Political Reviews

michael lujan bevacqua, elizabeth (isa) ua ceallaigh bowman, zaldy dandan, monica c labriola, nic maclellan, tiara r na'puti, gonzaga puas

peter clegg, lorenz gonschor, margaret mutu, salote talagi, forrest wade young

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Māori Issues racism is a serious problem in and in more than one report White supremacy first arrived in had recommended constitutional , the home of Māori for more transformation (Mutu 2019, 207). than one and a half millennia, in 1769 However, anything that could be per- when a group of Englishmen set foot ceived as a possible threat to the afflu- on a beach at Tūranganui-ā-Kiwa on ence, privilege, and power that whites the East Coast and promptly shot the enjoy (Borell, Barnes, and McCreanor rangatira (leader) dead. The next day 2018) is deemed politically unaccept- they shot fifteen more tangata whenua able. Even a prime minister who is (people of the land). For these and relatively sympathetic to Māori and many other Europeans, they wrongly has five Māori ministers in her cabinet believed that their whiteness and their has been unable to make any measur- Christianity authorized them to travel able change to that attitude. That has the world and exterminate, enslave, not stopped Māori from continuing and dispossess nonwhite non-Chris- to pursue our rights—with increasing tians (ecosoc 2010). Whites renamed support from the United Nations. the country to New Zealand and rede- In this year’s review, I will consider fined it for themselves. Two hundred the ongoing battle between Māori fifty years later, white supremacy is and the government over our human the norm in New Zealand and con- rights in the areas of health; justice; tinues to be used to terrorize Māori our children; our lands, waters, and and other nonwhites. The victims of seas and the treaty claims settlements; this ongoing terrorism were shocked protection of our Mother Earth, but not surprised at the horrific mass Papatūānuku; protection of our wāhi murders that took place in Christ- tapu (sacred sites); and our right to church on 15 March 2019 (Burton be free from discrimination. On the 2019). A white supremacist went to bright side, there was an encouraging two mosques and shot at hundreds of appointment to the country’s highest Muslims while they were at prayer, court. There were also ongoing sport- killing fifty-one and injuring forty-nine ing successes and awards in the world (rnz 2019a; New Zealand Herald of performing arts. Before I consider 2019a). these, I will acknowledge some of the Muslims in particular had been leaders we lost in the past year. warning of the likelihood of such an The act of terrorism in Christ- attack, but, like warnings and con- church left the country stunned as demnations Māori have issued over Ngāi Tahu, the iwi (nation) of most the past 250 years, their cautions of the South Island, assumed their were ignored. Initial denials that this responsibility to look after the country could have been nurturing bereaved and draw the such behavior lost credibility as more community together in its immediate and more nonwhites recounted their aftermath. Māori communities have experiences of racism. The United continued to acknowledge the pain Nations had repeatedly warned that and grief of the Muslim community political reviews • polynesia 241 and to provide support for them in Māori Friendship Charitable Trust the full knowledge and understanding­ that developed many relationships of the great spiritual and physical­ between iwi and Māori organizations strength required to survive such and Chinese businesses. He also took devastation. Those of ours who passed a leadership role in his Ngāti Kahu- away this year will accompany those Ngāpuhi iwi of Whangaroa (Underhill who were taken in Christchurch as 2017). they make their way back to their Tama Rēnata of Ngāti Porou, a ancestors. member of the reggae band Herbs for Among them were a number of more than twenty years, passed away our leaders. Ruruarau Heitia Hīhā in November 2018. He was a com- of Ngāti Kahungunu, a former Māori poser and guitar player extraordinaire All Black and educationalist, left us in with a long list of musical accomplish- August 2018. He spent his life work- ments. He was inducted into the New ing for his people, including leading Zealand Music Hall of Fame in 2012 the claims to the Waitangi Tribunal and was known as the “speed king of for the Ahuriri lands in and around New Zealand guitar” (Reid 2018). present-day Napier. Heitia gave evi- In April 2019, the Reverend Rua dence in five hearings between 1996 Rākena of Ngāpuhi and Ngāi Tahu and 1998. As with the great majority left us. He was a very humble but of Tiriti o Waitangi claims, the govern- hugely respected social activist who ment had still not addressed them had extraordinary influence on Māori when Heitia