Morgan Godfery is a Wellington-based writer and activist.
In retrospect, it seems obvious that New Zealand First would never have chosen National. Now forward-looking Labour and Greens will need to learn to work with a party that would love to turn the clock back 40 years.
Morgan Godfery looks back at the four term history of the parliamentary Māori party, 2005-2017.
The party led by Te Ururoa Flavell and Marama Fox is at once clinging by a thread and on the brink of the balance of power. Morgan Godfery examines the crucial battlegrounds in the Māori seats
Jacinda Ardern's elevation to Labour leader has created a wave of unfamiliar enthusiasm on the political left. Now, writes Morgan Godfery, it's time for policies that are just as game-changing.
Budget 2017: What does it all mean and why should we care? Over to you, Morgan Godfery
The foreshore and seabed debate is back for the umpteenth time, and right on cue Māori are cast as seeking to destroy the Kiwi dream holiday. How about starting with some less stupid questions, suggests Morgan Godfery.
When Morgan Godfery saw the advertisement for a communications and engagement assistant vacancy at the Taxpayers' Union he immediately started scrawling an application in his own union-clotted blood. Here we exclusively publish Godfery's emotional plea.
Talk of a resurgent Mana Party, unshackled from Dotcom and buoyed by a Māori Party pact, has prompted suggestions of a new order in Māori politics. Morgan Godfery explains why he's just not buying it
Morgan Godfery pays tribute to his friend, the impassioned and inspirational workers' advocate Helen Kelly.
The author of the masterpiece Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Struggle Without End was in the best tradition of what it means to be a New Zealander
