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Category: NZ Fiction
As the 150-year anniversary of the Treaty of Waitangi draws near, Charlie - disgruntled with her Pakeha anti-racism group's endless meetings, leadership squabbles and debates over rhetoric - joins her Maori flatmate Kat on a reckless mission to sabotage the 1990 celebrations and the Queen's visit. With
As the 150-year anniversary of the Treaty of Waitangi draws near, Charlie - disgruntled with her Pakeha anti-racism group's endless meetings, leadership squabbles and debates over rhetoric - joins her Maori flatmate Kat on a reckless mission to sabotage the 1990 celebrations and the Queen's visit. With growing disregard to consequences, the pair commits to do whatever it takes to have the Treaty honoured and the Maori flag flying at Waitangi. This lively, humorous tale follows a young woman activist on her journey through several politically charged landscapes of the 1980s - the LGBTI movement, feminism, Maori rights activism - on her haphazard search for identity, a place to stand and for love.
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