The fault line of ethnic divide shapes everyone who lives in Aotearoa New Zealand and since the 2023 election it has become wide than ever. Pakeha themselves are divided between those who dream of a tiriti-based future, with shared language and governance and entangled cultures, and those who fear that future, branding it as unfair, unequal, imposed. Well-known author and com-mentator John Bluck, speaking for and to Pakeha, makes an eloquent and impassioned plea for a Pakeha voice that is confident enough to join the debate without being defensive about or disconnected from the history we all must own.