Chris Hipkins

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455 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 8 Jun

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Unfiltered with Dave Letele · #47 Chris Hipkins · 25 Apr 2026 podcast

You can turn this around.

But if you've never experienced that yourself, it's a big journey, and you need to have a lot of loving people supporting you through it.

Yeah.

And I can recite it word for word because it had such a powerful impact on me at the time because I was one of those kids who was always given lots of love at home and I never had to want for that.

But I know that there are kids out there who are not in that position.

And it's a big part of my motivation every day is to get out of bed every morning and think, what are we doing to give these kids a chance to have a different life to the one that they've got now?

I grew up in Lower Hutt.

Yep.

And so we grew up, I grew up in a little suburb called Waterloo.

I actually went back there the other day.

It feels so different now to when we grew up.

So we grew up on a statehouse street.

And there were a mix of state houses that had been sold and state houses that were still state houses.

So we were one of the ones that had been sold.

Mum and Dad were in a position to be able to buy their house.

And they worked hard.

My dad worked in retail when we were kids.

He dropped out of school before school.

He broke his arm and so couldn't sit his exams.

So just went off and got a job.

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