Friday November 18, 2022
News:
Rooted in te ao Māori, plant bill passes parliament
Māori will finally have rights as kaitiaki protected against commercial interests who seek to monetise and corporatise indigenous plant species.
The Plant Variety Rights (PVR) Bill passed its third and final reading in parliament Thursday, the law governs commercial rights granted to breeders of plant varieties, enabling them to authorise and charge for the production of new varieties of seeds, or other reproductive material.
“These changes give Māori a direct say in how kaitiaki relationships with taonga plant species should be protected within the plant variety rights regime.”.....
See full article HERE
Backlash to resource management change
Tainui executive chair Tukoroirangi Morgan says the Government can expect a nationwide Māori backlash over its proposed overhaul of the Resource Management Act.
He says the proposed Māori participation on regional planning boards falls short of co-governance, which is what Waikato-Tainui has had very successfully for the past 12 years with the Waikato River Authority.
The Iwi Chairs Forum has also rejected the idea of a national Māori entity to monitor compliance with treaty obligations, as it cuts across the mana of hapu and iwi.
“Anything that subsumes the voice of hapu and iwi is completely inappropriate. In Waikato, as I say to you, from Karapiro all the way down to the sea, we speak with a single voice. Only Waikato can speak for itself,” Mr Morgan says.....
See full article HERE
Māori now 17.4 percent of population
The Māori population grew 2 percent in the year to June, compared to a overall increase for the national population of 0.2 percent.
Stats NZ says the estimated 17,200 increase was made up of the natural increase of births minus deaths of 13,500, as well as net migration and net inter-ethnic mobility where people changed their ethnic identification to include Māori.
It means Maori now make up 17.4 percent of Aotearoa’s population, or 892,200 people.....
See full article HERE
Major investment in Māori Health
Largest commissioning investment to date from Te Aka Whai Ora | Māori Health Authority boosts funding for Maori health providers
* $29.3 million for Te Pae Tata | interim New Zealand Health Plan priority areas
* $13.0 million for Māori primary and community providers
* $17.6 million for te ao Māori solutions, mātauranga Māori and population health
* $11.7 million to support innovation, workforce development, and whānau voice
Health Minister Andrew Little and Associate Health Minister Peeni Henare are welcoming the record funding boost for Māori primary and community healthcare providers as part of $71.6 million in commissioning investments by Te Aka Whai Ora - Māori Health Authority.
“In Budget 2022 the Government made a record investment in resetting our health system, including to establish Te Aka Whai Ora as an equal partner at the heart of the new system and the lead for commissioning Māori health services,” Health Minister Andrew Little said.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
John Porter: New Zealand’s Path to Ethnocracy
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Backlash to resource management change
Tainui executive chair Tukoroirangi Morgan says the Government can expect a nationwide Māori backlash over its proposed overhaul of the Resource Management Act.
He says the proposed Māori participation on regional planning boards falls short of co-governance, which is what Waikato-Tainui has had very successfully for the past 12 years with the Waikato River Authority.
The Iwi Chairs Forum has also rejected the idea of a national Māori entity to monitor compliance with treaty obligations, as it cuts across the mana of hapu and iwi.
“Anything that subsumes the voice of hapu and iwi is completely inappropriate. In Waikato, as I say to you, from Karapiro all the way down to the sea, we speak with a single voice. Only Waikato can speak for itself,” Mr Morgan says.....
See full article HERE
Māori now 17.4 percent of population
The Māori population grew 2 percent in the year to June, compared to a overall increase for the national population of 0.2 percent.
Stats NZ says the estimated 17,200 increase was made up of the natural increase of births minus deaths of 13,500, as well as net migration and net inter-ethnic mobility where people changed their ethnic identification to include Māori.
It means Maori now make up 17.4 percent of Aotearoa’s population, or 892,200 people.....
See full article HERE
Major investment in Māori Health
Largest commissioning investment to date from Te Aka Whai Ora | Māori Health Authority boosts funding for Maori health providers
* $29.3 million for Te Pae Tata | interim New Zealand Health Plan priority areas
* $13.0 million for Māori primary and community providers
* $17.6 million for te ao Māori solutions, mātauranga Māori and population health
* $11.7 million to support innovation, workforce development, and whānau voice
Health Minister Andrew Little and Associate Health Minister Peeni Henare are welcoming the record funding boost for Māori primary and community healthcare providers as part of $71.6 million in commissioning investments by Te Aka Whai Ora - Māori Health Authority.
