"Colonisation depended on the states of Europe believing that they were superior to Indigenous peoples such as Māori, and that they should therefore usurp Indigenous authority and impose their own ways of doing things. So, colonisation, by its very nature, is born and bred out of racism."

"Jackson’s scholarship and activism has been influential in shaping public debate around colonisation and Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the Treaty of Waitangi, Aotearoa New Zealand’s founding document."

"Is @jacindaardern willing to denounce this legislation of child sexual abuse?"

"As Nozick acknowledges, a modern state should not feel morally constrained by property holdings which might have had a Lockean pedigree but in fact do not. In this regard it is interesting that one of the main uses of Lockean theory these days is in defending the property rights of indigenous people—where a literal claim is being made about who had first possession of a set of resources and about the need to rectify the injustices that accompanied their subsequent expropriation."