Category: Speeches and Articles

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Eulogy for John Elliott

“How much more easily is the leave-taker loved. For the flame burns more purely for those vanishing in the distance. Separation penetrates the departing one like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.”...

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ANZAC Day in a time of war

Dawn service address at the Waiheke War Memorial. Mike Lee. We gather here and all across New Zealand on this ANZAC Day morning – as our parents did, and their parents before them, to...

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‘Stand for New Zealand! Every man who is a soldier stand for New Zealand!’- Anzac Day 2021 (Dawn service Waiheke Island). Kippenberger’s rallying cry to his troops in the battle for Crete still resonates today.

Today we gather once again to remember the sacrifices of those who served & those who gave their lives for New Zealand, principally in the great world conflicts of the 20th century. The last time...

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Eulogy for Cliff Robinson

It was a shock for me when Laila Harré called me to tell me Cliff had passed away that Sunday evening – though given his age and his long battles with health it shouldn’t...