Morgan Godfery

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Morgan Godfery (Te Pahipoto, Lalomanu) is a writer and trade unionist based in Wellington. He is the author of a collection of essays, Maui Street, published by Bridget Williams Books in early 2019. Morgan was born in 1991 in Whakatāne.

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Do the English and Māori texts of The Treaty of Waitangi actually reconcile?

Sharing decision-making power – co-governance, in other words – is precisely what the country’s Māori and British founders envisaged.

By Morgan Godfery | 6th February, 2024

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Do the English and Māori texts of The Treaty of Waitangi actually reconcile?

Sharing decision-making power is precisely what the country’s Māori and British founders envisaged.

By Morgan Godfery | 14th January, 2023

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Do the English and Māori texts of The Treaty of Waitangi actually reconcile?

Sharing decision-making power – co-governance, in other words – is precisely what the country’s Māori and British founders envisaged.

By Morgan Godfery | 12th December, 2022

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Queen Elizabeth II in 2020 (Photo: Getty Images)

An ariki of the highest order

He aituā Queen Elizabeth II.

By Morgan Godfery | 10th September, 2022

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This is not Morgan Godfery’s carpet, nor his appliance. Photo: Getty

Lockdown letters #27, Morgan Godfery: What I thought while I was vacuuming

I told Nan that I’m a historical materialist.

By Morgan Godfery | 22nd April, 2020

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Lockdown letters #22, Morgan Godfery: Do you feel powerless too?

We spent years waiting on a moment. That moment is here, but what can anyone show for it?

By Morgan Godfery | 17th April, 2020

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Kawerau Intermediate was closed in December, 2012.

Lockdown letters #17, Morgan Godfery: The ground beneath our feet

'In an ideal world the physical lives we build would speak to the past, but the truth is New Zealanders silence it, building their social and industrial histories literally on top of Māori.'

By Morgan Godfery | 12th April, 2020

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Lockdown letters #12, Morgan Godfery: Decay, domesticity and doomsday prepping

'Paint is peeling from the old truck workshop walls. Some days you can taste rust on the autumn wind, like swallowing iron and blood and pollen.'

By Morgan Godfery | 7th April, 2020

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Lockdown letters #7, Morgan Godfery: Thoughts from under the plum tree

On our best days, time’s passing felt like a melody, embracing every beat and delighting in every pause. But on our worst days time was a cacophony.

By Morgan Godfery | 2nd April, 2020

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Lockdown letters #2, Morgan Godfery: I’m never sleeping

I can’t stop. Keep posting. Keep consuming content. My frontal lobe is its own memetic economy.

By Morgan Godfery | 28th March, 2020

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