ME’A KAI The Food and Flavours of the South Pacific
ROBERT OLIVER, with Dr. Tracy Berno and Shiri Ram
RANDOM HOUSE, 2010 http://www.randomhouse.co.nz

Nau te rourou, maku te rourou ka ora te manuwhiri
With your food basket and my food basket, everyone has enough to eat

This ancient Maori proverb, in international chef Robert Oliver’s tongue, would read, with your food basket and my food basket, everyone has enough for a feast! Me’a Kai is a feast for the palette in every

WILFUL BLINDNESS - WHY WE IGNORE THE OBVIOUS AT OUR PERIL

MARGARET HEFFERNAN

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011

REVIEW BY DR. CATHIE KOA DUNSFORD

In her introduction to this book, Heffernan quotes from T.S Eliot’s Four Quartets:

Go, go, go said the bird: human kind
Cannot bear too much reality

Never a more true word, if you believe all you read here. Heffernan more than convinces us of these words in a thoroughly well-researched, authoritative and challenging text that most readers

FIONA KIDMAN’S MEMOIRS:
AT THE END OF DARWIN ROAD, VINTAGE, RANDOM HOUSE, 2008.
BESIDE THE DARK POOL, VINTAGE, RANDOM HOUSE, 2009.

ME TE OTURU: RADIANT LIKE THE FULL MOON - A REVIEW ESSAY OF FIONA KIDMAN’S MEMOIRS.

Ko Hinemoa, ko au
As for Hinemoa, as for me

Or, as Governor Grey interpreted this whakatauki, “I am just like Hinemoa, I would risk all for love.”

Hinemoa was the young woman/wahine who left her people and swam across Rotorua Lake to the island of Mokoia, where

FILM AND DVD: WATER WHISPERERS TANGAROA – [FEATURE DOCUMENTARY]
DIRECTOR: KATHLEEN GALLAGHER
WICK CANDLE FILMS: http://www.wickcandle.co.nz

WATER WHISPERERS TANGAROA:

TANGAROA PUKANOHI NUI: Tangaroa, God of the Sea, has large eyes. He can observe all we are doing.
Maori Whakatauki [proverb].

It takes a very special kind of magic to create an inspiring film documentary that shows the empowerment of people working together to heal the elements rather than just protesting

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO: POLLUTION, POLITICS AND POWER -
AN INVESTIGATION INTO ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL COMPANIES [WINNER OF THE 2009 RACHEL CARSON PRIZE]
MARIE-MONIQUE ROBIN
[Translated from the French by George Holoch]
SPINIFEX PRESS, 2010: http://www.spinifexpress.com.au

To ngaki kai, te Tangaroa-meke, kei uta, kei tai te pakanga
Literally: While war rages on land and sea, you plant the food supplies of Tangaroa-meke
The meaning is that though one may