Kākāriki (anglicised form kakariki) is the Māori name of the predominantly green New Zealand parakeet and unsurprisingly the Māori word for the colour green. This website, however, has nothing whatsoever to do with parakeets, whether native to Aotearoa (‘the land of the long white cloud’) or not. Rather, it is simply a site where its owner — like the bird a New Zealand native, but unlike the bird a naturalised Australian — keeps a few writings that might interest or be useful to others.