Paul Morgan on our relationship with the Crown

 

This is Paul Te Poa Karoro Morgan, CNZM, QSO.

 

Paul, Ngāti Rārua, Te Māhurehure, has recently given evidence on our behalf in Stafford v Attorney-General.

 

Paul talked about our relationship with the Crown, citing examples where the Crown has been willing to settle with whānau and hapū groups to resolve long-standing matters like ours.

 

He described Making the Tenths Whole as his life’s work.

 

“The responsibility for seeking the return of our land and resources, the restoration of mana, lost income, and opportunities, has passed through many generations of our people.

 

There is still a great deal of work to be done to realise our full potential and to reconnect our people to their land and whakapapa so that they can assume their full rights and responsibilities as ahi kā.

 

I have devoted my life to making sure that justice is done. I sincerely hope that that can be achieved so that the next generation do not have to take up the fight.”

 

Paul is also a member of the Te Here-ā-Nuku Working Committee

 

Ngā mihi, Paul.