Saturday June 17, 2023
News:
Police Minister Ginny Andersen attacks New Zealand's prison system, says it's no place for Māori offenders
It comes as the Government on Friday kicked off the multi-million-dollar extension of Te Pae Oranga, a scheme where offenders are placed before community panels instead of the courts.
"It's a sad indictment on our justice system that the best way to help te iwi Māori is to keep them out of our justice system," Police Minister Ginny Aderson said.
"Right now, we are seeing a spike in crime, particularly youth offending - and that really worries me," Anderson said. "But this is no time to turn away, this is time to work even harder and closely together."
But some aren't buying it.
"It's a classic example of the Government putting the emphasis on the offenders, almost treating them like victims, while not showing concern for those that really are the victims," ACT Party leader David Seymour said.....
See full article HERE
Tikanga approach and police partnership helps change Māori justice outcomes
A tikanga approach for Māori caught in the justice system will be further strengthened as Te Pae Oranga expands its foothold in Aotearoa.
But some aren't buying it.
"It's a classic example of the Government putting the emphasis on the offenders, almost treating them like victims, while not showing concern for those that really are the victims," ACT Party leader David Seymour said.....
See full article HERE
Tikanga approach and police partnership helps change Māori justice outcomes
A tikanga approach for Māori caught in the justice system will be further strengthened as Te Pae Oranga expands its foothold in Aotearoa.
The Government has invested $70 million adding another 30 Te Pae Oranga sites by 2024/25. Te Pae Oranga were previously iwi community panels or community justice panels and have been operating on marae successfully for more than a decade.
The marae-based justice programmes give police an alternative approach to court and can refer offenders to marae, like Waahi Marae in Rāhui Pokeka Pā/Huntly where panels of the offenders peers sit in judgment and also in support.
An announcement will take place this morning at Waahi Marae to celebrate the partnership between Māori and Police.....
See full article HERE
New Tools For Marine Protection Urgently Needed
The New Zealand Conservation Authority is dismayed that protection of New Zealand’s marine environments is failing, because as a country we do not have mechanisms that are suitable for Aotearoa today.
While marine reserves can be fantastic for biodiversity, they are a blunt tool that many Māori see as imposing Crown ownership of the protected area. They do not fit with a bicultural approach to marine conservation.
Authority Chair, Edward Ellison said: “The New Zealand Conservation Authority supports the urgent development of marine protection tools that are consistent with te ao Māori and the Treaty. These future tools must enable indigenous leadership.....
See full article HERE
Rongoā bill denies full rangatiratanga
A leading rongoā Māori practitioner is accusing the Government of circumventing the Crown’s treaty obligations with its proposed changes to the Therapeutic Products Bill.
Donna Kerridge says what’s proposed falls far short of the rangatiratanga discussed in the WAI 262 claim on indigenous fauna and flora, including rongoa.
“Essentially, the crown has graciously conceded that so long as Maori limit rongoa to a cottage industry they will allow it. Should we show signs of or attempt any serious commercial potential, the crown retains the right to set the rules,” Ms Kerridge says....
See full article HERE
Māori Standing Committee selection process to begin – Wairoa District Council
He said the purpose of the Māori Standing Committee is to assist Council with the implementation of policies and work programmes to enable effective governance, engagement, and service delivery for the district’s Māori communities.
“The Māori Standing Committee provides a vital role within Council offering insight into strategic issues for Māori and the communities represented in the development of the Long-Term Plan, the effectiveness of the District Plan and the delivery of the Annual Plan. Representatives also ensure the work of the Committee is carried out in a way that enhances the social, economic, cultural, and environmental wellbeing of the Wairoa district.”....
See full article HERE
GMO a Treaty issue, not for governments alone - Māori Organics Authority
The National Māori Organics Authority - Te Waka Kai Ora says genetic modification is a Tiriti o Waitangi issue and not something governments can make decisions on outside of Treaty partnerships.
But Hutchins argues GE and GMO equate to bio-piracy and are a stepping stone to another wave of colonisation.
"Genetic technologies are technologies that deliver profit. First of all colonisation came for our lands and our people. And this wave of colonisation is coming for the DNA or the genetic sequences of what Te Waka Kai Ora describes as ngā mokopuna o Ranginui me Papatūānuku - of flora and fauna.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Graham Adams: Are bilingual road signs safe or even sensible?
Propaganda:
No fear: Ōpōtiki teachers and students attended gang leader’s tangi
James Shaw Trading Māori Futures For A Few Green Vote
Ending streaming in schools just one step on path to fix disparities that impact Māori, says expert
The marae-based justice programmes give police an alternative approach to court and can refer offenders to marae, like Waahi Marae in Rāhui Pokeka Pā/Huntly where panels of the offenders peers sit in judgment and also in support.
An announcement will take place this morning at Waahi Marae to celebrate the partnership between Māori and Police.....
See full article HERE
New Tools For Marine Protection Urgently Needed
The New Zealand Conservation Authority is dismayed that protection of New Zealand’s marine environments is failing, because as a country we do not have mechanisms that are suitable for Aotearoa today.
While marine reserves can be fantastic for biodiversity, they are a blunt tool that many Māori see as imposing Crown ownership of the protected area. They do not fit with a bicultural approach to marine conservation.
