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The Haka Party Incident
Film (Excerpts) – 2024
In 2021 Katie Wolfe's play The Haka Party Incident opened at Auckland's ASB Waterfront Theatre to immediate acclaim, followed by a successful national tour. Wolfe returned to the topic when she made this documentary on the events of 1 May 1979. That day, a group of Pākehā Auckland University engineering students commenced their capping week 'tradition'; a drunken, mock haka. Māori and Pasifika activist group He Taua challenged the students, events escalated and violence broke out. In the first of two excerpts, activist Hilda Halkyard-Harawira describes the motives behind her group's actions.
The last New Zealand war took place in 1979. It lasted three minutes.– Promotional wording for this documentary
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