Pepeha

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Ngā mihi au ki te maunga ō Maungakiekie

Ngā mihi au ki te moana o Hauraki

Ko Kōtirana te whenua ō ōku tīpuna

Ko Tāmaki Makaurau te whenua tupu

Kei Ōtepoti au e noho ana

He kaiwhakahaere au i Get Home Safe

He tangata Tiriti ahau

Ko Andrew tōku ingoa

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Ko wai au?

I'm pākeha (tangata Tiriti) based in Otepoti, New Zealand. I'm currently General Manager at Get Home Safe and a parent, cat owner, elderly footballer, intermittent noise maker, collector of records and dietary challenged. Formally, a business owner, academic, radio host, Tāmaki Makaurau citizen and other forgotten things.

Ānaru

At an earlier job we celebrated Te Wiki o te Reo Māori every year. As part of this activity we took it a step further by referring to each other by the Māori translation of our names. I loved this and felt it a genuine honour being called Ānaru everyday –particularly by my Māori colleagues. Consequently I sought permission to use Ānaru as a domain name to identify more strongly as pākeha/tangata Tiriti and support te reo in a public way.

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