David Lange

Residence 1

📍Ōtāhuhu, Auckland 1640, New Zealand

“I grew up in Ōtāhuhu, a working-class, industrial corner of South Auckland, the doctor's son in a street of labourers. My father was a GP with a socialist heart who took the Labour side and never pressed a patient who could not pay; my mother kept us Methodist and upright. I sang in the church choir, joined the Boys' Brigade, and learned early — from my father's surgery and our own kitchen table — that you measure a society by how it treats its weakest. That ordinary South Auckland street, and a father who lived his principles, made the Prime Minister I became and the welfare state I would fight to defend.”

Sources: Wikipedia: David Lange

Residence 2

📍Māngere, Auckland 2022, New Zealand

“I made my home and my political base in Māngere, the South Auckland electorate I represented for nearly three decades — a place of Pacific families, state houses and working people, the very heart of the New Zealand I came into politics to serve. From here I went to Wellington and, in 1984, to the Prime Ministership; from here our country was declared nuclear-free and the warships were sent away. Māngere kept me grounded through all of it. Whatever the world made of me, to my neighbours I was just their local member — and that suited me right down to the ground.”

Sources: Wikipedia: David Lange