Within the Workers Party there are a range of views on Tino Rangatiratanga (as well as how to define it!).

Personally I think that if groups like Tuhoe are convinced that self-determination is the way to go then it would be both harmful and stupid for a future socialist government to stand in their way, although we in WP would not necessarily be wanting to argue positively in favour of it either.

However at the same time I don´t think territorial self-government would be viable for the majority of urban working class Maori as any attempt to implement TR across the whole country would only lead to a whole lot of economically unviable bantustans.

As to whether the majority of Maori workers might want some kind of non-territorial based separate government, I have not seen much evidence of this and don´t necessarily think it would work very well, but have sufficient faith in Maori workers to leave this question for them to decide.