Blogs

It is hard to keep up with all the Tiriti o Waitangi breaches occurring within the health sector at this time. This co-authored paper for the New Zealand Medical Journal is a Rapid Tiriti Review of the health workforce strategy Putting Patients First: Modernising health workforce regulation. Spoiler alert it is poorly aligned with Te Tiriti o Waitangi responsibilities. Putting Patients First was drafted in a political climate that is hostile to Te Tiriti and actively dismantl

One of the devices Heather Came & Associates use in the classroom is the Too Hard Basket. We use it as 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 othe

Lashings of Tiriti workers at the AWEA – 100th birthday celebration in 2014. Last year we were lucky enough to interview a cohort of senior Tiriti workers about Tiriti-based organisational change. We were lucky to spend time with: Jen Margaret, Dr Rangimarie Mahuika, Takiwai and Chris Murphy, Dean Adam and the late Christine Herzog. The following blog is a taster of the article we wrote. Full details of article at bottom of blog. The journey toward Tiriti-based organisational