Authority Chair, Edward Ellison said: “The New Zealand Conservation Authority supports the urgent development of marine protection tools that are consistent with te ao Māori and the Treaty. These future tools must enable indigenous leadership.....
See full article HERE
Rongoā bill denies full rangatiratanga
A leading rongoā Māori practitioner is accusing the Government of circumventing the Crown’s treaty obligations with its proposed changes to the Therapeutic Products Bill.
Donna Kerridge says what’s proposed falls far short of the rangatiratanga discussed in the WAI 262 claim on indigenous fauna and flora, including rongoa.
“Essentially, the crown has graciously conceded that so long as Maori limit rongoa to a cottage industry they will allow it. Should we show signs of or attempt any serious commercial potential, the crown retains the right to set the rules,” Ms Kerridge says....
See full article HERE
Māori Standing Committee selection process to begin – Wairoa District Council
He said the purpose of the Māori Standing Committee is to assist Council with the implementation of policies and work programmes to enable effective governance, engagement, and service delivery for the district’s Māori communities.
“The Māori Standing Committee provides a vital role within Council offering insight into strategic issues for Māori and the communities represented in the development of the Long-Term Plan, the effectiveness of the District Plan and the delivery of the Annual Plan. Representatives also ensure the work of the Committee is carried out in a way that enhances the social, economic, cultural, and environmental wellbeing of the Wairoa district.”....
See full article HERE
GMO a Treaty issue, not for governments alone - Māori Organics Authority
The National Māori Organics Authority - Te Waka Kai Ora says genetic modification is a Tiriti o Waitangi issue and not something governments can make decisions on outside of Treaty partnerships.
But Hutchins argues GE and GMO equate to bio-piracy and are a stepping stone to another wave of colonisation.
"Genetic technologies are technologies that deliver profit. First of all colonisation came for our lands and our people. And this wave of colonisation is coming for the DNA or the genetic sequences of what Te Waka Kai Ora describes as ngā mokopuna o Ranginui me Papatūānuku - of flora and fauna.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Graham Adams: Are bilingual road signs safe or even sensible?
Propaganda:
No fear: Ōpōtiki teachers and students attended gang leader’s tangi
James Shaw Trading Māori Futures For A Few Green Vote
Ending streaming in schools just one step on path to fix disparities that impact Māori, says expert
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Friday June 16, 2023
News:
Libraries learn about a sustainable future
It is also exciting to hear mātauranga Māori being emphasised for our communities,” says Rachel Esson, National Librarian Te Pouhuaki at the National Library of New Zealand.
One of the major focus areas with these grants is centering the work on mātauranga Māori and making libraries more accessible for Māori.
One of the major focus areas with these grants is centering the work on mātauranga Māori and making libraries more accessible for Māori.
One of these projects is He Kupenga Horopounamu grant, led by the Māori Outcome Delivery unit – Te Waka Kerewai at Auckland Council. This project is looking to change libraries’ practice and service design to achieve better outcomes for Māori communities.....
See full article HERE
Apple and Te Pūkenga partner up to empower Māori and Pasifika
New Zealand's largest tertiary education provider Te Pūkenga has joined forces with Apple to address the technology inequality Māori and Pasifika students face.
The technology giant is expanding its REJI (Racial Equity and Justice Initiative) programme originally meant for the United States, to Aotearoa.
The programme was originally launched in 2020 to address systemic racism and bridge the digital gap for communities of colour.....
See full article HERE
Kaupapa Māori circus school established in Tāmaki
Te Pou Theatre and The Dust Palace, a circus theatre company, have joined forces to establish New Zealand's first kaupapa Māori circus school called Te Kura Maninirau.....
See full article HERE
Fast food giant continues te reo efforts
McDonald's New Zealand has been working closely with Te Taura Whiri i te reo Māori, the Māori Language Commission, to develop reo names for its menu items and educate staff members on correct pronunciation.
"We've been on a journey for five years now, so it's just about how we better embed te reo Māori strategy into our business," Kenny explained......
See full article HERE
Third mahi toi added to Ara Tuhono - Puhoi to Warkworth motorway
A third mahi toi artwork has been installed and blessed by local iwi and hapū at the southern end of the new Ara-Tūhono - Pūhoi to Warkworth motorway.
The motorway, which will open soon, features a series of mahi toi, which reflect the history and values of mana whenua traditional people with authority over the land in the area.....
See full article HERE
Propaganda:
Strong te ao Māori-based health agency essential
“The Commonwealth was built on the stolen wealth and blood of indigenous nations. It is the throne from which the Crown maintains white supremacy globally”
Decolonising science with research grounded in kaupapa Māori
Apple and Te Pūkenga partner up to empower Māori and Pasifika
New Zealand's largest tertiary education provider Te Pūkenga has joined forces with Apple to address the technology inequality Māori and Pasifika students face.
The technology giant is expanding its REJI (Racial Equity and Justice Initiative) programme originally meant for the United States, to Aotearoa.
The programme was originally launched in 2020 to address systemic racism and bridge the digital gap for communities of colour.....
