1995: News Crashers
January 10, 2022
By AHNZ
On the night of January 2nd, 1995, a group of Maori activists initiated force against the 6 o’clock news.
TVNZ’s Tom Bradley and April Ieremia were unable to continue their TVNZ bulletin and the feed was cut to the viewing nation for 10 more minutes.
Ken Mair and his motley crew were unhappy that their favorite TV show was on Christmas break. Maori news show, ‘Te Karere’, like many other shows, took a break over Christmas.
“Television news becomes the news in this brief report from TVNZ. In this excerpt, newsreader Tom Bradley explains why the beginning of that night’s six o’clock bulletin was delayed for 10 minutes. Earlier a small group of Māori protesters occupied the Auckland studio. “ – NZ on Screen
Mair and his Slave Culture posse were expelled but for an encore moved on to Moutoa Gardens, Wanganui to try to stick an ‘h’ in that city’s name. They occupied the public park and in the process destroyed an 1897 statue of Prime Minister John Ballance.
The mid-late 1990s was certainly a Slave Culture era in New Zealand’s history.
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