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Reflections •Sun 22 Apr
Moana Maniapoto: Losing my religion
The Māori afterlife involves soaring across the mountain ranges towards Hawaiki to hang with the tūpuna. Way less stressful than heaven or hell.
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Pathways •Sun 22 Apr
Vivien Sutherland Bridgwater: I always felt like I didn't fit
"Identity shifts as you live your life."
Issues •Sun 22 Apr
Israel Folau and God’s plan for gay people
Christians are not God’s moral police, says Papakura minister Reverend Apelu Tielu.
Pathways •Sun 15 Apr
Māorifying prisons isn’t the solution to too many Māori in prison
“Prisons aren’t Māori. We can’t have kaupapa Māori prisons because we never had prisons in the first place.”
Issues •Sun 15 Apr
'I was joking': the all-purpose humour defence
Bob Jones’s column on Māori was “mean, malicious and infantile”, but it gets a Press Council pass under the humour defence.
Pathways •Sun 15 Apr
Tom Hemopo: You don’t have to be special to do what I did
The former probation officer has been battling to keep Māori inmates from heading back to prison.
Reflections •Sun 8 Apr
My mother is Pākehā — and I love her
When I hear a child saying she hates Pākehā, it doesn’t sit right with me. It’s the same when I hear people referring to the “bloody Pākehās”.
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