Tag: Pathways

“I’ve met a lot of people in my time, but I’ve never come across people who are so outwardly, vilely racist.”

Damon Salesa, associate professor of Pacific Studies at the University of Auckland, was the first...

“The results really are amazing. It’s a mystery to us, actually. But it’s clear that, if you give families the opportunity to determine the right pathway for them, and provide the resources, they’ll do well.”

The stories we tell, and the stories that others tell about us, create and shape who we are.

Muldoon could be a bully, but he had a sense of social justice, too.

All over the Pacific, the colonisers have belittled us and our practices. That’s what colonisers do.

When the All Blacks do the haka, they’re acknowledging the mana of their opponents — not just asserting their own.

Let’s make sure that our Ōtara and Manukau buildings reflect that we’re the Pacific capital of the world.

We’re failing to prepare our young people for the racism in our society.

The Pākehā have a Treaty right to rule over their own people. Not over us.

With the Treaty there’s no endpoint because it’s a living document.

History will see Metiria as one of the most important Māori leaders of her generation.

‘We aren’t winning the struggle … Here we are with more Māori in parliament but with the plight of our people worse than it has ever been.’

“Māori language gave me a means to express feelings I almost didn’t know I had.”

Te reo Māori can’t be compulsory in our schools until we have the resources.

We should all pay more attention to the 1835 Declaration of Independence.

“People have spent more than enough time degrading our cultures — and we don’t need to be part of that anymore.”

Getting chefs to turn what grandma made into restaurant dishes.