E-Tangata

27/07/2024

“Behind the rhetoric about prosperity and clean energy, I hear the voice of a kuia from Hauraki who educated so many of us, including judges, about the vital tests for assessing the value of minerals.” — Catherine Delahunty.

27/07/2024

“Places like bootcamps, corrective training facilities and prisons are effectively the military arm of the state. And it’s impossible for them to be anything other than that.” — Michael Blakely, who worked at a military-style bootcamp in the 80s.

“Places like bootcamps, corrective training facilities and prisons are effectively the military arm of the state. And it's impossible for them to be anything other than that.” — Michael Blakely, who worked at a military-style bootcamp in the 80s.

27/07/2024

“Once you’ve seen the reality of considering ethnicity and the impact that can be made when we consider it, that’s not something easily unlearned. You can try to ignore the evidence, but you can’t deny its existence.” — Dr Anthony Jordan, former Pharmac director.

“Once you've seen the reality of considering ethnicity and the impact that can be made when we consider it, that's not something easily unlearned. You can try to ignore the evidence, but you can’t deny its existence.” — Dr Anthony Jordan, former Pharmac director.

27/07/2024

“Academic prowess is one thing, but there’s a whole lot of things that we look for in our doctors and our medical people, and getting the mix right and choosing right is hard and complicated.” — Professor of surgery Jonathan Koea.

“Academic prowess is one thing, but there's a whole lot of things that we look for in our doctors and our medical people, and getting the mix right and choosing right is hard and complicated.” — Professor of surgery Jonathan Koea.

21/07/2024

“A good place to start would be to simply admit that there is an issue of racism in our schools, and to start talking about it in our communities and at school.” — Ara Alam-Simmons.

21/07/2024

“Far from being unbiased and neutral, mainstream public health practice in Aotearoa is inherently racist, and this bias is currently under-acknowledged by public health professionals and institutions.”— Dr Elana Curtis and Dr Belinda Loring.

21/07/2024

“It is an act of extreme bad faith for one party to a treaty to try to change the terms of that treaty without seeking the agreement from the other parties.” — Dr Carwyn Jones.

21/07/2024

“I want to change the narrative for the people who live here today. I don’t want them to have to face the same thing as my dad did 60-something years ago, when he finished school and felt he had to move.” — Kat Kaiwai, of Tairāwhiti Contractors, on creating jobs on the East Coast.

21/07/2024

“I think we have to find ways to connect with our higher selves, our better selves, and our love for our people and each other. And for me, that happens through literature, through stories.” — Tina Makereti.

13/07/2024

“Prayers and karakia are not a matter of religion. They’re a matter of faith: of placing your trust and confidence in something you can’t see. To get in touch with the companions of your heart and soul.” — Tainui Stephens.

“Prayers and karakia are not a matter of religion. They’re a matter of faith: of placing your trust and confidence in something you can't see. To get in touch with the companions of your heart and soul.” — Tainui Stephens.

13/07/2024

“I’d been so judgmental and had no idea what this woman had been through. In fact, it didn’t even take the whole eulogy before I realised that I really needed to stop calling her Lady Muck.” — Kirk Mariner.

13/07/2024

“Māori are accustomed to seeing how domestic institutions and systems impinge on our rights as tangata whenua. We must take this same lens with us when we explore the world and consider international institutions and systems.” — Rhodes scholar Rhieve Grey.

13/07/2024

“In the Pacific, food strengthens and creates communities. The story of food is also the story of people. There’s wisdom, there’s survival, there’s knowledge in the growing of crops and methods of food gathering. It goes way beyond the recipe.” — Chef Robert Oliver.

13/07/2024

“When I was in high school, I was told by a careers advisor that Māori didn’t do medicine, and I stupidly took that on board. I defaulted to what people expected of me, which was to not do well.” — Dr Maxine Ronald, breast cancer surgeon.

“When I was in high school, I was told by a careers advisor that Māori didn't do medicine, and I stupidly took that on board. I defaulted to what people expected of me, which was to not do well.” — Dr Maxine Ronald, breast cancer surgeon.

