Josie Keelan
@jkeelan.bsky.social
Ngati Porou, Ngati Awa and Tuhoe. Periphery dweller given to saying inappropriate things and coming up with ideas that often miss the mark 🤓😎
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Kia ora koutou — Te Waka Taki Kōrero/The Māori Literature Trust has opened applications for two grants (up to $6K) for mid-career Māori writers. Applications for Te Tupu Hauora close on 30 Jan, 2026. All info on the website linked below. Mauri ora!
mlt.org.nz/te-tupu-haur...
mlt.org.nz/te-tupu-haur...
Apply Now: Te Tupu Hauroa Development Grants 2026
The Māori Literature Trust invites submissions from mid-career Māori writers seeking to undertake development opportunities between February – May 2026.
mlt.org.nz
December 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Kia ora koutou — Te Waka Taki Kōrero/The Māori Literature Trust has opened applications for two grants (up to $6K) for mid-career Māori writers. Applications for Te Tupu Hauora close on 30 Jan, 2026. All info on the website linked below. Mauri ora!
mlt.org.nz/te-tupu-haur...
mlt.org.nz/te-tupu-haur...
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Comment from Auckland University: How do we get beyond the scepticism each ‘side’ of the education debate seems to have for each other?
Education in Aotearoa doesn't need to be this divided
newsroom.co.nz
December 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Comment from Auckland University: How do we get beyond the scepticism each ‘side’ of the education debate seems to have for each other?
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Stoked to have been involved in the paper. Less pleased to have my own story profiled in it.
Our article in today's NZ Medical Journal - a disgraceful story of structural racism in NZ health policy. It highlights govt refusal to address a glaring inequity despite clear evidence and sustained advocacy. The result is avoidable disease and mortality for Māori and Pacific people.
Tūtakarerewa—Indigenous advocacy and structural racism in bowel cancer screening in Aotearoa New Zealand
The New Zealand Medical Journal (NZMJ) is the principal scientific journal for the medical profession in New Zealand. The Journal has become a fundamental resource for providing research and written p...
nzmj.org.nz
December 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Stoked to have been involved in the paper. Less pleased to have my own story profiled in it.
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Opinion from Otago University: NZ built a reputation as a world leader in tobacco control. Will it now protect Kiwis’ health, or favour the interests of an industry that profits from their addiction?
Our smokefree goal has turned to ash, so what next?
newsroom.co.nz
December 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Opinion from Otago University: NZ built a reputation as a world leader in tobacco control. Will it now protect Kiwis’ health, or favour the interests of an industry that profits from their addiction?
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'Anytime he had a word that he didn't know, we would write a song'
'Anytime he had a word that he didn't know, we would write a song. And it worked'
Award-winning Kiwi musicians and parents Steph Brown and Fen Ikner use death metal, reggae and Latin grooves to help kids learn how to spell tricky words.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
'Anytime he had a word that he didn't know, we would write a song'
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Alongside the many critiques of government policies that we published in 2025, we also ran many pieces about fortitude, accomplishment, and optimism. These are the stories that we’d like to leave you with over the summer. Stories of restoration, resistance, and hope.
Summer reading: A year of resistance and hope | E-Tangata
Alongside the many critiques of government policies that we published in 2025, we also ran many pieces about fortitude, accomplishment, and optimism. These are the stories that we’d like to leave you ...
e-tangata.co.nz
December 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Alongside the many critiques of government policies that we published in 2025, we also ran many pieces about fortitude, accomplishment, and optimism. These are the stories that we’d like to leave you with over the summer. Stories of restoration, resistance, and hope.
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Māori Queen launches multi-million-dollar investment platform
Māori Queen launches multi-million-dollar investment platform
Te Arikinui said she was proud to launch the initiative as a "declaration" that Māori were ready to invest.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Māori Queen launches multi-million-dollar investment platform
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Coalition Government ministers insist their reform of regional councils is "not a power grab" – but all the evidence suggests the opposite, to democracy's detriment.
Anne Salmond: We're reforming the wrong part of government
newsroom.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Coalition Government ministers insist their reform of regional councils is "not a power grab" – but all the evidence suggests the opposite, to democracy's detriment.
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Clive Aspin & myself are co-ordinating a special issue of Sites focusing on Dimensions of Honourable Kāwanatanga. We are keen to hear others perspective on this kaupapa - we are intentionally looking to the future but with a critical awareness of past dishonourable practice.
November 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Clive Aspin & myself are co-ordinating a special issue of Sites focusing on Dimensions of Honourable Kāwanatanga. We are keen to hear others perspective on this kaupapa - we are intentionally looking to the future but with a critical awareness of past dishonourable practice.
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When the Ministry cannot explain how a foreign company won a national contract to hold the learning data of every child in Aotearoa, it is not an administrative inconvenience.
It is a breach of trust.
It is a breach of trust.
Tears Weren’t About the Fight
by ELVOn the way home, I cried.Tears stung the unhealed cold sore on my lip,and the aircon dried them hard against my chin.I didn’t cry because I was exhausted from breaking up a fight before morning ...
www.engaginglearningvoices.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
When the Ministry cannot explain how a foreign company won a national contract to hold the learning data of every child in Aotearoa, it is not an administrative inconvenience.
