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

and he worked in retail and my mum was a teacher so education was big for both of us probably for different reasons mum as a teacher dad wanted us to have education that he hadn't had and so education was a big thing for them and dad as we got older he became a maintenance contractor self-employed which actually is great for him because it meant that he was flexible i mean when they needed a dad to go on the school camp he was always there on the school camp and everything

So we were really lucky to have parents who were able to do all of that.

So I went to Waterloo School, then Intermediate, and then I went to a secondary school called Hutt Valley Memorial College, or Petone Tech, as it was more commonly known then.

So back in the day, it had been one of the technical colleges.

Yep.

And I was in a minority in the school in that I was Pākehā kid.

The biggest population was Pacific.

The second biggest population was Māori.

And then us Pākehā kids were the third biggest population.

And then after that, actually, we had quite a big Indian population there too.

And mum and dad decided that we should go to a school, a secondary school, that meant that we weren't just surrounded by other kids that were just like us.

They wanted us to grow up surrounded by kids who came from different backgrounds, different life experiences.

And I never will ever regret that.

I think that was a really, really powerful thing for them to do for us as kids, to give us that appreciation that life is full of diversity, it's full of challenges for different people, and you have to be able to put yourself in the shoes of other people.

So I went to, a month or two back, it was last year sometime, the drug and alcohol court that operates here in Auckland.

And I remember sitting there thinking, listening to their stories, thinking, if I was in that environment, how would I have coped with that?

Could I have found myself in the position that some of those people do?

And the answer, if you're being really honest, the answer is yes.

Because it's easy to look at life from your own advantages and your own perspective.

Putting yourself in the shoes of someone else is a lot harder.

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