Top Cast
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Mark Hadlow
Principal
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April Phillips
Teacher
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Marris Collins
Frontline Police Officer
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Shania Bailey-Edmonds
Aroha
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Matt Ruglys
Commissioner's Friend
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Tukairangi Maxwell
Pete
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Fredrick Pokai
Shane
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Des Morgan
Deputy Principal
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Agnes Widfeldt
Mrs. Thomas
Overview
When their small country school faces closure, country kids use whatever means necessary to save it while their older siblings do the same to keep their sacred lands during the historic NZ Aotearoa land protests of 1978.
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