Royal Commission on broadcasting
The long awaited report of the Royal Commission on broadcasting came up with solid backing for more and better Maori broadcasting. The commission was chaired by Professor Robert Chapman and included Judge Mick Brown, Laurence Cameron and Elizabeth Nelson. Among the submissions which the commission heard was the statement from Radio New Zealand’s director-general, Beverley Wakem, that public radio had “always been conscious of its statutory obligations towards the Maori and Pacific Island segment of its listeners although it may not have fulfilled their needs to the extent and in the way that some contemporary thinking now demands! Wakem told the Commission there was a “gross under-representation of both Maori and Pacific Islanders on Radio New Zealand’s staff.” “Glacial rapidity” was Robert Mahuta’s description, in the hearings, of the pace of developments in Maori radio services over the last decade. He is director of Waikato University’s Maori Studies department.
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Tu Tangata, Issue 33, 1 December 1986, Page 9
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153Royal Commission on broadcasting Tu Tangata, Issue 33, 1 December 1986, Page 9
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