Victoria University of Wellington

Intern

Jury Teniteni-Smeaton, Victoria University of Wellington

Supervisor

Dr Jesse Pirini & Associate Professor Jessica Lai, Victoria University of Wellington

Overview

This internship focused on decolonisation in the context of Aotearoa’s child protection system.

This internship project examined the collision and contest of te ao Māori and the intellectual property system with respect to mātauranga Māori.

This internship aim was to scope the possibilities hapū, iwi and Māori organisations have to exercise Māori data sovereignty over electoral roll data, collected compulsorily about Māori for the administration of the electoral rolls by the Electoral Commission.

This internship focused on global efforts by First Nations and Indigenous peoples to decolonise and re-indigenise child protection systems.

This project served as an introduction to the ongoing study Honourable Kāwanatanga: A Prerequisite for Constitutional Transformation. The overall study was designed to answer the following key questions:
1. What is honourable kāwanatanga?
2. How can third sector (and other) organisations strengthen and deepen their engagement with Te Tiriti?