![]() Māori authors made up about 1.8% of authors at news outlets, he said – and swapping monarchy news for their writing was also a moment to raise the profile of their work, and of Indigenous stories more broadly. While the app’s creator held that in mind, Bailey said he also hoped to offer a playful vision – one of “independence, where we can talk about our own people, and if we want to we can switch off and we don’t have to rationalise and we don’t have to contextualise ourselves as victim or respondent”. ![]() New Zealand continues to reckon with a violent colonial legacy – for which the crown has made a number of formal apologies – including land confiscation, atrocities, aggressive warfare and unlawful arrests. While King Charles III remains New Zealand’s ceremonial head of state, Māori never ceded sovereignty to the crown. Made with agency Colenso BBDO, it uses data scraping to scan webpages for words and images related to the royals, then replaces those with articles linking to Indigenous news produced by Indigenous Māori outlets. The service, called Pikari Mai!, is a free plugin to download, and promises users an opportunity to “switch off the toff”. ![]() “Across the globe, Indigenous folk are tired of rhetoric around frivolity and class.” “People are sick of it – they don’t care about how much a diamond costs and who’s wearing what dress,” said Hāmiora Bailey, a Māori artist who created the plugin. ![]()
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