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Saturday, March 4, 2023

Breaking Views Update: Week of 26.02.23







Saturday March 4, 2023 

News:
WAI262 claimants advancing protection of taonga including rongoā Māori

WAI262 claimants are hoping a new kanohi ora strategy will help advance the decades-long claim about flora, fauna and intellectual property rights.

Te Taumata Whakapūmau is a collective of whānau claimants leading the strategy. Group member Melanie McGregor (Ngāti Koata) says it’s about capturing the voices of whānau, hapū and iwi to protect tāonga, including mātauranga Māori.

“It’s very critical to the claim that we have this body set up to ensure the voice of Māori is captured and that they can contribute to the national voice for the protection for their own tāonga.”.....
See full article HERE

Te Pāti Māori updates social media account after Electoral Commission looks into complaint
Te Pāti Māori has had to update one of its social media accounts after concerns were raised with the Electoral Commission.

Newshub reported last month that the Electoral Commission was looking into an Instagram post by the political party after receiving a complaint that it breached the Electoral Act.

The post, which asked for people to volunteer for the party as it is "gearing up to bring all the 7 Māori seats back home in this year's election!" didn't include a promoter statement......
See full article HERE

Restoration of Tarawera awa focus for new Treaty co-governance group - BOPRC
The Tarawera Awa Restoration Strategy Group (TARSG) had its inaugural hui in Whakatane on Tuesday 28 February. The newly formed Treaty co-governance group will endeavor to improve the mauri (life force) of the awa.

Ngati Rangitihi welcomed iwi partners Te Rananga o Ngati Awa, Ngati Makino Iwi Authority, Ngati Tawharetoa (BOP) Settlement Trust, Toi Moana Bay of Plenty Regional Council, Rotorua Lakes Council, Kawerau District Council and Whakatane District Council.

The co-governance forum was set up as part of the Ngati Rangitihi Treaty settlement....
See full article HERE

Articles:
Why I’m sticking up for science – Richard Dawkins.

Michael Bassett: Kelvin Davis exposes the flaws in Labour's Maori policy

Propaganda:
Response to Cyclone Gabrielle shows 'Te Tiriti in true partnership' 

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

Friday March 3, 2023 

News: 
Increasing Māori Representation In Government Procurement 
The programme is part of a Progressive Procurement initiative to diversify the more than $52.5 billion spend by government agencies annually, starting with Māori businesses.

Te Puni Kōkiri Progressive Procurement mentor Ruia Harris says the new programme offers kaimahi mentoring, wrap around support and some funding towards the upskilling of existing Māori government employees.

“Agencies are struggling to reach out to Māori so why not look at what we currently have inside the government whare? We want to train kaimahi Māori in procurement and they’ll get supported by the aunties and uncles of the procurement world – kinda like what happens on the marae.”....
See full article HERE

Community engagement transforms Strathmore Park Community Centre
Serving the Strathmore Park community since the 1950s, the basic wooden building at 108 Strathmore Ave has been officially blessed today after a major upgrade thanks to investment by Wellington City Council.

The centre, which is overseen by the Strathmore Park Community Centre Trust, hosts events, activities and services that enrich its community. The upgrade features a stunning new artwork and name – Te Tūhunga Rau.

The upgrade began in 2020 and has been developed in partnership with community centre staff, board members and the Trust’s Te Rōpū Māori (Māori group). The design is by Etch Architecture who also worked with local Mana Whenua artist Pokau Te Ahuru (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Ātiawa, Ngāruahinerangi) on a key element of refurbishment, the exterior screens.....
See full article HERE

Articles:
Dr David Lillis: Capture of Research Funding in New Zealand?

Propaganda:
Changes to university research fund allocates resources and opportunities in pursuit of an equal outcome 

Thursday March 2, 2023 

News: 
Ngāti Hine lawyer opens free legal clinic for whānau 
Ngāti Hine junior lawyer Keegan Jones’ dream to help his community is being realised today as the first iwi-based, free legal clinic opens in Whangārei.

To have a free legal clinic was to fill a “gap in the market,” Jones says, to have an iwi partner with a community law provider for whānau that need accessible services.

“We won’t be making legal advice but we’ll be making the referrals that may be needed depending on the issue or problem.”....
See full article HERE

Pharmac considers funding new shingles vaccine to a younger Māori and Pacific cohort
More than 55,000 Kiwis aged 65 will now have access to a funded vaccine that, according to new research, can help protect them for up to 10 years against shingles — an intensely painful disease.

