Dr Rawiri Taonui: The spat between Labour’s Minister of Employment Willie Jackson and National Deputy Leader Paula Bennett raises issues about Māori identity.
 

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Dr Rawiri Taonui: There has been debate about whether New Zealand’s third largest city is more racist than other parts of the country since 51 members of the Muslim community in Christchurch were shot dead..Read more

Dr Rawiri Taonui: Late last year, the Motu - Economic and Public Policy Research Trust paper Indigenous Belief in a Just World: NZ Maori and other Ethnicities Compared (reported in the Herald 23 September 2015) arguing that because Maori collectivist values were like those of other indigenous, African American and Chinese belief systems they were undermining of Maori economic success..Read more