7 Jul 2020

Renewed calls for Cook Islands name change

From Afternoons, 1:25 pm on 7 July 2020

There are renewed calls in the Cook Islands for an indigenous Māori name, including Rarotonga's Tākitimu monarch.

The paramount chief has said she fully supported a Māori ancestral name for the nation, according to the Cook Islands News.

Jesse speaks to Colin Tukuitonga, former Pacific Community Director-General

and Associate Dean Pacific at the University of Auckland Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences.

Aerial landscape view of the beautiful Muri Lagoon and a Motu (Islet) in Rarotonga Island in the Cook Islands.

Photo: Rafael Ben-Ari/ 123RF

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