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Pacifica Inc.
Pacifica Inc., sometimes styled P.A.C.I.F.I.C.A. or PACIFICA is a non-government organisation in Aotearoa New Zealand established in 1977 following a Pacific women's conference held in Auckland in 1976. It consists mainly of Pasifika women, although all women of any background, faith and ethnicity are eligible to join."About us" on Pacifica Inc. website, retrieved 28 March 2025 The organisation seeks to provide opportunities for Pacific women to contribute effectively to the cultural, social, economic and political development of Aotearoa. In 2023, the organisation published ''A Wellbeing Report: Voices from Pacific Women and Girls in Aotearoa, New Zealand'' as part of an aim to present a record of Pacific women and girls’ voices. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Pacifica may refer to: Art * ''Pacifica'' (statue), a 1938 statue by Ralph Stackpole for the Golden Gate International Exposition Places * Pacifica, California, a city in the United States ** Pacifica Pier, a fishing pier * Pacifica, a conceivable union of Guam, the Northern Marianas, and a number of the former Trust Territories of the United States in the central Pacific Ocean Media * Pacifica Radio, a non-commercial radio network in the United States, founded on the principles of pacifism * ''Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation'', a landmark court case for the regulation of indecency in U.S. broadcasting * ''Pacifica'', a newsletter published by the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers * ''Pacifica'' (journal), theological journal Music * ''Pacifica'' (Fred Frith album), 1998 * ''Pacifica'' (The Presets album) * Pacifica Quartet, an American string quartet * Yamaha Pacifica, a model of electric guitar Fictional * Pacifica, a planet in "Manhun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eti Laufiso
Mary Agnes Ivala-Laufiso, known as Eti Laufiso (1939–2009), was a policy writer and lecturer specialising in the education of Pasifika New Zealanders and the teaching of Pacific languages. She was involved in founding several organisations advocating for the Pasifika community in New Zealand and in the Pacific Islands. Family Mary Agnes Ivala was born in Sāmoa on 2 November, 1939, the second daughter of Filomena Tua'i and Ivala Leifi."Living to learn and teach", ''Otago Daily Times'', 12 September 2009; page 36 About 1962, she married Mikaele (Filipo) Laufiso, a worker on the Manapōuri Power Station hydro-electric development at Doubtful Sound / Patea and together they had six children, including local government politician Marie Laufiso and arts advisor Pip Laufiso. At the time of her death, she had eight grandchildren and two great-grandsons. Education Eti attended St Mary's College, in Apia, and in 1960 was awarded a Western Samoan Government scholarship to stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Establishments In New Zealand
Events January * January 8 Events Pre-1600 * 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Sima Chi becomes emperor of the Jin dynasty (266–420), Jin dynasty in succession to his brother, Emperor Hui of Jin, Sima Zhong, despite a challenge from his other brother, Sima Ying. * 871 ... – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 – 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown Bacteria, bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst Granville rail disaster, railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Kerekere
Elizabeth Anne Kerekere (born ) is a New Zealand politician and LGBTQ activist and scholar. She was elected a member of parliament for the Green Party in 2020, but resigned from the Greens on 5 May 2023, following allegations of bullying within the party. Kerekere remained in parliament as an independent until the 2023 election. Kerekere identifies as and produced the first major research on identity with her doctoral thesis in 2017. She is also an artist and graduated from Eastern Institute of Technology with a bachelor in Māori visual arts (). In 2000, in her role of Te Kairuruku, Ngā Kaupapa Māori at Dowse Art Museum she curated an exhibition called ''Kaumatua Anō te Ātaahua: Honouring the Gifts of our Elders''. Personal life Kerekere was born in Gisborne, New Zealand. Her father, Karauria Tarao "Bison" Kerekere, was an artist and master carver. He was Māori, and of the Te Whānau a Kai, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri and Ngāti Oneone i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop
Margaret Ellen Fairbairn-Dunlop is a Samoan-New Zealand academic. She is the first person in New Zealand to hold a chair in Pacific studies. Education Fairbairn-Dunlop studied at Victoria University of Wellington, graduating with a Master of Arts degree. She completed a PhD at Macquarie University in Australia. Career Fairbairn-Dunlop lived in Samoa from 1981 to 2005, where she worked for aid organisations based in the Pacific such as UNDP, UNIFEM and UNESCO. On her return to New Zealand, she was appointed the inaugural director of Va’aomanu Pasifika, the Pacific Studies department at Victoria University of Wellington. Fairbairn-Dunlop was the founding Professor of Pacific Studies at Auckland University of Technology. She is also chair of the Health Research Council Pacific team and sits on a number of Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health committees, the Social Sciences committee of the Royal Society Te Apārangi and the UNESCO Social Sciences Committee. In 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Frisbie
Florence Ngatokura "Johnny" Frisbie (born 19 June 1932), also known as Johnny Frisbie Hebenstreit, is a Cook Islands author. Her autobiographical children's novel, ''Miss Ulysses of Puka-Puka'' (1948), was the first published literary work by a Pacific Islander woman author. Biography Frisbie was born in Papeete, Tahiti, the second child of American writer Robert Dean Frisbie and Ngatokura ‘A Mata’a. In 1934 the family moved to Ngatokura's home of Pukapuka in the Cook Islands, where Frisbie was raised. As a child she helped her father type up his writings and kept a journal in Pukapukan, Cook Islands Māori, and English, which she learned from her father's library and from comic books. Following the death of her mother in 1939 the family left Pukapuka and travelled to Manihiki and Rarotonga before settling on Suwarrow in January 1942. Later that year the atoll was hit by a tropical cyclone which washed away 16 of its 22 islets; the Frisbies survived by tying themselves to tre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tepaeru Tereora
