The library at Waipapa Taumata Rau | UoA has all the recordings (and are in the process of digitising) and other materials, but particularly poignant is an outline of his proposed thesis. They're currently being exhibited: www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2025...

He came to Aotearoa from Zurich to complete a MA thesis and conducted 40 hours of interviews, but had to return home after developing leukemia and died the next year.

💯 but it's also heartbreaking because one of the things that came through clearly in my research and others' was the value in tauira Māori being able to connect histories learnt in school and at home

And some of it is just laughably bad. The "Global History" strand starts with the Stone Age is Year 2 and then just tells a history of the Western World picking up the next year where they left off.

The complete elimination of the Understand strand (the "big ideas") also means there is no clear sense of how all this content fits together, which, I guess, is convenient if you don't want your overarching narrative (basically celebration of Western Civilization) to be explicit.

By ignoring the ways Te Tiriti was introduced to manage settler rule students can have no understanding of how and why the 1852 Constitution Act is such a profound breach of Te Tiriti.

The Te Tiriti content (which isn't introduced until Year 4) implies the English text was signed in Feb 1840, that the Māori text is a "translation", and that Te Tiriti was primarily a response to the Musket Wars. This is all nonsense.

One of the most striking features is how out of step it is with contemporary historical scholarship. If "knowledge rich" curricula are meant to centre the knowledge from communities of expertise than this curriculum fails by its own terms.

March 2024 or 2025? I’m losing my grip on this timeline.

There’s so little information of what is actually changing (other than the names of things) it’s pretty safe to say that you will hate it, but time will tell how/why.

George Harrison complaining that the MBE medal was a bit tatty is possibly my on brand George Harrison moment (along with refusing the clean up his vomit in Hamburg).

I remember randomly seeing this on tv when I was 15/16 and it kinda changed my life/politics

Looking forward to it!

This looks great. Looking forward to reading it with my 8 year olds. All his recent efforts to form a band have been thwarted.

Sure, but it still grates to hear it described as a “protest”. They were told to “storm the library”. That’s an attack, not a protest.

We can put Destiny Church alongside Nazis as gangs the government is “comfortable” with.

She clearly hates him soooo much

Sure, but I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with leftists thinking scrapping Epsom would be both funny and possibly bad for Labour. I just get a little tired of the "what the left don't understand is..." discourse.