passed away twenty years and Tiriti politics from the 1960s to later (Sharpe 2018; Waitangi Tribunal the 1990s. As the moderator of the 2004). Methodist Church and tumuaki (head) In December, another Māori All of Te Taha Māori o Te Hāhi Weteri- Black and educationalist, former ana (the Māori side of the Methodist Race Relations Conciliator Hiwi Church), Rua challenged the colonial Tauroa of Ngāti Kahu and Ngāpuhi, thinking, practices, and institutions passed away. He was the headmas- and, with his wife, Joy, led the church ter at Wesley College and then at on a bicultural journey. Under their Tuakau College—the first Māori to guidance, many social justice activists, head a ­secondary school. He was and not just those in the Methodist race relations conciliator during the Church, learned to think and organize 1981 Springbok Tour that split the strategically for social change (Kelsey country. Against the wishes of many, 2019). he accepted an all-expenses-paid trip Professor James Te Wharehuia to South Africa to see for himself the Milroy of Tūhoe passed away in May impact of the apartheid regime on the 2019. He was widely acknowledged Indigenous people. He was appalled for his leadership in preserving and at what he saw and recommended promoting the Māori language and that the tour not go ahead, joining tikanga (law). He headed Māori those protesting against it. He went on studies at the University of Waikato to establish the New Zealand China in the 1980s and was a member of 242 the contemporary pacific • 32:1 (2020) many government bodies, including to take actions that free us from white the Waitangi Tribunal, the National oppression. The United Nations issued ­Geographic Board, and the Kōhanga a Universal Periodic Review and an Reo National Trust (University of Advisory Note; the Waitangi Tribunal Waikato 2019). issued a report on health services and These and many others of our lead- outcomes; and reports from gov­ ers left us to join our ancestors in the ernment inquiries included recom­ past year. May their journey be gentle mendations for mental health and and peaceful. addiction, the social welfare system, Throughout the year, racism was and Whānau Ora. highlighted many times and in many The 2019 Universal Periodic places before, during, and after the Review conducted by the UN Human Christchurch shootings. A number of Rights Council made 194 recom- government reports have continued mendations, of which 48 specifically to highlight its effects on Māori, but referenced the human rights of Māori there has still been no attempt to start (unga 2019b). The government a national conversation about what advised the United Nations that it racism is, where it comes from, and accepted 39 of those recommenda- how to rid the country of it. Māori tions, including all those relating to organizations such as National Iwi implementing the UN Declaration Chairs Forum have sent clear mes- on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples sages to governments that racism is a (unga 2019a). Almost all of the Pākehā (European) cultural concept recommendations have appeared in and only Pākehā can address their a number of previous reports but own cultural beliefs and practices. have resulted in little or no improve- Māori leaders have always been ment, despite the government saying it well aware that the country’s entire accepted them. power structure was constructed The Expert Mechanism on the illegitimately on racist assumptions Rights of Indigenous Peoples provided and that these are maintained to this the Advisory Note from the United day. In defiance of that racism, Māori Nations (emrip 2019). It resulted in many areas are moving to take from a visit in April 2019 requested by back their right to self-determination, the Aotearoa Independent Monitoring exercising their mana and tino rangati- Mechanism, a group established by ratanga (absolute power and author- National Iwi Chairs Forum in 2014 ity), regardless of what governments (Mutu 2019, 208). The Advisory and Pākehā tell us. Ongoing reluc- Note provided detailed advice on how tance and often refusal of governments New Zealand should draft a National and, in particular, government depart- Plan of Action to implement the UN ments to implement recommendations Declaration on the Rights of Indig- from several United Nations (UN) enous Peoples that would ensure that bodies, from the Waitangi Tribunal, Māori human and treaty rights, and and from reports commissioned by in particular self-determination, are the government itself only serve to recognized, provided for, and upheld. support and strengthen Māori resolve The minister of Māori development political reviews • polynesia 243 has supported and led a significant New Zealand 2018, 3), and it criti- change in the government’s attitude cized ongoing government delays in toward the declaration, which allowed addressing