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Winston’s comments overshadowed the real issues at Rātana
It’s a real shame that Winston Peters decided to launch his latest dog-whistle attack while waiting to be welcomed on to Rātana Pā on Friday. As was predictable, his comments became the major story of...
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The pot calling the kettle brown: why Winston Peters can't talk about...
Winston’s up to his old tricks: Mr Peters, speaking at Ratana Pa, says his party would never support "separatist" Maori Party policies such as having separate Maori units in prison, the separate Maori...
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Anne Tolley: an agent of colourblind racism?
Green co-leader Metiria Turei: stereotyped and slandered. From Stuff.co.nz: Tolley said she was insulted by Green Party claims that she was out of touch. "I'm actually insulted to be lectured about...
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Why I am standing for Te Tai Hauāuru - Jack McDonald
Ko Taranaki te MaungaKo Taranaki te TangataKo Taranaki te IwiKo te puna i heke mai ai te tangataE kore e pau te ika unahi nui The threads of my whakapapa from across the Te Tai Hauāuru electorate weave...
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Myths of nationhood: why I'm not "celebrating" Waitangi Day
Behold, Waitangi Day Bingo:h/t @ColeyTangerina and @Megapope Bingo is a witty critique of Waitangi Day clichés, but it’s also something more: this is the geography of Pakeha myth-making. Each box is a...
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Kaupapa Maori politics: a definition
The tino rangatiratanga flag: the symbol of kaupapa Maori politics? It’s election year. Expect to regularly encounter politicians who represent “kaupapa Maori politics”. But don’t expect a definition....
View ArticleShane Taurima: political neophyte?
Patrick Gower has thrown a rat among the kiwi eggs: 3 News can reveal state broadcaster TVNZ is being used as a campaign base by Labour Party activists. They've even held a meeting in TVNZ's Maori and...
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The meaning of Winston Peter's race talk
This is from Winston Peter's state of the nation speech. Don’t act surprised:New Zealand has gone from a nation of united people to an urban collection of communities, many clinging to where they...
View Article"Property rights for some are property rights for none"
Writing about anti-Maori propaganda is exhausting. It’s not exhausting in the sense that it’s back breaking work; rather it’s intellectually – and, more importantly, emotionally - draining. I’m often...
View ArticleThe cycles of Maori politics
I’m going to make the call: all things remaining the same, the incumbents in the Maori electorates will retain their seats. Here’s how it’s looking.Te Tai TokerauLabour: Kelvin DavisMana: Hone...
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Wrong questions, wrong answers: the rot in the Kohanga Reo
Who's the Kohanga serving? h/t Te Ara. And the unfortunate becomes the farcical: The Serious Fraud Office has been asked to investigate allegations of misspending by the commercial arm of kohanga reo,...
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Anne Tolley: see no racism, hear no racism, speak no racism
Maori women challenging racism in the early feminist movementH/T Te Ara Don’t act surprised. From RNZ:"The Government is rejecting suggestions Maori are being unfairly targetted in the police or...
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Our double reality: on being Maori and being political
Well, they haven’t done anything wrong. In holding a lucrative fundraiser at the exclusive Northern Club, the Maori Party neither broke the law nor transgressed some moral jurisdiction. But the...
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Shane Jones: the political obituary
I know Shane Jones. I like Shane Jones. I don’t want to seem like a sycophant, but I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that I admired him. I disagreed with much of what he said, sure, but I recognised a...
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On that use of headdress: does New Zealand have a problem with cultural...
From the Herald on Sunday: A new series of artworks by Stephanie Key… has been posted online as she prepares for a major moment in her fledgling career. But already one of the pop-art style...
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The Meaning of the Internet Mana Party
Hone Harawira When you think of the Māori electorates, what comes to mind? For some the Māori electorates are a hangover - part of a legacy of failed hand outs to a feckless and troublesome people. For...
View ArticleThe politics of the level playing field: why Colin Craig is wrong
Sensing a theme in the Conservative Party's campaign literature. pic.twitter.com/R4LQRtyjDz— Toby Manhire (@toby_etc) July 19, 2014 Pretty much this. Via Te Ururoa Flavell:“Māori Party Co-leader Te...
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Whyte Power: Act and the winner takes all society
David Seymour and Jamie Whyte. H/T Wikipedia.You can’t make this up: Yesterday I published the speech that I gave to the ACT Party Waikato Conference on Saturday. It concerned a fundamental principle...
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The country that white supremacy made
"Two wongs don't make a white" To believe that racism is the property of the morally corrupt, rather than the property of liberal democracy itself, is comforting to those who think racism is an...
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Who's ahead in Te Tai Hauāuru?
Chris McKenzie: the front runner in Te Tai Hauauru It seems we have a new front runner in Te Tai Hauāuru. Via the Whanganui Chronicle: “The race for Te Tai Hauāuru is as close as predicted with the...
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Election 2014: the left represents no one while claiming to represent everyone
Our returning Overlord: the Rt. Hon. John Key. There are, it seems, many New Zealands. There is the sceptical, radical, reformist New Zealand – the one I admire, the one I’m proud to support – and then...
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Māori wards and the struggle to narrate Māori rights
The New Plymouth District, soon-to-be-home of the newest Māori ward. The Treaty means whatever you want it to mean, as long as you’re against it. The popular account seems to consist of two jointly...
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Gareth Morgan and the Pākehā Pathology
The Treaty of Waitangi. Sometimes it seems like the qualities we cherish in our democracy we condemn in our politics. We revere a kind of abstract equality, but we hesitate when it means substantive...
View ArticleOn the role of criticism: Te Matatini
So this happened. Via Te Manu Korihi:“The Tainui group, Te Iti Kahurangi, took to the national Te Matatini kapa haka stage last week and performed a haka which challenged the way [Māori Television]...
View ArticleBook review: Man of Secrets, the Private Life of Donald McLean
This review was originally published in Your Weekend. Was Donald McLean, the nineteenth century New Zealand politician, a courageous statesman or an elected crook? Did his land buying practices...
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