Saturday April 15, 2023
News:
Crown fails on water protection
A Māori environmental planner says it’s time the crown admits it’s a poor steward of our waterways – and stops ducking Māori claims to water ownership.
Dr Baker says water is a taonga under Te Tiriti o Waitangi, but the crown won’t acknowledge that’s an ownership right.
Dr Baker says under Māori control water would be managed sustainably, with the focus on preservation, not pollution, production or profit.....
See full article HERE
'Riding roughshod over rangatiratanga' - professor on control over rongoā Māori in proposed bill
An influential legal scholar is warning the government not to repeat past mistakes by legislating to control rongoā Māori.
University of Auckland emeritus law professor Dr Jane Kelsey says the new Therapeutic Products Bill, which would see rongoā regulated by a government bureaucrat at the Ministry of Health, echoes the 1907 Tohunga Suppression Act – the act that outlawed the practice for half a century up until 1962.
“The bill itself says it’s aiming to ensure people who use therapeutic products, which are medicines and natural health remedies, have access to safe and quality care. But it’s very much framed around a western science model of ‘what are the ingredients?’ and ‘does the person have the right tertiary qualifications?’”
“[It] runs roughshod over rangatiratanga and the whole centuries/millennia of Māori being able to answer those questions in relation to rongoā,” Kelsey says.....
See full article HERE
There's concern the Māori turnout in this year's census could be even worse than 2018's record low.
Raw figures released to 1News show just 357,600 forms have been returned from people of Māori decent so far – about 64 percent.
The numbers aren't an official figure and could include duplicates, but they show we're a long way off the 90% participation target for Māori set by Statistics New Zealand.....
See full article HERE
Māori medium schools hit hardest by dearth of relief teachers
Relief teacher numbers in New Zealand are lower than at nearly any time in the last 20 years.
According to the data provided by the ministry, the there is one day reliever to about every 10 teachers in Māori medium education.
That ratio drops to one in seven for English medium and mixed medium schools....
See full article HERE
Māori contact centre startup on mission to help solo Mums
Wairua Pai is one of 100 Māori businesses the Progressive Procurement Capability Uplift Programme plans to help this year with wraparound intensive support to prepare them for government contracting opportunities.
Te Puni Kōkiri and Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s joint progressive procurement kaupapa aims to use the Government’s annual $51.5 billion buying power to help accelerate Māori businesses and provide wider social outcomes in communities.
The new Wairua Pai business will operate from homes across the country and is formed from existing businesses; Waha the Māori Creative Agency created 15 years ago and Unity4, the backend tech solution that has been around for 23 years.
The Capability Uplift Programme has already supported over 42 Māori businesses to secure government contracts worth a total of $10.8 million.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Michael Bassett: The crisis in Maori society
Propaganda:
Poorest party in Parliament pays to create content to boost Government’s Māori electoral campaign
'Misinformed' debate is holding up important water reform, iwi leaders say
Manu Tu, Mana Ora Identifying Characteristics of Māori Giftedness (Mahaki and Mahaki, 2007)
See full article HERE
'Riding roughshod over rangatiratanga' - professor on control over rongoā Māori in proposed bill
An influential legal scholar is warning the government not to repeat past mistakes by legislating to control rongoā Māori.
University of Auckland emeritus law professor Dr Jane Kelsey says the new Therapeutic Products Bill, which would see rongoā regulated by a government bureaucrat at the Ministry of Health, echoes the 1907 Tohunga Suppression Act – the act that outlawed the practice for half a century up until 1962.
“The bill itself says it’s aiming to ensure people who use therapeutic products, which are medicines and natural health remedies, have access to safe and quality care. But it’s very much framed around a western science model of ‘what are the ingredients?’ and ‘does the person have the right tertiary qualifications?’”
“[It] runs roughshod over rangatiratanga and the whole centuries/millennia of Māori being able to answer those questions in relation to rongoā,” Kelsey says.....
See full article HERE
There's concern the Māori turnout in this year's census could be even worse than 2018's record low.
Raw figures released to 1News show just 357,600 forms have been returned from people of Māori decent so far – about 64 percent.