“In Budget 2022 the Government made a record investment in resetting our health system, including to establish Te Aka Whai Ora as an equal partner at the heart of the new system and the lead for commissioning Māori health services,” Health Minister Andrew Little said.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
John Porter: New Zealand’s Path to Ethnocracy
This Breaking Views Update monitors race relations in the media on a weekly basis. New material is added regularly. If you would like to send Letters to the Editor in response to any of these articles, most media addresses can be found HERE.
Thursday November 17, 2022
News:
National Māori entity plan upsets iwi leaders
The Freshwater Iwi Leaders Group is opposing a proposed national Māori entity which will be set up as part of the rewrite of the Resource Management Act.
The Government yesterday introduced the Natural and Built Environment and the Spatial Planning Bills that will replace the RMA.
The Government yesterday introduced the Natural and Built Environment and the Spatial Planning Bills that will replace the RMA.
They include the national Maori entity to monitor the impact of the new laws on treaty settlements and provide input into national planning frameworks
“The National Iwi Chairs Forum supports every iwi and hapu to exercise their rangatiratanga at place within their rohe. We do not support the formation of a national Maori entity because it undermines that fundamental principle of iwi and hapu at place exercising their rangatiratanga,” she says.
The group is also concerned at the ability of iwi and hapu to participate meaningfully in the new regime.....
See full article HERE
RBNZ moves to help Māori unlock capital and build their economy
Te Pūtea Matua - The Reserve Bank is looking to use its position and insights to improve access to capital for Māori.
It believes the unique nature of the Māori economy puts Māori at risk of missing the full benefits of the financial system, so has been working with Māori, the private sector and government agencies to make sure Māori don't miss out......
See full article HERE
Propaganda:
Climate change a manifestation of colonisation, researcher says
The Māori economy is booming and will be worth $100 billion by 2030, says Willie Jackson
“The National Iwi Chairs Forum supports every iwi and hapu to exercise their rangatiratanga at place within their rohe. We do not support the formation of a national Maori entity because it undermines that fundamental principle of iwi and hapu at place exercising their rangatiratanga,” she says.
The group is also concerned at the ability of iwi and hapu to participate meaningfully in the new regime.....
See full article HERE
RBNZ moves to help Māori unlock capital and build their economy
Te Pūtea Matua - The Reserve Bank is looking to use its position and insights to improve access to capital for Māori.
It believes the unique nature of the Māori economy puts Māori at risk of missing the full benefits of the financial system, so has been working with Māori, the private sector and government agencies to make sure Māori don't miss out......
See full article HERE
Propaganda:
Climate change a manifestation of colonisation, researcher says
The Māori economy is booming and will be worth $100 billion by 2030, says Willie Jackson
Wednesday November 16, 2022
News:
National candidate's past support for '50:50' co-governance at odds with party line
While a student at Victoria University, Potaka penned a jurisprudence piece in which he suggests that local government ought not to be thought of as the Crown – but in a way that is very similar to a concept of co-governance with Māori at the heart of many of the government’s most controversial policies.
Potaka argued in the paper for other methods such as “boards or committees which are responsible for water management, land use, planning and environmental management could have a 50:50 Māori and local government representation,” which could be a means to ensure the “principle of active protection”.....
See full article HERE
Canada and New Zealand focus on Indigenous cooperation
Canadian and New Zealand government officials have been working on this agreement for the past two years, in partnership with Aboriginal and Maori leaders and stakeholders.
Federal Minister for Indigenous Services Patti Hajdu has welcomed Wellington’s visit to the collaborative arrangement, which she says will help advance the indigenous peoples of Canada and Maori in New Zealand through the sharing of experiences.
Canada’s Indigenous Services Minister Patti Hajdu and New Zealand’s Maori Development Minister Willie Jackson approved the deal on Wednesday.....
See full article HERE
Māori wards brainstorming amid stagnant voter turnout
"These systems of government were set up to exclude Māori. They were set up on the premise that British-informed politics was the one and only form of politics that worked," said Dr Annie Te One (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Mutunga).
Te One, a lecturer in Victoria University's Te Kawa o Māui (Māori Studies), said that exclusion - added to colonisation and land confiscation - created a "community of Māori who weren't provided for by both layers of government" and so saw no point in voting.
She said that might be overturned by the record number of Māori councillors and mayors elected this year.....
See full article HERE
Government brings Resource Management Act replacements to Parliament
Decision-makers would be required to give effect to the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. An independent National Māori Entity would monitor Te Tiriti performance within the system and give input on the National Planning Framework.
Associate Environment Minister Kiritapu Allan said Treaty settlement processes were being migrated into the legislation.
Parker had previously said the laws would not include co-governance and Allan today said it "certainly isn't" that.