And Pharmac is assessing funding Māori and Pacific peoples from the age of 60.....
See full article HERE

Articles:
Mike Hosking: Why do we have race-based flood funds?  

Wednesday March 1, 2023 

News: 
Cyclone Gabrielle: Māori given $15 million to support a Māori-led recovery of flood-hit communities 
Labour’s Māori caucus has secured a $15 million package that will fund a Māori-led recovery in response to Cyclone Gabrielle.

After meeting with whānau at Waipatu Marae in Hastings today, Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson and Whānau Ora Minister Peeni Henare announced the new package.

Jackson told the Herald this was “not special treatment for Māori.

“This not special treatment but we have cultural obligations and we want to fill the gaps......
See full article HERE

Playcentre vote overturned
A 91.75% majority vote to change Playcentre Aotearoa’s constitution has been overruled by some of the organisation’s roopu (governance bodies), Playcentre insiders have revealed.

In the vote, parents and employees at 366 of 400 playcentres voted yes in favour of change.

However, before any change could come into effect, a separate vote from the organisation’s roopu needed to be considered.

The organisation’s six roopu are "governance bodies within Playcentre Aotearoa, consisting of whanau Maori, to give whanau Maori an equitable voice in Playcentre governance", which require at least five of the six roopu to agree in order to achieve a consensus.

Four roopu voted in favour and two against, but the two-thirds majority was not enough to carry the change.....
See full article HERE

Man who removed whale fossil from Little Wanganui River mouth apologises to iwi
A Buller man has apologised for hacking an ancient whale fossil out of bedrock at the Little Wanganui River last year, and intends donating it to the Karamea Museum.

He and a couple of others used power tools to cut it out and uplift it at Labour Weekend. When confronted by dismayed locals, they falsely claimed they had “iwi permission”.

The fossil hunter has now written a letter of apology to Te Runanga o Ngati Waewae.....
See full article HERE

Propaganda:
Whanganui community 'healing' 28 years after Pākaitore 

Tuesday February 28, 2023 

News: 
Jackson leads cyclone Gabrielle Māori response 
Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson says he’s taking stock to determine what Māori need to build back from Cyclone Gabrielle.

He’s been appointed to the Extreme Weather Recovery cabinet committee headed by the new Minister for Cyclone Recovery, Grant Robertson.

Mr Jackson says he is already speaking with Māori leaders in the worst-affected areas.

“Myself and Minister Davis are talking with Māori about their needs, their wants....
See full article HERE

Expert launches ground-breaking therapy for Māori kaumātua with dementia
Māori with mild to moderate mate wareware or dementia, will now have access to a new and tailored therapy that can improve their quality of life, thanks to Dr Makarena Dudley (Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kahu), a researcher at the Centre of Brain Research at Waipapa Taumata Rau, with support from Alzheimers NZ.

“CST has shown to improve cognitive functioning and quality of life with people who are in the early to moderate stages of dementia,” Dudley says.

“But I think for any intervention to be effective, it must fit within the cultural context of the person who is receiving it.

“And so Haumanu Whakaohooho Whakāro – Māori has been embedded within a Māori environment, both physically and mentally.”

Alzheimers NZ Chief Executive Catherine Hall is delighted to have partnered with Dr Dudley for this important mahi and looks forward to Aotearoa New Zealand’s first ever Māori CST programme being available......
See full article HERE

Māori Party cries poor over arts funding
The Māori Party has called for funding for Te Matatini to be on par with other major cultural forms.

It’s comparing the $2.9 million a year to run the national kapa haka content with the $16 million cost of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s $5m.

It says Te Matatini will be the dance that binds the country together for centuries to come, and it cannot be funded enough.....
See full article HERE

Māori health practitioners call for stronger incorporation of rongoā Māori into Western clinical methods
Māori health practitioners are calling for cultural concepts to be more strongly incorporated into Western clinical methods to improve mental health.

Rongoā Māori is alternative health care that incorporates both physical and spiritual well-being. Mauri, meaning the life force, and wairua, the spirit, are commonly used words at rongoā Māori clinics.....
See full article HERE

Propaganda:
New TV series The Drawing Board documents the rise of Māori architecture 

Sunday February 26, 2023 

News: 
Pou Mātauranga – Tauranga City Council 
As a Pou Matauranga, you'll be leading the design, coordination, and delivery of Te Kete Matauranga (Maori Cultural Training Suite), to ensure staff are supported to deliver council activities in a culturally competent, appropriate, and safe manner.

