Max Rashbrooke is a senior associate at the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington-Te Herenga Waka. Life expectancy is shaped by many forces, including ethnicity: Māori live on average seven-and-a-half years fewer than Pākehā. Tawa’s life expectancy was, on average, fair, if a shade lower than it had been back down the road. From Wadestown to Waitangirua, in a trip that took just half an hour, 10 years of expected life had ebbed away. So many hopes, triumphs, joys – and yes, tears – are packed into a year; yet poverty robs people of 10 times that.

Source: Stuff November 19, 2022 08:04 UTC