There is an advertisement for a movie, posing as a news story, on Newshub.
"Lee Tamahori goes back to 1830s Aotearoa for new film The Convert"
It makes me laugh.
Now I'm not really up with the movin' pictures crowd but I think Tamahori was the one arrested for being a trans. streetwalker (before "trans" became a thing).
Obviously he, and the headline writer, are not students of history.
In 1830 New Zealand was not a country, just a group of disparate tribes occupying a land mass in the North and visited by whalers, sealers, flax-traders and the odd deserter from their boats who set up "farms".
Basically a blot on the map.
In 1830 the word "aotearoa" had not yet been invented (by white fellows).
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