 2023 | News
Minister of Immigration Michael Wood has come under fire for revelations Immigration New Zealand is still conducting raids on homes […]
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