Olivia Aroha Giles

Imagine someone borrows your lawnmower for 20 years and then returns it busted and rusty and expects you to be grateful to get it back. Or says fine, I'll give you $2 for it. That is what it's like going through the Treaty of Waitangi land claims.

I finished my manuscript for Huia...thank fecking goodness.

Life is awesome, arohanui everyone xxx

@harrietprebble I had a job I hated at parliament too and now I write novels xxxx

In my early twenties when I had a job I hated at Parliament, I used to walk the long way to work so I could pass the Circa Theatre building and fantasise about how different my life would be if I was working on a production there instead. And now I’m directing one. 😤

@KEVINTOMIRANDA 15

On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate this movie?

Ba nice to each other

Time makes all the difference ....if you're having a shit time right now, it will pass

Proper truth is complicated

Our PM is doing her best, in shitty circumstances that's obvious.

Kindness costs feck all and feels so so so good to both parties :)

@MarianKeyes I just finished "Rachel, again" and it was Awesome. I have to say I was terrified "Rachel's Holiday" is my favourite fecking book but you did it girl, YOU DID IT!

I think our government has had to face crap that no one else has for over a hundred years and they did good...considering they serve a country full of ungrateful dicks

I think twitter should be called 'Calm the fuck down before you write anything'

All my life I have heard the "Why am I having Maori language shoved down my throat" comments, that is 60 years.

@amtrusova that is gorgeous

acrylic on canvas 40 * 60 cm “green canyon. observation deck " 2021 #painting #acrylicpainting #artwork

I think to be a good writer you have to acknowledge that many, many writers are way better but they don't have your story to tell.

Borgen is brilliant

I spent the last 2 months trying to understand why the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe might banish a company it hired to revitalize the Lakota language. It’s a story of Indigenous data sovereignty, & here’s some of what I learned (🧵) nbcnews.com/news/us-news/n…

The only thing I miss about being young is energy and firm titties

Global warming...war...massacres...pandemic... and some DICK threw cake at the Mona Lisa That's a headline now??? WHO GIVES A SHIT

@MrColesDrama I just watched you on Leena Norms, my alltime fave youtuber, your conversation was great, really enlightening.