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Michelle O’Toole
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Pākehā, Tangata Tiriti, anthropologist living on Bunurong Country and working on understanding and building trust between governments and communities
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Grant Berghan and I did a webinar on Honourable Kāwanatanga and Constitutional Transformation with Te Whāraki late last year recording now available.

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Exploring Honourable Kāwanatanga and Constitutional Transformation with Dr Heather Came and Grant Berghan - Whariki
As 2024 draws to a close, we are so excited to share that our final He Aka Hui of the year, will feature the incredible Dr Heather Came and Grant Berghan in Holding the Line: Leaning into te Tiriti o ...
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January 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Reposting as a reminder. Get your submission in.

You can literally write something like:

I oppose the Treaty Principles Bill because it is unjust and ripping New Zealand apart.

I recommend this bill be ditched.
There is still time New Zealand!! I can not stress how important this is. Your submission doesn’t have to be long. Your English doesn’t have to be perfect. You can submit in te reo Māori. But please just get something in by 11.59pm Tuesday, 07 January 2025.

www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...
January 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I’ve made my submission on the #TPB, now preparing one on the #RSB. NZ’s future is at stake

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Anne Salmond: Hunger Games in the Beehive
Comment: Radical libertarian ideologies are generating extreme inequality and ripping the social fabric of NZ, writes Anne Salmond. Don’t we want to be a place where talent wants to live?
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January 7, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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This might sound like a hot take but friends: Read books as a hobby this year. It is one of the best things you can do for your brain to grow your thinking and perspectives.
If you want to be anti-consumption get a library card.

Bonus: in places like UK/AoNZ/CA library copies pay authors
January 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Souixsie Wiles & Shaun Henry have posted an open letter supporting letters from Māori academics and the NZ Assn of Scientists questioning the restructuring of the Royal Society/Te Apārangi that will leave out Māori and create a top down governance approach at RSTA

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An Open Letter to the President of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
We, the under-signed members of the Royal Society Te Apārangi and members of the Society’s Constitutent Organisations, wish to tautoko the open letters written by the Māori Fellows and researchers and...
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November 12, 2024 at 10:21 PM