“Over the years, the questions have ranged from ‘Why do we need a Māori cultural liaison person at our workplace?’ to ‘How do we have hard conversations with colleagues to do better?’” — Atakohu Middleton on the questions people put in the Too-Hard Basket.
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“I stand beside Indian New Zealanders who recognise Te Tiriti o Waitangi, in the same way as I stand beside anyone who recognises our nation’s foundational arrangement.” — Denis O’Reilly.
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“In London, I’m constantly searching for signs of Aotearoa and Te Tiriti in museums, public squares, and wall texts. But in the museums I’ve visited so far, there are no references to Te Tiriti or Aotearoa at all.” — Charlotte Doyle.
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“It’s easy, in these violent days of oligarchs and kleptocrats, algorithms and shadow lobbyists, to think that tending to ourselves and each other with radical love is somehow too soft.” — Sarah Hopkinson.
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“Our future under Te Tiriti gives cause for huge opportunity and optimism, if only we Pākeha would simply get out of the way, and let that future come to greet us.” — Martin Williams.
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“It was here on a visit many years ago, up on the hills, that I had a moment of clarity. I don’t understand it, but I reconnected with my soul, and I remembered who I used to be . . .” — Legendary Eagles’ guitarist Joe Walsh, on his awakening at Ōtātara, Hawke’s Bay.
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“When we can create connections to each other’s histories, we also get to see how we’re entangled together in the global project of colonisation that continues its violence.” — Ara Alam-Simmons.
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“We were fed a narrative that always seemed mind-suckingly one-sided. We were supposed to believe that Māori willingly handed everything over to the benevolent latecomers and pretend-discoverers for mere nails and blankets.” — Manase Lua.
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“Kiwi Keith” Holyoake reckoned the solution to our racial issues would be found in the “bedrooms of the nation”. — Denis O’Reilly.
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“Moana taught me, a young Chinese activist, the meaning of solidarity and what it means to be living on this land as tangata Tiriti who respect tangata whenua.” — Mengzhu Fu.
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“I can’t stand it any longer. I send away for a DNA test. It arrives in a little white packet, and I’m excited. I tell my husband that I’m sure I have Māori in me.” — Aimee Milne.
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“Over the last decade, the ‘land back’ rallying cry has stretched across the Indigenous world and breathed new life into the fight for land and sovereignty.” — Jack McDonald.
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“How does that maunga in Aotearoa that you’ve claimed to be ‘toku maunga’ become your mountain? And what gives you the right to claim that river as yours? It’s not ancestry. It’s not an inherited story. So, what is it?” — Catherine Delahunty.
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