Marama Davidson

Marama Davidson (born 1973) is a New Zealand politician who has served as the female co-leader of the Green Party since 8 April 2018 and the Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence since 6 November 2020.

Marama Davidson

Quotes

• What we've seen though, with more people naturalising te reo Māori and te reo Māori faces and our public broadcasting spaces and our public spaces, is that it is confronting some people's status quo and people need to understand that shifting your status quo and what you thought it meant to be a New Zealander, is not going to be as fearful as you're making it out to be. That embracing our country, our past, is the only way that we can have a more connected and cohesive united future together.
  • https://www.ensemblemagazine.co.nz/articles/marama-davidson-and-jenny-may-clarkson-on-the-use-of-te-reo-maori-in-aotearoa-nz
• Trans people are tired of being oppressed and discriminated.
  • Davidson's comment at a trans rights rally.
  • https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/486817/marama-davidson-clarifies-violence-comments-from-posie-parker-protest-after-calls-to-resign
• I am a violence prevention minister, and I know what causes violence in this world and it’s white cis men.
  • Davidson's comment at a trans rights rally.
  • Greens co-leader Marama Davidson walks back comment linking 'white cis men' to violence at Posie Parker rally, The New Zealand Herald. 27 March 2023.
  • The admittance to New Zealand of Posie Parker, a British activist (real name: Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull) had been controversial because of her anti-Muslim and far-right associations, as well as her anti-transgender opinions.

Quotes about Davidson

• Now it's become more political about whether what she said was appropriate or whether what she experienced was right ... where we sit is we acknowledge the pain of our whānau who have had to survive violence.
  • Debbie Ngarewa-Packer - co-leader of political party Te Pāti Māori [1]