The Treaty Debates Podcast Options

4:00 PM.This year's Treaty Debate, recorded at Soundings Theatre, Te Papa discusses the Treaty Settlement process and how iwi move forward in a post-settlement phase. The panel is Matiu Rei, Executive… Read more Audio

4:06 PM.This year's Treaty Debate, recorded at Te Papa, is a discussion of water rights in Aotearoa New Zealand. The panel features Jacinta Ruru (University of Otago, Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Maniapoto), Donald… Read more Audio

4:06 PM.Kim Hill chairs a panel of young people who answer the question: What issues in the constitutional review do you care about? Recorded at Te Papa 31 January 2013. Audio

4:06 PM.Lawyers Matthew Palmer and Moana Jackson discuss the topic: What place does the treaty have in New Zealand's constitutional arrangements? Recorded at Te Papa 24 January 2013. Audio

4:10 PM.Professor John Burrows outlines the forthcoming constitutional review which he is co-chairing, looking at a wide range of issues to do with New Zealand's constitutional arrangements. Professor Burrows… Read more Audio

4:06 PM.Chaired by historian Dr Claudia Orange, the first debate features Justice Joe Williams and public law specialist Mai Chen discussing the Waitangi Tribunal's long-awaited first "whole of government"… Read more Audio

4:15 PM.The second debate, also chaired by historian Dr Claudia Orange and law lecturer Carwyn Jones, features Whaimutu Dewes and the Human Rights Commissioner Joris de Bres, who consider how power might be… Read more Audio

4:15 PM.Chaired by historian Dr Claudia Orange, the first debate features Tom Bennion from the Maori Law Review exploring the issue of the ownership and use of the foreshore and seabed with fellow lawyer… Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Professor Mason Durie, with social commentator Colin James, consider the options for future, including three alternative scenarios which have New Zealand as a republic, as part of the federated states… Read more Audio

7:00 PM.Professor Paul Spoonley from Massey University articulates the evolutionary nature of the last 40 years of Maori social and cultural change through a focus on the life and achievement of… Read more Audio

6:00 AM.Professor Philip Joseph from the University of Canterbury and broadcaster and former local body politician Derek Fox square off about the origins, value, and future of the Maori electoral seats. Audio

6:00 AM.The first debate features Roger Kerr and Robert McLeod from the New Zealand Business Roundtable, exploring historical and contemporary perspectives on Maori, business, and the economy. Audio

12:00 PM.Dr Charles Royal sets out a provocative argument that in the future, all New Zealanders will be able to define themselves as tangata whenua.

Race relations commissioner Joris De Bres explores why race… Read more Audio

9:06 PM.Professor Mason Durie (Professor of Maori Research and Development & Deputy Vice-Chancellor Maori at Massey University) considers that the Treaty has become embedded in the life of the nation… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Where the Treaty stands at present, and what its likely future will be

Justice Eddie Durie, a key figure in the history of the Waitangi Tribunal, explores the way in which the Treaty's meaning has… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Maori and the fisheries

The Hon. Doug Kidd explores the political and negotiating background to the development of the Sealord Fisheries deal, and Peter Douglas, the head of Te Ohu Kaimoana (The Maori… Read more Audio

10:00 AM.Apirana Mahuika, the Chairman of Te Runanga o Ngati Porou, and Pat Snedden, an Auckland businessman and consultant, consider the future of the Treaty of Waitangi from the point of view of those… Read more Audio

9:00 AM.Joe Williams, Chief Judge and Chairperson of the Waitangi Tribunal, and Sir Geoffrey Palmer, Head of the Law Commission, consider the future of the Treaty of Waitangi from a legal, constitutional and… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.The final debate is about constitutional reform, with guests Professor Matthew Palmer of Victoria University of Wellington, and Judge Carrie Wainwright of the Waitangi Tribunal. Judge Wainwright… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.The second debate focuses on the Foreshore and Seabed Act, with lawyer Tim Castle, and Tahu Potiki of Ngai Tahu, analysing the key points of the Act and the changes it has introduced. Audio

10:00 AM.The series begins with a view from inside the Waitangi Tribunal. The chair at that time, Judge Joe Williams, and former chair Wira Gardiner, consider the unsettled history of the Tribunal and the… Read more Audio