Friday January 21, 2022
News:
Sir Toby Curtis: ‘Pākeha schools are hopeless and cannot educate our kids’
Sir Toby Curtis’ devotion to education has taken him from being a primary school teacher to a principal to a vice-chancellor and now a knight.
Throughout his career, his focus has always been to elevate the voice of Māori but says growing up in a Pākeha education system deprived him of reaching his full potential.
“The English language did nothing for my wairua, for my spiritual intelligence. The English language did nothing for my ahuatanga, my cultural intelligence. Only te reo can do this. So when we’re teaching our kids in English and not in their mother tongue, three parts of them are not being educated.”......
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Gisborne District Council, iwi to discuss treaty-based relationship
Gisborne District Council and local iwi will meet next month to talk about the establishment of a Te Tiriti o Waitangi-based relationship.
Council chief executive Nedine Thatcher Swann, in her December report on council activities, said Toitu Tairawhiti (consisting of the four iwi chairs) tabled a letter at a council/iwi leadership group meeting in November held to begin “foundational discussions about aspirations for an enduring partnership”......
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Labour Party Puts The Treaty At The Heart Of Everything But The Labour Party
“Labour is putting the Treaty at the centre of everything, but is the Treaty at the heart of Labour? The Labour Party constitution is 113 pages, but it mentions treaty only three times. It says that the Treaty should be honoured, but it doesn’t say how. Even the ACT Party constitution acknowledges the Treaty,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.
“The Labour Party says ‘All political authority comes from the people by democratic means including universal suffrage…’ It sounds like the Labour Party believes in one person, one vote. Where is the commitment to the voice of the Treaty Partner. Where is the place for partnership and co-governance in the Labour Party?.....
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Articles:
Yes, Ngai Tahu could campaign for votes to win council seats – but why bother, if privilege is granted to let it bypass the ballot box?
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Gisborne District Council, iwi to discuss treaty-based relationship
Gisborne District Council and local iwi will meet next month to talk about the establishment of a Te Tiriti o Waitangi-based relationship.
Council chief executive Nedine Thatcher Swann, in her December report on council activities, said Toitu Tairawhiti (consisting of the four iwi chairs) tabled a letter at a council/iwi leadership group meeting in November held to begin “foundational discussions about aspirations for an enduring partnership”......
See full article HERE
Labour Party Puts The Treaty At The Heart Of Everything But The Labour Party
“Labour is putting the Treaty at the centre of everything, but is the Treaty at the heart of Labour? The Labour Party constitution is 113 pages, but it mentions treaty only three times. It says that the Treaty should be honoured, but it doesn’t say how. Even the ACT Party constitution acknowledges the Treaty,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.
“The Labour Party says ‘All political authority comes from the people by democratic means including universal suffrage…’ It sounds like the Labour Party believes in one person, one vote. Where is the commitment to the voice of the Treaty Partner. Where is the place for partnership and co-governance in the Labour Party?.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Yes, Ngai Tahu could campaign for votes to win council seats – but why bother, if privilege is granted to let it bypass the ballot box?
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Thursday January 20, 2022
News:
Horizons Regional Council to work in partnership on Wanganui River navigation rules
Horizons Regional Council, instead of taking the lead in setting navigation rules for the Wanganui River, has opted to work with Iwi and Coastguard instead.
In the absence of a river bylaw, which Horizons could.....(NZ Herald paywall)
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Te reo skills on the list for National's Christopher Luxon in busy 2022
Chris Luxon is focusing on a myriad of tasks to revitalise the National Party's fortunes in his first full year as leader, including developing his te reo Māori skills to help him be more inclusive and connect with ordinary people.
Describing himself as passionate about the language, which he helped drive use of at Air New Zealand, he says he’s “absolutely” keen to learn more if he can this year......
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Iwi study scholarships worth $80,000
The Maru Whakatipua scholarship programme is a joint initiative of Tairāwhiti Iwi, the Māori Educational Relationships Fund and the Ministry of Education Scholarship and Awards team.
To be eligible for the grants, a person needs to be a member of one of the Tairāwhiti iwi, residing in New Zealand and enrolled at a New Zealand tertiary institution for 2022......
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MidCentral Addressing Inequity Through Its Inaugural Māori Scholarship Programme
To increase Māori representation among its workforce MidCentral District Health Board has released its inaugural Māori Scholarship programme to current students and kaimahi working or seeking to work in health across the MidCentral region.
Te reo skills on the list for National's Christopher Luxon in busy 2022
Chris Luxon is focusing on a myriad of tasks to revitalise the National Party's fortunes in his first full year as leader, including developing his te reo Māori skills to help him be more inclusive and connect with ordinary people.
Describing himself as passionate about the language, which he helped drive use of at Air New Zealand, he says he’s “absolutely” keen to learn more if he can this year......
See full article HERE
Iwi study scholarships worth $80,000
The Maru Whakatipua scholarship programme is a joint initiative of Tairāwhiti Iwi, the Māori Educational Relationships Fund and the Ministry of Education Scholarship and Awards team.
To be eligible for the grants, a person needs to be a member of one of the Tairāwhiti iwi, residing in New Zealand and enrolled at a New Zealand tertiary institution for 2022......
