About to start a 2.5 day conference at Vic Uni.
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"Justice is always relational and foundational, for land reclamation.
Relational [whenua-based] learning nourished ethical commitments.
Cultural sustaining narratives are essential to build a movement to get the government to stand on the right side of history.
Finally, we owe it to our mokopuna to believe. Believe it is possible to drive the required change for justice, reconciliation, and healing."
Talk #3 this morning about to kick off.
#KiaTikaKiaPono
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Talk #3 this morning about to kick off.
#KiaTikaKiaPono"Our people don't disengage from learning because they don't value education, but because they don't fit into the systems forced upon us"
"Justice is not about repairing damage once it's occurred, it's about designing places to avoid that damage happening in the first place."
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"Our people don't disengage from learning because they don't value education, but because they don't fit into the systems forced upon us"
"Justice is not about repairing damage once it's occurred, it's about designing places to avoid that damage happening in the first place."
"Confidence in young people can be built once they know where they come from and therefore who they are"
"People will tell you that the problem is the troubled youth - but that's not the problem. The problem is the system trying to fit them into a space they're not welcome in."
"Fitting into a Pākehā school system required a sacrifice of some parts of who i was in order to fit into the system."
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"Confidence in young people can be built once they know where they come from and therefore who they are"
"People will tell you that the problem is the troubled youth - but that's not the problem. The problem is the system trying to fit them into a space they're not welcome in."
"Fitting into a Pākehā school system required a sacrifice of some parts of who i was in order to fit into the system."
"Identity and wellbeing are not separate from success. That's where we start from, not policy design."
"We didn't set out to change the system, we were just responding to what we saw in front of us."
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"Identity and wellbeing are not separate from success. That's where we start from, not policy design."
"We didn't set out to change the system, we were just responding to what we saw in front of us."
"What could we do instead of responding after the fact, but by designing at the beginning instead?"
"A just society is not created by a single policy. But by a collection of just places."
"I dream big, but don't always know how to achieve these things. What we do always need is leadership - even if that leadership is to step out of the way..."
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"What could we do instead of responding after the fact, but by designing at the beginning instead?"
"A just society is not created by a single policy. But by a collection of just places."
"I dream big, but don't always know how to achieve these things. What we do always need is leadership - even if that leadership is to step out of the way..."
Talk 4 today.. been really looking forward to this one... no idea if I'll be able to keep up the live tooting, but will try
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Talk 4 today.. been really looking forward to this one... no idea if I'll be able to keep up the live tooting, but will try
"Relationships are fundamental to moving towards a just society.
This is a Māori nation. The government has not been good to Māori... not yet."
"The legacy the government has left us is a lower life expectancy. They have stolen our time with our tūpuna from us."
"50% of male prison population are Māori. 62% of wāhine in prison are Māori."
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"Relationships are fundamental to moving towards a just society.
This is a Māori nation. The government has not been good to Māori... not yet."
"The legacy the government has left us is a lower life expectancy. They have stolen our time with our tūpuna from us."
"50% of male prison population are Māori. 62% of wāhine in prison are Māori."
"My grandmother said the worst thing you can do is marry a Māori. I was into my 20s before I had ever heard the Māori language spoken. I had never been to our marae."
"When the colonisers came, they brought the Bible and imposed their rules upon us."
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"My grandmother said the worst thing you can do is marry a Māori. I was into my 20s before I had ever heard the Māori language spoken. I had never been to our marae."
"When the colonisers came, they brought the Bible and imposed their rules upon us."
"The crown has only ever been dishonourable.
What could honourable kāwanatanga be?
Every time we spoke to someone, they had something different to say...
We analysed the response from the Treaty Principles Bill, so out of that evil some good came..."
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"The crown has only ever been dishonourable.
What could honourable kāwanatanga be?
Every time we spoke to someone, they had something different to say...
We analysed the response from the Treaty Principles Bill, so out of that evil some good came..."
[We need to repair Te Tiriti,] "we need to be the Pākehā the rangatira thought they were negotiating Te Tiriti with"
"You need to dream the dream. If you can't imagine a world without decolonisation you will never get there"
"Don't underestimate the energy required to *not* be violent"¹
¹Oof, this one hit me hard.
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[We need to repair Te Tiriti,] "we need to be the Pākehā the rangatira thought they were negotiating Te Tiriti with"
"You need to dream the dream. If you can't imagine a world without decolonisation you will never get there"
"Don't underestimate the energy required to *not* be violent"¹
¹Oof, this one hit me hard.
I've said it already, but I'm really looking forward to this next talk. This one is very close to my heart, and is being given by Fleur Fitzsimons, the National Secretary of the NZ Public Service Association, Te Pukenga Here Tikanga Mahi - the union of which I'm a (very small) part.
