Monday July 1, 2024
News:
Wairarapa lakes return to iwi ownership
Today the Crown joined Rangitāne and Ngāti Kahungunu at Papawai Marae to mark the return of Wairarapa Moana to iwi, Treaty Negotiations Minister Paul Goldsmith and Māori Crown Relations Minister Tama Potaka says.
“The legal transfer of the ownership of Wairarapa Moana is the final chapter in a fraught dispute between the Crown, settlers, and Wairarapa Māori spanning more than a century,” Mr Goldsmith says.
“In 1896, Wairarapa Māori gifted Wairarapa Moana and its surrounding reserves to the Crown through chiefly gifting. A promise was made to provide suitable land nearby, but this was never honoured. Instead the Crown provided Wairarapa Māori land years later far away.....
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Our long term plan - Otorohanga DC
Earlier this month I [Max Baxter] presented to a parliamentary select committee supported by Chief Executive Tanya Winter and our two Rangiatea Ward Councillors Jaimee Tamaki and Roy Willison. We recommended that Māori wards be decided by councils based on an informed consideration of the needs and preferences of each community, especially Māori including iwi, hapū, marae and hāpori Māori. We recommended the proposed bill be withdrawn, arguing it was council’s democratic right to decide matters of importance for and on behalf of our community. Furthermore, we said the proposed restoration of polls re-imposed a higher procedural standard on one particular representation arrangement than applies to others.
The majority of councils in New Zealand submitted on the proposed change in legislation, clearly opposing the requirement to hold a referendum or disestablish Māori wards.....
See full article HERE
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Barrie Davis: A Referendum to Save New Zealand’s Parliament
Propaganda:
A chance to reset, but also to reflect on what Matariki could yet lead to
‘Our history is your history’: Lessons from Parihaka for Pākehā
Maramataka: How three Bay of Plenty Māori lunar calendar users embrace ancient knowledge
Most Racist Government in Years: Report to United Nations - Margaret Mutu
See full article HERE
Our long term plan - Otorohanga DC
Earlier this month I [Max Baxter] presented to a parliamentary select committee supported by Chief Executive Tanya Winter and our two Rangiatea Ward Councillors Jaimee Tamaki and Roy Willison. We recommended that Māori wards be decided by councils based on an informed consideration of the needs and preferences of each community, especially Māori including iwi, hapū, marae and hāpori Māori. We recommended the proposed bill be withdrawn, arguing it was council’s democratic right to decide matters of importance for and on behalf of our community. Furthermore, we said the proposed restoration of polls re-imposed a higher procedural standard on one particular representation arrangement than applies to others.
The majority of councils in New Zealand submitted on the proposed change in legislation, clearly opposing the requirement to hold a referendum or disestablish Māori wards.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Barrie Davis: A Referendum to Save New Zealand’s Parliament
Propaganda:
A chance to reset, but also to reflect on what Matariki could yet lead to
‘Our history is your history’: Lessons from Parihaka for Pākehā
Maramataka: How three Bay of Plenty Māori lunar calendar users embrace ancient knowledge
Most Racist Government in Years: Report to United Nations - Margaret Mutu
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1 comment:
if all councillors had voted in total secrecy, thus reducing the risk of crippling canvcellation, I suspect the attitude to obstructive grandstanding time wasting maori wards woud have been very different
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