Francis Shaw, 55, is after a New Zealand written constitution. New Zealand, United Kingdom, and Israel are the only three countries without a formal written constitution, a document overarching day-to-day legislation. Former Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer has long called for one and the chief executive of Shaw’s iwi, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, confirmed he supported the call. A written statement from Shaw said: “In the absence of a constitution that restores and preserves the mana of the signatories of the treaty, I remain the enemy of the state.
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Francis Shaw is on a hunger strike in Rimutaka Prison (File photo).
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Shane Te Pou: Māori-led prison reform signals welcome shift in Crown s thinking
26 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Inmates exercise at Waikeria Prison in Te Awamutu. Photo / Michael Craig
NZ Herald
OPINION:
I remember as if it were yesterday the beginning of my fourth form year at Kawerau High School. It was packed to the rafters, mostly with Māori kids like me; cheeky, full of life.
We weren t big into career planning at the time but, if you d asked, most of the boys would ve said we wanted, or at least expected, to follow in our dads footsteps – get a job at the mill, earn a good wage, build a family, make a life.
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Inmates from Hawke s Bay prison s Māori focus unit Te Tirohanga welcome the Minister and his party. But if there’s one thing we all need, never more so than in prison, it’s hope. Ideally, the kind of hope that can assuage the most cynical of their scepticism. And chances are, most of the visitors leaving Unit 8 that morning were a little less sceptical than when they entered. That’s partly because the new programme, Māori Pathways, appears to address issues besetting similar culture-based programmes to date, and partly because the prisoners who undertake these culture-based programmes so evidently benefit from them.