People die because they find living too painful.

Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.

Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.

Development requires modification and transformation of the environment... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced by the destruction and degradation of the biosphere and the need to understand the problem and take corrective action is becoming urgent.