See full article HERE
Kaupapa Māori circus school established in Tāmaki
Te Pou Theatre and The Dust Palace, a circus theatre company, have joined forces to establish New Zealand's first kaupapa Māori circus school called Te Kura Maninirau.....
See full article HERE
Fast food giant continues te reo efforts
McDonald's New Zealand has been working closely with Te Taura Whiri i te reo Māori, the Māori Language Commission, to develop reo names for its menu items and educate staff members on correct pronunciation.
"We've been on a journey for five years now, so it's just about how we better embed te reo Māori strategy into our business," Kenny explained......
See full article HERE
Third mahi toi added to Ara Tuhono - Puhoi to Warkworth motorway
A third mahi toi artwork has been installed and blessed by local iwi and hapū at the southern end of the new Ara-Tūhono - Pūhoi to Warkworth motorway.
The motorway, which will open soon, features a series of mahi toi, which reflect the history and values of mana whenua traditional people with authority over the land in the area.....
See full article HERE
Propaganda:
Strong te ao Māori-based health agency essential
“The Commonwealth was built on the stolen wealth and blood of indigenous nations. It is the throne from which the Crown maintains white supremacy globally”
Decolonising science with research grounded in kaupapa Māori
Thursday June 15, 2023
News:
Stardome reopens after major $2 million upgrade to reveal focus on Māori astronomy
The iconic Stardome observatory will reopen on Monday, June 19, to reveal a new and improved space centre that places mātauranga Māori alongside Western scientific tradition.
Stardome CEO Victoria Travers says one of the most significant improvements to the observatory is the increased focus on Māori astronomy, giving visitors access to the first knowledge of our skies.
Stardome CEO Victoria Travers says one of the most significant improvements to the observatory is the increased focus on Māori astronomy, giving visitors access to the first knowledge of our skies.
“We’re situating Māori knowledge about space in its rightful place alongside existing scientific understanding, so that our manuhiri, or visitors, can learn the richness and relevance of both traditions,” says Victoria.
Stardome will be the first place in Aotearoa to offer a comprehensive star map showing over 100 Māori names of whetū (stars), aorangi (planets), and constellations.....
See full article HERE
HCA welcomes first moves on alcohol, says Te Tiriti, marketing next steps
"HCA expects a more principled approach that embeds Te Tiriti o Waitangi in alcohol law, to ensure the regulatory system provides appropriate authority and protection for hapū and iwi Māori in all aspects that impact the wellbeing of Māori communities."....
See full article HERE
Anahera Morehu appointed chief archivist – poumanaaki
Anahera Morehu has been appointed chief archivist at Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga Archives New Zealand.
Kaipara iwi Te Uri o Hau has been given funding through its commercial arm Renaissance Group Ltd from $24m of investment from the Regional Strategic Partnership Fund (RSPF) into 10 diverse projects across the country.
Stardome will be the first place in Aotearoa to offer a comprehensive star map showing over 100 Māori names of whetū (stars), aorangi (planets), and constellations.....
See full article HERE
HCA welcomes first moves on alcohol, says Te Tiriti, marketing next steps
"HCA expects a more principled approach that embeds Te Tiriti o Waitangi in alcohol law, to ensure the regulatory system provides appropriate authority and protection for hapū and iwi Māori in all aspects that impact the wellbeing of Māori communities."....
See full article HERE
Anahera Morehu appointed chief archivist – poumanaaki
Anahera Morehu has been appointed chief archivist at Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga Archives New Zealand.
Morehu is the country’s first Māori and wāhine Māori to hold this statutory role in a permanent capacity. She is currently the acting chief archivist, seconded into the role in November 2022. Her substantive position was kaihautū for Archives NZ.
“The role brings an opportunity to manaaki or to enhance and acknowledge the taonga housed within our facilities,” Morehu (Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri, Ngāti Kahu) says.....
See full article HERE
Iwi unite to protect fisheries settlement
The chair of Te Ohu Kaimoana says the Māori fisheries settlement trust will start pulling iwi together to work on alternatives to the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary.
A special general meeting yesterday overwhelmingly voted to reject the latest crown plan for the proposed sanctuary, which would have prohibited any commercial activity while committing $40 million over 20 years for research on aquatic life and fish stocks in the 620,000 square kilometre area.
Rangimarie Hunia says the fisheries settlement guaranteed iwi 20 percent of the quota in that space, which is more than twice the size of Aotearoa.
She says iwi want to be able go back to the drawing board to design and lead an indigenous-inspired solution to the health and well being of the moana.....
See full article HERE
“The role brings an opportunity to manaaki or to enhance and acknowledge the taonga housed within our facilities,” Morehu (Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri, Ngāti Kahu) says.....
See full article HERE
Iwi unite to protect fisheries settlement
The chair of Te Ohu Kaimoana says the Māori fisheries settlement trust will start pulling iwi together to work on alternatives to the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary.
A special general meeting yesterday overwhelmingly voted to reject the latest crown plan for the proposed sanctuary, which would have prohibited any commercial activity while committing $40 million over 20 years for research on aquatic life and fish stocks in the 620,000 square kilometre area.
Rangimarie Hunia says the fisheries settlement guaranteed iwi 20 percent of the quota in that space, which is more than twice the size of Aotearoa.
