Tū Māia 2023 - Te Whanganui-ā-Tara (Noho 1)

Falefatu Nimarota:

The two cultures coming together and for me being tauiwi (non-Māori) then to come into the world of Māori and understand it a little but better it will help develop me as a practitioner.

Just wanting to my journey, as well as a practitioner, as a staff member in Oranga Tamariki and I’m pretty sure everyone is looking to develop their own journey as well.

Steve Murray:

So, for me it’s happening in my work and it needs to happen in my work that te tiriti is realized in those relationships that they are true partnerships that its not a tick box national office led consultative approach but that solutions are to really developed jointly with Māori and it comes back to why I feel this is so important for me.

Phil Grady:

I want to be better at the job I do, I want to be better at the way I lead in terms of the Māori space, not just working with Māori but actually enabling Māori to lead sort of drive and support the changes that need to be made.

Ebony Te Kooro:

Okay, so what I was going to say was to see how Oranga Tamariki became so colonised and I didn’t want to say that but to see how and where Oranga Tamariki lost its Treaty of Waitangi responsibility, Yes, towards Māori, Tamariki living in Aotearoa