the considerable mental the visit to take place and the Advi- health inequities Māori face (Mental sory Note to be released. The Expert Health Foundation of New Zealand Mechanism noted at its 2019 meeting 2019). that providing such comprehensive The Welfare Expert Advisory advice was a world first for them and Group’s report made forty-two recom- that other Indigenous peoples were mendations for fundamental changes looking to Māori for leadership on to the welfare system that “is no this issue. ­longer fit for purpose” and “fails In its Report on Stage One of Māori,” including that the govern- the Health Services and Outcomes ment “works with Māori to consider Inquiry, the Waitangi Tribunal found other effective ways of delivering that Māori continue to experience the welfare services and funding” (Wel- worst health outcomes of any popula- fare Expert Advisory Group 2019, 5, tion group in New Zealand. The New 75, 77). There is disappointment and Zealand Public Health and Disability ­frustration that the government has Act 2000 promised to deliver ­better delivered on only three of the recom- outcomes, but that has not happened. mendations, saying the major changes The tribunal made a number of recom- would take many years (Robson mendations, including that the act be 2019). amended and that the Crown commit The minister of justice publicly to exploring the concept of a stand- acknowledged that the justice system alone Māori Primary Health Authority is broken. It is particularly hostile to with the stage-one claimants (Waitangi Māori, who make up more than 50 Tribunal 2019, xv). percent of the prison population but Stand-alone Māori authorities only 15 percent of the general popula- are required in all areas to recognize tion. The minister convened a national Māori self-determination, mana, and hui (meeting) of Māori to discuss tino rangatiratanga. While ministers possible solutions. He received very recognize this persistent call from the forceful and blunt messages that “the tribunal and UN bodies, there remains intergenerational effects of the racism, ongoing reluctance to let Māori make bias, abuse and colonisation that the our own decisions about our own justice system has created, enabled lives. The 2018 He Ara Oranga: and continues to deliver . . . must stop Report of the Government Inquiry now” and that the Crown must “share into Mental Health and Addiction power with Māori and for Māori-led was widely criticized by Māori leaders responses to be central to reforma- for not giving sufficient priority to tion of the justice system” (Hui Māori addressing Māori mental health. The 2019, 2). Three main recommenda- Mental Health Foundation of New tions covered “constitutional reform, Zealand supported a specific Māori- a call for a plan to accelerate and led authority to address Māori mental understand the change needed, and to health (Mental Health Foundation of establish a Mana Ōrite [Equal Author- 244 the contemporary pacific • 32:1 (2020) ity] model of partnership” (Hui Māori the government was trying to impose 2019, 2). to extinguish their claims (Boynton The Ministry for Children came 2018a). Whakatōhea’s decision to under sustained attack when its work- proceed with a Waitangi Tribunal ers were filmed trying to force a young inquiry before reentering negotia- Māori mother to give up her newborn tions has been ignored as the govern- baby. The ministry is now being sub- ment pushes ahead with negotiations jected to four different inquiries: one ­(Hurihanganui 2019). Tauranga that is led by Māori, one by the chil- Moana iwi and Ngāti Whātua o dren’s commissioner, one by the minis- Ōrākei continued to battle against the try itself, and one by the ombudsman Hauraki iwi (Mutu 2019, 206) as the (Neilson 2019). A national hui called government drove through a settle- to discuss the crisis was clear that ment vesting their lands in Hauraki Māori-led solutions are required. (Boynton 2018b; Supreme Court of The Whānau Ora program is a New Zealand 2018). The govern- potential exemplar of Māori-led and ment also pushed through the Waitara Māori-controlled services. The latest Lands Act even though only one of the review reiterated previous reviews two hapū to whom the land belongs and reports, including one from gave it support (Pihama 2019). the auditor-general (Provost 2015), Ngāti Paoa laid a formal complaint which showed that the program has against the Crown’s chief negotiator been very successful for many Māori for bullying and acting in bad faith whānau (extended families). It deliv- (rnz 2018). Meanwhile, the govern- ers wraparound social welfare ser- ment rebranded the Office of Treaty vices to whānau and is controlled Settlements as a section within the by Māori commissioning agencies in newly formed Office of Māori-Crown which government bureaucrats have Relations and gave it a Māori name. no say. Government