RIP – Moana Jackson: One of NZs greatest academics
NZ has lost one of our greatest intellectuals.
Moana Jackson gave an intellectual dignity and grace to human rights that will echo throughout the corridors of time and reverberate in our culture forever.
His work with indigenous peoples lifted us all as a species.
He was in a Bruce Jesson league of brilliance, his ability to look at the Meta of colonisation and unpick it was a gift.
His intelligence and his importance to any debate was incredible. I had the privilege to interview him several times and you always felt that you were in the presence of true greatness with Moana.
My only regret was that he didn’t get enough platform with the mainstream media because his wisdom made us all smarter.
We have all lost a cultural and intellectual giant this week and it hurts.
It hurts really bad.
Rest In Peace brilliant man.
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Only recently followed him such is the lack of mainstream coverage of this man. He is all you have said about Martyn. He is our taonga that should’ve been far more prominent than what was given.
Too true Martyn. Well said.
It is a pity and a disgrace that we adore shallow achievements from unimportant deeds/sports etc ahead of real contributions to our greater good.
There is a further wisdom in this excerpt from Martyn’s valedictory to Dr Moana Jackson.
My only regret was that he didn’t get enough platform with the mainstream media because his wisdom made us all smarter.
I think the reason that he wasn’t written up in the media to the extent he should have been was that ‘his wisdom made us all smart.
Just as some antiseptic on a cut or wound hurts before it heals, so taking to our collective hearts what Moana Jackson was relating to us, caused discomfort or pain for some time; but in the end it will have expanding, flowering results. As with wise but uncomfortable healing treatment like antiseptics, like vaccinations, the country accepts them slowly, reluctantly, but we are moving, we do seem to progress Moana. Those who believe in the nub of his arguments will gather into a phalanx and continue in his footsteps keeping on with the important mission of honouring all people within our society and enabling Maori to meet their needs and vision their future to enjoy a rightful place in society.
This is Dr Moana Jackson speaking on a number of things but topmost is housing and ‘a collaborative human-rights and a Te Tiriti o Waitangi-based housing strategy for Aotearoa New Zealand’ to Shift Aotearoa Conference 2019. 52m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prm9KEE29rg
Treaty rights, human rights and the right to housing. This keynote speech sets the foundation for the conference by articulating the issues and opportunities for a collaborative human-rights and Te Tiriti o Waitangi-based housing strategy for Aotearoa New Zealand. It looks at the impact of colonisation in the current housing crisis and the ongoing issues of Māori landlessness and homelessness.