Two Sketches with Toby Morris - Metiria Turei

My political work and my creative work have all been around people. People are really important to me.

– Metiria Turei

Nándor [Tánczos] rang and asked if I would get involved with the Greens, because the Greens were looking at doing some stuff on their Māori policy. And particularly on how it is that a Pākeha organisation can have an authentic approach to this stuff.

– Metiria Turei on joining the Green Party in 2000

Oh my god, I slept for like two months!

– Metiria Turei on her big life change after stepping down from the Green Party in 2017

Being able to wake up in your own bed, and live your own life, and not be in such an aggressive environment is just so fantastic.

– Metiria Turei on the benefits of leaving politics

...there was a big surge in unemployment after Labour's economic reforms in the 80s. That was the politicisation process, if you like, for me ... like trying to understand how law and politics affects ordinary life. Unless people are talking to you about this sort of thing, or you live in that environment, it's really hard to see how those things are connected.

– Metiria Turei