TARANAKI CATHEDRAL HOSTS 'SUPER-AWESOME ORIGIN STORY OF CO-GOVERNANCE' TALKS

The organiser of a series of Taranaki talks about co-governance says he wants to dispel needless fears around the issue.

The Super-Awesome Origin Story of Co-Governance will see four evening talks at Taranaki Cathedral's Te Whare Hononga, beginning in a fortnight.

The cathedral's Dean Jay Ruka said talk about co-governance was mostly framed in fear.

"I wondered, how I could take it to the opposite of that spectrum of fear and just make it the most outrageously positive idea that we've ever seen?"

Ruka said the fear of co-governance came after years of hostile debate over the Treaty of Waitangi.