She says iwi want to be able go back to the drawing board to design and lead an indigenous-inspired solution to the health and well being of the moana.....
See full article HERE
Wednesday June 14, 2023
News:
Government loan for avocado orchard on Northland iwi’s land
A Northland iwi’s commercial arm has been given a $1.74 million government loan to develop an avocado orchard on 20 hectares of its land south of Dargaville.
Kaipara iwi Te Uri o Hau has been given funding through its commercial arm Renaissance Group Ltd from $24m of investment from the Regional Strategic Partnership Fund (RSPF) into 10 diverse projects across the country.
The RSPF loan is to develop a 20-hectare haas avocado orchard near Te Kōpuru, south of Dargaville. It’s the only Northland project to benefit from this latest round of RSPF funding.....
See full article HERE
Maniapoto And Ngāti Tama Move Forward Together
Maniapoto and Ngāti Tama met this week to jointly work towards the development of an agreement in principle regarding shared areas of interest between the two iwi.....
See full article HERE
Waitangi Tribunal hears veterans’ woes
Former defence minister Ron Mark hopes the Waitangi Tribunal veterans’ inquiry will help unite people.
After almost eight years of preparation, hearings on the Wai 2500 claim started in Rotorua yesterday.
It will include issues such as the treatment of service people and their families who were affected by Agent Orange in Vietnam, and even further back the treatment of returning soldiers after World War 1, when pakeha soldiers were given farms, often on Maori land taken for the purpose, but no farms were given to Maori veterans.....
See full article HERE
Move immunisations away from GPs to help Māori tamariki: experts
There are calls to move the responsibility for giving childhood immunisations away from GPs and into the hands of whānau and community organisations in a bid to lift low and declining rates for Māori and Pacific children.
The latest data from the Ministry of Health shows that just 47% of pēpi Māori are fully vaccinated at 6 months – a drop of 17 percentage points since March 2020.....
See full article HERE
GMO easing would spark Māori opposition
“Maori went to the Royal Commission (on genetically modified organisms) in 2000 – FOMA, Maori Council, Maori Congress, Wai 262 claimants, Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu, Muaupoko – who all strongly opposed GMOs. So this is not a new debate for Maori. We clearly laid out 23 years ago, as we always do, that these types of discussions need to happen within treaty frameworks and within treaty partnerships,” she says.....
See full article HERE
Ohiwa Oysters becomes Māori business
The iconic Ohiwa Oyster Farm is coming under full Māori ownership.
The farm opened in 1968, and since then hundreds of thousands of visitors have stopped at its harbourside takeaway kiosk just past Ohope for a feed of oysters and fish and chips.
The new owners are Wini Geddes from Ngati Awa and her husband Simon, who run a successful forestry training company Tāne Mahuta NZ Ltd.....
See full article HERE
Māori bear brunt of police tactical options
Use of force by New Zealand Police remains low, Māori accounted for a disproportionately high number of cases in 2021.
In 2021, Māori accounted for over half of all tactical option events and over half of all offences of assaulting police.....
See full article HERE
Changes To Therapeutic Products Bill A Huge Win For Māori
After much pressure from rongoā Māori practitioners, health advocates, Māori health providers, patients, and Te Pāti Māori, the Government has today announced significant changes to the to the Therapeutic Products Bill.
The legislation will now exempt rongoā Māori practitioners and small-scale Natural Health Product (NHP) manufacturers.
An advisory committee of rongoā experts and Māori health leaders will be established to ensure the regulation of our rongoā and mātauranga remains in Māori hands.....
See full article HERE
Government faces dilemma - and a court battle - over ocean sanctuary
Te Ohu Kaimoana, the organisation representing iwi fishing interests, has rejected a new proposal to establish a massive ocean sanctuary in waters north of New Zealand.
The unanimous vote – which was taken at a special annual general meeting in Wellington on Tuesday – may finally kill off the proposal for good.
Stuff understands the Government was planning to green-light the sanctuary, making it one of the world’s largest, if it secured an agreement from Te Ohu Kaimoana (TOKM) and mana whenua Ngāti Kuri, and was blind-sided by the no vote.....
See full article HERE
Ahiwaru says no claims on Auckland Airport shares without us!
Maangere mana whenua group Te Ahiwaru Trust are calling on Auckland Council, the New Zealand Government and Waikato-Tainui to acknowledge our ahi kaa as the rightful recipients of any available Auckland Airport shares as a result of Council’s proposed budget cuts.
Waikato-Tainui has declared to actively acquire shares as part of outstanding treaty claims over the Manukau, which crosses over our rohe pootae.
The issue of the airport shares is without a doubt a political hot potato, with Tuku Morgan stating his proposal would see the Crown buy the shares from Auckland Council, then transfer them to the iwi through the Treaty Settlement process. Te Ahiwaru is clear in our view that any discussion of shares must be had with us.
“For too long Te Ahiwaru have been overlooked and dismissed in the political and environmental landscape of Taamaki Makaurau,”....
See full article HERE
Maniapoto And Ngāti Tama Move Forward Together
Maniapoto and Ngāti Tama met this week to jointly work towards the development of an agreement in principle regarding shared areas of interest between the two iwi.....
