21/11/2025
A Call for Aroha and Healing.
From a Māori Wahine Doctor and Founder of Hine Health Foundation.
To Te Pāti Māori leadership and our MPs.
Our people need to see healing.
Both sides need to listen with aroha.
Both sides need to acknowledge and validate each other’s mamae.
Both sides need to accept where things went wrong and apologise — to each other, and to us — openly, honestly, and with humility.
Te Pāti Māori leaders, Mariameno Kapa- Kingi, and Tākuta Ferris must come together with aroha to restore unity, reinstate our ousted MPs, and make things right for our people.
We need to see both sides take responsibility in a way that rebuilds trust and honour.
Our people have seen enough harm.
We have carried enough hurt.
We have endured generations of abuse — and now political abuse from a government that continues to harm our whānau.
Our people are tired.
Our hearts are tired.
Our people are dying.
Now is the time to choose healing.
To choose forgiveness.
To choose to move forward with tikanga, with tika, with pono, and above all — with aroha.
Our tamariki and mokopuna deserve leadership that heals, not leadership that harms.
Let us move forward — together, with aroha.
We have too much mahi to do for our people, and we must do it united.
Nga Mihi,
Dr Rose Harris.
