Top 5: Lessons in Leadership from the Queen’s Speech at Koroneihana 2025

Te Kuini Ngawai hono i te po offered a striking critique of this government and a solution:

‘Kua ki te urupa o tenei kawanatanga I te kaupapa Maori’ the graveyard of this government is fill of Maori causes

However we are more than resistance, as she said

‘if we don’t rise up and yell, wield weapons, fly flags, or perform haka, we mistakenly think were ineffective as Maori – we must have an enemy to be Maori

Being Maori is not defined as having an enemy, or a challenge to overcome’