Moana Jackson, Author at E-Tangata

Why did Māori never have prisons?

Posted by Moana Jackson | Jun 17, 2023 | Comment & Analysis

“What I hope we might do is not just revisit reports, but also look back into the history of this land, where many of the seeds of what might replace prisons are already present.” — Moana Jackson.

Moana Jackson: What it means to be at home in this land

Posted by Moana Jackson | Nov 20, 2022 | Comment & Analysis

“If we can think about the idea of home as a place to which we can all belong, as a place upon which we can all stand, then the idea of housing falls more easily into place.” — Moana Jackson.

Moana Jackson: Covid and the pandemic of colonisation

Posted by Moana Jackson | Dec 12, 2021 | Comment & Analysis

“Vaccination is a necessary protection against Covid, but dealing with a living history and the ongoing discriminatory actions of the Crown requires more than just an injection in the arm.” — Moana Jackson.

A challenge not a threat

Posted by Moana Jackson | Aug 1, 2021 | Comment & Analysis

The recent attacks on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) are not just ill-informed — they’re “dangerously provocative”, writes Moana Jackson.

Colonisation has always been separatist

Posted by Moana Jackson | May 23, 2021 | Comment & Analysis

“Colonisation has always been a separatist process in which the colonising states imposed their own separate institutions in places that already had their own.” — Moana Jackson.

Moana Jackson: Decolonisation and the stories in the land

Posted by Moana Jackson | May 9, 2021 | Comment & Analysis

“In this country, the potential exists to develop a different and unique decolonisation discourse because there are already stories which express the power of a different truth.” — Moana Jackson, from ‘Imagining Decolonisation’.

Racism or satire? Analysing Bob Jones’s columns

Posted by Moana Jackson | Mar 22, 2020 | Comment & Analysis

Moana Jackson on whether Bob Jones’s NBR column, as well as various other examples of his writing and public statements, express views that could be regarded as “racist or amount to hate speech”.

With stories, anything is possible

Posted by Moana Jackson | Mar 15, 2020 | Comment & Analysis

“The building of new relationships and the telling of new stories begins with the identification and ‘un-telling’ of colonisation’s past and present lies.” — Moana Jackson.

James Cook and our monuments to colonisation

Posted by Moana Jackson | Jun 2, 2019 | Comment & Analysis

The upcoming Crown commemorations of James Cook’s voyages are “part of a wider narrative in which racism has been denied more often than it has been acknowledged”.

The connection between white supremacy and colonisation

Posted by Moana Jackson | Mar 24, 2019 | Comment & Analysis

“The Christchurch terrorist was not some ‘lone wolf’ psychopath. He may have acted alone, but he drew upon the shared ideas and history that still lurk in the shadows of every country that has been colonised.”

Moana Jackson: Rethinking free speech

Posted by Moana Jackson | Aug 19, 2018 | Comment & Analysis

“The so-called humanitarian colonisers who came here in the 19th century did not necessarily hate Maori. Indeed, they sometimes professed to love us and simply wanted to dispossess us in a sensitive and caring way.”

Respecting what we’re prepared to share and not share

Posted by Moana Jackson | Jun 3, 2018 | Comment & Analysis

“All that has come out of the moko kauae debate is that, as Māori, we’re still having to justify ourselves in order to appease those who think that what is ours should also be theirs.”