“Up until my early 20s, Māori people and language had never really been normal at all to me. Māori concepts and ideas were not normal either, except in the most abstract and safe way.” — Māmari Stephens.
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Is it time to turn to Māori law for the answer to a legal issue that would affect all New Zealanders? — Māmari Stephens on the Peter Ellis case and the growing role and status of tikanga Māori in Aotearoa’s laws.
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“Those who cannot truly and freely choose should be protected by the state, not exposed to greater risk of death.”
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“We haven’t ‘lost our innocence’, as so many have said. We never had any.”
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“The Māori experience of colonisation, disease, war, urbanisation and deprivation within this country is unique to Māori.”
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Papatūānuku has been an emblem of political identity and cultural survival for Māori.
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“Christianity is a religion of failures and dropkicks, hypocrites and losers, because most of us are goodish, but not one of us is good enough. We all know this regardless of belief, right?”
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“It took years of very conscious effort for me not to be afraid to walk into a room full of people darker than I was.”
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Our marae need attention, protection, words and warmth, writes Māmari Stephens in this essay...
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I remember a few more over the last couple of decades in Wellington as attendance at such...
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Symbols come in many forms, tangible and the intangible. They tell us stories we may not even be...
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One of the things I’m really enjoying about this election season is how many cats are being...
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In the opening moments of the 1970s, my father left my mother and followed his elusive business...
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Our father died in 2012. He’d been living in Australia for about 42 years and had only rarely...
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I don’t get personally offended easily. I learned a while ago not to buy too much into the...
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Max Harris is a good bloke who has written a book. He doesn’t need me to repeat all his...
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A couple of weeks ago, on a Lower Hutt street, a woman and her children decided to do something...
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I am no political pundit. I have no great insight into Māori politics on the national or local...
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I remember waking up one morning last year, lying awake for a moment, feeling warm, contented and...
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There has been a lot said lately about people of privilege behaving badly. You remember. There...
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I had one of those “only Māori in the room” moments recently. I have a lot of those....
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There’s all this doom and gloom in world news these days. Fear and fearmongering too. From the...
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I imagine John Key must have had a lovely warm feeling as he announced before the world (well, the...
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Karakia are cultural practices, but are they religious as well? Or just spiritual? And how exactly...
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My brief this week was to write a column on the Waitangi Tribunal. Now, I often need to feel a bit...
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There is a tin. It looks like Nana’s biscuit tin, but is actually the tin from which private...
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It’s never very far from my memory. The time, in 1988, I took a taxi to Jupiter’s Casino on...
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When I converted to Christianity about 15 years ago, my dear, late mother was not impressed. She...
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I heard the news yesterday and my heart gave a leap. In fact, I think it must have levitated a...
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It’s hard to soften and cool the little hot knot of rage that has been living in my...
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