Your tasks will include the following:

* Review, update, and improve each component of Te Kete Mātauranga on a regular basis.

* Coordinate and deliver Te Kete Mātauranga in accordance with the agreed annual schedule.

* Champion the implementation of te reo Māori leading by example at all times.

* Guide and advise on culturally appropriate delivery of Council activities taking into account proper tikanga and kawa in a Tauranga Moana setting.....
See full article HERE

Milford Explores Te Tiriti o Waitangi Through the Lens of Pūrākau – Kindergarten
The historical events of the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi offers many exciting and varied narratives and stories for tamariki to explore. This year we continue to explore and deepen our understandings of treaties and agreements, in particular Te Tiriti o Waitangi and our Milford Kindergarten Tiriti. We have considered the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi through the lens of one of our favourite pūrākau (traditional kōrero) of Tāne te wānanga and his ascension to Toi o rangi to retrieve the 3 baskets of knowledge for the people.....
See full article HERE

Strengthening economic partnerships focus of Minister's trip to Japan and Singapore - Nanaia Mahuta
Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta will travel to Japan and Singapore on Sunday to strengthen Aotearoa New Zealand’s connections with Indo-Pacific partners.

The Minister will meet with other senior Japanese political leaders, attend a roundtable on Maori business with the Japan-New Zealand Business Council, and connect with Pacific Ambassadors.

She will be accompanied by a Maori delegation which will strengthen Maori business and people-to-people links.

"I am looking to promote opportunities to further grow Maori commercial and cultural opportunities with Japanese partners....
See full article HERE

He whakapapa he moemoea – ANZ Bank
If we want to build a socially cohesive society we must invest in the idea of Aotearoa New Zealand as a nation born on the promise of mutual prosperity.

Our origin stories as a nation, and as a bank, come from a rarefied moment in our history which we look upon as a nation to guide us as we create our future. We believe that the desire to build a better society through a partnership between two peoples was genuine in 1840.

But our history shows that utopian vision of a mutually prosperous future was lost across the years since 1840. Those years saw the good intentions swamped by a one-sided story which saw Pākehā prosper and Māori alienated from their whenua, taonga, economic assets and opportunities.....
See full article HERE

Articles:
The Maori History Curriculum – Rob Houison

Propaganda:
Māori excellence was on full display at Te Matatini on Saturday, with Te Kapa Haka o Te Whānau a Apanui taking out the top spot at the festival. 

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

19 comments:

Robert Arthur said...

Re 26th. I wonder if the Tauranga Council have estimated the total cost of the pou matauranga appointment (whatever he or, god forbid, she might be). Not just the salary, office space, car, but the enormous amount of time to be wasted by staff attending boring instruction in maori time, unfathoming and incorporating maori in communications, placating confused and enraged ratepayers etc

With its miniscule maori population I would have thought Milford the least likely place to be peddling pro Treaty twaddle. The Asians must be bemused at least. As many lead lives planned at all levels I cannot imagine them tolerating such a waste of time. II wonder if they mostly flock elsewhere.

Re the ANZ. Clearly as with so many others it is bowing to the mighty maori economy. Presumably maori will reward it by tranferring all their high churn, minimal lengthy deposit, benefit receipt accounts to it

DeeM said...

re 28th
Is this government capable of responding to ANY crisis without devoting special resources and personnel ONLY to Maori "needs and wants".
Why not just try helping EVERYONE who needs help. Prioritise the ones most affected for a change.

Hipkins needs to sort this blatant racist treatment out if he imagines any future as NZ's Prime Minister. He won't though!

K said...

"Go see what maori need"... really? Surely the same as their NZ neighbours.

Anonymous said...

i searched the entire beehive but could not find the roles/responsibilities/privileges of this new "Minister for Cyclone Recovery". surely, we can't be making up such roles without a democratic process!

Anonymous said...

One has to wonder who accompanied Minister Mahuta to Japan - were these people related and did she or her family have 'interests' in these business activities? And how acceptable is it that only Maori business interests were being promoted?

Anonymous said...

As for the "many exciting and varied' narratives" the mind can only boggle at what fabrications are being inflicted on these young impressionable minds at Milford Kindegarten in ensuring they get their appropriate dose of CRT as part of their Aotearoa NZ indoctrination.

