Culture is good for democracy
“Does the state belong only to those Māori who are willing to minimise their culture, and to think and reason in public life according to someone else’s culture?” — Dominic O’Sullivan.
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Author: Dominic O'Sullivan
When defence of free speech is racism in disguise
“The Nursing Council is not a private club. It regulates a profession to assure the public that the people it registers can practice competently. To say that it should be selective when it carries out this task, applying it to some people but not others, is exactly the kind of outcome that Te Tiriti protects against.” — Dominic O’Sullivan.
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An Indigenous diplomacy is possible
“The alternative rules-based order could be crafted to open political spaces for substantive participation by Indigenous peoples as peoples of inherent agency. They could participate as shareholders in public authority, not as stakeholders to be consulted in someone else’s project.” — Dominic O’Sullivan.
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Going backward while Victoria moves forward
“New Zealand would do well to pay close attention to understand just how far it has moved towards the fringe of international political thought.” — Professor Dominic O’Sullivan.
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‘Are our voices too loud for this House?’
“There are discrepancies in how the privileges committee works, and there is no single explanation. But racism is undoubtedly a factor, and Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke was right to ask: “Are our voices too loud for this House?” — Professor Dominic O’Sullivan.
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Kāwanatanga belongs to Māori too
“Liberal democracy can’t support the idea that government has an ethnicity of its own — a Pākehā ethnicity, that excludes Māori people and ways of thinking.” — Professor Dominic O’Sullivan.
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Do the principles of the Treaty really give Māori too much power — or not enough?
“Just what these principles are, and how they should be interpreted in law, remain open to contest — including by those who argue the principles actually limit some of the political rights that fairly belong to Māori people.” — Dominic O’Sullivan.
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Racism and democracy
“Racism — which is to discriminate on the basis of culture, racial or ethnic origin — means democracy can’t give everybody a fair go.” — Professor Dominic O’Sullivan, on challenging racism in political campaigns on both sides of the Tasman.
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