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“... To explain why Judith Binney – who died in New Zealand in February – is a major figure in contemporary historiography it is necessary to explain why the history of her country has become a field of which contemporary historians do well to take notice. They have not always done so. New Zealand has been considered a safe, dull Anglo-democracy, with a welfare state 75 years old and reasonable race relations, small and remote enough – even in times of world war – to be dismissed as happy in having no history; none at least, to which historians need bother to attend ...”

“... at the University of Auckland, had moved in next door with his long-time partner, the historian Judith Binney. In September 1986, Sebastian told me that Judith was warned by one of her Māori students that a group called Ahi Kaa was planning to take action against her. The decision had apparently been prompted by a ...”

“... Israel chosen to suffer, were challenging the mana of those who held it from their ancestors. Like Judith Binney in her recent superb study of the prophet Te Kooti (Redemption Songs, 1995) Belich offers evidence that wars of religion were breaking out within the structures of several iwi, including Ngatiporou. If they were, they were allayed; partly ...”