“The enduring question is not what the Treaty may have meant at any one moment in time, but how faithfully its promise of dual authorities and mutual social and economic obligation can be realised in each successive generation.” — Morgan Godfery.
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“If the Māori economy is now large and growing rapidly, when will it start solving the disadvantage experienced in many Māori households?” — Sacha McMeeking.
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“She had emerged from a year of mourning for her father, and her remedy for Māori advancement was couched in encouragement to let wounds turn to scars, and to turn from anguish and protest to acceptance and new economic plans.” — A commentary on the first speech from Te Kuini.
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“Assigning monetary values to a mountain forest’s air filtering services is no less reductive than describing a mountain as ‘beautiful’.” — Jay Whitehead.
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“Even though our Māori asset base is now worth $70 billion, that doesn’t mean anything if our families, who are still the working poor, can’t look after one another.” —Traci Houpapa.
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