See full article HERE
MidCentral Addressing Inequity Through Its Inaugural Māori Scholarship Programme
To increase Māori representation among its workforce MidCentral District Health Board has released its inaugural Māori Scholarship programme to current students and kaimahi working or seeking to work in health across the MidCentral region.
The Pae Ora Paiaka Whaiora Hauora Scholarship programme is in line with MidCentral DHB’s strategy of connecting and transforming primary, community and specialist care and achieving equity of outcomes across communities for Māori.......
See full article HERE
Maori punching above their weight
Meka Whaitiri says Māori agribusiness is yet to realise its full potential.
The Associate Agriculture Minister told Rural News there's Māori-owned land that is still underutilised. However, she believes there are significant opportunities for Māori to be an even more significant contributor to the NZ economy.
Her comments come in the wake of a special section on Māori contribution to the economy contained in the latest MPI Situation and Outlook (SOPI) report on the primary sector. The report notes the asset base of Māori in agriculture, forestry and fishing is $23.4 billion. Sheep and beef is the largest contributor at $8.6b, with dairy at $4.9b, forestry at $4.3b and fishing at $2.9b. Kiwifruit is $0.7b and other horticulture at $0.5b.
Other points of interest in the report include the fact that Māori agribusiness contributes $2.4b to NZ's GDP and that 32% of all Māori businesses are in the primary industries space. It also reveals that 22,500 Māori work in agriculture, forestry and fishing.......
See full article HERE
Articles:
Chris Trotter: The Choice
Barry Brill: Does “partnership” mean the same as “marriage”?
Direct democracy is not the same as direct representation (a privilege intended for Ngai Tahu on Canterbury Regional Council)
Propaganda:
Tāmati Kruger: We are not who we should be as Tūhoe people
See full article HERE
Maori punching above their weight
Meka Whaitiri says Māori agribusiness is yet to realise its full potential.
The Associate Agriculture Minister told Rural News there's Māori-owned land that is still underutilised. However, she believes there are significant opportunities for Māori to be an even more significant contributor to the NZ economy.
Her comments come in the wake of a special section on Māori contribution to the economy contained in the latest MPI Situation and Outlook (SOPI) report on the primary sector. The report notes the asset base of Māori in agriculture, forestry and fishing is $23.4 billion. Sheep and beef is the largest contributor at $8.6b, with dairy at $4.9b, forestry at $4.3b and fishing at $2.9b. Kiwifruit is $0.7b and other horticulture at $0.5b.
Other points of interest in the report include the fact that Māori agribusiness contributes $2.4b to NZ's GDP and that 32% of all Māori businesses are in the primary industries space. It also reveals that 22,500 Māori work in agriculture, forestry and fishing.......
See full article HERE
Articles:
Chris Trotter: The Choice
Barry Brill: Does “partnership” mean the same as “marriage”?
Direct democracy is not the same as direct representation (a privilege intended for Ngai Tahu on Canterbury Regional Council)
Propaganda:
Tāmati Kruger: We are not who we should be as Tūhoe people
Tuesday January 18, 2022
News:
‘Stop disrespecting our moana’ – iwi upset at pāua pillage
A Tararua iwi plans to patrol its coastline to ensure the moana is protected after hundreds of undersized pāua were taken from a beach. Ngāti Kahungunu ki Tāmaki nui-a-Rua chairman
Hayden Hape told Stuff he had discovered more than 300 empty pāua shells on the beach at Ākitio and nearly all the pāua were under the legal size to be taken.
See full article HERE
Otago University wahine Māori medical school dean commits to mana whenua co-governance
“I think especially it gives an opportunity to really develop and further understand what co governance might look like, and what a treaty relationship might look like going forward.” Professor Pitama says.
"Current health and equity data shows that we're not doing enough to change the landscape. And so I think, at the Otago medical school, we've worked really hard to increase the number of Māori graduates,” she said......
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Articles:
‘Going, going, gone’ – Owen Jennings
Otago University wahine Māori medical school dean commits to mana whenua co-governance
“I think especially it gives an opportunity to really develop and further understand what co governance might look like, and what a treaty relationship might look like going forward.” Professor Pitama says.
"Current health and equity data shows that we're not doing enough to change the landscape. And so I think, at the Otago medical school, we've worked really hard to increase the number of Māori graduates,” she said......
See full article HERE
Articles:
‘Going, going, gone’ – Owen Jennings
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3 comments:
Are we to guess who took the paua or just assume it was not Maori?
"Sir Toby Curtis: ‘Pākeha schools are hopeless and cannot educate our kids’ " Never heard of this person.
Makes comment about pakeha not teaching Maori children properly and maori should run their own systems but still takes a pakeha title.
Even his name is english. Go figure.
quite right Ray, it would seem the dislike for european new zealanders that iam seeing after being in aust for 45yrs, by maori is embarrising for new immagrants such as chinese,indian, and other nationalities, who have come here to make an effort to work hard and have a better life than they had before, and here we have an elder part maori, educated,with a title,mouthing off, instead off being a role model for maori youngsters, and would support the english language that 95% off nz speak being barstardised whith a pidgeon english as we are hearing being promoted by ardern,bromfield, and woke sections of the media, its pathetic in one sentance for example the word auckland is used then next sentance tamaki makoro then back to auckland or family/then farno or mokopunas, english speaking tourists would wonder what hell was being talked about
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