New Zealand 28

Listen to New Zealand 28, a 63-year-old man from Porirua, New Zealand. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 63

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 11/06/1962

PLACE OF BIRTH: Porirua, New Zealand

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Māori

OCCUPATION: facilities manager

EDUCATION: primary school

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject was born and raised until age 16 at Hongoeka Marae, a Māori community in the city of Porirua. He then moved to Christchurch, where he lived for 12 years; he then moved to Dunedin and lived there for the next 40 years.

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RECORDED BY: David Nevell

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 08/08/2025

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I went and joined the Mongrel Mob, one of the gangs, rival gangs in New Zealand. I was with them for 40 years. I was a president for 13 of those years. I ran the, the Dunedin chapter, for 13 years.

My history is I’m from a broken family; my mother left my father; my father left her 14 children, so, aside from that. It’s hard. You, gotta to walk the line. Got so many secrets from 40 years of secrets, you know. You leave, and what? Don’t want to tell some stories on some people, so, but it’s all right. I walk line, so I’m fine with it. I’m happy where I’m at today. I’ve got a clear conscience.

We come to 24 years, been here 14, can’t go wrong, eh? Yeah, it’s a lifestyle, like, you go look for brotherhood, you go look for a family, you find that, one of them’s a lot like a person like me, he was looking for; his mother left him when he was young. And we become mates. Next minute, we ran into his mates in the pub. I’m an OG: ‘70s, ‘80s, ’90s, 2000. Those were my years.

The way the gangs are today: It’s not about brotherhood anymore. It’s about money. You’ve got people who are deprived, been deprived; they’ve lacked money all their lives; all of a sudden they’re making 20 grand a year, a week, you know? They’ve never made 20 grand in their life. Moving P [methamphetamine], moving fucking, uh, heroin, lot of heroin here. A lot of P in bloody New Zealand. A lot of, a lot of everything in New Zealand. Yeah, it’s sad. We’ve had enough trouble with alcohol. We don’t need this shit on top of that. Yeah. New Zealand’s fucked with the alcohol. So much violence. So much domestic violence.

Domestic violence is a no-no. You don’t hit a woman. A woman gives birth to your children. What gives you the right to fucking hurt her? What gives you the right to even think about it? I stopped rape in the mob. I stopped rape. At least people don’t rape anymore. Yeah. You used to get a silly woman turning up pissed and — the wrong fucking place to turn up — shit happens to them. I stopped that shit [unclear] throughout the nation, so that doesn’t happen anymore. So that’s a positive!

TRANSCRIBED BY: David Nevell

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 16/08/2025

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