"Because there has been such heightened engagement over many years, several decades now, Māori operating locally through their Treaty settlement arrangements. They're bespoke, so ensuring that there is consistency carried through to that regional planning level," she said.....
See full article HERE
Māori monitoring role in RMA overhaul
An independent national Māori entity will be set up to monitor resource management reforms.
Associate Environment Minister of Environment Kiritapu Allan says a minimum of 2 of the 6 members of each regional committee will be Māori.
There’s will also be a national entity, as recommended by the Independent Resource Management Review Panel chaired by retired Court of Appeal Judge Tony Randerson KC.
“In essence its role will be to proactively monitor the implantation of the treaty settlements – there’s been over 70 treaty settlements engaged locally by hapu and iwi,” Minister Allen says.
The Maori entity will also provide input into national planning frameworks.....
See full article HERE
Labour and National agree on Māori electoral law change
Labour and National have come together in a rare moment of Parliamentary agreement to ensure a law to make it easier for Māori to switch electoral rolls passes.
A bipartisan approach was needed to pass the Māori Electoral Option Bill, as it requires changes to the Electoral Act and with it 75 per cent of Parliament, or a referendum, to support it.....
See full article HERE
National home for business-friendly Māori
National Party leader Christopher Luxon says the party hasn’t always done well by Māori – but it is trying to change.
Mr Luxon says the treaty settlements process shows how National is able to work beneficially with Maori.
“We know the National Party hasn’t been representative of all New Zealanders – and it needs to be – and particularly with Maori. You know, we’re a party that Maori have done particularly well with, when we’ve been in government,” he says.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Graeme Reeves: Tuna and Te Urewera Board
Michael Bassett: Nanaia, Jacinda and the tribal takeover
Andrew Dickens: Co-governance should be the least of your worries
Canada and New Zealand focus on Indigenous cooperation
Canadian and New Zealand government officials have been working on this agreement for the past two years, in partnership with Aboriginal and Maori leaders and stakeholders.
Federal Minister for Indigenous Services Patti Hajdu has welcomed Wellington’s visit to the collaborative arrangement, which she says will help advance the indigenous peoples of Canada and Maori in New Zealand through the sharing of experiences.
Canada’s Indigenous Services Minister Patti Hajdu and New Zealand’s Maori Development Minister Willie Jackson approved the deal on Wednesday.....
See full article HERE
Māori wards brainstorming amid stagnant voter turnout
"These systems of government were set up to exclude Māori. They were set up on the premise that British-informed politics was the one and only form of politics that worked," said Dr Annie Te One (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Mutunga).
Te One, a lecturer in Victoria University's Te Kawa o Māui (Māori Studies), said that exclusion - added to colonisation and land confiscation - created a "community of Māori who weren't provided for by both layers of government" and so saw no point in voting.
She said that might be overturned by the record number of Māori councillors and mayors elected this year.....
See full article HERE
Government brings Resource Management Act replacements to Parliament
Decision-makers would be required to give effect to the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. An independent National Māori Entity would monitor Te Tiriti performance within the system and give input on the National Planning Framework.
Associate Environment Minister Kiritapu Allan said Treaty settlement processes were being migrated into the legislation.
Parker had previously said the laws would not include co-governance and Allan today said it "certainly isn't" that.
"Because there has been such heightened engagement over many years, several decades now, Māori operating locally through their Treaty settlement arrangements. They're bespoke, so ensuring that there is consistency carried through to that regional planning level," she said.....
See full article HERE
Māori monitoring role in RMA overhaul
An independent national Māori entity will be set up to monitor resource management reforms.
Associate Environment Minister of Environment Kiritapu Allan says a minimum of 2 of the 6 members of each regional committee will be Māori.
There’s will also be a national entity, as recommended by the Independent Resource Management Review Panel chaired by retired Court of Appeal Judge Tony Randerson KC.
“In essence its role will be to proactively monitor the implantation of the treaty settlements – there’s been over 70 treaty settlements engaged locally by hapu and iwi,” Minister Allen says.
The Maori entity will also provide input into national planning frameworks.....
See full article HERE
Labour and National agree on Māori electoral law change
Labour and National have come together in a rare moment of Parliamentary agreement to ensure a law to make it easier for Māori to switch electoral rolls passes.
A bipartisan approach was needed to pass the Māori Electoral Option Bill, as it requires changes to the Electoral Act and with it 75 per cent of Parliament, or a referendum, to support it.....
See full article HERE
National home for business-friendly Māori
National Party leader Christopher Luxon says the party hasn’t always done well by Māori – but it is trying to change.