The numbers aren't an official figure and could include duplicates, but they show we're a long way off the 90% participation target for Māori set by Statistics New Zealand.....
See full article HERE
Māori medium schools hit hardest by dearth of relief teachers
Relief teacher numbers in New Zealand are lower than at nearly any time in the last 20 years.
According to the data provided by the ministry, the there is one day reliever to about every 10 teachers in Māori medium education.
That ratio drops to one in seven for English medium and mixed medium schools....
See full article HERE
Māori contact centre startup on mission to help solo Mums
Wairua Pai is one of 100 Māori businesses the Progressive Procurement Capability Uplift Programme plans to help this year with wraparound intensive support to prepare them for government contracting opportunities.
Te Puni Kōkiri and Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s joint progressive procurement kaupapa aims to use the Government’s annual $51.5 billion buying power to help accelerate Māori businesses and provide wider social outcomes in communities.
The new Wairua Pai business will operate from homes across the country and is formed from existing businesses; Waha the Māori Creative Agency created 15 years ago and Unity4, the backend tech solution that has been around for 23 years.
The Capability Uplift Programme has already supported over 42 Māori businesses to secure government contracts worth a total of $10.8 million.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Michael Bassett: The crisis in Maori society
Propaganda:
Poorest party in Parliament pays to create content to boost Government’s Māori electoral campaign
'Misinformed' debate is holding up important water reform, iwi leaders say
Manu Tu, Mana Ora Identifying Characteristics of Māori Giftedness (Mahaki and Mahaki, 2007)
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Friday April 14, 2023
News:
Iwi over the moon with the Three Waters reform but will rural NZ jump into the same waka?
Morgan said three issues are:
* The 50/50 Partnership Board - not a co-governance board.
* The 50/50 Partnership Board - not a co-governance board.
“The Partnership Board better characterises the direction we want to head to as those boards have their foundation in Te Tiriti o Waitangi,” Morgan said. “Even when we get to the 10 boards, we will have a greater voice and equitable say across councils in those 10 rohe (area), so from that point of view, we are euphoric - we are happy with the result.”
* That entity A - which goes from Tamaki all through the North remains. “The basis of our support is that we need size and scale to ensure affordable water rates are achievable outcome in the next 20-30 years. From an intergenerational point of view we are heading in the right direction with size an scale so the remote Iwi and hapu who have been left off the council priorities will get looked after.”
Morgan said the third and final winning point was “Te Mano te Wai - mana of the water - will have a special status.
“Even though there’s a provision for communities to have a priority status, it will not in anyway shape or form, overshadow, minimise or compromise the standing of Te Mana o te Wai standing being provided by Iwi and hapu,” Morgan said.
“Those are the three points we debated and with the Prime Minister and we got what we wanted.....
See full article HERE
$9.2m spend-up on contractors
The Maori Health Authority (Te Aka Whai Ora) is spending more than $1.15 million a month on contractors and consultants, newly released figures show.
Established on July 1 last year, the agency spent $9.2m on contractors and consultants in its first eight months, more than 40 per cent of its Budget 2022 appropriation (adjusted for the period).....(NZ Herald paywall)
See full article HERE
Education before logo change at uni: student
The money the University of Otago is spending on its "superficial" rebranding exercise would be better spent on retaining its language courses, a student says.
The university has already spent $670,000 on a plan to change its logo, which aligns with a strategic direction to embrace the Treaty of Waitangi and cultural awareness.....
See full article HERE
Boynton giving lesson on Māori voting power
She says while incumbent MP Rawiri Waititi talks up the value of the Māori Party, the reality is it doesn’t have the votes to get legislative change.
She’ll make the case to voters that Labour has achieved more for Māori in the past six years than under any previous government.....
See full article HERE
Tāmaki Makaurau Māori celebrated at inaugural Māori cricket tournament
Tāmaki Makaurau Māori have become New Zealand’s first Māori national cricket champions after a cliffhanger end to the Easter weekend tournament in Whangārei.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Goodbye Jacinda - Dr Muriel Newman.
