Where you can find my writing

This blog is inactive. That means you'll find most of my writing at places like Overland Literary Journal and E-Tangata.

Here's a sample: 

Overland Literary Journal

• Settled peacefully
• Burn the witch: on the attacks against Eleanor Catton
• Blackface in a white nation
• Private grief, public action
• On opposition to Helen Clark’s UN bid, or how your progressive fav is problematic
• The Interregnum: on Brexit and how the British remember
• Indigenous when he's winning
• The Jersey of the South Pacific

The Guardian

• From sport ceremonies to treaties: can New Zealand teach the US anything about race?
• Jonah Lomu proved a Polynesian man could still win when the deck was stacked
• Jonah from Tonga was withdrawn for good reason: it’s Chris Lilley’s satire at its worst
• New Zealand refuses climate change refugees - mass action is now needed
• New Zealand's flag represents a country that no longer exists
• Orwell would recognise the logic of postcolonialism in West Papua

Stuff.co.nz (Fairfax book reviews)

• Generation Rent: What's really the solution?
• Not so jolly: Ruth, Roger and Me by Andrew Dean
• Man of Secrets: the private life of Donald McLean
• Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand
• Entanglements of Empire: a new take on the Maori-Pakeha relationship
• Our Dangerous Donald Trump Interregnum
• Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History
• The FIRE Economy: how neoliberalism is built on a house of cards
• New database a rich repository of NZ non-fiction
• Crossing the Floor, the Story of Tariana Turia

The Herald

• The Monarchy has lost meaning
• White Colonial guilt? Please

Metro Magazine

• Auckland’s Most Influential: Among Maori

The Spinoff

• I saw the mountain erupt
• The left was fucked, and then it wasn't
• The end of neither left nor right but Maori
• Radical and inspirational, gentle and generous – an obituary for Ranginui Walker
• Behold, Māori politics’ great realignment. Or, don’t believe the hype
• A beginner’s guide to the bewilderments of budget day
• The greatest New Zealand works of non-fiction ever – Te Roopu Haututu
• Relax, Māori aren’t banning you from the beach. Or are we?
• Obituary: Helen Kelly

E-Tangata

• Warrior race? Pull the other one
• History isn’t always written by the winners
• Why do we ignore the New Zealand Wars?

VICE

• Here Comes Waitangi Day: Prepare to Cringe
• Why Growing Up in a Gang Town Isn't Always What You Think

PSA

• Talking tax, with context and all that

Ours

• On identities (or against identity)

The Ruminator

• When are numbers racist? 

The Daily Blog

• Kua hinga he totara i te wao nui a Tane
• What the New Zealand left must learn from Obama
• The mechanics of Cunliffe's conference remarks

Other 

• For Queen and Country? No thanks!
• Disney's Moana isn't progressive - it's dangerous

Journal (academic) articles

• The Political Constitution: from Westminster to Waitangi 
• Whose citizenship anyway?

Books

• The Interregnum (ed.), Bridget Williams Books, 2016.
• (You can read the first chapter here)

Book chapters

• "The Fragmentation of Maori politics" in Kicking the Tyres: the New Zealand General Election and Electoral Referendum of 2011 (Victoria University Press, 2012)
• "The Maori Party" in New Zealand Government and Politics (6th edition) (Oxford University Press, 2014)
• "The Search for Stability" in Moments of Truth: the New Zealand General Election of 2014 (Victoria University Press, 2015)
• "The history of Maori in Local Government" in Local Government in New Zealand (Dunmore Publishing, 2016)
• "Against Political Commentary" in Reimagining Journalism: the Future of the Media in New Zealand" (Freerange Press, 2016).

Some random stories/panels I've featured in

• [Radio New Zealand]: Andrew Little, Willie Jackson and kaupapa Maori politics
• [RDU]: The Interregnum
• [Idealogue]: Morgan Godfery on the new popularism, the politics of love and his new book
• [The Press]: School of thought: On the dangers of intellectualism
• [Radio New Zealand]: On the resignation of Mihingarangi Forbes
• [Radio New Zealand]: Real Housewives vs real research: in-depth journalism was the loser on the day
• [Radio New Zealand]: Overland - Australian Literary Journal's NZ edition
• [Radio New Zealand]: Online Lives
• [Native Affairs]: political panel
• [Native Affairs]: Dirty Politics panel
• [The Nation]: political panel
• [Young Writers' Festival]: Young Maori, New Media
• [E-Tangata]: Morgan Godfery - politics is in the blood
• [The Wireless]: The Pencilsword: Lest We Forget