was far more likely to listen to their friends and influencers than educators, whānau and parents, Biasiny-Tule says.

“Instagram has shown it has been instrumental in spreading unrealistic depictions of bodies to girls and other more insidious messaging therefore we have hijacked Instagram creating real, positive role models, making a difference, proud of who they are both as young girls and as indigenous people that audiences can relate to and befriend.”

On the production team along with Todd and Biasiny-Tule is New Zealand production manager and chief executive of WorkShed Productions in South Korea, David Oxenbridge, New Zealand animation director Nige Ward, New Zealand writer Turene Huiarau Jones, New Zealand social media co-ordinator Chanz Mikaere and digital guru Potaua Biasiny-Tule.

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MUSKRAT is an on-line Indigenous arts, culture, and livingMarex Spectron, highlighting record world inventories, sounded a bearish note on cocoa prices despite forecasting a production deficit ahead, and acknowledging the political uncertainty in Ivory Coast.

Cocoa prices soared in both London and New York in the last session after Ivory Coast's president, Alassane Ouattara, unexpectedly dissolved the government of the top cocoa-producing country, citing tensions within his coalition cabinet.

However, the London-based broker raised doubts over the severity of the threat posed to cocoa supplies by the shake-up, despite Ivory Coast accounting for more than one-third of world output.

"If the Ivory Coast can produce and export a record 1.7m tonnes during a civil war," which Mr Ouattara fought to claim his, elected, presidency last year, "a change of government would seem of little consequence," Marex said.

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