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How to avoid being Korg

OPINION: Air NZ's annoying safety video also plays into an ongoing trope about Māori – the 'noble savage'.

NBR columnist Guy Te Kiniwe Royal speaks with Will Mace

The current safety video being played by our national airline annoys me.

It has at its centre a traditional waka which floats into the air and travels the country reiterating the values of our natural world through a Māori lens. I get it – it’s a tourism promo piece and it seems churlish to

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