Māori Child Abuse and Homicide Professor Taonui is an experienced and well known Māori academic. He has won four writing awards including three Qantas Media Awards and one Montana Book Award. His fields of expertise include Matauranga Māori, Kaupapa Māori, oral traditions, whakapapa, Treaty issues, indigenous peoples, human rights and counter theory. He has completed several exploratory journeys in New Zealand retracing the footsteps of well known Māori ancestors Associate Professor Rawiri Taonui is the Head of School at the University of Canterbury and is of Ngāti Te Taonui, Te Hikutu, Te Kapotai, Ngāti Wheeru and Ngāti Rora descent. He has research background which is divided between Māori and Polynesian oral traditions, the Treaty of Waitangi and the politics of Treaty settlements in Aotearoa‐New Zealand, and indigenous human rights. He was a Senior Scholar in Māori Studies at the University of Auckland in 1992, received a University of Auckland Māori Postgraduate Scholarship (1993), 3 Professions Scholarships from the Māori Education Foundation (1992‐1995), the Internal Affairs Historical Scholarship (1993), Polynesian Society Student Excellence Award (1992), and was twice awarded the Maharaia Winiata Memorial prize for Best Written Work on Māori Research at the University of Auckland (1992 and 1993). A/Prof Taonui has written over 50 articles on the Treaty of Waitangi, Māori and indigenous issues, and had a regular column in The New Zealand Herald (1998‐2000) for which he received aQantasMediaAwardfor 'BestColumnist on the HumanCondition' (2000).