Passion and determination - women with grit
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"I think there are really important lessons going on for young people today to sort of think about how people would've organised themselves in the past and how that can translate into their lives, it's great."
Speakers
Hana O'Regan, Kirsten Thomlinson, Hon Lianne Dalziel, Dame Ann Hercus, DCMG and Vanisa Dhiru.
Transcript
Hana O'Regan: When you sit there at the table, if the kids turn around and moan because of what you know, you know it's important that they know that this just hasn't appeared, that someone's done this, someone's gone to, taken their own journey to get to this point.
Kirsten Thomlinson: I think the petition sort of is one of these indicators isn't it, of where we've come from and it can tell a lot to young people today about what has gone on in the past to have achieved what we have achieved already and to also sort of say, you know, the journey continues, you know, we will continue changing things and challenging things and having sucesses and failures.
Hon Lianne Dalziel: Passion combined with determination and those women had grit. You know it may not have been popular at the time and sometimes movements are not and sometimes it takes great courage but passion combined with determination, never give up, it's a great message.
Hana O'Regan: But what we do want them to know is, hey, there's something that I might have to give back in this equation because I need to recognise that this hasn't just come from nowhere, and that moment that your baby, that your child says, you know, as you are putting them down to bed goes 'Māmā he pukumahi koe' Mum you're a hard worker 'he nui wāu mahi mā, mā mātou,' you do a lot for us. You think ok all those other meals, you know, it's worth it.
Dame Ann Hercus, DCMG: It was only in my grandmother's time that the vote was got. Now admittedly I'm now 75 but that's not so long ago and it's within the living memory of myself and my family including my granddaughters.
Vanisa Dhiru: There are lots of women out there that don't think there is a problem, there are lots of men out there that don't see or think that there is a problem. What I want to be able to do is raise the issues into normal conversations that we are having around parliament, around schools, around communities and around the kitchen table so we actually say there are still issues and we need to address them.
Kirsten Thomlinson: I think there are really important lessons going on for young people today to sort of think about how people would've organised themselves in the past and how that can translate into their lives, it's great.
Vanisa Dhiru: Lots of people around the world don't want to be in the countries that they currently live in and they are screaming to try and get to another country to have a lifestyle that they can at least raise their children and feel safe in. We have that country but we need to make sure that it's even better for anyone that wants to be here.
Dame Ann Hercus, DCMG: I think we keep having the right to build heritage for the future, that's what I hope the current generations do, it's certainly what my generation did and I see no reason why it would ever stop.
Hon Lianne Dalziel: We have to get young people engaged in what are the real issues, how do we build communities of purpose, how do we develop an environment that our children and our children's children have the capacity to enjoy and actually to embrace. So that's the biggest challenge to me going forward and we are very dependent on our young people, our young women, to realise that the history that lies behind them is what gives them the strength to actually do something about it.
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