Mr Luxon says the treaty settlements process shows how National is able to work beneficially with Maori.
“We know the National Party hasn’t been representative of all New Zealanders – and it needs to be – and particularly with Maori. You know, we’re a party that Maori have done particularly well with, when we’ve been in government,” he says.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Graeme Reeves: Tuna and Te Urewera Board
Michael Bassett: Nanaia, Jacinda and the tribal takeover
Andrew Dickens: Co-governance should be the least of your worries
Tuesday November 15, 2022
News:
Health claimants talk remedies
National Urban Maori Authority chair Lady Tureiti Moxon says claimants are keen the Government addresses the remaining recommendations in the Waitangi Tribunal’s 2019 Hauora Report, as well as issue an apology.
She says the underfunding had led to the demise of many kaupapa Māori providers
She says the underfunding had led to the demise of many kaupapa Māori providers
Fellow claimant Taitimu Maipi says the claim was brought because Maori were dying because of an unjust and racist health system......
See full article HERE
Greens rain on water reform
The Green Party is calling for changes to water infrastructure reforms.
Environment spokesperson Eugenie Sage says strong public ownership and control, sustainable funding, and meaningful iwi Māori involvement in the governance of drinking and wastewater infrastructure is essential......
See full article HERE
Smith says no fear, climate crisis real
A Māori climate change campaigner is rejecting suggestions he’s fearmongering over global warming.
Meanwhile, Mr Smith has been appointed to lead a new Interim Ministerial Advisory Committee to develop a framework for Te Ao Māori responses to the climate crisis.
Minister James Shaw says the Maori climate action platform was promised as part of the Emissions Reduction Plan and will help ensure whānau, hapū and iwi are at the forefront of the Government’s work to respond to climate change......
See full article HERE
Māori health underfunding “racist”
Waipareira head John Tamihere says it’s time to call out the racists who have held back Māori health.
“The problem with that is they will argue institutional racism. There is no such thing as institutional racism. There’s racists that run institutions. Then they’ll argue ‘it’s unconscious bias. We didn’t mean to be prejudicial to you, discriminatory to you, we didn’t wan to put you down because we were unconscious about it.’ Well, that’s simply not true,” he says....
See full article HERE
Māori wards did not inspire voters: What next to boost democracy?
Māori wards have been only half successful in Taranaki, with voter turnout for the new wards a third lower than overall turnout across the region.
Māori wards were created to increase representation and participation in local democracy: more Māori councillors and voters.
But despite widespread publicity for the Māori wards, there's no evidence of increased voting......
See full article HERE
Articles:
Graham Adams: Hey presto… Three Waters becomes Five Waters!
Propaganda:
Māori in rural New Zealand further from good healthcare - researcher
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: It’s time to break up the old boys’ network and give land back
Greens rain on water reform
The Green Party is calling for changes to water infrastructure reforms.
Environment spokesperson Eugenie Sage says strong public ownership and control, sustainable funding, and meaningful iwi Māori involvement in the governance of drinking and wastewater infrastructure is essential......
See full article HERE
Smith says no fear, climate crisis real
A Māori climate change campaigner is rejecting suggestions he’s fearmongering over global warming.
Meanwhile, Mr Smith has been appointed to lead a new Interim Ministerial Advisory Committee to develop a framework for Te Ao Māori responses to the climate crisis.
Minister James Shaw says the Maori climate action platform was promised as part of the Emissions Reduction Plan and will help ensure whānau, hapū and iwi are at the forefront of the Government’s work to respond to climate change......
See full article HERE
Māori health underfunding “racist”
Waipareira head John Tamihere says it’s time to call out the racists who have held back Māori health.
“The problem with that is they will argue institutional racism. There is no such thing as institutional racism. There’s racists that run institutions. Then they’ll argue ‘it’s unconscious bias. We didn’t mean to be prejudicial to you, discriminatory to you, we didn’t wan to put you down because we were unconscious about it.’ Well, that’s simply not true,” he says....
See full article HERE
Māori wards did not inspire voters: What next to boost democracy?
Māori wards have been only half successful in Taranaki, with voter turnout for the new wards a third lower than overall turnout across the region.
Māori wards were created to increase representation and participation in local democracy: more Māori councillors and voters.
But despite widespread publicity for the Māori wards, there's no evidence of increased voting......
See full article HERE
Articles:
Graham Adams: Hey presto… Three Waters becomes Five Waters!
Propaganda:
Māori in rural New Zealand further from good healthcare - researcher
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: It’s time to break up the old boys’ network and give land back
Sunday November 13, 2022
News:
News:
Major Investment Planned To Develop South Auckland-Waikato Offshore Wind Industry
The partnership has been engaging with iwi and key stakeholders to determine the feasibility of offshore wind projects in New Zealand.
