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When I was growing up I didn’t hear the word ‘colonisation’ very much but I was always aware, I think, of its cold and unrelenting hurt.

— Moana Jackson

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Every act of resistance by Māori since 1840 has been met with opposition … Those who take power unjustly defend it with injustice

It was impossible to separate the place of Māori in the prison system from the impact of colonisation, and the disputes around the meaning of the Treaty of Waitangi.

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