“The whakaaro I share so staunchly in everything I do is: ‘You are enough. You’re enough as you are, with what you have right now.’ Our stories and mātauranga tell us that.” — Qiane Matata-Sipu.
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“We have to disrupt. And it’s not just disrupting the government or the United Nations. It’s about disrupting our thinking and disrupting the everyday choices in our households.“ — Qiane Matata-Sipu.
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“These places are not passive backdrops to human action — they are agents, participants, characters in the dramas that unfold across their volcanic surfaces.” — Kennedy Warne reviews ‘Shifting Grounds’ by Lucy Mackintosh.
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“One of the perceived political difficulties to arriving at a settlement that will attract broad public support is that ‘private land’ is involved. But this is a red herring that misleads and distracts us from the relevant and important questions.” — David Williams.
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“I’ve always detected a growing level of smugness and snobbery amongst the woke leadership and I’m just never going to tolerate that.” — Shane Jones.
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Liana MacDonald and Keziah Wallis visit Ihumātao and the Nixon monument — and find two starkly different ways of thinking about, and remembering, the same history.
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“My tūpuna deserve better than a man with a sign asking us to ‘Save Another Western Value from Destruction’.” — Ruby Solly.
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“I can’t think of a time I’ve been in such a mixed group. There is a vibe of considerateness, gentleness. People are careful with the kids, and with each other. If you make eye contact, people say ‘Kia ora’, even if you don’t say it first.”
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“The whole system is set up to fail Māori and to force people to do deals where they may not be 100 percent behind it.”
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