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Saturday, January 8, 2022

Breaking Views Update: Week of 2.1.22







Saturday January 8, 2022 

News:
'Eyesore' of a building attracts squatters, and ongoing criticism

Members of the public are calling for action on Facebook to either save the six-storey structure, which is landbanked and under the management of Toitū Te Whenua/Land Information New Zealand, or for it to be demolished.

Te Atiawa, as part of its Treaty of Waitangi settlement deal, has first right of refusal to buy the property, if the iwi wanted it.

In August 2019, a spokesperson for Toitū Te Whenua/Land Information New Zealand said Te Atiawa had expressed initial interest in the building but no talks had commenced......
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$2m boost for ‘undervalued’ mātauranga Māori
Mātauranga Māori (traditional Māori knowledge) projects run by hapū and iwi nationwide have been given a breath of new life thanks to a $2 million funding distribution from Pouhere Taonga (Ministry of Culture, Heritage and Arts).

20 grants in total have been awarded under the Te Awe Kōtuku program to help revitalise and retain mātauranga Māori in areas of ancestral landscapes and Māori built heritage – areas too often overlooked and undervalued according to Pouhere Taonga’s Program Coordinator, Matene Simon......
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The Timaru Report: Local body governance faces major shake up
The Timaru District, as well as the neighbouring Waimate and Mackenzie districts, is facing the biggest shake up in local body governance since the 1980s, and prior to that probably the 19th century.

In June, Mahuta initiated a Future for Local Government Review to identify how she thought New Zealand’s system of local democracy and governance should evolve over the next 30 years

“These reforms, if implemented as planned, will have significant implications for all local authorities, and could threaten the financial sustainability of some.”

Timaru will not have a Māori ward, but the Government wants all councils to lift their game in regard to Māori culture, which has been put at the forefront of their policy over all areas......
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Māori-backed third supermarket group would 'benefit Pākehā too'
Māori involvement in a third supermarket group would benefit all New Zealanders by ensuring a break-up of the current duopoly did lower food prices, says Matthew Tukaki, the chairman of the National Māori Authority, Nga Ngaru Rautahi o Aotearoa.

The extent of Māori interest in an overhaul of the supermarket industry became clearer in a raft of submissions made by iwi and other Māori organisations in the final formal round of consultations with the Commerce Commission, released just before Christmas.
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'Please show respect to our tūpuna who lay here and stay off Taratara'
Whangaroa iwi are telling travellers to stay off of their tūpuna maunga, Taratara. This comes after reports of tourists visiting the area asking locals to take them up the maunga.

Ngāti Rangimatamomoe & Whangaroa descendent, Raniera Kaio says people often are taken by the beauty of the maunga. “Taratara is beautiful and its mauri can be felt in our rohe. You don’t have to climb our maunga to feel it.”.....
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Articles:
Bruce Moon: An Open Letter to Professor Jacinta Ruru and her friends

Kāhu ki Rotorua: Te Horonga o Mokoia - The killing of Te Pae-o-te-rangi 1822 

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Thursday January 6, 2022 

News: 
Time is right for Māori education authority 
Key Māori educational leaders want to see a Māori education authority similar to the Māori Health Authority.

New Zealand Māori Principals Association president Bruce Jepsen says a Māori education authority can bring together Māori organisations across the sector to set the direction for Māori education.

Education Māori Manager at Auckland Council’s education support agency, Comet, and former teacher Will Flavell says if a policy and commissioning agency can be put in place for Māori health, it can be done for Māori education......
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Coromandel iwi take back the reins to protect forest from kauri dieback
To assist the iwi, the Government has invested $1.4 million as part of the Jobs for Nature programme to work alongside the Department of Conservation to contain the spread of the pathogen.
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Catholic support for Matariki as a public holiday
Three Catholic organisations have expressed support at a parliamentary select committee for the establishment of Matariki as a public holiday.

The Archdiocese of Wellington Commission for Ecology, Justice and Peace, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand and Challenge 2000 made submissions to the Māori Affairs Committee supporting the Te Pire mō te Hararei Tūmatanui o te Kāhui o Matariki/Te Kāhui o Matariki Public Holiday Bill.

The Catholic organisations recognised the importance of respecting the rights of cultures of indigenous peoples, as emphasised by Pope Francis in his encyclical Laudato Si’, and in Catholic social teaching. .......
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Monday January 3, 2022 

News: 
Honey, meat, climate change and resilience: indigenous trade and global problems on the table in Dubai 
Honey, meat, climate change and resilience were all on the table when a Māori farming collective of more than 9000 shareholders went to Expo 2020 Dubai to build new relationships with indigenous leaders around the world.

Ātihau-Whanganui Incorporation's outgoing chair Mavis Mullins says the expo's iwi-led Te Aratini Festival of Indigenous and Tribal Ideas was an opportunity to explore solutions to trade and other global issues.

"There was a lot of opportunity to pull together, whether it was about issues of revitalisation of culture, of reo, or whether it was around economies of scale or the economics of a tribal entity," Mullins said......
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Law expert Jacinta Ruru sees Māori future
The country’s first Māori professor of Law sees her tohu in the New Year’s Honour’s list as encouraging for a wider group fighting for law reform that recognises Te Tiriti o Waitangi.......
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'The world sees Māori as a force'
"Can I just say as we end the year where some wanted to divide us on Māori grounds - he pua pua this and he pua pua that - it's Māori who have come out on top again."

Tukaki challenged the detractors to appreciate how Māori are viewed on the global stage.

"For all those closet huas here at home pause for a moment and realise the world sees Māori as a force......
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Propaganda:
Call me Pākehā, please 

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