Joining us on the Pacific Breakfast Show is Diamond Langi to speak more about post she made around the #FreeWestPapua protest with a video show casing the discrimination West Papuans have had to endure for years.

Augie Davis, is a qualified SGNZ stunt coordinator, stunt performer, action director, and designs stunt sequences. Behind the scenes, Augie worked with Peter Jackson in The Lord of the Rings trilogy as a stunt performer first, then stepped into stunt coordinator for the second and third film in 2002 and 2003. He also worked on Pete's Dragon which had some scenes filmed in the Bay of Plenty where he now lives.

He is well-known for his work on Vertical Limit (2000), Ghost in the Shell (2017) and The Hobbit (2012), has relocated to Mount Maunganui with his family from Wellington 3 years ago. Born in Fiji and raised in Auckland, schooled at Sacred Heart college in Glen Innes, Augie worked in outdoor pursuits before moving into film. Represented NZ and Fiji at the world champs in whitewater Kayaking. Loves the outdoors, climbs, fishes, hunts mt bikes whatever his kids force him to do.

Recently he was the Stunt Coordinator on New Zealand Film The legend of Baron To'a and has just returned from eight months in China as the stunt coordinator for The Fengshen trilogy. He currently serves as president of the NZ Stunt Guild.

Other feature films he has worked on as a stunt coordinator include Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2, Yogi Bear, River Queen, X-Men 3: The Last Stand, The Devil's Rock, Without a Paddle, The Water Horse, and Master and Commander, The Shannara Chronicles, Adrift shot in Fiji with Shaileen Woodley, Ole Tulafale and One thousand ropes with Tusi Tamasese.

Police across N.Z. paid tribute to Constable Matthew Hunt, who was shot & killed in a routine traffic stop on Friday 19th June, with a minute's silence at 10:37am, on Friday 26th June. We’re joined now by Senior Sgt Sila Fagaesea SIAKI (Tamaki Makaurau Pacific Responsiveness Advisor) & Sgt Romeo Chungson (District Pacific Liaison Coordinator) with Counties Manukau for more.

A powhiri was held last week at Te Papa to welcome new staff including Te Papa’s new Head of New Zealand and Pacific Histories and Cultures.  Togialelei Dr Safua Akeli Amaama. Togialelei was Togialelei was formerly the Director of the Centre for Samoan Studies at the National University of Samoa. She is a PhD history graduate from the University of Queensland. Her research interests include gender, cultural heritage, health, governance and migration.

Sam Pilisi is a Pacific Student Recruitment Advisor at the Auckland University of Technology who has recently completed research towards his Masters of Education Leadership.  We have him on the line this morning to talk about that research -  Negotiating  service within areas of responsibilities: Experiences of New Zealand born Pacific tertiary students.

Fatu Feu’u is an internationally recognised Samoan-New Zealand artist. He has been pivotal in shaping the interest in contemporary Pacific art globally and nurturing a generation of Pacific artists locally, leading to his reputation as the “Father of contemporary Pacific art”.

Feu’u grew up in the village of Poutasi in the district of Falealili in Samoa and emigrated to New Zealand in 1966.

He was the first artist of Pacific heritage awarded the James Wallace Art Award (1995) and the New Zealand Order of Merit for his achievements in art (2001).

Dr Mosana Evagelia is the recipient of the Pacific Medical Association, Papali’i Dr Semisi Ma’ia’i University of Otago Scholarship in 2019.

Dr. Mosana Evagelia, is a 28year old woman of Samoan descent who grew up in American Samoa and had never considered a career in Medicine in her early life.

Her university educational background spans a total of 10 years with 3 degrees, including her medical one, and she now has what she considers to be a privilege to work and serve as a first year house officer in Middlemore, a hospital that caters for the largest numbers of Pacific and Indigenous communities in New Zealand.

The impact of the global pandemic on New Zealand families has been highlighted in new research from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s, which surveyed New Zealanders’ experience under COVID-19 lockdown.

 

The survey was conducted by the University’s Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children (RMC) and Institute for Governance and Policy Studies (IGPS) in the third week of the period New Zealand spent under alert level 4. It captures the effects on New Zealanders’ economic and social wellbeing as the country underwent historically unprecedented shocks.

The study found 32 percent of New Zealanders employed before lockdown were essential workers, 32 percent could work from home and 28 percent remained employed but could not work from home. We’re joined now by Dr. Michael Fletcher, Senior Research Fellow @ School of Government, along with Dr. Kate Prickett Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children (RMC) at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University for more

CE of Le Va, Denise Kingi-‘Ulu’ave joins us on Pacific Breakfast now to talk about the Le Va Pasifika Suicide Prevention Community Fund, to help Pasifika families and communities to develop solutions to prevent suicide within communities and to respond effectively if and when sadly a suicide occurs.

Tofilau Bernadette Pereira is the National President of P.A.C.I.F.I.C.A. New Zealand’s fourth largest non-governmental organisation, and has worked widely in the public sector and the community.

She has been recognized for services to the Pacific community and women, as a Member of the NZ Order of Merit.

Tofilau Bernadette has been a Community Development Practitioner for more than 30 years, working with and for communities to strengthen their capacity for community engagement. 

She was the inaugural President of the P.A.C.F.I.C.A Manukau Branch from 2013 to 2016 and the National Council of Women Manukau Branch from 2001 to 2005. 

Tofilau Bernadette has volunteered for JOY International Folk Dancing and Social Services, the Auckland Catholic Diocese (Youth), and for the families and children of prisoners.