http://www.tangatawhenua.com/rangikainga/2007/issue2.htm

just to get an additional and different Maori perspective than mine.

swearing to return to academic only under duress

Its a vipers nest alright, although I enjoy that aspect somewhat because I quite simply can't seems to care about career advancement (not in a large bureaucratic organisation anyway).

But Sissons is like good bedtime reading for (former) academics. Very easy to…

just too little money for too much workload. in…

there is no way that separate, federal, states could be maintained in a society as small as new zealand

I would have to agree with this, NZL is too small to take the easy path of creating iwi federal states-within-The State, and furthermore the iwi rohe would be far too…

after arguing in favour of group rights, he goes on to state that the practice of those rights is best maintained 'in the vernacular' (it's a book called, unsurprisingly, "politics in the vernacular"). he even goes as far…

So when Manakura says he wants to create an alliance of minority groups (to presumably set against other groups)

Hmm.... no. The empowerment of a group that is oppressed and marginalised does not necessarily require the disempowerment of another group (although that is one possibility and probably not a desirable…

I pretty much agree. A couple of thoughts.

(i) Culture and politics:

In principle, I believe that our governmental structures should not politically or economically discriminate between cultures. I tend to think of this as a moral imperative.

We do this already. Our laws discriminate in favor of the…

[...] the upshot is that we can now live in a colour-blind liberal democracy. That might work if the people who entered into the political relationship under the Treaty consent to this, or no longer exist. If not, then what Tully would say is that an intercultural dialogue must…

The Treaty is, no doubt, a collection of old musty rat-eaten parchments. No people should or can be bound to words on paper that are not somehow relevant to their collective self-government. The big 'but' is that the Treaty does have some pretty important and widely-subscribed to…

the few notable exceptions are willie jackson on tv & derek fox on national radio

Eye to Eye is easily the best current affairs/interview show on the box. That Willie Jackon has not replaced Suzanne Wood on Close Up shows Bill Ralston is [insert unchariatble comments here about…

If your point is that the FSA provides a mechanism for the judicial recognition of certain customary rights but gives title to the Crown (and therefore precludes the direct judicial recognition of customary title), I accept it.

And then Parts 3 and 4 go on to enumerate what may and may not be recognised and protected in some detail. So first,…

I should have started by saying that I enjoyed the post. If I had to say just one thing, it would be that the second part of this quote need not be limited by the first:

Instead Maori should get real and focus on rebuilding strategic political…

I understand that the Foreshore and Seabed Act does make provision for judicial determination of customary rights to the foreshore and seabed.

Stephen is right; the FSA 'foreclosed any further exploration on that front.' It removed the common law rights of Maori to seek declarations of customary title to the…

I'm not an expert in this area, but I understand that the Foreshore and Seabed Act does make provision for judicial determination of customary rights to the foreshore and seabed.

http://www.knowledge-basket.co.nz/gpacts/public/text/2004/an/093.html

http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=21539

“Groups will be able to secure customary rights orders protecting their right to continue any activities, uses…

You can build as many boats as you like, you can own a few boats (but not too many), you can steer the boat now and then, but you better not ever rock the boat.

Nice, Yamis.

So within a Western liberal democratic and free-market structured State Maori are free to be Billy T and Anika Moa but not Eva Rickard, or Tame Iti . We are given the generous allowance to be a musical-sporting-all-singing-all-dancing people, but not an independent-in-control-of-our-own-political-and-economic-destiny people.

I like this bit. I've always…

looking forward to taking some time to read this!

maybe tuesday.

there are several aspects that strike me as interesting:
1. how very little we get to hear maori perspectives like this in the MSM. i know it's to be expected, but it's pretty damn sad. one of the problems…

i was at that lecture and it dawned on me that Dearest Bill ain't all that bright at all. i don't know how he ever managed to promote that idea, that much was smart i agree.

but remember his brilliance achieved one of National's greatest…

Can I follow up on your response to Mr Feltoe's question?

What is that you, personally, want in the political relationship between Maori and the Crown? Or perhaps, to your point, a better question would be:…

This article will take quite the muse before a real discourse emerges.

Give me an hour, and I'll respond.

I promise I'll read your post again, but for now I only have one question: What is it exactly that Maori want?

I reccommend you ask some of your friends with the brown faces?

I could tell you what I want as a Maori person, but I would never be…

A veritable tome here. Much appreciated.

I'm a British citizen who came to New Zealand ten years ago (and heading back in a month). In sociology and cultural studies in university we looked at the smoke and mirrors surrounding how people define themselves and their place in cultures.…

It would be really helpful if we'd abolish the term "Crown" and replace it with the contemporarily accurate "Government and People of New Zealand" or some less clumsy formulation (the Aussies use "Commonwealth").

Because in 1840, the "Crown" was the elected (by a limited franchise)…