Dr. Maria Bargh (Te Arawa and Ngati Awa) is Head of Te Kawa a Maui/School of Maori Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research focusses on Māori politics, economy and resource management. Her work includes, A Hidden Economy: Māori in the Privatised Military Industry, (2015), and two edited collections Māori in Parliament (2010) and Resistance: An Indigenous Response to Neoliberalism (2007).