COVID: What should we be doing for MÄori and Pacific peoples?
By Natalie Netzler Covid-19 is hitting our MÄori and Pacific communities disproportionately hard. So how can we improve clear, targeted messaging on vaccination?Ā The Covid-19 pandemic continues to create global chaos and devastation. At the time of writing there have...
MÄtauranga MÄori: What is science?
By Emily Parke & Dan Hikuroa Letās choose our words more carefully when discussing mÄtauranga MÄori and science. Responding to theĀ recent controversyĀ overĀ mÄtauranga MÄoriĀ and the letter he co-authored titled āIn defence of scienceā, Emeritus ProfessorĀ Michael...
How can we rethink ‘race’ in Aotearoa?
By Dame Anne Salmond A new column from Dame Anne Salmond challenges the legalistic, one side up against the otherĀ approach to race relations and the Treaty of Waitangi of the past 40 years. Racist thinking runs deep. As Jess Berentson-ShawĀ observed inĀ āWhy Anti-Racism...
Is it time PÄkehÄ New Zealanders faced their personal connections to the past?
By Richard Shaw “It is a long since time we PÄkehÄ confronted the unsettled history of the place in which the āteam of five millionā lives. Time we were honest with ourselves. Time we ended the forgetting.” Whenever I visit my mother in New Plymouth we...
What is the future of MÄori-Pakeha relations?
By Dame Anne Salmond Instead of seeing MÄori ways as an either/or with existing thinking about the world and its governance, Dame Anne Salmond argues it’s time to bring them together for new institutional forms of order for Aotearoa-New Zealand. For more than...
How bad was MÄori segregation?
By Robert Bartholomew Robert Bartholomew says itās time to educate about a dark chapter of MÄori racial segregation. Because while history may not repeat, it speaks to the present. New Zealand secondary schools do an excellent job of teaching about civil rights in the...
What is He Puapua and how will it impact New Zealand?
By Dominic O’Sullivan Separatist or radically inclusive? What does New Zealand’s He Puapua report really say about the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples? For many New Zealanders,Ā He PuapuaĀ came shrouded in controversy from the moment it...
How do we address the overrepresentation of MÄori children in New Zealandās state care system?
By Genevieve Hawkins Boulton A strong partnership with MÄori is vital to restoring tikanga and reversing the impacts of colonisation. Health experts further recognise the restoration of tikanga of whÄnau to be integral to the well-being of MÄori, therefore, reducing...
How will the future development of AI impact MÄori? ā¶
MÄori are at the forefront of indigenous AI, creating new areas of technological and cultural discourse. With deep kete of traditional knowledge, whanau are hosting broad discussions on the future impact of global tech like AI, IoT, Autonomous Driving and Big Data,...Subscribe by Email
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