TY - JOUR AU - Sapkota, Rituraj PY - 2022/07/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - FRONTLINE 2: The NZ Parliament protest: What the cameras in the crowd witnessed JF - Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa JA - PJR VL - 28 IS - 1 & 2 SE - Frontline DO - 10.24135/pjr.v28i1and2.1247 UR - https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/1247 SP - 114-122 AB - Commentary: Aotearoa New Zealand’s Parliament grounds have been reclaimed. All the streets around the buildings are again open to the public. Te Āti Awa have held a karakia to reinstall the mauri of the land. There is currently a rāhui over the Parliament grounds. It is time for healing. And moving on, writes a Māori Television videographer on reflection about the unprecedented hate directed at news media during the three-week occupation by anti-public health measures protesters. But after the unprecedented chaos that ended in a riot on Day 23—2 March 2022—he quotes a journalist who said, ‘I was feeling sad ... And then I look at Ukraine and realise there are bombs going off next to all these journalists and camera operators. I got hit with a camping chair and am I going to sit around and complain about it?' ER -