To be a Companion of the King’s Service Order:
LONGHURST, Dr Christopher Evan
For services to survivors of abuse in care
Dr Christopher Longhurst has dedicated more than 20 years advocating for the redress for survivors and recognition of abuse in Faith-based Institutions.
Dr Longhurst is the founder and national leader of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) Aotearoa New Zealand, established in 2019, part of a global peer support network for victims and survivors of faith-based and institutional abuse. He has supported those abused in religious institutions with a confidential, safe place to be heard, supported and healed. His contributions have helped highlight the abuse suffered by numerous children and vulnerable adults in faith-based institutions, and he has used his personal experience and challenged the response to the abuse experienced within the Catholic Church. His tireless advocacy across several years culminated in a formal acknowledgement by various faith-based institutions of the abuse of children and young adults in their care. His contribution to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State Care and in the Care of Faith-based Institutions has helped inform the faith-based sections of the report. He is a Fellow of the International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, KAICIID. Dr Longhurst currently works in the tertiary education sector of New Zealand.
To be a Companion of the King’s Service Order:
MARKS, Mr Tyrone
For services to survivors of abuse in care
Mr Tyrone Marks (Ngāti Raukawa) has been advocating for redress for survivors and recognition of events which occurred at the Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital Child and Adolescent Unit (Lake Alice Unit).
Mr Marks’ contributions have helped highlight the abuse and torture suffered by approximately 360 children and vulnerable adults between 1972 and 1978. He has used his personal experience and challenged the response to the abuse experienced at the Lake Alice Unit. His tireless advocacy across several years culminated in a formal acknowledgement by the government of the abuse and torture of children and young adults at the Lake Alice Unit. His contribution to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State Care and in the Care of Faith-based Institutions has helped inform the Lake Alice Unit section of the report. He has been a member of the inquiry’s Survivor Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) since 2019. SAGE has helped provide the inquiry with guidance and support to engage with survivors and their representative organisations about their experiences. As a member of the Crown Response Unit’s Redress Design Group, Mr Marks has helped develop a survivor-led design for a proposed new redress system following the report.
To be a Companion of the King’s Service Order:
PAIKEA, Mr Phillip Wayne (Phil)
For services to the prevention of family violence and the community
Mr Phil Paikea (Ngāti Whātua, Te Uri O Hau) has drawn on personal experiences of hardship and violence in the 1980s to inform his work for more than 30 years to support safe families and communities, prevent family violence and address drug and alcohol harm.
Mr Paikea was a mentor, youth worker and family violence prevention advocate with Bream Bay Community Trust from 1995 to 2019. Nationally, he has worked with the Ministry of Social Development’s (MSD) ‘It’s Not OK’ campaign for more than 10 years, appearing in advertising campaigns and visiting communities to share his rehabilitation story and support development of responses to address family violence. He was a co-founder of the NGO SafeMan SafeFamily in 2019, which provides a peer-led approach to help men address violence. He is a founder of the White Ribbon Ride. He works with a wide range of organisations from gangs to churches and community groups to offer help and advice. Mr Paikea and his wife organised a drive-through foodbank in their community of Ruakaka during the COVID-19 pandemic, feeding hundreds of people locally and regionally, and provided foster care to 243 children over 20 years.
To be a Companion of the King’s Service Order:
SAMUELS, The Honourable Dover Spencer
For services as a Member of Parliament
The Honourable Dover Samuels (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kura, Ngāti Rēhia) was a Labour Party List Member in the late 1990s before becoming the Member of Parliament for Te Tai Tokerau from 1999 to 2005.
Mr Samuels served as a List Member again from 2005 until 2008. He was Minister of Māori Affairs and Associate Minister of Fisheries and Tourism in 1999 and 2000. He led a delegation of Māori business owners to China, resulting in a Memorandum of Understanding between the Māori Tourism Council and the city of Chongquning. He was a member of the Māori Affairs Committee, Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister for Economic Development and the Minister for Industry and Regional Development in 2001 and 2002. He was Minister of State and Associate Minister for the portfolios of Economic Development, Industry and Regional Development, Tourism, and Housing in the period 2002 to 2007. He was a member of the Government Administration and the Primary Production Committees from 2005 to 2008. He was previously a Councillor and Deputy Mayor of the Far North District Council. He helped establish the Rawini Health Hub to provide primary health care to a rural Māori community. Mr Samuels led the Rainbow Warrior project to sink the wreckage of the vessel and erect a memorial on Matauri Hill and is kaumatua of several organisations.
HONOURS
New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal
To be a Companion of the King’s Service Order:
TIPENE, Mr Peter William (Pita)
For services to Māori
Mr Pita Tipene (Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Te Tārawa) has been contributing to his community through governance and as a Māori leader for more than 30 years.
Mr Tipene chaired the Waitangi National Trust from 2018 to 2025, having become a Trustee in 2016. He has chaired Ngāti Hine Forestry Trust for 20 years, helping grow and transform the financial assets through sustainable means. He has chaired Te Kotahitanga o Nga Hapū Ngāpuhi for 16 years. On behalf of Ngāti Hine and Ngāpuhi, he has been presenting to the Waitangi Tribunal since 2010 and has co-chaired the Initial Hearings Organising Committee, which coordinates more than 110 hapū claims. He has chaired Motatau marae for 22 years, having led a marae complex building project that opened in 2009. He has attended international indigenous forums as a Māori leader, including at APEC 2023 and 2024 as the international Indigenous Economic Development Forum keynote speaker. He is a director of Keteriki Ltd, involved in the transformation of the Bay of Islands Vintage Railway Trust assets as well as Radio Ngati Hine. He was involved with the Hundertwasser Kawakawa Community Trust during construction of Te Hononga Centre in Kawakawa. Mr Tipene is a member of the National Iwi Chairs Forum and has chaired the Manuka Charitable Trust, which protects Manuka as a taonga in the global market.