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Letters
Congratulations on winning the Ossie Award
4 December 2005
- A brief selection of letters on the award
Read story: https://tewahanui.info/news/061205_ossie.html
Congratulations -- yet again. It's a very fine student newspaper with well developed professional values.
John Henningham
Director,
Jschool: Journalism Education & Training
Brisbane
www.jschool.com.au
CONGRATULATIONS! to you and all staff of Te Waha Nui on your Ossie Award. I remember as a journalism student at UPNG when Uni Tavur won the Ossie Award in 1995. It was sensational. I hope the feeling is the same.
You were there and you made it happen, I believe you have done it again.
Jessie Abiuda-Mitir
Editor
Papua New Guinea Forest Research Institute,
Lae
Papua New Guinea
David, congratulations to you and the students. An excellent result. Must dash - I'm in Brisbane en route to the Middle East, and just racing for my flight.
Jon Stephenson
Congratulations everyone - it looks as if we might need another party!
Nicholas Moody
Current TWN editor
Fantastic news David. All that hard work has been rewarded by the students and you and Allan.
Peter White
Former TWN editor
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Congratulations on winning the Wallace Award
4 November 2005
- A brief selection of letters on the awards
Read story: https://tewahanui.info/award.html
Congratulations to all concerned.
Selwyn Manning
Auckland editor
Scoop
Excellent, well done to you all!
Matt Mollgaard
Radio Curriculum Leader
School of Communication Studies
AUT
Congrats David and your team. I always enjoy reading the paper; a highlight.
Catherine David
School of Communication Studies
Congratulations to the Te Waha Nui team - and their senior mentors. It's a great newspaper that I always look forward to reading - and always read new and interesting things in!
Kind regards
Aline Sandilands
Senior Lecturer in Communications
Auckland University of Technology
Congratulations, David, and congratulations to your team. It's wonderful for you and for them to get this recognition.
Anna Holt
School of Communication Studies
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Perceptive comments on David Lange
2 November 2005
Editor,
I was interested to read the article by Duncan Greave, a journalist student of AUT (Te Waha Nui, No 11, "Mourning for Reagan and Lange", p 8). It was clear from his comparison of the passing on of a former American President (Ronald Reagan) last year and the passing on of a former New Zealand Prime Minister(Mr Lange),that our response here was "rather restrained" and "excessively subdued".
The mourners for Lange numbered just 2000, compared to 200,000 for Reagan not to mention that Lange was given a private burial as against a "state funeral" for Reagan.
Duncan Greave's perceptiveness is captured in his concluding comments when he says, "it seems that our nation barely flinched when one if its greatest, most committed leaders passed on".
Even this journalism student recognised that our "tall poppy syndrome" excesses may have stood in the way of a healthy development of national pride and nationalism.
Dr Tupeni Baba
Centre for Pacific Studies
Auckland University
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