“There are Pasifika families who want their daughter to succeed in medicine but she still has to teach Sunday school, cook food for their family, and look after the young ones — and those expectations aren’t realistic.” — Dr Collin Tukuitonga.| E-Tangata
“We’re going to be left with people who go: ‘You know what, my uncle or my brother or my cousin died from bowel cancer. And it should have been picked up in a screening programme.’ Make no mistake, these deaths are unnecessary.” — Dr Rawiri McKree Jansen.| E-Tangata
“Just like that, we were told there’d be no more books and language support for our children and families. It's been devastating. I want whoever’s in charge of these literacy funding decisions to walk in my shoes for a day.” — Alana Nootai.| E-Tangata
“It doesn’t make sense. The minister has been positive about tamariki succeeding in Māori immersion learning. But now the very people who support this to happen effectively are in the firing line.” — Ripeka Lessels.| E-Tangata
“While Māori generally support rainbow rights, many are also Christian. And on some level, they will feel conflicted about Tāmaki’s agenda. So, they become passive observers, unintentionally complicit in the hatred of takatāpui.” — Anton Blank.| E-Tangata
“If the Indonesian government has its way, the area we’ve always called home, where we’ve lived and hunted for thousands of years, will cease to exist.”— Rosa Moiwend.| E-Tangata
“NZ’s current lack of action is deeply rooted in its problematic approach to this issue in the past — a past which straddles an involvement in Palestine since the First World War, through to today.” — John Hobbs.| E-Tangata
“Pacific countries and territories trying to assert their sense of autonomy need to be treated with respect and mana, and not be growled at in a paternalistic way, as if they’re delinquent juveniles.” — Professor Steven Ratuva.| E-Tangata
“I couldn’t, in all honesty, remain in my roles. The government didn’t seem interested in listening to genuine public health advice.” — Sir Collin Tukuitonga.| E-Tangata
“Our more middle-class economic status . . . owes everything to the housing and health policies of the former welfare state in the 1950s, and nothing to gold.” — Catherine Delahunty, whose great-grandfather was a miner in the Thames gold rush.| E-Tangata
“Waitangi should be a place where political leaders are made to justify their decisions from the past year, to take stock of how they’re upholding their side of the Treaty partnership.” — Jamie Tahana.| E-Tangata
“The number one reason that having Indigenous surgeons is important is purely because Indigenous people are amazing.” — Professor Kelvin Kong, Australia's Indigenous Person of the Year.| E-Tangata
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“One of the beautiful things that I’ve seen in my work is that when you implement equity structures into health systems then Māori do just as well as non-Māori. Pākehā don’t start doing badly — everyone starts doing well.” — Dr Maxine Ronald, General Surgeon.| E-Tangata
“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.| E-Tangata
