Te Aho, LindaTaylor, P.Crawford, J.2019-11-0520152019-11-052015Te Aho, L. (2015). Proposing an indigenous power of veto in Aotearoa New Zealand. In P. Taylor & J. Crawford (Eds.), Dangerous Ideas in Planning: Essays in Honour of Tom Fookes (pp. 170–184). Auckland, New Zealand: School of Architecture and Planning, National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, University of Auckland.https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13090Tom Fookes was an architect of New Zealand's Resource Management Act passed in 1991 (RMA). When interviewed about his life's work, Tom responded that he had sought to create a 'fair, integrated consideration of the decisions and policy to do with the social, economic and environmental conditions of our people'. I am told that he worked hard to provide a fair opportunity for all people to have a voice in decisions that affect them and places they care about. Processes were included in the RMA to allow this to occur, with particular provisions for a distinctive Maori voice. Because of these provisions, and the Act's lodestar of sustainable resource management, the RMA was promoted as one of the 'world's finest national environmental policies'.application/pdfen© 2015 copyright with the author.Chapter in Book