departments ­However, its task of manipulating were criticized yet again for trying to claimants into extinguishing their undermine Whānau Ora. The review claims and removing their legal rights team was told on numerous occasions remains unchanged (Mutu 2018). that agencies are opting out of their In the past year, they have legislated responsibilities to whānau and expect- the extinguishment of the claims of ing Whānau Ora to do their work three iwi: Ngāti Tamaoho in South for them (Independent Whānau Ora , Te Wairoa in the northern Review Panel 2018). Hawke’s Bay, and Ngāti Tūwharetoa The government’s treaty claims of the Taupō region (Te Kāhui settlement process has continued to Whakatau 2019). tear claimant communities apart. The The two hundred fiftieth anni- ongoing divisions in Ngāpuhi, the versary of the arrival of the first country’s largest iwi, continued to Englishmen to Aotearoa occurs in attract media attention (Mutu 2019, October 2019. When the government 206) until whānau and hapū (group- announced that it had allocated more ings of whānau) voted overwhelmingly than nz$22.5 million toward celebrat- in December to reject the mandate ing the event, more than is allocated to political reviews • polynesia 245 most treaty claims settlements (Fyers the land required for the farm ­(Corlett 2018), many Māori strongly objected. 2018). In Hawke’s Bay, the local Their ancestors’ experiences of these council apologized to the local iwi, people were that they were murderous Ngāti Kahungunu, for allowing the barbarians (Russell 2019). Rather than construction of a walking track that cancel the celebrations, the govern- has scarred the face of the sacred ment simply rebranded them under the mountain, Te Mata o Rongokako. The title “Encounters” and allowed tradi- council then sought consent to remove tional (canoes) to be included the track (rnz 2019b). Hapū members beside a replica of the ship Endeavour. from Ihumātao near Auckland Airport One iwi took their objections to the lost their appeal to the Environment UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Court against a housing development Issues and told them: “When some- on their wāhi tapu (Harrowell 2018). body lands and then shoots the first Several months later, the develop- person that they see, and then the next ers served trespass notices and sent day shoots another 15, and then wants in police to evict the hapū members. to get a closer look at a waka so they Calls put out on social media drew shoot everybody in the waka so they hundreds of supporters within hours can get a closer look at it and every- (Haunui-Thompson 2019), with thou- body in that waka was unarmed, they sands more from around the country were just fisher-people. You know, to coming to offer support in the follow- call that an ‘encounter’ is egregious in ing days and weeks (Henry 2019). the extreme and a complete purposeful On the bright side, we celebrated minimisation” (Tina Ngata, quoted in a number of Māori achievements. McLachlan 2019). Mental health advocate Mike King Despite battling poverty and of Māhurehure was named New oppression, Māori continue to take Zealander of the Year. The television our responsibilities to our environ- presenter and comedian has been ment and our wāhi tapu very seriously. highly critical of government ­inaction There have been mixed outcomes over on mental health, particularly that of the past year. The High Court over- Māori. He has been conducting a cam- turned consents for sand mining in paign to end suicide for several years south Taranaki that had been appealed and has spoken to tens of thousands by Ngāti Ruanui, Ngā Rauru, and of children in schools throughout the various other groups (Young 2018). country. New Zealand has the high- Predictably, the international mining est youth suicide rate in the developed company has appealed that decision. world (oecd Family Database 2017). The members of a marae (communal Māori music band Moana and the meeting complex) in Northland won Moahunters received the Independent their fight to stop the largest poul- Music New Zealand Classic Record try factory farm in the country from Award for their 1993 album Tahi at being built next to their cemetery. The the 2019 Taite Music Prize awards. Overseas Investment Office declined Their lead singer, Moana Maniapoto permission for the international poul- of Tūhourangi-Ngāti Wāhiao, Ngāti try company, Tegel Foods, to ­purchase Pikiao, and Ngāti Te Rangiita, said 246 the contemporary pacific • 32:1 (2020) the songs were intended to “make -association-hall-of-fame-awaits-michael Māori feel good about being Māori” -campbell (Gardiner 2019). The huge biennial Borell, Belinda, Helen Moewaka Barnes, Matatini festival, the pinnacle of and Tim McCreanor. 