06/07/2024

“A Maōri photograph is not a pretty picture to be sold to a tourist. It’s about the whakapapa and the mana of what’s in the picture.” — Tom Roa on his photography project with Rodrigo Hill.

06/07/2024

“Revealing to my bosses how vulnerable I feel was out of the question. To say such things out loud creates a damaging cycle of anxiety, hope, vulnerability, and disappointment that most Māori in the public service are probably familiar with.” — Aroha Gilling.

06/07/2024

The scheme is “one that many in Aotearoa are either unaware of, or have come to accept as a fact of life — an ongoing injustice that’s baked into the law books and become too hard to undo.” — Eugene Bingham on perpetual leases.

06/07/2024

“I’m certainly gonna be around in the next 15 to 20 years. I want to be part of something incredible that really makes a shift for us in broadcasting in terms of rangatiratanga and motuhake. We need to be in charge of our own platforms. And that’s my goal.” — Mihingarangi Forbes.

"I'm certainly gonna be around in the next 15 to 20 years. I want to be part of something incredible that really makes a shift for us in broadcasting in terms of rangatiratanga and motuhake. We need to be in charge of our own platforms. And that's my goal." — Mihingarangi Forbes.

29/06/2024

“My mum is an awesome singer, and my sisters would sing as a trio. And when I was younger, I used to stand behind them and hum along, but I would always be flat. I would always be told to shush.” — Lyric tenor Manase Latu who starred in New Zealand Opera’s production of Le comte Ory.

29/06/2024

“There are a great many Pākehā who, like me, are very supportive of tino rangatiratanga . . . We know that Tiriti justice will remain our most enduring protest issue until the Crown catches up with this reality.” — Sarah Hopkinson.

29/06/2024

“It was scary stuff to walk in those shoes. I just don’t think we have anywhere near the gifts and the special powers that our tūpuna had.” — Temuera Morrison, on playing his tupuna Rewi Maniapoto in the film Ka Whawhai Tonu (Struggle Without End).

“It was scary stuff to walk in those shoes. I just don't think we have anywhere near the gifts and the special powers that our tūpuna had.” — Temuera Morrison, on playing his tupuna Rewi Maniapoto in the film Ka Whawhai Tonu (Struggle Without End).

22/06/2024

“How could I have forgotten the harakeke flowers? I had looked at them every summer, my whole life. But I hadn’t remembered them at all.” — Lauren Keenan.

22/06/2024

“I have a lot of empathy for me as a kid. For this little Māori kid who didn’t know they were Māori.” — Stacey Teague, poet and publisher, on dedicating her book ‘Plastic’ to herself.

“I have a lot of empathy for me as a kid. For this little Māori kid who didn't know they were Māori.” — Stacey Teague, poet and publisher, on dedicating her book ‘Plastic’ to herself.

22/06/2024

“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.

“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.

22/06/2024

“When I first started coaching in the 1980s, I didn’t have the right language to express the values that have always guided me. They were expressed in European terms.” — Lance Smith.

22/06/2024

“Many people are worried and scared, simply because they’re Māori working in the public sector. There is a real feeling of helplessness.” — Kura Moehau.

15/06/2024

“Assigning monetary values to a mountain forest’s air filtering services is no less reductive than describing a mountain as ‘beautiful’.” — Jay Whitehead.

“Assigning monetary values to a mountain forest's air filtering services is no less reductive than describing a mountain as ‘beautiful’.” — Jay Whitehead.

15/06/2024

“It is artists, and specifically Māori and other Indigenous artists, who have prompted me to always consider how I am as a visitor on other whenua, and how I must understand the impact of visitors and foreigners in the same way that I would for people to our whenua.” — Curator Matariki Williams.

“It is artists, and specifically Māori and other Indigenous artists, who have prompted me to always consider how I am as a visitor on other whenua, and how I must understand the impact of visitors and foreigners in the same way that I would for people to our whenua.” — Curator Matariki Willia...

15/06/2024

“When Government policy is enforcing an intensified focus on marketability as the primary criterion for arts funding, it is worth reviving a different kind of theatre.” — Barry King.