THE HAKA PARTY INCIDENT

Documentary exploring an incident centred on Pākehā students at the University of Auckland who performed a mock haka every capping week. In 1979, Māori and Pasifika activists looked to put a stop to this parody—and were severely punished for it.  "It covers the day when a group of young Māori and Pasifika activists, later named He Taua, sought to stop Pākehā engineering students at the University of Auckland performing a parody of haka each capping week. By then the “Haka Party” had annually evolved into mayhem as these students, many of them drunk and dressed in grass skirts staged ‘hit and run’ performances of their ‘haka’ throughout central Auckland.