Wednesday February 19, 2025
News:
Ō-Rākau battle site to return to tūpuna ownership
The Te Pire mō Ō-Rākau, Te Pae o Maumahara / Ō-Rākau Remembrance Bill passed its third reading at Parliament today. The Bill will vest the title to the 9.7-hectare battle site, five kilometres east of Kihikihi, in ngā tūpuna o Ō-Rākau – the ancestors of Ō-Rākau.
Returning the Ō-Rākau battle site to tūpuna ownership will help to recognise the past and safeguard their stories for the benefit of future generations, says Minister for Māori Crown Relations, Tama Potaka.
“This unique arrangement acknowledges those who were present during the battle or had traditional connections to the land,” Mr Potaka says.....
See full article HERE
$4.3m for two Far North power resilience projects
At Waitangi Day commemorations in the Bay of Islands, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones and Māori Development Minister Tama Potaka announced $7.1m of funding for Māori economic development projects in Northland and Taranaki.
The two Northland projects are in the Far North – the Te Kao Community Microgrid Project and Waimamaku Community Solar Resilience Programme. The microgrid is estimated to generate 1 gigawatt-hour (GWh) of renewable energy annually.
Tū Mai Rā Energy in the Far North has been approved $3m to construct a solar and wind-powered microgrid connected to a community battery in Te Kao providing consistent, low-cost energy supply to the community and local businesses.....
See full article HERE
National Iwi Chairs Forum Raises Urgent Concerns To United Nations Over Legislative Threats To Indigenous & Human Rights
The National Iwi Chairs Forum (NICF) has made a formal submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, urging the international body to scrutinize New Zealand’s legislative developments that pose significant threats to Indigenous and human rights.
The NICF People’s Action Plan Against Racism members include Kahurangi Rangimarie Naida Glavish, Ahorangi Margaret Mutu, Rahui Papa and Aperahama Edwards.
The Forum has raised concerns regarding the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill and the Regulatory Standards Bill, which, if enacted, will radically undermine existing human rights protections, Indigenous rights, and constitutional safeguards in Aotearoa....
See full article HERE
Sculpture takes flight at south Auckland library
A new sculpture in south Auckland, inspired by Māori imagery and promoting harmony, portrays the rich history of the community, the artist says.
Jadyn Flavell’s 4 metre-high Te Manu Ka Rewa sculpture was unveiled at the Manurewa Library last December.....
See full article HERE
Chief Statistician stands down after ‘sobering’ report into misuse of census information
The Government’s chief statistician Mark Sowden has quit after two damning reports into allegations that census data collected by Manurewa Marae was misused to help Te Pāti Māori’s election campaign.
And public service agencies have been barred from signing any new contracts, or extending agreements with the marae, Te Pou Matakana - now the Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency (WOCA) - and the Waipareira Trust.
See full article HERE
$4.3m for two Far North power resilience projects
At Waitangi Day commemorations in the Bay of Islands, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones and Māori Development Minister Tama Potaka announced $7.1m of funding for Māori economic development projects in Northland and Taranaki.
The two Northland projects are in the Far North – the Te Kao Community Microgrid Project and Waimamaku Community Solar Resilience Programme. The microgrid is estimated to generate 1 gigawatt-hour (GWh) of renewable energy annually.
Tū Mai Rā Energy in the Far North has been approved $3m to construct a solar and wind-powered microgrid connected to a community battery in Te Kao providing consistent, low-cost energy supply to the community and local businesses.....
See full article HERE
National Iwi Chairs Forum Raises Urgent Concerns To United Nations Over Legislative Threats To Indigenous & Human Rights
The National Iwi Chairs Forum (NICF) has made a formal submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, urging the international body to scrutinize New Zealand’s legislative developments that pose significant threats to Indigenous and human rights.
The NICF People’s Action Plan Against Racism members include Kahurangi Rangimarie Naida Glavish, Ahorangi Margaret Mutu, Rahui Papa and Aperahama Edwards.
The Forum has raised concerns regarding the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill and the Regulatory Standards Bill, which, if enacted, will radically undermine existing human rights protections, Indigenous rights, and constitutional safeguards in Aotearoa....
See full article HERE
Sculpture takes flight at south Auckland library
A new sculpture in south Auckland, inspired by Māori imagery and promoting harmony, portrays the rich history of the community, the artist says.
Jadyn Flavell’s 4 metre-high Te Manu Ka Rewa sculpture was unveiled at the Manurewa Library last December.....
See full article HERE
Chief Statistician stands down after ‘sobering’ report into misuse of census information
The Government’s chief statistician Mark Sowden has quit after two damning reports into allegations that census data collected by Manurewa Marae was misused to help Te Pāti Māori’s election campaign.
