Ki te whaiao, ki te ao Mārama Kāwanatanga responsibilities Participants spoke about the current imbalance of power between Tangata Whenua, other minorities and the government and legal system. There are a lot of barriers and a need to “reshape the systems that constantly oppress people of colour and particularly Māori and Pacific islanders”. They thought the Government and the legal system should remove systemic inequality and barriers and take a stronger tikanga and Tiriti approach: “When it comes to government and legal policy, so law made by judges, there needs to be a massive emphasis on tikanga Māori and Te Tiriti o Waitangi.” Partnership with Tangata Whenua was viewed as essential when restructuring systems: “Government needs to partner with Māori about restructuring social systems (Justice, OT, MSD, Police etc.) to be equitable. Restructuring should be rigorous within a set timeframe, so it is effective.” Te Kāhui Tika Tangata We conclude this section with a quotation from the late Moana Jackson, who long advocated for constitutional transformation, upholding tino rangatiratanga and for the Crown to fulfill its kāwanatanga responsibilities: The aim should be not just to recompense for the past actions but to accept that a better and more just future for Indigenous peoples will absolutely require a restoration of the political and constitutional authority which the colonising states have consistently sought to suppress. A constitution for our land must come from our land. We believe that the imposed colonising constitution from Britain grew from that place, and that we must find something which breathes from the stories in our own. We further undertake the work confident that the notion of democracy and indeed the very concept of political power itself are not unique to Britain or Western Europe but have roots deeply grounded in our history and traditions.xxiii 38