Pero Cameron: Big man, big impact
“We had a very practical Māori upbringing but not much in the way of Niuean or Scottish.” — Pero Cameron, head coach of the Tall Blacks.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | May 10, 2020 | Kōrero
“We had a very practical Māori upbringing but not much in the way of Niuean or Scottish.” — Pero Cameron, head coach of the Tall Blacks.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | May 3, 2020 | Kōrero
“My journey into the Deaf world has been a true gift.” — Alan Wendt, New Zealand Sign Language interpreter and language geek.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Apr 26, 2020 | Kōrero
“As a foster parent, when you’re sharing kai, sharing breath and sharing space, these are deep acts of love.” — Shayne Walker.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Apr 19, 2020 | Kōrero
“When I take the clamps off the vessels and see the shrivelled-up grey kidney become purple and then pink and then pulsate with blood, nothing else I do beats that.” — Dr Lupe Taumoepeau.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Mar 29, 2020 | Kōrero
“As a defence lawyer for 32 years and trying all that time to keep people out of prison, it’s going to be tough, eventually, having to send someone to prison.” — New district court judge Denise Wallwork.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Mar 15, 2020 | Kōrero
“When March 15 happened, one of our reactions was anger because we’d raised the alarm much earlier — and pushed and pushed. And nobody took us seriously.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Mar 1, 2020 | Kōrero
“Things need to change for our babies, children, and young people who are still in the system today.” — Ali’imuamua Sandra Alofivae
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Feb 16, 2020 | Kōrero
“It was just me and my mother. She was a single mum during this time, on the benefit. And she essentially educated me in Māoritanga, and herself at the same time.” — Dr Inia Tomas
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Feb 2, 2020 | Kōrero
“In spite of all the opportunities in the mainstream Pākehā education system, having access to native speakers of te reo Māori is much more beneficial.” — Peter Lucas Jones.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Dec 15, 2019 | Kōrero, Reo
“Sometimes we don’t appreciate what’s right under our noses until we go away from home. Then we tangi weto for our reo. And that’s the situation for some of our Aussie whānau.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Dec 1, 2019 | Kōrero
“My sister always said I was a natural nosey parker as a kid. She reckons I’m really in the best position to do the work that I do — and that’s asking questions.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Nov 24, 2019 | Kōrero
“’Whatever you do, remember, you’ll never be a Pākehā.’ Everyone then wanted their children to grow up in a Pākehā way. Speaking English was the norm, the wanted thing.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Nov 17, 2019 | Kōrero
“She’d say: ‘Ete, you’re a Laughing Sāmoan, and if you start telling your story of how you were violent and what you did to overcome that violence, that would be really awesome.’” — Eteuati Ete.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Nov 10, 2019 | Kōrero, Reo
“My greatest aspiration for the future of te reo is to have a mokopuna, so I can speak Māori to that mokopuna every day.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Nov 3, 2019 | Kōrero
“I saw parallels with an earlier process of gentrification which displaced communities — largely Pasifika — from Ponsonby, St Mary’s Bay and Freemans Bay in the late 1970s to 1980s. That displacement has had ongoing ramifications for Pasifika people.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Oct 27, 2019 | Kōrero
“It’s incredibly important, now more than ever, that we strive to become a more welcoming and compassionate nation.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Oct 13, 2019 | Kōrero
“I thought: ‘There’s nothing stopping me from doing this, is there? If I’ve got a Bible and a prayer book to help me, then, yep, I can do this.’”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Oct 6, 2019 | Kōrero
“There’s a lot of ways that Māori design can be woven into a building. But I think the essential thing is that whoever holds mana whenua in that area is engaged in the process.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Oct 6, 2019 | Kōrero
“Their idea was to send me to school to beat other kids up — and that didn’t go down too well with the teachers.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Sep 29, 2019 | Kōrero
“Only Māori have Māori insights. There’s still the routine where other cultures think they can build things for us. But that’s a no. Kāhore.” — Hiria Te Rangi, CEO of Whare Hauora.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Sep 29, 2019 | Kōrero
“This year, there’ll be another 4,000 convictions just for cannabis offences. Forty percent of those will be Māori. So I see decriminalisation and regulation as a way of reducing harm, particularly to Māori.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Sep 22, 2019 | Arts, Kōrero
“In filmmaking, the essence is collaboration. For something to be really good, there needs to be different perspectives, techniques and skills from lots of different people.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Sep 8, 2019 | Kōrero
“When I told Mum I was going to take Māori, she said: ‘Waste of breath.’”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Sep 1, 2019 | Arts, Kōrero
“There are lots of silly excuses that people offer for why there aren’t more of us published. They say, for instance, that we don’t like to write. We aren’t storytellers. We’re not readers. But that’s ridiculous.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Aug 25, 2019 | Kōrero
“You do miss the brothers who’ve passed on. And you miss the vibe that they all brought to the gigs. You miss their mannerisms. You miss what made them individuals.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Aug 18, 2019 | Kōrero
“One of the reasons that many of the more vulnerable whānau turn to third-tier lenders and shop trucks is that they’re treated nicely. They have things done for them, and aren’t made to feel stupid.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Aug 11, 2019 | Kōrero
“The whole system is set up to fail Māori and to force people to do deals where they may not be 100 percent behind it.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Aug 4, 2019 | Comment & Analysis
“The Treaty relationship needs to underpin the Climate Change Commission — and in fact, all the commissioners should be bound by Treaty obligations, such as to actively protect Māori rights.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Aug 4, 2019 | Kōrero
“It may sound cheesy but joining the police felt like a calling.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Jul 28, 2019 | Kōrero
“Your pride in being Māori was always there. There was no great epiphany. No thunderbolt striking. It was how you lived your life.”
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