Dawn raids

For the past week in Hur2 Nga Tangata we have been working on protests and events that changed NZ for the better. We were given a text to read and questions to answer. We were asked to answer these questions.

Here are my answers summed up in a paragraph.

The dawn raids happened in 1974 and played a huge impact on social construct and views. The dawn raids consisted of many police officers accusing Maori or pacific islanders of being in NZ illegally, this all started because of paekeha people wanting jobs,  if they didn't have a job they would tell the police that you were an overstayed (someone who stayed in a country for longer than they were allowed) and they would rip you out of your home and either send you back to where your from or keep you in cells until there was an available flight. People shared rumours and it went from 1 or 2 people getting kicked out to over 200 people getting deported, this impacted many peoples lives a lot, for some people working in NZ was the only source of their income and the only thing allowing them to get clean water and good food. The Polynesian panthers (the group of protesters) impacted NZ by convincing the police and citizens that people shouldn't have to prove they are allowed in NZ by going to politicians houses (more specifically Bill Birch) at 3am and shining spotlights onto their windows and yelling " Bill Birch come out with your passport" and they would leave, by doing this they convinced  the government to make it illegal to go into people houses without permission. this was also only apologised for two weeks ago.