PUBLICITY RELEASE
MAY 25, 2007

Native Affairs – Incisive, Timely and Relevant

NATIVE AFFAIRS , Maori Televisions’s prime time current affairs show, dishes up debate, analysis, opinion and insight – getting to the core of the most challenging stories in Aotearoa today.

The hour long show airs Sunday nights at 8pm. NATIVE AFFAIRS is an edgy taste of Maori perspectives in current affairs and tackles the tough subjects as well as the moving.

This week,
* Veteran Maori broadcaster Derek Fox, Maori Party MP Dr. Pita Sharples and Hone Edwards, TVNZ’s former kaihautu (guardian) join us to talk about the comments TVNZ CEO, Rick Ellis, made to the Maori Affairs Select Committee
* We cross to Samoa following the death of Malietoa Tanumafili II and look at the issue of succession to the Malietoa title
* We remember the 29th Anniversary of the Bastion Point protest
* We remember our late Maori Queen Dame Te Atairangikaahu, as Tainui commemorated the 40th anniversary of her coronation

Fronting is Julian Wilcox, backed by a team of reporters including: Wena Harawira, Jodi Ihaka, Taiha Molyneux, Annabelle Lee-Harris, Semi Holland and Marisa Balle.
NATIVE AFFAIRS Executive Producer is Colin McRrae, Producer, Sharon Hawke along with Associate Producer Wena Harawira.

ENDS

© Scoop Media