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Aaron Smale

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Husband, father, writer, photographer www.ikon.media, journalist radionz.co.nz , devourer of books, daydreamer. Opinions my own, RT not endorsement
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Aaron Smale: Media ignore Māori at their peril | E-Tangata

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By Aaron Smale 
| E-Tangata
Journalist Aaron Smale won the top award for Māori reporting at last week's media awards. The award is a rare industry-wide acknowledgment that Māori issues and concerns are of central importance in this country. Here, Aaron writes about why he used his moment on the podium to deliver a few home truths.
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Giving yourself an uppercut

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By Aaron Smale 
| E-Tangata
In choosing public self-immolation, Te Pāti Māori has handed the coalition a gift, writes veteran journalist Aaron Smale. Here’s a bit of free advice to Te Pāti Māori: If you don’t like the media picking on you, stop giving them reasons to do so. And stop turning the party’s internal chaos into a regular feature. Case in point: “I will fucking knock you out.” That’s the kind of line you might hear outside a pub late on a Saturday night when someone’s getting obnoxious after downing a few too many.
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The disappeared

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By Clare Thomson, Aaron Smale 
| North and South Magazine
Tracey McIntosh, Criminologist at the University of Auckland, has regular contact with men and women in prison and knows the three women in the Inspectorate report. She has seen first-hand the impacts the prison environment has had on them.
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