See full article HERE
Waitangi Tribunal hears veterans’ woes
Former defence minister Ron Mark hopes the Waitangi Tribunal veterans’ inquiry will help unite people.
After almost eight years of preparation, hearings on the Wai 2500 claim started in Rotorua yesterday.
It will include issues such as the treatment of service people and their families who were affected by Agent Orange in Vietnam, and even further back the treatment of returning soldiers after World War 1, when pakeha soldiers were given farms, often on Maori land taken for the purpose, but no farms were given to Maori veterans.....
See full article HERE
Move immunisations away from GPs to help Māori tamariki: experts
There are calls to move the responsibility for giving childhood immunisations away from GPs and into the hands of whānau and community organisations in a bid to lift low and declining rates for Māori and Pacific children.
The latest data from the Ministry of Health shows that just 47% of pēpi Māori are fully vaccinated at 6 months – a drop of 17 percentage points since March 2020.....
See full article HERE
GMO easing would spark Māori opposition
“Maori went to the Royal Commission (on genetically modified organisms) in 2000 – FOMA, Maori Council, Maori Congress, Wai 262 claimants, Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu, Muaupoko – who all strongly opposed GMOs. So this is not a new debate for Maori. We clearly laid out 23 years ago, as we always do, that these types of discussions need to happen within treaty frameworks and within treaty partnerships,” she says.....
See full article HERE
Ohiwa Oysters becomes Māori business
The iconic Ohiwa Oyster Farm is coming under full Māori ownership.
The farm opened in 1968, and since then hundreds of thousands of visitors have stopped at its harbourside takeaway kiosk just past Ohope for a feed of oysters and fish and chips.
The new owners are Wini Geddes from Ngati Awa and her husband Simon, who run a successful forestry training company Tāne Mahuta NZ Ltd.....
See full article HERE
Māori bear brunt of police tactical options
Use of force by New Zealand Police remains low, Māori accounted for a disproportionately high number of cases in 2021.
In 2021, Māori accounted for over half of all tactical option events and over half of all offences of assaulting police.....
See full article HERE
Changes To Therapeutic Products Bill A Huge Win For Māori
After much pressure from rongoā Māori practitioners, health advocates, Māori health providers, patients, and Te Pāti Māori, the Government has today announced significant changes to the to the Therapeutic Products Bill.
The legislation will now exempt rongoā Māori practitioners and small-scale Natural Health Product (NHP) manufacturers.
An advisory committee of rongoā experts and Māori health leaders will be established to ensure the regulation of our rongoā and mātauranga remains in Māori hands.....
See full article HERE
Government faces dilemma - and a court battle - over ocean sanctuary
Te Ohu Kaimoana, the organisation representing iwi fishing interests, has rejected a new proposal to establish a massive ocean sanctuary in waters north of New Zealand.
The unanimous vote – which was taken at a special annual general meeting in Wellington on Tuesday – may finally kill off the proposal for good.
Stuff understands the Government was planning to green-light the sanctuary, making it one of the world’s largest, if it secured an agreement from Te Ohu Kaimoana (TOKM) and mana whenua Ngāti Kuri, and was blind-sided by the no vote.....
See full article HERE
Ahiwaru says no claims on Auckland Airport shares without us!
Maangere mana whenua group Te Ahiwaru Trust are calling on Auckland Council, the New Zealand Government and Waikato-Tainui to acknowledge our ahi kaa as the rightful recipients of any available Auckland Airport shares as a result of Council’s proposed budget cuts.
Waikato-Tainui has declared to actively acquire shares as part of outstanding treaty claims over the Manukau, which crosses over our rohe pootae.
The issue of the airport shares is without a doubt a political hot potato, with Tuku Morgan stating his proposal would see the Crown buy the shares from Auckland Council, then transfer them to the iwi through the Treaty Settlement process. Te Ahiwaru is clear in our view that any discussion of shares must be had with us.
“For too long Te Ahiwaru have been overlooked and dismissed in the political and environmental landscape of Taamaki Makaurau,”....
See full article HERE
Tuesday June 13, 2023
News:
National Party plans to scrap Te Aka Whai Ora - Māori Health Authority under fire
Bay of Plenty health providers have hit out at National’s plan to scrap Te Aka Whai Ora - The Māori Health Authority, with one saying: “Don’t make us invisible”.
He said that when healthcare used cultural systems and cultural frameworks, this supported people positively.
He said that when healthcare used cultural systems and cultural frameworks, this supported people positively.
Te Puna Ora O Mataatu has a Rongoā clinic (traditional Māori healing system) which works alongside its medical GP clinic. “When clients come in, they can have the choice between medicine from a Western point of view, but also from a Māori point of view.”
Tooley said traditional Māori healthcare practices such as giving new mothers support in the first 1000 days after childbirth or people entering their “twilight” years could currently receive funding in relation to targeting particular populations.....
See full article HERE
Tauranga wins Māori-Council partnerships award
Tauranga City Council has won Te Tohu Waka Hourua – The Buddle Findlay Award for Māori-Council Partnerships at the 2023 LGFA Taituarā Local Government Excellence Awards.
