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Ngā Tohu: Signatures
Television (Full Length) – 2000
This place will be the new Sydney.– Colonial developer Arthur Wardstone (Craig Muller)
The money was a gift to let you stay with us. The land does not belong to us ... we belong to the land.– Hinewui (Nancy Brunning) to Arthur (Craig Muller)
...a moving, well-rounded drama exploring a complex situation ... George Henare, Nancy Brunning and Craig Muller put in fine performances as the leads in both periods, moving as easily from the past to present as the script.– Frances Grant in a NZ Herald review, 30 June 2000
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