by Te Pā User | Oct 30, 2019 | Mana Motuhake, Mana Ōrite, Mana Ūkaipō
Writer Paulette Crowley was lucky enough to ‘shadow’ a navigator recently while he helped John*, who had been deported from Australia to New Zealand the day before. We picked up John from a budget hotel in the Auckland’s CBD. He was clean-cut, well-dressed and had a...
by Te Pā User | Oct 30, 2019 | Mana Motuhake, Mana Ōrite, Mana Tangata
It’s not often you get a chance to make a new start in life when you’re 70, but that is how Mike*, who was recently deported from Australia, looks at the events that have changed his life so dramatically in his retirement years. The father of five and grandfather...
by Te Pā User | Dec 17, 2018 | Mana Motuhake, Mana Tangata
Age 39 Mark and his sister were born in the South Island and adopted by a family who lived in Hamilton where Mark grew up for the first eight years of his life. As a teenager, Mark began to ‘push the boundaries’ and was in a serious car accident with two of his...