* That entity A - which goes from Tamaki all through the North remains. “The basis of our support is that we need size and scale to ensure affordable water rates are achievable outcome in the next 20-30 years. From an intergenerational point of view we are heading in the right direction with size an scale so the remote Iwi and hapu who have been left off the council priorities will get looked after.”
Morgan said the third and final winning point was “Te Mano te Wai - mana of the water - will have a special status.
“Even though there’s a provision for communities to have a priority status, it will not in anyway shape or form, overshadow, minimise or compromise the standing of Te Mana o te Wai standing being provided by Iwi and hapu,” Morgan said.
“Those are the three points we debated and with the Prime Minister and we got what we wanted.....
See full article HERE
$9.2m spend-up on contractors
The Maori Health Authority (Te Aka Whai Ora) is spending more than $1.15 million a month on contractors and consultants, newly released figures show.
Established on July 1 last year, the agency spent $9.2m on contractors and consultants in its first eight months, more than 40 per cent of its Budget 2022 appropriation (adjusted for the period).....(NZ Herald paywall)
See full article HERE
Education before logo change at uni: student
The money the University of Otago is spending on its "superficial" rebranding exercise would be better spent on retaining its language courses, a student says.
The university has already spent $670,000 on a plan to change its logo, which aligns with a strategic direction to embrace the Treaty of Waitangi and cultural awareness.....
See full article HERE
Boynton giving lesson on Māori voting power
She says while incumbent MP Rawiri Waititi talks up the value of the Māori Party, the reality is it doesn’t have the votes to get legislative change.
She’ll make the case to voters that Labour has achieved more for Māori in the past six years than under any previous government.....
See full article HERE
Tāmaki Makaurau Māori celebrated at inaugural Māori cricket tournament
Tāmaki Makaurau Māori have become New Zealand’s first Māori national cricket champions after a cliffhanger end to the Easter weekend tournament in Whangārei.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Goodbye Jacinda - Dr Muriel Newman.
Thursday April 13, 2023
News:
Willow Jean Prime promotion sets a new record for Māori in Cabinet
The promotion to Cabinet of Willow Jean Prime has set a record for Labour’s strong Māori caucus.
Prime yesterday joined colleagues Willie Jackson, Kelvin Davis, Peeni Henare, Kiritapu Allen and Nanaia Mahuta as a Cabinet Minister - taking Māori representation in Cabinet to six
Prime yesterday joined colleagues Willie Jackson, Kelvin Davis, Peeni Henare, Kiritapu Allen and Nanaia Mahuta as a Cabinet Minister - taking Māori representation in Cabinet to six
Add to that group Māori ministers Meka Whaitiri and Rino Tirikatene who sit outside of Cabinet and it is a record that will stand for a long time in politics....
See full article HERE
Wetland: Rāhui on duck shooting & fish gathering
Just ahead of duck shooting season starting next month, local hapū have declared a month-long rāhui (ban) on gathering birds and fish from north Waikato’s polluted Whangamarino wetland, a popular site with hunters.
“It’s a breach of our river settlement,” he says, a reference to the Crown-iwi co-governance arrangement for the Waikato River.
Hadyn acknowledges the rāhui has no legal force. “It’s one in spirit.”....
See full article HERE
Propaganda:
How has Govt got into such a mess over rongoā Māori?
Taranaki Maunga to get legal personhood - what does this mean?
Wetland: Rāhui on duck shooting & fish gathering
Just ahead of duck shooting season starting next month, local hapū have declared a month-long rāhui (ban) on gathering birds and fish from north Waikato’s polluted Whangamarino wetland, a popular site with hunters.
“It’s a breach of our river settlement,” he says, a reference to the Crown-iwi co-governance arrangement for the Waikato River.
Hadyn acknowledges the rāhui has no legal force. “It’s one in spirit.”....
See full article HERE
Propaganda:
How has Govt got into such a mess over rongoā Māori?
Taranaki Maunga to get legal personhood - what does this mean?
Wednesday April 12, 2023
News:
Autonomy coming for wānanga
Associate Education Minister Kelvin Davis says he’s looking forward to kura kaupapa Māori and wānanga regaining their mana and autonomy under a Bill which is making its way through parliament.
