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This paper led by Zoe Tipa seeks to name, with clarity and compassion, what many Māori public servants have been carrying for decades. Navigating complex spaces: experiences of Māori working for the Crown in Aotearoa  brings forward the lived realities of Māori kaimahi who serve inside Crown systems shaped by colonial architecture, systemic inequities, and ongoing Tiriti breaches.  The article describes the complex emotional landscape of Māori working within Crown agencies—wh

Every so often a kaupapa comes along that feels both timely and timeless — that asks us to pause, to reflect, and to imagine better futures. The new edited collection Decolonisation and Kāwanatanga: Indigenous and Crown Relations in the Global South  is one such invitation. As someone who has spent much of my career wrestling with what Te Tiriti o Waitangi means in practice — within government, policy, education, and community work — the concept of kāwanatanga  remains a site

It has been more than a decade since we formed STIR – Stop Institutional Racism, a collective of public-health practitioners, scholars, and activists committed to ending racism in the health systems meant to care for us. Our latest shadow report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) lays bare what many of us already know: the Crown has chosen regression over Tiriti and racial justice. Across constitutional, policy, environmental,