The partnership has been engaging with iwi and key stakeholders to determine the feasibility of offshore wind projects in New Zealand.
The partnership is committed to honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi and are engaging in ongoing discussions with iwi and hapū in South Auckland and Waikato about potential partnership models, including co-design.....
See full article HERE
Media Watch - Inside Journalism
Māori now makes up a tenth of all journalists, a 20% increase in five years.
Journalists overwhelmingly support the Treaty of Waitangi in their work. Almost a third (31%) said the Treaty applied to everything they wrote about. Another 43% said it applied to most things, such as any stories that involve legislation or politics, culture or society in which the treaty is referenced. A minority (16 percent) thought it only related to some things, such as stories for Māori about Māori issues, while 2% thought it had no relevance to journalism......
See full article HERE
Propaganda:
Iwi histories and stories in mural inspire hope in local youth
Integrating science and matauranga Māori - Dan Hikuroa
Ancient Rongoā Māori practices to fight Kauri dieback are part of a broader revival of indigenous medical practices in NZ
Media Watch - Inside Journalism
Māori now makes up a tenth of all journalists, a 20% increase in five years.
Journalists overwhelmingly support the Treaty of Waitangi in their work. Almost a third (31%) said the Treaty applied to everything they wrote about. Another 43% said it applied to most things, such as any stories that involve legislation or politics, culture or society in which the treaty is referenced. A minority (16 percent) thought it only related to some things, such as stories for Māori about Māori issues, while 2% thought it had no relevance to journalism......
See full article HERE
Propaganda:
Iwi histories and stories in mural inspire hope in local youth
Integrating science and matauranga Māori - Dan Hikuroa
Ancient Rongoā Māori practices to fight Kauri dieback are part of a broader revival of indigenous medical practices in NZ
This Breaking Views Update monitors race relations in the media on a weekly basis. New material is added regularly. If you would like to send Letters to the Editor in response to any of these articles, most media addresses can be found HERE.
6 comments:
Re the wind farm, I would have though main Rangatikei St in Palmerston North would offer more wind than South Auckland. But perhaps the prospect for tapping various sources of public monies is greater near the main concentration of maori contrivers.
Re the 15th, with Maori Wards there is little incentive for maori to vote. The candidates have been selected by maori with knowledge of the candidates and judged for their proclivity to act primarily for the benefit of maori. The seat is gauranteed and it matters little which candidate triumphs as all have been preselectd by the same criteria. The random citizen who chooses to identify as maori is unlikely to have knowledge to elevate one above another. The general wards are far more diversee, candidates are not put up by organisations with enrichment of non maori their sole united aim, and each candiate has far more individual ideals and aims.
re 16th.It is curious that any maori with that oh so colonist qualification, a doctorate, cannot resist using the term, even if only in maori studies, whereas so many others with real PhD drop it. Dr Te One sees maori bringing leadership to councils. They might lead fellow maori. but not in serving the wider community but primarily in the art of obstruction and extortion. With the creation of maori wards and guaranteed maori representaaives, many who might have supported general seat maori candidates now see the likelihood of any such candidate acting undominated in the public interest as very unlikely, so do not vote for them at all..
Re 17th The Freshwater Iwi Leaders Group (thankfully named in gloriously clear English) is intriguingly opposed to a national maori water entity. When the Treaty was signed, very obviously all parties envisaged rangatiratanga as applying to the chiefly control (in matters beyond the touch of British citizenship) of their own (pure maori) autonomous local tribes (most others being unconnected arch enemies). In recent times the concept has been artfully extended to mean maori control of all matters affecting all maori/trace maori (and others) everywhere, hence a basis for some national maori water entity. But, lo and behold, Schaaflhausen, presumably displaying her germanic instinct for precision and obstinacy, is quaintly insisting on the original Treaty intention of local tribal influence (albeit way beyond scope originally envisaged at the signing)
Re the 16th. National's selection of Potaka as candidate seems a monumental blunder. With his background among the maori business moguls he is very unlikely to place the interests of all NZ above or even equal to those of the emerging master race. If National wishes to be in the majority govt in next eection it must shake of its simpering unlimited pro maori accommodations.
Re the 18th. The incentive of all those motel units and cosy new apartments is certainly working. The maori population is increasing rapidly. No doubt, staffed extensively by maori, the new health Authority will encourage mums and prospective mums to greaaer efforts. The current maori takeover just may not succeed whereas under democracy breeding will.
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