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My ultimate ‘get out of having to think about it’ cardwas to deflect the blame. “Don’t blame me. I didn’t stealthe land or stop the language. It’s not my fault.” No, Ididn’t steal the land or stop the language but I have remainedcompletely ignorant; an ignorance that drove anattitude that, in so many ways, justifies what was done,but, even worse, continues to colonise.I’d try to justify my attitude by saying: “We are all one,now”. So, if we are all one then let’s all be Māori. After all,whose view of ‘one’ are we following. Yes, we are onecitizen but to suggest that we are one is to deny Māorithe right to identify and be Māori. Who gave me thatright? Then, I questioned my own culture. I’m not Māoribut I’m not British or English either. I’m a Pakeha NewZealander, so what’s my culture?What would I wear if I was invited to a gathering fora meal of cultures from around the World? Black singlet,shorts, Redband gumboots? Well, I’m not a farmer.A rugby jersey? I thought deeper than that; not aboutsport or a job or iconic products like buzzy bees and TipTop ice cream but about my cultural values and what Ibelieve in. What do I stand for? What would I fall for? Icertainly grab Māori culture when it suits, such as a hakabefore a rugby match and powhiri, which is the traditionalMāori welcoming of foreign dignitaries. Yep, absolutelybut hang on, I don’t know how to do a haka and Idon’t even know what it means or what they are saying,but we are all one, right?My community was at odds with this whole questionof Māori representation, as indeed was the country and,although New Zealand legislation allows for a councilto establish an elected seat for Māori, just as we haveelected seats for Māori in Parliament, New Zealand legislationalso allows for a community to demand a bindingreferendum on that decision. No other seat on theCouncil hinges on binding referendums, it is only theMāori representation.On May 15 2015, 175 years since the signing of theTreaty of Waitangi, 83 percent of my community whovoted in that referendum said ‘no’. Having stood for andchampioned for fairer representation as Treaty partners,life was never to be the same for me.I was in Waitara, a beautiful town in Taranaki gettingsome lunch and, as I was at the counter paying for mylunch, this Māori gentleman came up and said “I want topay for your lunch.” I said he didn’t have to do that buthe told me he’d be offended if I didn’t allow him to pay. “Isaw you walk in and I was too shy to come over, but I hadto. Not many stand up for my people and I’d like to payfor your lunch,” he said. A beautiful humbling moment. Ithanked him and left but waiting on the pavement was agentleman who came at me and said “I voted for you tosort these natives out and you’ve mucked it up and weall hate you for it, hate you.” A kiss and a slap within fiveminutes from two strangers. But my realisation was thatI could not judge this angry man, for he is me and I amhim; both Pakeha with a deep, unjust fear within.I decided to not seek re-election at the end of my term. Iwas to be a one term mayor, not because I didn’t want to.This wasn’t a question of potholes on roads, art galleries,parks and rates; this was a question of who we are as NewZealanders, how we care and love each other. I couldn’tbecome the bait for the hate of an election campaign.Not only do we remain divided, the children are watching,the children are learning. You know I don’t speakon behalf of, or for, Pakeha. I speak as Pakeha, and inall of those horrendous statistics that we talk about forMāoridom — in health, education, poverty, incarcerationrates — Pakeha are the problem. We always have been,we take no ownership of anything into our hearts. Wesimply point and blame Māori not only for what we didbut what we continue to do. It’s bad enough that we lieto the world about how horrendously we have treatedMāori but it is worse that we lie to ourselves.Pakeha are also the solution. Challenge the fear thatsomeone else has put there, we are not born this way.Truly, truly, truly learn of our full colonial past. Not toname, shame or to blame but to understand, to haveempathy. Demand of each other that we acknowledgeour Treaty, that we celebrate, respect our differencesbut, above all, look into your heart and ask yourself thequestions because only you can be honest with you andas the prophets of peace so messaged humanity;He honore, he kororia ki te AtuaHonour and Glory to GodHe maunga-rongo ki te whenuaPeace on EarthHe wakaaro pai ki nga (flat accent above a) tangata (accent1st a) katoa (all on one line)Goodwill to all Mankind(The words from Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kakahi,Parihaka).210Healing our History through Te Tiriti
PAT @WAITANGI 2020Best Waitangi yearever for networking!Clockwise from top left, Waitangi Day celebrations 2020 — oh what a year: Pat with Dover Samuels; PM Jacinda Ardern; withFarrell Cleary and Pania Newton; Tame Iti; Pat shields his phone from the sun’s glare; Paihia PR and photography team Kartini andSteve Martin; John Campbell, and Ron Marks. Awesome day!Healing our History through Te Tiriti 211
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BIO, TRIBUTE &INSPIRATIONALHANDBOOK
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DedicationTo foot soldiers, shipmat
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chapter 12 109NAPIER PILOT CITY TRU
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Kinder Fairer CityNo secret ingredi
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chapter onepat’s early daysby mar
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the latter were easily hidden under
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BORN KNOWINGJUSTICE …Pat attended
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PAT’S SECRET LOVEAlways relishing
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chapter twoPat and Mariecreate thei
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Catherine always spoke fondly of
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not far off 80 years of age, this p
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PASSIONATEHUNTER GATHERERBefore bec
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MARIE’S CAREERTAKES OFFWhile Pat
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chapter threethe WESTSHOReyearsFoll
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it was shifted to Awatoto, in what
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#PATSMANTRASFly above it: Granted,
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Top: Jan’s 21st in 1973 and frien
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chapter fourGLORY RUGBY DAYSCONTINU
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Glory rugby days continue 39
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RUGBY RULESjes recollects“It didn
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WONDERFUL WEEKLY MAYHEM —FOR THRE
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chapter fiveCarpets keepon rollingW
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TIM’S SHOP MUSINGSI recall the ol
