Ponsonby

This guide to Ponsonby in Auckland begins on the sixteenth of June, nineteen seventy-one, when six young Pacific Islanders meeting in a Ponsonby lounge formed the Polynesian Panthers. It traces the dawn raids that targeted Pacific families crowded into the suburb's Victorian villas, and the homework classes, legal clinics and free meals the Panthers ran from these same streets in response. Listen for how the numbers on who was actually stopped compare to who was blamed.