Morgan Foundation’s Nick Tansley went to Taranaki to join the ‘Peace Walk’ hikoi for the first day. He asked some of the people involved what motivated them to take part in the walk. As you’ll see they want to start a conversation with the whole country about how we heal the past and move forward together. The people of Taranaki are sending the rest of the country a message, the only question is whether we will listen.

It is great to see this happening, the messages coming through are the same as we found in the Talk Treaty project, which interviewed more than 50 prominent New Zealanders about the Treaty. During this research we discovered that the central idea of the Treaty is that we agreed to share this country, look after each other and talk through our issues. It is time to talk.

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Gareth Morgan

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Gareth Morgan is a New Zealand economist and commentator on public policy who in previous lives has been in business as an economic consultant, funds manager, and professional company director. He is also a motorcycle adventurer and philanthropist. Gareth and his wife Joanne have a charitable foundation, the Morgan Foundation, which has three main stands of philanthropic endeavour – public interest research, conservation and social investment.