domestic violence Archives

Linda Tuhiwai Smith: Healing our trauma

Posted by Linda Tuhiwai Smith | Mar 20, 2022 | Comment & Analysis, PIJF

“There’s a great deal of research across the world now that shows that trauma isn’t something that you just get over. It can be reproduced and passed down through generations.” — Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith.

The beauty and the violence

Posted by Stan Walker | Oct 18, 2020 | Reflections

“This is the way it was for us. The two sides of our lives. The beauty and the violence; the richness and the poverty; the love and the hate. Everything, but nothing.” — Stan Walker, in his new book ‘Impossible — My Story’.

Our communities are broken

Posted by Lorene Royal | Feb 2, 2020 | Reflections

“In our town, the fire brigade has more callouts for accidents, medical emergencies and suicides than it does for fires.” — Lorene Royal.

Saying goodbye to my mum

Posted by A daughter | Aug 11, 2019 | Reflections

“She came home to die. But not straight away. She still had things she wanted to do.”

Wepiha Te Kanawa: Steering kids away from crime

Posted by Dale Husband | Aug 4, 2019 | Kōrero

“It may sound cheesy but joining the police felt like a calling.”

Māori suicide rate calls for new strategy

Posted 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.”