Return to sender

Caution: This podcast includes sex, drug and rock n roll references. 

Seth Gerard, Ngati Parou, Ngati Oz, talks explicitly about returning to Aotearoa after being deported from Australia. 

As a young teenager Seth was sent to Australia to live, only to endure unstable housing and dubious care. 

Seth became an outlaw motorcycle gang member, heroin addict and thug. 

Since serving six years in jail for aggravated assault he has returned to our shaky isles with renewed enthusiasm for his home nation and is actively engaging in trade trading. 

The day we spoke he had completed a fork lift licence course and is eager to secure employment. 

Seth says he has a special connection with Karangahape Road. 

“I’m just trying to make it happen here, says Seth. I grew up out here. My dad was bad,” says Seth

“I wanna share my story. I’m out here to tautoko (support) our street whanau. This place can be quite evil.”