“We will no longer be tasked with local service design and delivery. Instead, our job will be to ‘engage’ and ’advise’. These changes take us from active partners to passive recipients.” — Louisa Wall on changes to Pae Ora law.
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“What they do today won’t destroy what we’ll be doing tomorrow. That’s why I keep doing this work. Because if we don’t exercise rangatiratanga over our health, we’re always going to be at the beck and call of successive governments.” — Lady Tureiti Moxon.
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“We start losing our loved ones earlier than our tangata Tiriti peers. We go to more tangi. We are less likely to experience being the ‘sandwich generation’ who raise their own children and moko while also caring for elderly parents.” — Tui MacDonald.
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“Te Aka Whai Ora is already cutting through a huge amount of bureaucracy and is more aligned to the needs of Māori. It needs to remain to finish the job it was set up to do.” — Lady Tureiti Moxon.
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“We run it by Māori, for Māori — but we take everyone with us. And I figured, if we could do that locally, what if we could pull it off nationally?” — Riana Manuel, who heads the new Māori Health Authority.
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