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chapter sixPuketitiri- THE BUSH, TH
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REBELS TO THEINDOCTRINATIONof their
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Clockwise from top left: Alwyn Corb
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ROB’S PUK BUSH FILESOver the year
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chapter sevenThe Environment —pat
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“ Without people who understand a
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#PATSMANTRAS”It’s all aboutdoin
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“Pat has an incredible spirit.He
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HEARTENING COLLABORATIONSfor the Es
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#PAT-SPEAK“I couldn’t live clos
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chapter eightBEHIND THE FAÇADE- DR
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KIA KAHA KORO — TANGATA TIRITI!by
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FOR MĀORIDOMPAT IS A TRUE FRIENDby
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chapter nineNapier YMCAtransformed
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DOWNTOWN Y DAYS —TURNING LIVES AR
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PAT’S SPIRITCENTRAL TO THEYMCA AT
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THE POWER OF CONNECTIONby wendy lee
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Association. But Pat had taught me
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YMCA GISBORNE — A MODEL FOR NZby
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THE COMMUNIST SPEAKSDo not imagine
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chapter tenHAWKE’S BAYCOMMUNITY C
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Napier Daily Telegraph - 27 Novembe
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spired further learning and in some
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BEGINNING OF THE ENDby jes magillTh
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chapter elevenMaraenui — BYWHĀNA
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Salliekindly giftedMaraenui Greento
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AWARD-WINNING FILM ON MARTY’SREDE
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WHOEVER PATWORKS WITH ISSPOT ONby r
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GROUNDHOG DAY FORSOCIAL JUSTICE?by
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chapter twelveNapier pilot citytrus
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Napier Pilot City Trust - for a kin
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NAPIER —THE ONEPLACETO OFFERHOPE1
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KEY PILOT CITYSUPPORTERS SHARETHEIR
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THE DREAMER,THE PLAY MAKER,THE COAC
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ROBSON LECTURE 2021Professor Tracey
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IT’S ALL ABOUTUNITYTAKE IT TO THE
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Clockwise from top left: Alcohol in
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AND CONGRATULATIONS TOTHIS YEAR’S
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“Anythingthat improvesthe well-be
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STAMINA AND RESOLVEWITH NO EQUALby
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A MOTH TO THE LIGHT OF INJUSTICEmar
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a Thursday tradition. Cath’s time
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Kidnappers with some Parkers and Ma
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PAT MAGILL —HE WHAKATAUKIIn the c
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HITTING THE ROADWhile the team didn
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CHILD FRIENDLY CITIES PROJECTby mar
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WHAT DO OUR YOUNGPEOPLE WANT?• Mo
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TWO OLD MATESIMPLORE THE GANGSIt so
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FOUR COOL CHILDFRIENDLY SCHOOLSThe
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Affairs, there was no working with
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intervention suffered accordingly.
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“Take care of our children.Take c
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Te Taiwhenua’s vision for a Child
Page 161 and 162: chapter thirteenrestorative justice
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Page 165 and 166: PAT ON MEETINGSTEWART MURRAY WILSON
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Page 169 and 170: PAT IN ACTIONby russell fairbrother
Page 171 and 172: #PAT-SPEAKThe big question is, how
Page 173 and 174: HOSKING INTERVIEWS PATON STEWART MU
Page 175 and 176: PUTIKITIA TE AROHAby hon dame taria
Page 177 and 178: THEN THERE WAS PAT MAGILLkim workma
Page 179 and 180: Pat’sdriving.OMG! I’ve evenseen
Page 181 and 182: CORRECTIONS VSTE ARAROAOFFERS HOPEI
Page 183 and 184: LOVE OF ECOLOGY AND PEOPLE- PAT IS
Page 185 and 186: AN ABSOLUTE RJ POWERHOUSEby jackie
Page 187 and 188: THE GENTLEREVOLUTIONARYby sally cro
Page 189 and 190: IT’S TIME WE KNEWOUR HISTORYThose
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Page 199 and 200: THE TREATY OF WAITANGIAN EXPRESSION
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Page 233 and 234: JAN HONOURSCATHERINEa small but no
Page 235 and 236: PAT: “A GRACIOUS PRETTY WOMANOUT
Page 237 and 238: THEN OUR LIVES CHANGED FOREVERCathe
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Page 243 and 244: ANYONE FOR A PINKIE?by jan magillI
Page 245 and 246: THANKS PAT!by john magillOne intere
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Page 253 and 254: HICKEY FAMILY MEMORIESby jane hilli
Page 255 and 256: CALL IT FATE ORGOOD FORTUNEby miria
Page 257 and 258: SHARING PASSION FOR THE HIKOIby jo
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PAT SPEAKS ATTIHAR PRISONAt ICOPA i
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Top: Jerry from Vanuatu gets in bir
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chapter nineteenwhose god? pat onre
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SPIRITUALITY PAT STYLE:A PEDDLER FO
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QUAKERS IN AOTEAROAby liz remmerswa
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QUAKERS POST-COVID VISIONFOR A BETT
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Quakers 101 — a great read on a l
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chapter twentyAND WHERE TOFROM HERE
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PAT’S HAUTUPUA AWARDSTo the legen
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“One of the things I recall often
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What drives Napier-born and raised
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