“I said something which surprised even me as I was saying it — that it’s not the job of Māori journalists like myself to compensate for, or mitigate, the institutional racism of the media industry.” — Aaron Smale on accepting his media award for Māori reporting.
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“Do not step outside your house. Do not take off your suit jacket and go inside their homes, their prison cells, their marae, their gang pads, their fale, their communities, their pain.” — Connie Buchanan on how to give a bare minimum state apology.
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“It was quite a fixation for me, even as a kid: wanting to know, wanting to know, wanting to know. Maybe that’s why I’m a journalist, because I was always asking questions, and my parents never had answers, or couldn’t give me answers.” —Aaron Smale.
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“Those who wanted pine trees — the Crown and outside corporate interests — got pine trees. But it was Ngāti Porou and their lands and moana that would pay the price.” — Aaron Smale.
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“The origins of the racism that is tearing the United States apart has deep parallels with New Zealand, and the origins are the same.” — Aaron Smale.
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