Mere Tepaeru Tereora (born 1934) is a Cook Islands artist and educator. Her Tivaevae work is internationally recognised and displayed in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. She is also a significant figure in the revival of Cook Islands Māori, establishing language nests for it in New Zealand. She is the sister of writer Kauraka Kauraka. Biography Tereora was born on the island of Manihiki. She was sent to Rarotonga in 1944 for schooling, where she became involved in the Girl Guides. In 1954 she travelled to New Zealand to train as a teacher, then returned to the Cook Islands, where she taught at Avarua School, Manihiki, Atiu, Nikao School and Tereora College. In 1964 she was appointed women's interest officer and began travelling around the Cook Islands teaching a home education programme, including ''tivaevae''. In 1969 she moved to Wellington, New Zealand, where she became active in the Māori Women's Welfare League. In 1983 she helped establish Kōhanga Reo as p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanaura Kingstone
Fanaura Kimiora Kingstone QSO (born 1940) is a Cook Islands former politician and Cabinet Minister. In 1983 she became the second woman elected to the Parliament of the Cook Islands, and the first appointed to Cabinet. Kingstone was born in Arutanga on the island of Aitutaki. At the age of six her family moved to Rarotonga so her father could study at Takamoa Theological College.Kailahi (2007), p. 123 She was educated at Taranaki Diocesan School for Girls (then known as St Mary's Diocesan School) in Stratford, New Zealand, then at New Plymouth Girls' High School and Ardmore Teachers' Training College in Auckland. After teaching in New Zealand for two years, she returned to Rarotonga where she taught at Avarua School. She married Colin Kingstone and in 1964 moved to Niue and taught at Niue High School (where her husband was principal). When he died in 1969 she returned to New Zealand and taught at South Wellington Intermediate.Kailahi (2007), p. 124 In 1976 she helped organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anahila Kanongata'a
Anahila Lose Kanongata'a (born 1969) is a New Zealand social worker and politician. She served as a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party from 2017 to 2023. Early life and career Kanongata'a was born in Tonga. When she was a child, her single mother went to work in New Zealand, leaving her children in the custody of her father. When her mother and stepfather became permanent residents, she came to New Zealand in 1980 and settled in a state house in Onehunga. At the time, she did not speak English. She left school in the sixth form and began working as a bank teller. She married her first husband and had two children before she turned 20. Aged 30, Kanongata'a won a scholarship to study either economics or social work at the University of Auckland. She chose social work and worked as a social worker and manager for the Ministry of Social Development and Oranga Tamariki. She was on the national executive of P.A.C.I.F.I.C.A Incorporated. She became a justice of the peace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddy Walker
Eleitino Edwina Diana Patricia Walker (née Halliday; 14 October 1916 – 8 July 2015) was a New Zealand teacher, peace activist and politician. Biography Walker was born in American Samoa to a New Zealand father and Samoan mother from a chiefly family. At age 10 she attended St Cuthbert's College in Auckland carrying "only a suitcase and a ukulele". She was a talented pianist and composer later going on to teach music and eurhythmics at St Cuthbert's. She was the author of many peace themed songs and books for children. She married traveling salesman Bill Walker. Bill caught tuberculosis during World War II while serving in the Pacific theatre and had to spend five years in hospital in Auckland and later Hanmer Springs. Consequently, Walker had to raise two young children by herself while her husband was having treatment. After introducing herself to Sir James Hay, she became a fashion co-ordinator at Hays Department Store. She worked with buyers and also organised fashion para ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non-government Organisation
A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an independent, typically nonprofit organization that operates outside government control, though it may get a significant percentage of its funding from government or corporate sources. NGOs often focus on humanitarian or social issues but can also include clubs and associations offering services to members. Some NGOs, like the World Economic Forum, may also act as lobby groups for corporations. Unlike international organizations (IOs), which directly interact with sovereign states and governments, NGOs are independent from them. The term as it is used today was first introduced in Article 71 of the newly formed United Nations Charter in 1945. While there is no fixed or formal definition for what NGOs are, they are generally defined as nonprofit entities that are independent of governmental influence—although they may receive government funding. According to the UN Department of Global Communications, an NGO is "a not-for profit, vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caren Rangi
Caren Jane Rangi (born ~1967) is a Cook Islands accountant, former public servant, and company director. She is the first Pacific woman to serve as chair of the Creative New Zealand, Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa. Of Manihiki and Rarotongan descent, Rangi was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. She grew up in Napier, New Zealand, Napier suburb of Tamatea, Napier, Tamatea, and was educated at Tamatea School, Tamatea Intermediate, and Tamatea High School. She studied for a Bachelor of Business Studies at Massey University before working for the Office of the Controller and Auditor-General. In 2008 she became a consultant, and subsequently worked in a range of governance roles. Rangi has served on the boards of Te Papa, NZ On Air, and Radio New Zealand. In 2015 she was appointed as a director of the Cook Islands Investment Corporation. From 2015 to 2017 she was National President of Pacifica Inc, PACIFICA, the Pacific women's council. In April 2021 she was appointed as cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
