The salvation and restoration of Gunton Park: 'Everyone thought it was a hopeless cause 25 years ago'

Tēnā hoki tātou, I wrote this waiata with a message to convey. That message being as a society, we cannot move forward into the nation we genuinely deserve to live in if we don't understand the HISTORY of the lands we call home. My school is built and stands on the land the battle of Pukehinahina was fought on. Why was this not a core part of our education? Countless students who are descendants of the battle, are schooled there. Yet the curriculum never thought to teach us the very histories th