It's titled "Putting the public back into public services: the challenges in building a modern state".
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I've said it already, but I'm really looking forward to this next talk. This one is very close to my heart, and is being given by Fleur Fitzsimons, the National Secretary of the NZ Public Service Association, Te Pukenga Here Tikanga Mahi - the union of which I'm a (very small) part.
It's titled "Putting the public back into public services: the challenges in building a modern state".
"When I was approached to speak they said 'i know it's really hard opposing all the stuff the govt is doing all the time, but can you put some _hope_ into it please?'"
"Public Services cannot be built on corporate ideals alone. It must reflect Te Tiriti, and the Articles as well"
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"When I was approached to speak they said 'i know it's really hard opposing all the stuff the govt is doing all the time, but can you put some _hope_ into it please?'"
"Public Services cannot be built on corporate ideals alone. It must reflect Te Tiriti, and the Articles as well"
"Since the 2023 election we've seen the dismissal of thousands of public service people."
"Every single health worker i speak to has a story that could be a front page scandal. Every. Single. Worker."
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"Since the 2023 election we've seen the dismissal of thousands of public service people."
"Every single health worker i speak to has a story that could be a front page scandal. Every. Single. Worker."
"The state owned enterprise model was sold as a way to improve performance, but it was always as a stepping stone to a privatised model."
"In 1983, NZRail saw deregulation and privatisation, accidents increased to multiples of the national average. Maintenance constantly deferred. Reliability crashed."
"Privatisation shifts the risks from the government's books directly onto the workers and the public. "
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"The state owned enterprise model was sold as a way to improve performance, but it was always as a stepping stone to a privatised model."
"In 1983, NZRail saw deregulation and privatisation, accidents increased to multiples of the national average. Maintenance constantly deferred. Reliability crashed."
"Privatisation shifts the risks from the government's books directly onto the workers and the public. "
"The market doesn't care about social impacts or impacts on individuals in the country. It doesn't care about obligations to Te Tiriti.
There is no requirement to assess impacts on health and safety in any public service cuts or restructures."
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"The market doesn't care about social impacts or impacts on individuals in the country. It doesn't care about obligations to Te Tiriti.
There is no requirement to assess impacts on health and safety in any public service cuts or restructures."
"The public service belongs to the public. It is there to advise the government of impacts of decisions. You would expect changes to these places to be transparent not opaque."
"There is more transparency to how alcohol licences are given out than how cuts to agencies are carried out."
Transparency shouldn't be seen as a burden, but as a fundamental democratic right."
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"The public service belongs to the public. It is there to advise the government of impacts of decisions. You would expect changes to these places to be transparent not opaque."
"There is more transparency to how alcohol licences are given out than how cuts to agencies are carried out."
Transparency shouldn't be seen as a burden, but as a fundamental democratic right."
"Real reform begins with a purpose."
"Issues like Pike River or the abuse at Gloriavale show a failure of government."
"Putting the public back into the public service is a nation building activity. We need to firmly reject the idea privatisation is inevitable. "
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"Real reform begins with a purpose."
"Issues like Pike River or the abuse at Gloriavale show a failure of government."
"Putting the public back into the public service is a nation building activity. We need to firmly reject the idea privatisation is inevitable. "
Second talk this afternoon, Beyond Urbanisation: deregulation in Aotearoa's transport sector.
"The super rich pay an average tax rate of 8.9% income tax. The average person pays 26%"
"In 2013 Watties paid $2m to management fees. In 2023 that went to $33m, with $50m less revenue. They didn't mention that in decision to close their factories. "
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Second talk this afternoon, Beyond Urbanisation: deregulation in Aotearoa's transport sector.
"The super rich pay an average tax rate of 8.9% income tax. The average person pays 26%"
"In 2013 Watties paid $2m to management fees. In 2023 that went to $33m, with $50m less revenue. They didn't mention that in decision to close their factories. "
"Transport was a public good for many years in this country. The building of the rail network was part of our nation building... we didn't do it in the nicest way. We made specific rules to protect that, including prohibiting what goods could be moved by road.
This was a public good, until the neoliberal rupture, when price became the dominate organising factor. Rail network privatised, collapsed and brought back in."
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"Transport was a public good for many years in this country. The building of the rail network was part of our nation building... we didn't do it in the nicest way. We made specific rules to protect that, including prohibiting what goods could be moved by road.
This was a public good, until the neoliberal rupture, when price became the dominate organising factor. Rail network privatised, collapsed and brought back in."
"The Uber model is the far swing of that neoliberal pendulum swing. Managers are replaced by an algorithm. It's almost like the rules don't apply, a perfect free market model."
"Workers do believe in the old form of collective action... especially when it means they get better wages!"