The Education and Training Amendment Bill will return kura to their pre-2017 status where they are defined as a distinct form of state school rather than a designated character school.
The Education and Training Amendment Bill will return kura to their pre-2017 status where they are defined as a distinct form of state school rather than a designated character school.
He says it also recognises the three Māori tertiary institutions were set up by Māori, for Māori, and need to be able to function as Māori entities.
The most important thing is they’re accountable to their hapū and iwi that established them....
See full article HERE
Nats housing spokesperson slams Ihumātao inaction
National’s spokesperson for social housing, Tama Potaka, is slamming what he calls "all hui, no action" on the government’s plans for housing on land at Ihumātao
“More than two years have passed, and not one single house has been built,” Potaka said on Tuesday.
“Additionally, Te Puni Kōkiri has provided a further $400,000 to support the Rōpu Whakahaere or committee established to oversee the project.....the government is sitting on a $30 million site, doing nothing.
Willie Jackson has conceded as far back as April 2022 there are issues with forming the Rōpu Whakahaere, and that the initial protestors called SOUL (Save Our Unique Landscape) are concerned about the way any development would go ahead, and who would have ultimate say in decisions about the whenua.
"It’s not going to happen overnight - Māori politics is a tough area,’’ he told the media site.....
See full article HERE
Changes to Māori electoral option is the start of an inter-generational movement, says Te Pāti Māori president John Tamihere
Te Pāti Māori president John Tamihere says young non-Māori voters will jump on to the Māori waka, not by protest but to support equality and equity for Māori.
Ngarewa-Packer says that legislation was racist and a deliberate way of stopping tangata whenua from being able to make decisions about their whenua and whānau.
“This was not accidental, it was a deliberate way of oppressing Māori and that racist legislation now being removed
Meanwhile, Tamihere said Te Pāti Māori would consider standing candidates in non-Maori electoral seats.
“We’re a movement and it’s our time,” he said.....
See full article HERE
Reform of local body elections moved nearer to reality after the Local Government Electoral Legislation Bill had its second reading last week.
“It would change the process councils follow every six years to determine representation arrangements, making consideration of Maori representation the first step of this process.”
McAnulty said the bill set out an “enduring process for councils to consider Maori representation”.
“What this bill does not do is require councils to have Maori wards.
“These are important, local decisions. Maori wards might not work everywhere, and that’s okay.”....
See full article HERE
New approach needed for Māori census
A leading Māori demographer says Statistics New Zealand needs to start thinking now about how to improve collection of data about Māori and Pacific populations.
It’s a whole operation and it really does require the right level of investment from government,” Professor Kukutai says.....
See full article HERE
Propaganda:
Collaboration must underpin use of indigenous knowledge
The most important thing is they’re accountable to their hapū and iwi that established them....
See full article HERE
Nats housing spokesperson slams Ihumātao inaction
National’s spokesperson for social housing, Tama Potaka, is slamming what he calls "all hui, no action" on the government’s plans for housing on land at Ihumātao
“More than two years have passed, and not one single house has been built,” Potaka said on Tuesday.
“Additionally, Te Puni Kōkiri has provided a further $400,000 to support the Rōpu Whakahaere or committee established to oversee the project.....the government is sitting on a $30 million site, doing nothing.
Willie Jackson has conceded as far back as April 2022 there are issues with forming the Rōpu Whakahaere, and that the initial protestors called SOUL (Save Our Unique Landscape) are concerned about the way any development would go ahead, and who would have ultimate say in decisions about the whenua.
"It’s not going to happen overnight - Māori politics is a tough area,’’ he told the media site.....
See full article HERE
Changes to Māori electoral option is the start of an inter-generational movement, says Te Pāti Māori president John Tamihere
Te Pāti Māori president John Tamihere says young non-Māori voters will jump on to the Māori waka, not by protest but to support equality and equity for Māori.
Ngarewa-Packer says that legislation was racist and a deliberate way of stopping tangata whenua from being able to make decisions about their whenua and whānau.
