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Tuesday Policy: Building an Inclusive Society
This is a post that I initially wrote a few years ago. As part of a renewed writing effort, I will be updating some of my favourite articles from the past three years of writing on this site. Enjoy!...
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Wednesday Update: Welcome Back!
As you can see I have started to be more active on Ka Tōnuitanga over the past few weeks. To say that this year has been busy would be an understatement so it has taken awhile for me to get the...
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Deconstructing the Lack of Capability Myth
From Te Manu Korihi: Chris Karamea Insley of iwi development company 37 Degrees South said the review would tidy up the structures and laws but it would not drive the development of Maori land. He said...
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Disappointment and Disillusionment: The Te Atiawa Settlement
Last week I wrote in full support of the recently agreed Te Atiawa settlement with the Crown – writing based on the belief that the land at the heart of our claim – the Pekapeka block in Waitara –...
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Monday Quote: Wiremu Kīngi Te Rangitāke
Wiremu Kīngi was the paramount Chief of Te Ātiawa in the mid 1800’s, and a signatory to Te Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840. Following the purported purchase of Waitara by the Colonial Government in 1859, he...
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Tales From The Road: Ngāti Awa
I am halfway into a 5 month secondment with Te Runanga o Ngāti Awa down in Whakatane and it is turning into one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. I have long worked with Hapu and Iwi...
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Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: The Foreshore and Seabed
One of the many things I love about Ranginui Walker is that the title of his seminal text on Māori development perfectly encapsulates the spirit of Māori throughout Aotearoa / New Zealand. Ka Whawhai...
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How Do You Find The Time?
I often get asked how I find the time to do everything that I do. Between work, my secondment here in Whakatane, writing at Ka Tōnuitanga and other free-lance writing work, working on my LLM and...
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Te Ātiawa in the Māori Aspirations Phase
Good news in Māori media with a refreshed Mana Magazine hitting the shelf’s today, including an article I wrote on the aspirations of Te Ātiawa following what looks like the approval by the Iwi of the...
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Unwinding A Straw-Man: ACT and Maori Quotas
There has been a lot of nonsense from Jamie Whyte (leader of the ACT Party for the uninitiated) over equality for the law and the prevalence of Maori privilege in New Zealand. I’m not going to link to...
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The Flag Debate: Why We Need It
Contrary to the opinion of many that I have seen over the past week the debate over our national flag is a serious issue and one that I am glad we are having. The flag is a symbol of who we are as a...
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Looking Back, Looking Forward
As we move into 2015, I want to take some time to pause and reflect on the year that has been and the year that is to come. 2014 was a wild ride in both my personal and professional lives, and I have a...
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Reflections on Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Part 1
Following the NZ Herald’s recent article series in which economist Gareth Morgan writes incomprehensively on the Treaty of Waitangi I prepared the following perspective piece for publication. Time will...
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Reflections on Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Part 2
The NZ Herald are running a series of opinion pieces in the lead up to the 175th anniversary of the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Over the course of this week they are running two articles I have...
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Nailing My Colours To The Mast
I never thought that there would come a day when I would join a political party. To go beyond an occasional supporter and voter to a fully fledged paid up member. But several discussions over the past...
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Land Based Taxes and Māori
I am currently in Auckland undertaking a LLM course with Professor James Anaya and Dr Claire Charters focusing on indigenous rights within the international legal system. We have had a number of...
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Mai Deloitte ki Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Awa
And so onto the next challenge! After two years and two months I have made the decision to leave Deloitte to take up the position of Group Financial Controller at Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Awa here in...
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Our Stories: Mana Magazine Feb/Mar Edition
The latest edition of Mana Magazine hits the shelves today with a Rangatahi-themed edition and one very insightful article on the historical roots of our housing problems, displaced urban Māori and how...
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Sunday Reading #1
A new weekly feature, where I share some of my favourite reads from the past week. #1 The Spinoff Interview of Mana Magazine editor, Leonie Hayden. A wonderful interview with Leonie covering her role...
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Q&A: Māori Council Water Claim and Asset Sales
There has been a lot of discussion this past week with the Waitangi Tribunal Hearing into the New Zealand Māori Council’s claim regarding Māori rights to the fresh water resource and how this could...
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