Achieving Constitutional Transformation w/ Professor Margaret Mutu: February 16, 2021

Earlier this month Matike Mai Aotearoa, the Independent Working Group on Constitutional Transformation, held a constitutional convention. The hui would build on the recommendations made by the group in their 2016 report as to how New Zealand’s constitution could be transformed to properly reflect Indigenous rights and perfect the partnership between tangata whenua and the Crown. 

News and Editorial Director Jemima Huston speaks to Professor and member of Matike Mai Aotearoa Margaret Mutu (Ngāti Kahu Te Rarawa, Ngāti Whātua) about the convention, what constitutional transformation is, how it can be achieved and what it looks like in practice. Professor Mutu explains why only transformation can give true recognition to the rangatiratanga of Māori as the tangata whenua of Aotearoa.