Earlier this month, the Crown apologised for atrocities committed when government troops invaded and sacked the pacifist village in 1881. This is the story of what happened.


	Why wasn't I told? Long before Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, Jr, there was a great leader of peaceful resistance in Taranaki: Te Whiti. He led the people of Parihaka in non-violent protest against the illegal confiscation of their land. Earlier this month, the Crown apologised for atrocities committed when government troops invaded and sacked the pacifist village in 1881. This is the story of what happened.

Jimi Crooks rides a barrel at a remote reefbreak near Dunedin, New Zealand.

Catching the giant wave

In May, a 19.4-metre wave was recorded in the Southern Ocean. A group of surfers tracked it for a week as it approached the Otago coastline. Then they went for a surf.

Abel Tasman Coast track

Undoubtedly the most popular multi-day track in New Zealand for its ease and and its swimmable sandy beaches, fringed in places by lush vegetation and ferns that evoke a semi-tropical mood.