Ray S said...

"“Myself and Minister Davis are talking with Māori about their needs, their wants...."
One would hope that "wants" are ignored in favour of "needs"
On and on it goes.

Robert Arthur said...

Re 28th. Somewhere among the various early accounts I have read the curious maori tikanga of compounding the misfortunes of any suffered. So maori who have not troubled to be insured need not be assisted and can be kicked off vulnerable land without compo. (If anyone has exact references would be interested. Somewhere in Polack, Logan Campbell, Maning, EJ Wakefield. And in accounts of shipwrecks)

Madame Blavatsky said...

Notwithstanding their partial genetic lineage, aren't ministers of the Crown such as Jackson and Davis obligated to act in the interests of ALL New Zealanders, rather than favouring Maori of everyone else? Moreover, on the premise that the Crown and Maori are involved in a "partnership" (a constitutional absurdity and impossibility), how can they reconcile their conflicting positions as representatives of the Crown with their membership of Maoridom? This is a clear conflict of interest, surely. Either they are Maori advocates, or they are ministers of the Crown, but they shouldn't be both, given the clear inherent tension between the separate interests at stake.

Robert Arthur said...

Re the above, I glanced through Polack for the first time in 25 years. The goods from p59/60. I had forgotten what a fascinating read it is.
For those interested in an account of life in NZ 1831 to 1837 by an objective, observant, very literate participating European, Polack's two volume book is hard to beat. Sadly it predates the period covered by the school history curriculum but it would have certainly grabbed the interest of boys in particular. Far more grim than the unexpurgated Grimm's Tales. The complete counter to those who try to present pre 1840 as idyllic. Curiously remnants of many of the maori behavioural quircks are detectable today. Including the enthusiasm for meaty takeaways, ingratitude, crafty manipulation, wanton violence, proneness to commit theft etc. Disregard for convention when no enforceable penalty likely. Utu. The difference between chiefly tino rangatiratanga then and any conceivable situation today is so different as to be effectively unrelated. The book will probably be hard to locate. With library staff, like so many others, now recruited on basis of PC pro maori attitude, most copies have probably been discreetly dumped.

Robert Arthur said...
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Robert Arthur said...

re 1st March. Yet another $15 million race based funding for maori. More grey hairs for the auditor general. More encouragement not to make resonable efforts to ensure self reliance.

Kiwialan said...

I have just read ' Old New Zealand ' written by F E Maning which was in a box of books that I bought at the Kaiapoi auction house, a very interesting read. More interesting though it is a cancelled library book ! I collect early NZ published books so I know how difficult they are to find now , a library shedding real history is difficult to comprehend. Also it's nearly impossible to buy any books published by Tross in book stores or find them in a library so our freedom of choice has been cancelled by this Communist govt and their woke academic worshippers. Kiwialan.

Anonymous said...

So if you can get the shingles vaccine earliet if you are maori what will be required as proof? Surely we could all identify as maori if we say we are maori. Or will birth cerificates be required to prove you are 16% maori? A dna test? This is absolutely rudiculous.of course.

Robert Arthur said...

Hi Kiwialan
Maning was very lucky to survive. Pakeha were tolerated only for what they could provide. Nothing changes. Your impressions of Polack would be of interest. Life was tenuous for pakeha and vastly more so for maori, until the Treaty saved them. The degree of slavery, wanton plunder and slaughter, cannabilism and infanticide is now very much played down. I started reading early accounts 30 years ago when I became dubious of the standard presentation.

Robert Arthur said...

Re the 3rd, the encouragement of maori in procurement reads like a course in incestuous business and nepotism. Sanctioned race based purchase favourisitism now pervades amuch of local body and govt activity. More headache for the Auditor General.

Anonymous said...


A message, passed constantly, will then register as important - even a priority.

"Maori first" is stated so often that it is now embedded in the consciousness.... so, mission accomplished.

This process has been very thoroughly planned and executed since 2020. Many NZers think like this now.

Robert Arthur said...

Re WAI262, as a lathe owner i have alwys been fascinated by the mechanism of the self centring scroll chuck. So much so I have considered treating myself to a scroll tattoo on each (rear) cheek. But seems unless I hurry I will have to pay a royalty.

Kiwialan said...

Did anybody ask a Moa for their opinion on the degree of their protection?