The Council’s ‘Joint Land Ownership – the Right Thing to Do’ project received the honour at the awards ceremony in Wellington. The partnership focused on the joint ownership solution with Otamataha Trust for the land beneath Tauranga’s civic precinct, where Te Manawataki o Te Papa will be built.
Commission Chair, Anne Tolley said she was delighted to hear that the Council’s unique approach to resolving a longstanding land grievance had been recognised with such a prestigious award.....
See full article HERE
GM is a Tiriti o Waitangi issue
Genetic modification is a Tiriti o Waitangi issue, and no political party has the autonomy to make determinations about it without the free prior informed consent of Te Ao Māori, says Te Waka Kai Ora (National Māori Organics Authority)......
See full article HERE
Wahine Māori Chosen To Advise The Director General Of The World Trade Organisation
Te Taumata Māori Trade Board Member and Businesswoman, Tania Te Whenua (Tūhoe, Te Whakatōhea) has been appointed to the inaugural World Trade Organisation (WTO) Civil Advisory Board. Tania will join eight other non-government leaders from across the world to meet bienually with World Trade Organisation Director General Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to bring diverse views and insights to some of the most pressing crisis that the world is facing and which impact trade and global economic stability.
The appointment is credit to the wisdom that Māori and New Zealand have to offer on an international platform.....to emphasise the importance of indigenous voices and women being heard at the WTO and discuss opportunities to increase this......
See full article HERE
'Coalition of colonisers' - Ngarewa-Packer slams Māori MPs for climate inaction, says Nats/ Act would be worse
Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer has criticised fellow Māori politicians for their alleged insufficient efforts in addressing climate change.
Ngarewa-Packer suggested her criticism of Labour government inaction would be worse under a National and ACT government, which she branded 'the coalition of colonisers'.....
See full article HERE
Warehouse apologises for Te Reo mistake inviting people to 'have a beer day'
An attempt to invite people to 'have a good day' in Te Reo has backfired for the Warehouse which instead suggested people 'have a beer day'.
The Warehouse Group has apologised for selling a blank A4 notebook with the misspelled Māori greeting on its cover.
Instead of kia pai te rā - have a good day - the notebook cover stated kia pia te rā - have a beer day.
Rather than put people off using Te Reo, Higgins wants to encourage it......
See full article HERE
Board gives bicultural perspective on police training
There’s a strong Māori presence on a new independent advisory board for the Royal New Zealand Police College.
The board has been set up to give Police advice on training and professional development, including bicultural and diversity-centric approaches to learning and community expectations of police training.
It will be chaired by former Police director of intelligence Mark Evans and includes Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira board member Caleb Ware, Te Kura Māori Ngā Tapuwae principal Arihia Stirling, former Tuahiwi School principal Melanie Taite-Pitama, who’s now with the Education Ministry, former race relations conciliator Gregory Fortuin, and others.
See full article HERE
Māori leaders call on King Charles, New Zealand Government to reject Doctrine of Christian Discovery
Some Māori leaders are calling on King Charles III and the New Zealand Government to formally reject a legal concept Pope Nicholas V first pushed through in 1452 as a justification for colonisation.
The Doctrine of Christian Discovery was issued 317 years before Captain James Cook set foot in Aotearoa New Zealand and 190 years before Abel Tasman and his crew became the first Europeans to lay eyes on it.
But Māori and other indigenous peoples around the globe said the document provided the original justification used by all European colonising forces in the centuries that followed - and it is still causing damage today.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Who is Maori? - Michael Bassett?
Media Freedom to be Muzzled – Muriel Newman.
If I Wanted New Zealand to Fail – Frank Newman.
Propaganda:
Do we deserve to feel superior?
What it feels like to be singled out because of your race
Architecture that embodies mātauranga Māori
Tooley said traditional Māori healthcare practices such as giving new mothers support in the first 1000 days after childbirth or people entering their “twilight” years could currently receive funding in relation to targeting particular populations.....
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Tauranga wins Māori-Council partnerships award
Tauranga City Council has won Te Tohu Waka Hourua – The Buddle Findlay Award for Māori-Council Partnerships at the 2023 LGFA Taituarā Local Government Excellence Awards.
The Council’s ‘Joint Land Ownership – the Right Thing to Do’ project received the honour at the awards ceremony in Wellington. The partnership focused on the joint ownership solution with Otamataha Trust for the land beneath Tauranga’s civic precinct, where Te Manawataki o Te Papa will be built.
Commission Chair, Anne Tolley said she was delighted to hear that the Council’s unique approach to resolving a longstanding land grievance had been recognised with such a prestigious award.....
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GM is a Tiriti o Waitangi issue
Genetic modification is a Tiriti o Waitangi issue, and no political party has the autonomy to make determinations about it without the free prior informed consent of Te Ao Māori, says Te Waka Kai Ora (National Māori Organics Authority)......
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Wahine Māori Chosen To Advise The Director General Of The World Trade Organisation
Te Taumata Māori Trade Board Member and Businesswoman, Tania Te Whenua (Tūhoe, Te Whakatōhea) has been appointed to the inaugural World Trade Organisation (WTO) Civil Advisory Board. Tania will join eight other non-government leaders from across the world to meet bienually with World Trade Organisation Director General Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to bring diverse views and insights to some of the most pressing crisis that the world is facing and which impact trade and global economic stability.