“This was not accidental, it was a deliberate way of oppressing Māori and that racist legislation now being removed
Meanwhile, Tamihere said Te Pāti Māori would consider standing candidates in non-Maori electoral seats.
“We’re a movement and it’s our time,” he said.....
See full article HERE
Reform of local body elections moved nearer to reality after the Local Government Electoral Legislation Bill had its second reading last week.
“It would change the process councils follow every six years to determine representation arrangements, making consideration of Maori representation the first step of this process.”
McAnulty said the bill set out an “enduring process for councils to consider Maori representation”.
“What this bill does not do is require councils to have Maori wards.
“These are important, local decisions. Maori wards might not work everywhere, and that’s okay.”....
See full article HERE
New approach needed for Māori census
A leading Māori demographer says Statistics New Zealand needs to start thinking now about how to improve collection of data about Māori and Pacific populations.
It’s a whole operation and it really does require the right level of investment from government,” Professor Kukutai says.....
See full article HERE
Propaganda:
Collaboration must underpin use of indigenous knowledge
Tuesday April 11, 2023
News: Māori
should be front and centre of climate, disaster responses – Academic
In the scramble to make a submission, one feature of the bill was clear. It falls short of the Crown's obligation to upholding tino rangatiratanga, set out in te Tiriti o Waitangi.
The bill does not refer to te Tiriti anywhere within its provisions. Nor does it specifically refer to whānau, hapū and iwi.
The bill does not refer to te Tiriti anywhere within its provisions. Nor does it specifically refer to whānau, hapū and iwi.
This is a worrying oversight, because the Crown has a Tiriti responsibility to partner with Māori, including in responding to disasters. The Waitangi Tribunal demands this to balance out the Māori-Crown relationship, which structurally favours the Crown.....
See full article HERE
Ngāpuhi call on government to clean up Lake Ōmāpere
The lake, near Kaikohe, is Northland's largest lake. It is a taonga to the iwi, and was at one time an important source of food and water.
"This is a Ngāpuhi taonga and it's incumbent on Ngāpuhi to do something about it, with the assistance of our tauiwi brethren."....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Point of Order: Applying Maori knowledge (and Govt funding) to the demystification of whale strandings and the heavens
Propaganda:
Māori should be front and centre of climate change and weather disaster responses
Ngāpuhi call on government to clean up Lake Ōmāpere
The lake, near Kaikohe, is Northland's largest lake. It is a taonga to the iwi, and was at one time an important source of food and water.
"This is a Ngāpuhi taonga and it's incumbent on Ngāpuhi to do something about it, with the assistance of our tauiwi brethren."....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Point of Order: Applying Maori knowledge (and Govt funding) to the demystification of whale strandings and the heavens
Propaganda:
Māori should be front and centre of climate change and weather disaster responses
Monday April 10, 2023
News:
Air NZ admits breach of tikanga after initially refusing to release body to grieving whānau
Air NZ’s cargo operations crew had insisted that only a funeral director could uplift the late Maureen Delamere, despite the concerns of her daughter, Anahera Delamere-Mill, that would be a significant breach of tikanga.
Morrison, who said he had been hired by Air NZ to come up with a Māori strategy, said Air NZ would commit to a whānau-led approach in future. He had spoken to Delamere-Hill. “Where we got to was from a tikanga perspective, the whānau should be able to choose the consignee.....
See full article HERE
New Zealand cities suffering crisis of identity - architect
A leading Māori architect says New Zealand towns and cities are suffering from a crisis of identity.
"That's the crisis really, we've got physical environments that don't talk back first of all to manawhenua, don't speak back to iwi from those places, and secondly don't talk to the true history of those areas."
Hoskins outlined to an audience of about 100 people several projects around the country that had embraced indigenous design including the City Rail Link in Auckland.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Peter Winsley: He Puapua is being implemented, however all is not lost
Propaganda:
Finally, is the Catholic Church facing its colonising past?
New Zealand cities suffering crisis of identity - architect
A leading Māori architect says New Zealand towns and cities are suffering from a crisis of identity.
