Māori tikanga “provides a different way of thinking about free speech than simply an individual right. Rather, it suggests a focus on the obligations to the community that are always inherently bound up with the exercise of rights in the Māori legal order.” — Dr Carwyn Jones.
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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”.
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“Israel Folau’s demise is one that I can’t fully celebrate as a gay Pasifika person.”—Seuta’afili Dr Patrick Thomsen.
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“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.”
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