A controversial book revealing a suppressed report into the reconstruction of the Nuku’alofa central business district in Tonga following the 2006 riots has been launched at AUT University.
The author, Dr Teena Brown Pulu, is a lecturer at AUT and launched the book, Shoot the Messenger, at the Manukau Campus.
Brown Pulu, who with Melino Maka, was authorised to write a report by the Tongan Prime Minister, Lord Tui’vakano, on this reconstruction project in April 2011. But its release was later blocked with the report considered “inadequate and unreliable”.
Teena Brown-Pulu is the Curriculum Leader for Pacific Development at the AUT.
Melino Maka is chairman of the Tongan Advisory Council in Auckland
Source
- Pacific Media Watch
- AUT
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