“Do not step outside your house. Do not take off your suit jacket and go inside their homes, their prison cells, their marae, their gang pads, their fale, their communities, their pain.” — Connie Buchanan on how to give a bare minimum state apology.
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“Our crew has adapted over time. We know that kaupapa Māori is the way to go. We’ve got fluent speakers in our club — every club has. And the Mob is in our pepeha.”— A senior Mongrel Mob member.
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“Survivors are courageous, but there was little acknowledgment about why survivors ever needed to have life-long courage — not least because agencies would not stop the abuse, listen to them, or investigate complaints.” — Professor Elizabeth Stanley.
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“It was quite a fixation for me, even as a kid: wanting to know, wanting to know, wanting to know. Maybe that’s why I’m a journalist, because I was always asking questions, and my parents never had answers, or couldn’t give me answers.” —Aaron Smale.
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“Justin Taia may be a menace to society, but we shouldn’t forget he’s a product of it too. He was fed to the system as a child, and then returned to it as an adult who’d been smashed apart — a violent offender who is also a brutalised victim.” — Connie Buchanan & Teuila Fuatai.
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“My parents’ dream of a better life collided with the cultural ignorance of mainstream New Zealand in the 1950s onwards.” — Fa’amoana Luafutu, who told his story of institutional abuse to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care.
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