From across the ditch, New Zealand can look like a place where settlers and Indigenous people have forged a successful, postcolonial modus vivendi. The image conceals more than it reveals. As in Australia, relations between Indigenous people and the state are fraught. At the November 2023 election, right-wing minority parties won electoral support by rejecting what they have characterised as speci ... (read more)
Miranda Johnson
Miranda Johnson is the author of The Land Is Our History: Indigeneity, Law and the Settler State (Oxford University Press, 206) and co-editor of Pacific Futures: Past and Present (University of Hawaii Press, 2018). She is currently president of the New Zealand Historical Association and is an associate professor at the University of Otago.