"That's the crisis really, we've got physical environments that don't talk back first of all to manawhenua, don't speak back to iwi from those places, and secondly don't talk to the true history of those areas."
Hoskins outlined to an audience of about 100 people several projects around the country that had embraced indigenous design including the City Rail Link in Auckland.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Peter Winsley: He Puapua is being implemented, however all is not lost
Propaganda:
Finally, is the Catholic Church facing its colonising past?
Sunday April 9, 2023
News:
Māori Party holds balance of power in new poll - Labour and National both rise
A new political poll has shown that for the first time since August 2022, National could not form a government on its own - and with neither it nor Labour holding any form of majority the Māori Party holds the balance of power.
The latest Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll was released today, revealing Labour is holding its marginal lead - but National is coming up close behind.
The latest Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll was released today, revealing Labour is holding its marginal lead - but National is coming up close behind.
“For the first time since August 2022, the centre-right cannot form a government on its own and neither bloc has a majority,” the Taxpayers’ Union said.
“This means that the Māori Party holds the balance of power. "....
See full article HERE
A voyage into the Māori past on Enderby
How Māori lived on the sub-Antarctic island of Enderby is the focus of an ambitious expedition involving scientists from the University of Auckland, the University of Canterbury and Ngāi Tahu.
Professor Anderson established that Polynesian voyaging into the sub-polar regions occurred around 700 years ago, and through initial archaeological excavations at Sandy Bay, discovered earth ovens containing the bones of seals and sea lions, fish, mussels, albatrosses, and petrels.
Māori settlers, it’s been thought, only stayed for one or two summers and left behind a limited number of stone artefacts......
See full article HERE
Articles:
Bruce Moon: The Abuse of Human Rights
Propaganda:
Chance to move freely to the Māori roll removes voting barriers - party leader
Tūtehuarewa, protector of Māori and future generations, turns 100
A nod to New Zealand's relationship with Maori, from Australia's Deputy Prime Minister
“This means that the Māori Party holds the balance of power. "....
See full article HERE
A voyage into the Māori past on Enderby
How Māori lived on the sub-Antarctic island of Enderby is the focus of an ambitious expedition involving scientists from the University of Auckland, the University of Canterbury and Ngāi Tahu.
Professor Anderson established that Polynesian voyaging into the sub-polar regions occurred around 700 years ago, and through initial archaeological excavations at Sandy Bay, discovered earth ovens containing the bones of seals and sea lions, fish, mussels, albatrosses, and petrels.
Māori settlers, it’s been thought, only stayed for one or two summers and left behind a limited number of stone artefacts......
See full article HERE
Articles:
Bruce Moon: The Abuse of Human Rights
Propaganda:
Chance to move freely to the Māori roll removes voting barriers - party leader
Tūtehuarewa, protector of Māori and future generations, turns 100
A nod to New Zealand's relationship with Maori, from Australia's Deputy Prime Minister
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17 comments:
Re the 9th, the 3 rightist parties will have to judge between emphasising to the rational the horrendous disaster of Te Pati holding power, and the number of misfit maori insurgents which such publicity will attract to fellow minded.
I trust the pro maori content of the Enderby expeediton will not compromise objectivity. To find remnants of two summers from 500 years or so ago and distinguish from later visitors would seem to require huge scale excavation unless very lucky. I guess after two years the castaways judged setting off into the unknown without map or compass preferable to spending lives in a climate worse than Dunedin, with no moas or fellow beings to vary the diet.
Re the 10th. If we chance to have a serious airport crash with a group returning from kapahaka, there will be a procession of utes and vans. Release to whanau must be a legal nightmare.
The maori designs are high maintence and very cluttering. Of course the designs and objects are not donated in a move to further the culture but are all charged for. A cosy source of income.
I see from Stuff that Claire Charters is demanding Māori should be front and centre of climate change and weather disaster responses Their right under te tiriti. And under international law.
The absurdity of her rationale is extreme.