The appointment is credit to the wisdom that Māori and New Zealand have to offer on an international platform.....to emphasise the importance of indigenous voices and women being heard at the WTO and discuss opportunities to increase this......
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'Coalition of colonisers' - Ngarewa-Packer slams Māori MPs for climate inaction, says Nats/ Act would be worse
Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer has criticised fellow Māori politicians for their alleged insufficient efforts in addressing climate change.
Ngarewa-Packer suggested her criticism of Labour government inaction would be worse under a National and ACT government, which she branded 'the coalition of colonisers'.....
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Warehouse apologises for Te Reo mistake inviting people to 'have a beer day'
An attempt to invite people to 'have a good day' in Te Reo has backfired for the Warehouse which instead suggested people 'have a beer day'.
The Warehouse Group has apologised for selling a blank A4 notebook with the misspelled Māori greeting on its cover.
Instead of kia pai te rā - have a good day - the notebook cover stated kia pia te rā - have a beer day.
Rather than put people off using Te Reo, Higgins wants to encourage it......
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Board gives bicultural perspective on police training
There’s a strong Māori presence on a new independent advisory board for the Royal New Zealand Police College.
The board has been set up to give Police advice on training and professional development, including bicultural and diversity-centric approaches to learning and community expectations of police training.
It will be chaired by former Police director of intelligence Mark Evans and includes Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira board member Caleb Ware, Te Kura Māori Ngā Tapuwae principal Arihia Stirling, former Tuahiwi School principal Melanie Taite-Pitama, who’s now with the Education Ministry, former race relations conciliator Gregory Fortuin, and others.
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Māori leaders call on King Charles, New Zealand Government to reject Doctrine of Christian Discovery
Some Māori leaders are calling on King Charles III and the New Zealand Government to formally reject a legal concept Pope Nicholas V first pushed through in 1452 as a justification for colonisation.
The Doctrine of Christian Discovery was issued 317 years before Captain James Cook set foot in Aotearoa New Zealand and 190 years before Abel Tasman and his crew became the first Europeans to lay eyes on it.
But Māori and other indigenous peoples around the globe said the document provided the original justification used by all European colonising forces in the centuries that followed - and it is still causing damage today.....
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Sunday June 11, 2023
News:
Kerikeri to become Far North’s first official bilingual town
Kerikeri already makes good use of its Māori heritage and now the Bay of Islands centre will become the first bilingual town in the Far North after an agreement between the Far North District Council and hapū.
The council and Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Rēhia on behalf of the hapū signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at last Thursday’s full council meeting.
A working group will be established to develop more spaces, places and opportunities in Kerikeri where te reo Māori is seen, heard and celebrated alongside the English language…..
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Tangaroa college
We seek a HOL of Te Reo Māori for a permanent, full-time position to start at the beginning of term 3. The successful applicant will possess excellent interpersonal and organisational skills and teach the indigenous language of Aotearoa - Te Reo Maori to Junior and Senior NCEA Levels 1-3. The successful applicant will contribute to curriculum development and innovation within the Te Reo Maori learning area and school-wide initiatives.
As a school, we are encouraged to seek an innovative leader that values Tikanga and has sound knowledge of the changes of NCEA with the significance of Mātauranga Māori....
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Young mothers seeking the light
The parenting and life skills students learn are approached with a particular Māori focus and Kaupapa [knowledge, attitudes and values], which is reflected by the unit’s recently being renamed ‘
Puawānanga’.
“We consulted with iwi and students and staff and decided they wanted a name that reflected the culture of our unit,” manager Prue Harawira-Smith explains....
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Two roads given Māori names
The council is working with mana whenua representatives to create a list of pre-approved names in te reo.
When a new road needs to be named, the approved name is put forward as one of the three options for the council to consider.
In a statement this week, Ms Suter said since the policy’s implementation a year ago, nine new roads within the Invercargill boundary had been named.
"Two of which are in te reo.....
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A working group will be established to develop more spaces, places and opportunities in Kerikeri where te reo Māori is seen, heard and celebrated alongside the English language…..
See full article HERE
Tangaroa college
We seek a HOL of Te Reo Māori for a permanent, full-time position to start at the beginning of term 3. The successful applicant will possess excellent interpersonal and organisational skills and teach the indigenous language of Aotearoa - Te Reo Maori to Junior and Senior NCEA Levels 1-3. The successful applicant will contribute to curriculum development and innovation within the Te Reo Maori learning area and school-wide initiatives.
As a school, we are encouraged to seek an innovative leader that values Tikanga and has sound knowledge of the changes of NCEA with the significance of Mātauranga Māori....
See full article HERE
Young mothers seeking the light
The parenting and life skills students learn are approached with a particular Māori focus and Kaupapa [knowledge, attitudes and values], which is reflected by the unit’s recently being renamed ‘
Puawānanga’.
“We consulted with iwi and students and staff and decided they wanted a name that reflected the culture of our unit,” manager Prue Harawira-Smith explains....
See full article HERE
Two roads given Māori names
The council is working with mana whenua representatives to create a list of pre-approved names in te reo.
When a new road needs to be named, the approved name is put forward as one of the three options for the council to consider.
