Making Matike Mai happen
“The need for these discussions is urgent. We have perhaps not progressed the conversation as far as we ought to have in the nearly 10 years since the publication of the Matike Mai report.” — Carwyn Jones.
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Tag: constitutional reform
The building blocks of constitutional change
“The difficulty with starting from the institutions we have now and trying to think how they could be tweaked to better reflect Māori aspirations is that our current institutions are based on a particular way of understanding power.” — Carwyn Jones.
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Moana Jackson: There is no word in te reo Māori for ‘cede’
“No matter how powerful rangatira might presume to be, they never possessed the authority nor had the right to give away or subordinate the mana of the collective.” — Moana Jackson.
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Proposed bill ‘an ideological project that must be stopped’
“It is extraordinary that this minister is asserting the power to redefine core constitutional principles to govern future polities, just as he did with the ‘principles of the Treaty’.” — Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey on the Regulatory Standards Bill proposal.
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UN Special Rapporteur: Pay attention to global Indigenous rights
“An essential aspect of the right to self-determination is recognising that the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and the state is on an equal footing.” — UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, José Francisco Calí Tzay.
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Tina Ngata: Waiting for the fox to give the henhouse back
“Those in power are so accustomed to extreme privilege that anything less than maintaining that feels like oppression.” — Tina Ngata.
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Tina Ngata: Performative gestures and permissiveness are derailing Tiriti justice
“As much as we may wish to point the finger solely at the Crown and call all of this yet another example of colonial mal-intent, these empty and part-gestures still depend on Māori endorsement to be effective.” — Tina Ngata.
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Margaret Mutu: Why we need constitutional transformation
“The need for constitutional transformation has become quite clear in the Māori world over the last 12 or 13 years.” — Professor Margaret Mutu.
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Portrait of a Quiet Revolutionary
Moana Jackson was “our Māori Yoda”. “He brought clarity to our struggle and wisdom to our kitchen tables, influencing generations of policymakers and jurists alike.” — Moana Maniapoto on the making of ‘Portrait of a Quiet Revolutionary’, made with the support of NZ On Air.
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Learning from Moana Jackson
“I have never met a more inspiring person with a greater influence over so many of us for the good. Let’s hope that we can now be worthy of his generous challenges to us.” — Catherine Delahunty.
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Justice Joe Williams: Kua moe Te Tāwera?
“Moana was an idealist who believed in the transformative potential of sound ideas. If the ideas were right, the practical issues would resolve themselves in time.” — Justice Sir Joe Williams.
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Moana Jackson: ‘I’m absolutely sure transformation is coming’
“If there’s anything that has marked the survival of our people and the flourishing of our people, it’s that we have been brave.” — Moana Jackson.
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With stories, anything is possible
“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.
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