The Pelorus Bridge cafe concessionaires are walking away from their business because it is now up for tender due to DOC rules. “ On top of this, DOC also had to provide an opportunity for Treaty Partner Ngāti Kuia to participate in the tender process, as part of the Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki 2018 Supreme Court decision.” (Stuff)
This is Alice in Wonderland - this little cafe is a lovely place for a coffee and treat and the concessionaires have done a great job developing it over the last eight years. Now they lose while those with a spurious claim to authority are pandered to. From now on I shall boycott this cafe and get a coffee and ice cream at the Brick Oven Cafe in Rai Valley. Different type of offering but good and essential to support genuine local businesses.
To Anonymous 12.26, a year or two ago Auckland Council put out a policy paper on climate change. At least a quarter of it addressed maori who it alleged will be more affcted, and agitated for involvement of rangatahi. Just what the typical maori youth can offer which some high IQ Asian cannot was not expllined. It seemed to me to be an artful schme to train up maori for the mana whenua consultation industry.
to Anonymous 12.49 many managemnt plans now specify that maori buisness must be encouraged (ie favoured). ironically the actual employees are very often devolve to be reliable others.
the air nz story offers much hope. if only someone could show that tikanga demands full and final refunds for all cancellations done during covid, i'm sure public would find value in matauranga mauri!
We can agree with Claire Charters that Māori should be front and centre of climate change and weather disaster responses. Does Ms. Charters believe that Asian people, Pacific People and immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East should be there too? Let's hope that she does (and we suspect that in fact she does). But why do she and others speak of one ethnic group predominantly and only rarely mention those other communities that make up 25% of New Zealand's total population?
Take a look at Pacific people health statistics. They are worse than those of any other group - including Māori. Take a look at Pacific indices on poverty and socioeconomic deprivation. Let's hear Ms. Charters invoke the treaty to advocate on behalf of Pacific people. Let's hear proponents of the matauranga Māori-based primary and secondary curriculum, currently work in progress, advocate on behalf of Asian knowledge and Islamic knowledge and demand that class time on those world views into our curriculum too.
In New Zealand today, we see many initiatives designed to assist minorities, especially Māori, including various financial assistance; scholarships and other education-related incentives; preferential admission to Medical School; heavily Treaty-centric, matauranga Māori-based early childhood, primary and secondary education curricula; an increasingly Treaty-centric tertiary sector; a Treaty-centric public service; naming of public institutions in Te Reo and, of course, a dedicated health authority. Are these things not enough for Ms. Charters?
Let's hear Ms. Charters justify the following initiatives in research funding:
Formulae used to allocate money to research organizations through the PBRF Fund involve numeric weightings that are about to increase substantially for Māori researchers, Māori-oriented research and Māori postgraduate degree completions, and similarly for Pacific. For example, the Subject Area known as Māori Knowledge and Development will have the highest weighting, ahead of engineering and technology; agriculture and other applied biological sciences; architecture, design, planning, surveying; biomedical; clinical medicine; pharmacy; public health; veterinary studies and large animal science; dentistry; and Pacific research and many others. Indeed, a recent proposal for a Faculty of Science paper on mātauranga Māori at a major New Zealand university includes the phrase: mātauranga is central to the future practice of science in Aotearoa New Zealand.
David Lillis
Well said Dr Lillis, but for Charters, like many part-Maori linked to those elitist few most likely to benefit, it is never, ever enough. The strange thing is that taken to its ultimate conclusion, just who does she think will fund it all? Or, will it ultimately revert to what history tells us of their earlier culture and beliefs - one involving slavery and tribal warfare?
Meantime, perhaps she could gather some like minded individuals and have a chat with Ranginui and Papatuanuku with an aim of calming their tempers. And if Maori are to be front and centre on this climate issue, does that mean they'll be personally contributing more than their share, or is this the partnership model that involves one partner getting paid for their input and having the ultimate say so because of the power of veto, with the other partner carrying the financial can?
When will NZers finally - or ever? - understand CRT (critical race theory)?
. Maori will always be the victim
.but they will never pay.
Re the 12th. The Treaty settlement Funds and benefit organisations should be charged for the education expense of bringing kura pupils up to standard for the real English language world. very able teachers are frittering htier time teaching English as a second language to victims of immersion.
