January 31, 2018
Lectures chart treaty progress
FULL INTERVIEW WITH SIR TAIHAKUREI DURIE
New Zealand Maori Council chair Sir Taihakurei Durie says the Waitangi Rua Rautau lecture series is building up a valuable record about what prominent Maori and Pakeha think about the Treaty of Waitangi and the state of the relationship between Maori and Pakeha as the nation heads towards for the bicentenary of the signing of the Treaty.
The lectures have been running since 2001, and eventually highlights will be published for ion time for 2040, along with the stories of those rangatira who delivered them.
Sir Taihakurei credits his predecessor at the Maori Council, the late Sir Graham Latimer.
"The idea was first mooted in 1990 when Sir Graham was thinking about what a pity it was we did not have the views of many who had gone before us as to where we were heading as a nation," he says.
This year's lectures will be delivered on February 4 at the Wahiao meeting house in Whakarewarewa Village, with Kim Workman talking about ways to address the high Maori imprisonment rate and Rotorua artist June Northcroft Grant sharing her thoughts on growing up in a Maori community and the effect of tourism had on Rotorua Maori.
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