It is a breach of trust.
It is a breach of trust.
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Māori health leader Lady Tureiti Moxon delivers complaint to UN in Geneva
Māori health leader Lady Tureiti Moxon delivers complaint to UN in Geneva
"The coalition government has escalated discrimination against Māori, spread misinformation, and overridden constitutional norms," says Lady Tureiti Moxon.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Māori health leader Lady Tureiti Moxon delivers complaint to UN in Geneva
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Te Matatini champion Kereama Wright on power of kapa haka
Te Matatini champion Kereama Wright on power of kapa haka
Kereama Wright (Te Arawa) says kapa haka is a form of rongoā, healing body, mind and spirit.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Te Matatini champion Kereama Wright on power of kapa haka
Today’s conversation with Miss 4 was about the fact that stars are planets.
November 22, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Today’s conversation with Miss 4 was about the fact that stars are planets.
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New Zealand receives 'Dirty Ashtray' award for poor progress in tobacco control
New Zealand receives 'Dirty Ashtray' award for poor progress in tobacco control
Researchers say New Zealand is attracting international attention for all the wrong reasons.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 AM
New Zealand receives 'Dirty Ashtray' award for poor progress in tobacco control
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Thinkers with open rather than closed minds will be aware other cultures may have insights that elude us, writes Dame Anne Salmond
Anne Salmond: Free speech, but only one way to think
newsroom.co.nz
November 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Thinkers with open rather than closed minds will be aware other cultures may have insights that elude us, writes Dame Anne Salmond
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Wow!
#nzpol Anthony Ellison shares his perspective on current events.
November 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Wow!
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“The treaties of the 1840s shared a common foundation. They were instruments of imperial domination, signed under pressure. The Treaty of Waitangi belongs in that company — yet where others withered, it lived on.” — Shane Te Pou.
The other treaties of 1840 | E-Tangata
“The treaties of the 1840s shared a common foundation. They were instruments of imperial domination, signed under pressure. The Treaty of Waitangi belongs in that company — yet where others withered, ...
e-tangata.co.nz
November 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
“The treaties of the 1840s shared a common foundation. They were instruments of imperial domination, signed under pressure. The Treaty of Waitangi belongs in that company — yet where others withered, it lived on.” — Shane Te Pou.
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New paper out about Māori experiences of working for the Crown led by Zoe Tipa.
www.heathercameassociates.com/post/holding...
www.heathercameassociates.com/post/holding...
https://www.heathercameassociates.com/post/holding-the-line-māori-public-servants-navigating-crown-spaces
November 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM
New paper out about Māori experiences of working for the Crown led by Zoe Tipa.
www.heathercameassociates.com/post/holding...
www.heathercameassociates.com/post/holding...
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Education Review Office says 'stronger consequences' needed for struggling schools
Education Review Office says 'stronger consequences' needed for struggling schools
In its annual report the Education Review Office criticised the lack of support for under-performing schools and called for "stronger consequences" for those that did not demonstrate progress.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Education Review Office says 'stronger consequences' needed for struggling schools
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“Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
(It's a Freirean kind of day)
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
(It's a Freirean kind of day)
November 4, 2025 at 4:12 AM
“Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
(It's a Freirean kind of day)
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
(It's a Freirean kind of day)
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Pre-colonial Māori didn’t have a housing problem. The Crown created one. Can the past give us clues to fix housing today?
When everyone lived in an affordable home
newsroom.co.nz
November 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Pre-colonial Māori didn’t have a housing problem. The Crown created one. Can the past give us clues to fix housing today?
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An opportunity to contribute to a Global South focussed book on Honourable kawanatanga, relationships between "the Crown" and Indigenous peoples, and decolonisation. More details below.
Honourable Kāwanatanga and the Work of Decolonisation: A Call to Contribute
Every so often a kaupapa comes along that feels both timely and timeless — that asks us to pause, to reflect, and to imagine better futures. The new edited collection Decolonisation and Kāwanatanga: I...
https://www.heathercameassociates.com/post/honourable-kāwanatanga-and-the-work-of-decolonisation-a-call-to-contribute
November 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
An opportunity to contribute to a Global South focussed book on Honourable kawanatanga, relationships between "the Crown" and Indigenous peoples, and decolonisation. More details below.
Watching Te Maurea Whiritoa’s 2025 performance for the umpteenth time and still blown away by the creativity. The haka is a stand out. So reminded me of my uncle’s performing haka in the 1960s.
October 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Watching Te Maurea Whiritoa’s 2025 performance for the umpteenth time and still blown away by the creativity. The haka is a stand out. So reminded me of my uncle’s performing haka in the 1960s.
The Radio Samoa commentators for the Kiwis v Toa Samoa Pacific Cup game were very entertaining 😎
October 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The Radio Samoa commentators for the Kiwis v Toa Samoa Pacific Cup game were very entertaining 😎