In the waiting place
“The smoke floats around her like a deadly nimbus; but the irony still pinches. That one thing that put her here is the one thing that gives her any remnant of her own life now.” — Māmari Stephens.
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Mar 27, 2022 | Reflections
“The smoke floats around her like a deadly nimbus; but the irony still pinches. That one thing that put her here is the one thing that gives her any remnant of her own life now.” — Māmari Stephens.
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Feb 13, 2021 | Reflections
“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.
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Jul 26, 2020 | Comment & Analysis
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.
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Jun 9, 2019 | Comment & Analysis
“Those who cannot truly and freely choose should be protected by the state, not exposed to greater risk of death.”
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Mar 17, 2019 | Comment & Analysis
“We haven’t ‘lost our innocence’, as so many have said. We never had any.”
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Dec 16, 2018 | Comment & Analysis
“The Māori experience of colonisation, disease, war, urbanisation and deprivation within this country is unique to Māori.”
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Aug 26, 2018 | Reflections
Papatūānuku has been an emblem of political identity and cultural survival for Māori.
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Apr 29, 2018 | Reflections
“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?”
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Mar 25, 2018 | Reflections
“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.”
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Nov 26, 2017 | Reflections
Our marae need attention, protection, words and warmth, writes Māmari Stephens in this essay...
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Nov 4, 2017 | History
I remember a few more over the last couple of decades in Wellington as attendance at such...
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Oct 7, 2017 | Comment & Analysis
Symbols come in many forms, tangible and the intangible. They tell us stories we may not even be...
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Aug 26, 2017 | Comment & Analysis
One of the things I’m really enjoying about this election season is how many cats are being...
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Jul 29, 2017 | Comment & Analysis
In the opening moments of the 1970s, my father left my mother and followed his elusive business...
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Jun 24, 2017 | Comment & Analysis, Reflections
Our father died in 2012. He’d been living in Australia for about 42 years and had only rarely...
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | May 27, 2017 | Comment & Analysis, Media
I don’t get personally offended easily. I learned a while ago not to buy too much into the...
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Apr 15, 2017 | Comment & Analysis
Max Harris is a good bloke who has written a book. He doesn’t need me to repeat all his...
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Apr 1, 2017 | Comment & Analysis
A couple of weeks ago, on a Lower Hutt street, a woman and her children decided to do something...
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Feb 25, 2017 | Comment & Analysis
I am no political pundit. I have no great insight into Māori politics on the national or local...
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Nov 12, 2016 | Comment & Analysis
I remember waking up one morning last year, lying awake for a moment, feeling warm, contented and...
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Oct 1, 2016 | Comment & Analysis
There has been a lot said lately about people of privilege behaving badly. You remember. There...
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Sep 24, 2016 | Reflections
I had one of those “only Māori in the room” moments recently. I have a lot of those....
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Jul 30, 2016 | Comment & Analysis
There’s all this doom and gloom in world news these days. Fear and fearmongering too. From the...
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Jun 4, 2016 | Comment & Analysis
I imagine John Key must have had a lovely warm feeling as he announced before the world (well, the...
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | May 14, 2016 | Comment & Analysis
Karakia are cultural practices, but are they religious as well? Or just spiritual? And how exactly...
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Apr 2, 2016 | Media
My brief this week was to write a column on the Waitangi Tribunal. Now, I often need to feel a bit...
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Feb 20, 2016 | Comment & Analysis
There is a tin. It looks like Nana’s biscuit tin, but is actually the tin from which private...
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Feb 6, 2016 | Comment & Analysis, Editors Picks, Media
It’s never very far from my memory. The time, in 1988, I took a taxi to Jupiter’s Casino on...
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Nov 7, 2015 | Comment & Analysis
When I converted to Christianity about 15 years ago, my dear, late mother was not impressed. She...
Read MorePosted by Māmari Stephens | Oct 24, 2015 | Comment & Analysis, Reo
I heard the news yesterday and my heart gave a leap. In fact, I think it must have levitated a...
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