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On October 28, 2025, amidst some truly challenging Wellington weather, 63 passionate individuals gathered at Te Herenga Waka marae. Scholars, trade unionists, community leaders, activists, and students all came with one vital purpose: to kōrero about how we can achieve honourable kāwanatanga in Aotearoa. This was a deeply relational day, a part of our wider Honourable Kāwanatanga project, where we sought to understand what a Tiriti-based future could truly look like. The date

I am always amazed at how far a single idea can go. Te Tiriti based futures + antiracism was born in 2020 a response to a tweet-based challenge from Moana Maniapoto to Pākehā about what we were doing about decolonisation education. I cheekily responded on behalf of our Pākehā people, roped in some comrades and Te Tiriti based futures our – open-access, Tiriti and racial justice on-line extravaganza was born.  Thousands of New Zealanders have watched webinars live, thousands m

One of the devices Heather Came & Associates use in the classroom is the Too Hard Basket. We use it has a mechanism to co-create curriculum with what are learners are curious about. The questions are collected at the beginning of class and answered by a Too Hard Basket panel in the afternoon. The questions are honest, thoughtful and often brave. With the permission of our students, we are going to start sharing some of the questions and answers in case they are useful for oth