2018. Conceptualis- Māori performing arts, took place ing Historical Privilege: The Flip Side of in in February. In what is Historical Trauma, a Brief Examination. always a highlight in the Māori calen- AlterNative 14 (1): 25–34. dar, tens of thousands of performers, Boynton, John. 2018a. Ngāpuhi Vote: tutors, and composers, young and old, Minister Forced Back to the Drawing as well as volunteers and an enthralled Board. , 18 December. audience, reveled in five days of https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu ­outstanding performances (Māori -korihi/378494/ngapuhi-vote-minister Television 2019). -forced-back-to-the-drawing-board For the first time, we saw one of ———. 2018b. Pare Hauraki Settlement our own appointed to the Supreme Signing Akin to “Confiscation.” Radio Court, the country’s highest court: New Zealand, 1 August. https://www Justice Joe Williams of Ngāi ­Pukenga, .rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/363148/ a past chairman of the Waitangi pare-hauraki-settlement-signing-akin-to Tribunal and High Court judge. He -confiscation is a fluent speaker of Māori and well Burton, Joe. 2019. Four Lessons We versed in tikanga (Māori law). Must Take Away from the Christchurch On the sporting front, Michael Terror Attack. University of Waikato, Campbell, the Ngāti Ruanui and Ngā 18 March. https://www.waikato.ac.nz/ Rauru’s golfer extraordinaire, was news-opinion/media/2019/four-lessons inducted into the Māori Golf Hall of -we-must-take-away-from-the-christchurch -terror-attack Fame. He is best known for winning the US Open and the hsbc World Corlett, Eva. 2018. It’s Sunny Side Up for Match Play Championship in 2005 Kaipara Community after Tegel Mega- (Black 2019). One of our standout Farm Scrapped. Radio New Zealand, Māori sportswomen, Lisa Carrington 2 October. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ national/ /it-s-sunny-side-up-for of Te Aitanga a Māhaki and Ngāti 367712 -kaipara-community-after-tegel-mega Porou, continued to dominate world -farm-scrapped canoeing, taking three gold medals in the International Canoe Federation ecosoc, United Nations Economic and Canoe Sprint World Cup (New Zea- Social Council. 2010. 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A/HRC/41/4. 1 April. for unsubstantiated allegations made https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/ against Premier Sir Toke Talagi; oppo- UNDOC/GEN/G19/087/77/PDF/ sition to and court injunctions filed G1908777.pdf?OpenElement against government-funded projects; University of Waikato. 2019. Te and a member of Parliament (mp) who ­Wharehuia Milroy Remembered. 16 May. brought a packet of marijuana into https://www.waikato.ac.nz/news-opinion/ an assembly sitting. Throughout this media/2019/te-wharehuia-milroy period, the premier also spent signifi- -remembered cant time in New Zealand for medical Waitangi Tribunal. 2004. The Mōhaka care. Despite ill health, the premier ki Ahuriri Report, Wai 201. ­Wellington: was said to have still undertaken work Legislation Direct. https://forms.justice and carried out talks with prospective .govt.nz/search/Documents/WT/wt_DOC diplomatic and development partners. _68598011/Wai201.pdf Niue’s application to become a ———. 2019. Hauora: Report on Stage member of the adb was accepted, One of the Health Services and Outcomes which was a historical decision Kaupapa Inquiry. Wai 2575. ­Wellington: for the island, as it had unsuccess- Waitangi Tribunal. https://forms.justice fully applied twice before (bcn, 12 .govt.nz/search/Documents/WT/wt_DOC March 2019). This membership is _152801817/Hauora%20W.pdf also significant because it provides Welfare Expert Advisory Group. 2019. the island, the adb’s sixty-eighth Whakamana Tāngata: Restoring ­ to Social member and the forty-ninth from the Security in New Zealand. ­Wellington: Asia-Pacific region, with an additional ­Welfare Expert Advisory Group. avenue of funding to help drive social http://www.weag.govt.nz/weag-report/ and ­economic development (bcn, whakamana-tangata/ 12 March 2019). Young, Nick. 2018. Celebrations as High It will be interesting to see just how Court Upholds Seabed Mining Appeal. the us$100,000 annual membership Press release, 28 August. https://www fee, which is quite high for a small .greenpeace.org/new-zealand/press-release/ state, will be fronted. The full cost celebrations-as-high-court-upholds-seabed and benefits of the membership will -mining-appeal/ be determined in the long run; how- ever, Niue will greatly benefit from the associated financial and techni- cal assistance, including assistance Niue with infrastructure development, It has been business as usual within financial management of the public Niue’s governance and politics, with sector and its projects, and capac- surprising events unfolding every now ity building. A focus on building the and then, providing exciting political management capacity of Niue would items to discuss. Within this review be an especially valuable use of this