by admin | Jun 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Prisons have become such an entrenched part of western society that we forget that they’re comparatively new phenomena — and that even most western societies for centuries didn’t have the notion of locking up people in something called a prison. They had other ways of...
by admin | Nov 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
This piece by Moana Jackson (who passed away in March this year) is based on a keynote address that he gave at the Shift Aotearoa Conference in 2019. It’s now a chapter in a new book Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua: Māori Housing Realities and...
by admin | Nov 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
Indigenous peoples from around the world come together in Auckland next week to compare notes on the best ways to achieve self-determination. The kōrero will cover modern treaties in Canada, jurisdictional authorities in Latin America, Indigenous parliaments in Sámi...
by admin | Oct 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
The idea of sovereignty underpins all our laws and institutions, and has been used to impose Crown authority over Māori. That’s despite the fact no one knows how it was legally acquired, as Claire Charters explains here. Something we don’t talk about much in...
