Te Tiriti 2024 and Beyond – Pakihere Rokiroki (Podcast Collection)

Ko Mōtatau te marae, Ko Ngāti Te Tārawa te Hapu, Ko Ngāti Hine te Iwi. Ka papā te whatititiri, ka hikohiko te uira, ka wahierua ki runga o Motatau, e tū ana i te ao, i te po, ō Hikurangi, ngā kiekie whawhanui a Uenuku. Ko Taumārere te awa, Ko te puna i Keteriki, Keteriki, Kete Tangariki, ko Ngāti Hine Pukepukerau. 

Pita Tipene (Ngāti Hine) has held the position of Waitangi National Trust Chair since February 2016. Pita holds a number of governance roles within his Iwi of Ngāti Hine as well as local, regional and national roles. Some of his roles include: Co-convenor at Ngā Toki Whakarururanga, Chair of Mōtatau marae and Chair of the Ngāti Hine Forestry Trust. Additionally, Pita sits on Te Kahu o Taonui (Taitokerau Iwi Chairs Forum) representing Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Hine. One of his other national roles is as the Chair of the Mānuka Charitable Trust which has the responsibility of maintaining and enhancing the Intellectual property of Mānuka in the global market. Pita has a passion for upholding He Whakaputanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi. 

Makere (Margaret) Mutu is of Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Whātua and Scottish descent. She is a Ngāti Kahu leader, author, activist and academic from Karikari. For the past two decades, Makere has chaired Te Rūnanga-ā-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu, where she represents Ngāti Kahu on the National Iwi Chairs Forum. She also chairs Te Pou Tikanga, the Aotearoa Independent Monitoring Mechanism, which monitors New Zealand’s compliance with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and Matike Mai Aotearoa — the Independent Working Group on Constitutional Transformation. Makere is a Professor in Māori Studies at the University of Auckland and her areas of expertise lie in Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Māori language, colonisation and resource management. 

Te Huia Bill Hamilton (Ngāti Kahungungu, Ngā Rauru, Ngāti Raukawa) is a treaty facilitator and educator with Treaty Solutions. He has dedicated 25 years to educating Pākehā and Tauiwi on Te Tiriti o Waitangi. He is the lead advisor for the National Iwi chairs forum – and has acted as a treaty settlement negotiator, and as an advisor for NZEI Te Riu Roa. Bill initially served as a school principal, while also serving as a member and chair of the Māori Education Trust Board from 1993- 2015.  

Joseph Nicolls’ ancestors are from England, Wales, Scotland and Sweden. His family has been in Aotearoa for several generations. Joseph considers himself a regular middle-aged Pākehā bloke. Born in Mōhua, top of the South, Te Tau Ihu, and has lived most of his life in Pōneke, Wellington. His career has included design and construction, as well as community, education and freelance facilitation work. These days, Joseph facilitates men’s groups, mental health first response with Coliberate Ltd and the Human Skills side of Tech at Dev Academy Aotearoa. Moving forward – he hopes to do more treaty education work for Tangata Tiriti. 

Faumuina Felolini Maria Tafuna’i hails from the villages of Fasito’o-Tai, Asaga and Mulifanua in Samoa. She is a voyager, strategist and poet. Faumuina is CEO and Founder of Flying Geese which uses a framework based on celestial navigation and voyaging that she developed under the guidance of tohunga Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr. Flying Geese creates and delivers programmes to support indigenous peoples in the areas of entrepreneurship, strategic planning, and suicide prevention. Her book, My Grandfather is a Canoe, has been adapted for stage and won multiple awards since its debut in March 2022. Faumuina was also the first Pacific Islander to become an Edmund Hillary Fellow. 

Dr. Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown (Te Aupōuri/Pākehā) is an academic from Victoria University of Wellington where he is a lecturer in the Faculty of Law. Luke is interested in Kaupapa Māori approaches to law and policy. His research and teaching focuses on Te Tiriti o Waitangi, decolonisation, family law, and child protection. In recent years, Luke has written articles on Te Tiriti o Waitangi for Newsroom and The Spinoff. Luke lives in Pōneke with his wife Kelsey, son Oscar and cat Achilles.