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Download AudioA two-day conference in memory of the late Moana Jackson starts today at the Unversity of Auckland to look at what can be done to design an inclusive constitution for Aotearoa.
The conference organised by the Human Rights Commission, the National Iwi Chairs Forum and the university’s Centre for Indigenous Peoples and the Law, Te Puna Rangahau o Te Wai Ariki, draws on the 2016 Matike Mai report written by Mr Jackson and Auckland University academic Margaret Mutu.
Dr Mutu says they asked what Māori would do if they could govern themselves, and the answers that came back were not about models or structures but values.
“The peope talked about getting the values right: mana, tapu, whakapapa, whanaungatanga, manaakitangia, kaitiakitangia, rangatiratanga, all those values we always talk about, that has to be the basis for this counry because this a Maori country and it is Maori who are ulitmately responsible, it is Maori who are the power and authority in this country. We are the mana whenua,” she aays.
The Designing Our Constitution 2024 Conference is at the Owen G Glenn Building or it can be viewed online for free.
https://nzfvc.org.nz/events/designing-our-constitution-2024-auckland-and-online
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