Author Archives: Suze

I am happily a New Zealander whose heritage shaped but does not define. Four generations ago my forebears left overcrowded, poverty ridden England, Ireland and Germany for better prospects here. They were ambitious, their hard work rewarded by rich and full lives. In those days if you did not work you did not eat and my family worked hard and ate well, rejecting indolence and its lean, mean existence, for purposeful living. New Zealand still provides that opportunity to newcomers, whether arriving here four generations or four minutes ago but unless we protect our rights and freedoms they will be taken off us by a few powerful people.