Tama Potaka and Chris Luxon apparently don’t believe in co governance. However per Potaka (National) in Stuff this is his vision: When it comes to issues of the Māori-Crown relationship, Potaka lists actions he does support. He wants to see devolution of the state, wants “partnerships”, and agrees with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) that Māori are entitled to “self-determination”.
Potaka also takes Te Tiriti o Waitangi seriously. He has nine versions of Te Tiriti printed and framed, sitting ready to be hung behind his desk at Parliament.
There is an article linked above: “Taranaki Maunga to get legal personhood – what does this mean?” I encourage everyone to read it, to better appreciate the uncivilised depths to which NZ has plummeted. Read it only if your blood pressure allows, because it will certainly stretch your credulity and patience.
Mount Taranaki (along with the Wanganui River and Te Urewera National Park) is to get legal personhood – the same rights as an individual – legal recognition that the mountain (and river and park) is our ancestor. Yes, apparently we are descendants of the mountain. Or perhaps descendancy only applies to the chosen ones on the veto side of the co-governance racial divide.
It means for example, the mountain can own assets, can appear in court. How would the mountain fit into the courtroom I wonder, or does the Judge go to the mountain?
What utter stone age BS – claptrap which is soon to get the force of law. What does this say about NZ law? Will anyone respect the law, when this BS becomes law. Will any other country take NZ seriously again? Will anyone take New Zealanders seriously again? What level of stone age BS will it take before New Zealanders stand up and say “Enough! Grow up! Join the post-stone age nations!”
As a legal person the mountain could get voted into parliament and become our supreme leader. We could all chant and bow down to mountain like Henderson the Rain King. Of course mountain will be eligible for benefits, research grants, any number of free weight loss programmes, and could become a paid stone age consultant to the local council.
Where will this stone age BS take us next? It is no longer a big leap from here to legalised cannibalism and slavery.
Re 23th, the greatest threat to race relations, racial equality, civil order and democracy in NZ is the Labour maori caucus and it has just been made bigger still.
With maori gaining ever more powere and poised to obtain total control via co governance, some law to reign in rahui is essential. A rahui triggered the elimination of rough trails and off track venturing in the Waitakeres, effectively eliminating a vast and accessible ratepayer funded area from access by the many serious trampers, scouts, other youth groups, outdoor activities groups of all ages, who regularly used it. Duckshooters, as with fishermen and hunters, will likeley find areas available to them will contract seriously, although a koha fee will likely assist..
Re 14th.Re 14th.That both Underpants Morgan and Tamahere support the new Ten Waters is not an encouraging sign. I am not clear if the co governance/maori control aspect has been eliminated or just renamed.
And I was intrigued by the "maori" cricket team. From the photo, an older NZer would immediately recognise no maori; contemporaries might guess three. For a race so committed to decolonisation the enthusiasm for rugby and cricket, both quintessentially colonist, is surprising. But then opportunism is a maori thing, not consistency of principle.
When the undie collector is over the moon about something the rest of New Zealand needs to be very concerned.
re 15th. The maori response to the census intriguing. They torn between two approaches. The larger the number recorded the greater the claims for race based money allocations. The now many employed on a race basis in race based organisations with close contact with " their" people ardently advocated filling in the census to show (at least) all living. But completing forms is complying with colonist ways and roadshows have toured maoridom advocating decolonisation. Completing forms is a curious colonist practice and not what illiterate pre colonised races did, therefore many refrain. I predicted the first factor would have prevailed with a vengeance, but it seems the second has. The taihoa non motivation associated tikanga/ te ao and noted in Michael Bassett's recent contribution apparently runs very deep and took precedence.
@*** Presumably when Taranaki Maunga blows it's top, which according to the volcanologists it's overdue, the surrounding public will be able to sue that 'individual' for the damage caused. I hope those Treaty settlements have been invested wisely, for local Iwi and Hapu under the 'co-governance/ partnership' overseeing that individual should be up for their share? But, of course, co-governance doesn't work like that - it's just take, take, take for one of the partners. Guess which?
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