The Good Settler ’ — Judges of the

’ — Judges of the 2025 Ngaio Marsh Awards

as New Zealand moves into the 2020s

That’s where The New Zealand Land & Food Annual comes in

Fiona Kidman and Witi Ihimaera

The Good Settler ’ — Judges of theIncisive, engaging writing on race and racism Where once I saw a view as I drove around the Taranaki coast along State Highway 45, I now see confiscated land from an invasion road. The creation story I used to subscribe to, the one in which hard working people came here and settled the land, now jars. Weirdly, even the lawn looks different. So writes Richard Shaw in his third book examining colonisation in Aotearoa New Zealand. Both have been warmly