“Our people need to speak the honest truth. Talk about being abused. Talk about the struggle you’re going through. Talk about being homeless. Or talk about how you can’t afford to pay for things. Because not talking about the truth is what defeats us.” — Mea Motu.
Read More
“In New Zealand the whole machinery of justice has been made by the white majority. These are the facts of racist oppression.” — Oliver Sutherland.
Read More
“Things need to change for our babies, children, and young people who are still in the system today.” — Ali’imuamua Sandra Alofivae
Read More
“I did not want to go home. Because I knew that when I went home someone was going to be angry, someone was going to fight, and someone was going to get hurt.”
Read More
“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 More
“She came home to die. But not straight away. She still had things she wanted to do.”
Read More
“They say we’ve got a P problem in the Far North. Well, we do. But the P problem is prisons. It’s politics. It’s personalities. It’s processes. That’s the P problem we have here.”
Read MoreE-Tangata is an online Sunday magazine specialising in stories that reflect the experiences of Māori and Pasifika in Aotearoa.
We welcome submissions or inquiries to:
editor@e-tangata.co.nz
Sign up for our email newsletter and get the latest E-Tangata stories sent straight to your inbox.
SubscribeYou can support E-Tangata’s kaupapa by contributing through PressPatron. With your help, we can tell more Māori and Pacific stories.