In a statement this week, Ms Suter said since the policy’s implementation a year ago, nine new roads within the Invercargill boundary had been named.
"Two of which are in te reo.....
See full article HERE
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Commission on a mission to destroy democracy
Update on Marine Coastal Area claims under MACAA
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I trust in the Rongoa centre all the staff, building, cleaning, maintenance, consultation, administration, communications costs are diligently separated from the public funding and charged in full to the "clients" who, imagining decolonisation, presumably favour the stone age treatment offered. It is remarkable that maori who often seem so reluctant to seek normal treatemnt, follow instructions, or cannot trouble to collect subscriptions, can favour and prsumably pay for tohunga snake oil.
Re 14th, I wonder what other avocado growers in the area think of the loans to maori. If at more fvourable rates must be very dispiriting. And sure not to be held to account as others. If the rorts and slack approach run the business down chances are the loan will be written off. The state dare not be be seen to take over property if it belongs to maori.
All maori will unite to lure child immunisation from GPs. A stream of subsidy money then flows to a myriad ill defined, unaccountable positions.The message to keep it in the extended whanau and not go to the GP filters to the mothers.
It may increase imunisation relative te present but a hard hitting emotive campaign to encourage GP immunisation, accompanied by the discontinution of soft alternatives, would likely prove effective and economical.As soon as lucrative soft options are offered a slide to rorts and gross inefficiently is triggered.
Re 16th. So libraries are to embrace the un defined and undefinable matauranga. Basically now amounts to whatever pleases maori, thus representing their knowledge system. I live in a suburb with a large trace maori (and pacifica) population. The local library has an extensive maori section. The apparent lack of demand astonishes me. Books like Maori Battalion sit on display unloaned for months on end. Ditto soft on maori Claudia on the Treaty etc. The Musket Wars which I would expect to be on a waiting list, lingered for weeks.
For many users the library would be much improved without maori. When the local secondary school discharges most of the pupils make for the takeaway shops but many gravitate to the library. The Asians sit alone and beaver on their laptops. The maori/pacifica sit in groups and fool, snigger, and play on their phones, disrupting all.
The City library system has almost abandoned technical topics. In the Central Library the shelving has near vanished. Meanwhile there is a vast rack devoted to comics!! And benches for the street dwellers to doze on.
What will it be like if made more pro maori?
Waititi is to deliver one of the standard activist/revolutionist rants to the Cambridge Union. The nation whose contribution effectively led to the defeat of Hitler with his race policies may not appreciate being told that it has been nothing but detrimental to the fate of indigenous peoples. Thirty years or more ago he would have been dismissed with derision. But, there as here, most are terrified of cancellation so criticism will be muted or nil. Some from the social studies and humanities are sure to see career advantage in supporting his wild irresponsible statements.
Stupid me, when I went to the local library and asked for a remedial book on phonics reading in English I was informed English wasn't phonic but Maori was ! Am I dreadfully in error in imagining most of the books in the library are still written in English ? I also have been involved in teaching phonic English reading for 40 years and know English is 85% phonic.
When I asked politely if there were any phonic reading books for beginner readers I was informed the library wasn't an instructional center. When I told them I had seen such books in their catalogue I was told to go and look through the many hundreds if not thousands in the junior collection and find them myself.
The science of reading has shown conclusively that phonics is the way to go in teaching reading . Robert, libraries are now full of comic (graphic) readers because that is all kids can read now because of Whole Language instruction.
Much has been said in recent times of matauranga Maori and its value to science and education more generally. One must wonder if that is the problem with our rangatahi today - in that they are now embracing traditional knowledge and learning systems that were devoid of a written language? With the inherent flexibility of a verbal and 'memory only' knowledge repository that is, in itself, clearly apt to change over time and be subject to error and other corruption, perhaps it's not wholly unsurprising that there is little desire to learn literacy and numeracy and, that a 'world view', that is now becoming an apparent 'must have', is perhaps better obtained out in the 'real world' than some classroom (or library) that is mainly filled with those with little understanding of it. Hence, perhaps, that is why we have a growing level of truancy?
I suspect that, in this case Ms Anderson is at least partially correct and justice would be better served for all parties if the trip from the courthouse for gang members and tribal elite bypassed prison completely and went directly to the gallows.
New Zealand would become a law-abiding country overnight.
So how will two justice systems work?.If two friends, one maori.and one samoan or pakeha say, rob a.dairy and beat up or stab the shop owner, then the maori.one gets no charges and just has to speak to.the maree, but the friend goes to court and gets charged? This seems beyond belief.
If Maori (and our idiot government) want to keep Maori out of the justice system then all Maori need to do is stop criminal acts. Simple.
Why Maori mouthpieces cant see this confounds me.
NZ prissns clearly are no place for maori. The un fettered cultural stone age instincts are still too dominant. Long sentences to somewhere akin Norfolk Island in the 19th century would likely work and would certainly keep NZ safer in the meantime. I gather Nauru is now vacant. Finding guards sufficently brave would be a problem. Violence and rebellion encouraging haka/kapahaka would have to be banned. And imagining decolonisation propoganda. England maintained a high degree of order without a Police force, but with deportation.
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