“Māori are lagging in every social and economic indicator, and the rest of the country seems to think that’s an acceptable status quo. But you won’t read about it when Te Pāti Māori are busy hogging the headlines.” — Aaron Smale.
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“There are discrepancies in how the privileges committee works, and there is no single explanation. But racism is undoubtedly a factor, and Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke was right to ask: “Are our voices too loud for this House?” — Professor Dominic O’Sullivan.
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“I was drawn to fight for our voice, our thinking, our aspiration, and our issues. I don’t mean that I always want to live in that fighting space, but, unfortunately, that is too often where we are needed.” — Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, MP for Te Tai Tokerau.
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“We’ve got a small cohort who are scared of what tangata whenua represent, and what rebalancing our world represents. This is, sadly, the fear-mongering and race-baiting that we’ve been responding to.” — Debbie Ngarewa-Packer.
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“The evidence is clear that the white supremacist who was threatening slaughter should have been charged from the get-go and been treated the same as the brown Mongrel Mob members.” — John Tamihere.
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“As we embrace te reo Māori, as we embrace kaupapa like Matariki . . . we’re starting to indigenise Aotearoa.” — Che Wilson, Te Pāti Māori president.
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“The next election has already started. The Māori Party has over 1,000 days to pick away at Labour whenever it makes a mistake or fails to deliver for Māori.” — Matt McCarten.
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The Greens and the Māori Party both have candidates who are threatening to prevent a repeat of Labour’s 2017 clean sweep.
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“If barely anyone is entering the country, and immigration isn’t causing the housing crisis, why include border closure in a housing policy?” — Arama Rata.
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“There’s a kōhanga reo, kura kaupapa generation of us coming through who want something different for Māori. And many Pākehā have no issue with that.” — Rawiri Waititi, Māori Party candidate for Waiariki.
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“JT leads a fight to win at least one of the Māori electorates for the Māori Party next month and Willie leads the Labour Party campaign to stop him. Neither can afford to let the other one win.” — Matt McCarten.
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“In our darkest time, with so much going against us in Pātea, our whānau created Poi E.” — Debbie Ngarewa-Packer.
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“Their tūpuna inhabit every room they enter, they embody every act, and they help guide every word.”
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