Māori suicide rate calls for new strategy
“With Māori people, it’s not just one thing. There’s a plethora of social barriers and problems that are against us at the moment, such as the recent kaupapa about Oranga Tamariki.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Jul 28, 2019 | Comment & Analysis
“With Māori people, it’s not just one thing. There’s a plethora of social barriers and problems that are against us at the moment, such as the recent kaupapa about Oranga Tamariki.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Jul 21, 2019 | Kōrero
“There was a really beautiful thing that happened during the filming. We had a change of heart which changed our head.” — Vea Mafile’o on learning to understand her father through the making of ‘For My Father’s Kingdom’.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Jul 14, 2019 | Kōrero
“Being able to express myself as a Cook Islander through dancing and singing and teaching is still important for me.” — Caren Rangi.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Jul 7, 2019 | Arts, Kōrero
“Everybody knows what it’s like to be on a first date. Or have rude thoughts. And, as long as you’re being honest, it can be funny.” — Kura Forrester, Billy T award winner.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Jun 30, 2019 | Kōrero
“I always loved that little kids could watch bro’Town and not feel so stink about being poor.” — Oscar Kightley
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Jun 30, 2019 | Kōrero
“Look, if you do a deal with us, you can call us in 200 years’ time and we’ll still be here. Someone will pick up the telephone.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Jun 23, 2019 | Kōrero
“The city can eat you up. And I don’t think I’d be writing the music I write if I was living in Auckland.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Jun 23, 2019 | Kōrero
“There’s value in going back to Pūao-te-Āta-tū. You’ve got to go back sometimes to go forward.” — Neville Baker.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Jun 16, 2019 | Kōrero
“I think some of it is well-meaning and paternalistic stuff. But it’s racism nevertheless. So it doesn’t matter whether it’s malicious or accidental or just ignorant racism. It’s still racism. And the outcome is just the same.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Jun 9, 2019 | Kōrero
“People don’t realise that we’re descended from scientists. They just think we’re a bunch of indigenous people who fluked getting to places.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | May 26, 2019 | Kōrero
We’re “a changing, creative and responsive people whose culture isn’t fixed or static”. — Sean Mallon, Senior Curator Pacific Cultures, Te Papa.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | May 19, 2019 | Kōrero
“I see moko as a reflection of our society. We’re now at a stage where we can celebrate who we are as Māori people.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | May 5, 2019 | Kōrero, Media
“When I think about the shortage of Pasifika journalists, I’m a bit surprised there aren’t more of us, because we’re powerful storytellers and we always have been.”—Indira Stewart, host of RNZ’s new morning news show First Up.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Apr 28, 2019 | Kōrero
“Teaching your kids that they need to develop some resilience and strength of character is essential, but it’s just as important that they know and feel the love from the people bringing them up.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Apr 21, 2019 | Kōrero
The soldiers of the Māori Battalion never envisaged that, for their descendants, the rates of incarceration, ill-health, and unemployment were going to soar when they came back from the war.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Apr 14, 2019 | Kōrero
“The story of my education is nothing if not consistent: I didn’t pass, but I had a good time.”—Australian-based businessman Matthew Tukaki.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Apr 7, 2019 | Kōrero
“It wasn’t until I went to Westlake Girls’ that I realised I was Māori. In Kaitaia, everybody’s Māori to some extent. Even the Pākehā or the Dallies.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Mar 31, 2019 | Kōrero
“I have a lot of faith in this country and in our people to navigate a future which is positive and which is probably different from anywhere else in the world.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Mar 17, 2019 | Kōrero
“As Māori, we’re unique. I don’t think I’m better than anybody else, but I think I’m bloody just as good.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Mar 10, 2019 | Kōrero, Reo
“I believe absolutely that the Kura Kaupapa Māori Aho Matua is the way forward for us to revitalise and regenerate ourselves as Māori.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Mar 3, 2019 | Kōrero
The education system kept excusing itself for not doing the best it could for Māori kids by blaming Māori kids themselves.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Feb 24, 2019 | Kōrero
“Our future wellbeing relies on addressing issues far deeper than how much money will become ours in a settlement deal.“
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Feb 17, 2019 | Kōrero
“The only way Māori and Pacific outcomes are going to improve is if European New Zealand actually confronts its racist heritage and acknowledges that that racism is alive and well.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Feb 10, 2019 | Arts, Kōrero
“It’s okay to be a bad writer in your first draft because a lot of the craft of writing is in the rewriting.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Feb 3, 2019 | Arts, Kōrero
“I always used to think that the work we were doing was adding another brick to the wall — the wall of rangatiratanga.”—Robyn Bargh, founder of Huia Publishers.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Jan 27, 2019 | Kōrero
“It’s not being Māori, Pacific, disabled, or rainbow that’s the disadvantage. It’s the discrimination in the system that disadvantages us and treads on our dignity.” —EEO Commissioner, Dr Karanina Sumeo.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Dec 2, 2018 | History, Kōrero
“The first land purchase began here in Otago in 1844 and, within 50 years, Kāi Tahu were virtually landless.”—Mike Stevens, historian and Bluffie.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Nov 25, 2018 | Kōrero, Reo
“Our goal is that all Māori children should have access to their language and be able to live as Māori in Aotearoa.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Nov 18, 2018 | Kōrero
“It’s great to have this role, but it won’t mean much if, over the next 20 years, we don’t see anyone else coming through the door and rising up through the ranks.” — Tiana Epati, president-elect of the NZ Law Society.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Nov 4, 2018 | Kōrero
“You can do anything you put your mind to. Don’t be limited by having just one path.”
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