“Pacific peoples are now predominantly urban, and our youthful age profile positions us as a critical part of the future workforce, tax base, and leadership pipeline.” — Fonoiā Jemaima Tiatia-Siau and Seiuli Angel Timali Tiatia-Siau.
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“Growing up, my connection to ao Māori was non-existent. My dad taught us that learning Māori and being Māori wouldn’t get us far in life.” — Shiloh Ratima.
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“I wouldn’t say the school was racist, as such. There were Māori staff, a makeshift marae on-site, Māori students excelling in pockets. It was, however, uncomfortably tolerant of racist rhetoric.” — Airana Ngarewa.
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“It’s only in recent years that I’ve even plucked up the courage to claim my identity, to proudly say: Yes, I am Māori.” — Siena Yates.
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“Overall, a key issue is the need for the government to provide Māori and Pacific whānau with ‘choice and control’ rather than ‘forced and compulsory’ isolation management.” — Dr Elana Curtis.
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“The origins of the racism that is tearing the United States apart has deep parallels with New Zealand, and the origins are the same.” — Aaron Smale.
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“It’s funny to think that it took moving across the moana and immersing myself in another Pacific culture to gain an appreciation of my own.” — Terina Kaire.
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“You must continue your education, son, I don’t want you to be a servant to anyone, man or woman, Māori or Pākehā. Your father and I didn’t raise you to help us on the farm.”
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“When hospo workers stand together, when we expose what our industry is really like, we move closer to changing our industry for the better.”
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“The longer I stay at university, the more I realise that not only are universities not made for me, but there are institutional structures embedded within them that actively exclude me.”
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“If someone had said to me in 2008, I’d be turning the Whanganui River into a legal person — or parliament would be — I would have laughed.” Chris Finlayson, former Treaty negotiations minister.
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“It was so stressful. I told my lot I just want to be Pākehā for a while.”
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“The Treaty relationship needs to underpin the Climate Change Commission — and in fact, all the commissioners should be bound by Treaty obligations, such as to actively protect Māori rights.”
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