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Biography: TuiSamoa, Agnes Rosa

Agnes TuiSamoa on giving

This clip from Albert Wendt’s documentary New streets – Auckland Fa’a-Samoa (1982) highlight’s Agnes TuiSamoa’s criticisms of the expectation on Pacific Island people that they give more than they could afford to their extended family and community.

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Reference: TZP7501 – LOOKOUT – NEW STREETS (1982). Courtesy of Television New Zealand.

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Elizabeth Cox. 'TuiSamoa, Agnes Rosa', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2018. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/47131/agnes-tuisamoa-on-giving (accessed 10 June 2026).