And public service agencies have been barred from signing any new contracts, or extending agreements with the marae, Te Pou Matakana - now the Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency (WOCA) - and the Waipareira Trust.
The agency and the trust are headed by Te Pāti Māori president John Tamihere. The marae was formerly headed by the party’s MP Takutai Moana Natasha Kemp....
See full article HERE
REVEALED: Health NZ’s $4 million additional funding for Te Kurahuna ‘change agents’
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union can reveal through an Official Information Act request that Health New Zealand (Te Whatu Ora) has confirmed the continued funding of the Te Kurahuna Programme, despite the disestablishment of the Māori Health Authority.
The programme, which cost taxpayers $4 million, will see 11,000 staff access the programme until at least 30 June 2025.
This revelation follows concerns raised by the Taxpayers’ Union about Te Kurahuna’s links to the Department of Internal Affairs which previously spent $375k (on top of $575,000 staff costs) to promote using indigenous knowledge to create ‘change agents’.....
See full article HERE
Freshwater was off table in Treaty settlement – Ngāi Tahu leader
On freshwater, Ellison recalled a discussion that happened at ‘A’ team level between major figures in the Treaty of Waitangi negotiations. “Both the Crown and Kāi Tahu discussed how settling rights in freshwater was too big a task to tackle too early in the Treaty settlement project generally.”
Ellison added: “Everyone knew freshwater was a big issue, and there was a sense that we were only at the bottom of the hill. We did not want to extend negotiations out for 10 years. We wanted to nail the immediate issues and settle that which needed to be settled at that time.”.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Peter Williams: Just what is Social Cohesion?
Roger Childs: The wokeist ‘Post’ newspaper won’t comment on the real issues
Chris Lynch: Act condemns Canterbury University over race-based tutorial allocations
Yvonne van Dongen: Woke Surgeons Only Need Apply
Propaganda:
Treaty Principles Bill: Auckland Council calls bill ‘unworkable’, Ngāi Tahu leader says it could breach $170m settlement
Treaty Principles Bill: Tama Potaka accepts he needs to better understand Māori concerns over proposed laws
See full article HERE
REVEALED: Health NZ’s $4 million additional funding for Te Kurahuna ‘change agents’
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union can reveal through an Official Information Act request that Health New Zealand (Te Whatu Ora) has confirmed the continued funding of the Te Kurahuna Programme, despite the disestablishment of the Māori Health Authority.
The programme, which cost taxpayers $4 million, will see 11,000 staff access the programme until at least 30 June 2025.
This revelation follows concerns raised by the Taxpayers’ Union about Te Kurahuna’s links to the Department of Internal Affairs which previously spent $375k (on top of $575,000 staff costs) to promote using indigenous knowledge to create ‘change agents’.....
See full article HERE
Freshwater was off table in Treaty settlement – Ngāi Tahu leader
On freshwater, Ellison recalled a discussion that happened at ‘A’ team level between major figures in the Treaty of Waitangi negotiations. “Both the Crown and Kāi Tahu discussed how settling rights in freshwater was too big a task to tackle too early in the Treaty settlement project generally.”
Ellison added: “Everyone knew freshwater was a big issue, and there was a sense that we were only at the bottom of the hill. We did not want to extend negotiations out for 10 years. We wanted to nail the immediate issues and settle that which needed to be settled at that time.”.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Peter Williams: Just what is Social Cohesion?
Roger Childs: The wokeist ‘Post’ newspaper won’t comment on the real issues
Chris Lynch: Act condemns Canterbury University over race-based tutorial allocations
Yvonne van Dongen: Woke Surgeons Only Need Apply
Propaganda:
Treaty Principles Bill: Auckland Council calls bill ‘unworkable’, Ngāi Tahu leader says it could breach $170m settlement
Treaty Principles Bill: Tama Potaka accepts he needs to better understand Māori concerns over proposed laws
This Breaking Views Update monitors race relations in the media on a weekly basis. New material is added regularly. If you would like to send Letters to the Editor in response to any of these articles, most media addresses can be found HERE.
Tuesday February 18, 2025
News:
'Environmental and cultural crisis': Legal fight looms over Wairoa's freshwater
Tātau Tātau o Te Wairoa Trust has begun legal proceedings in the High Court over freshwater rights in Wairoa.
The trust is requesting a legal declaration that the beds of significant rivers and lakes in their area, such as the Wairoa River, Hangaroa River, Mangapōike River, Ruakituri River, Waiau River, Waikaretāheke River, Whakakī Lake and its surrounding tributaries, as well as Lake Waikaremoana, are held subject to customary title.
The move follows the same framework as Ngāi Tahu’s 2020 statement of claim seeking recognition of its rangatiratanga over the freshwater resources in its rohe [area].....
See full article HERE
Taranaki council vows to promote Māori wards
South Taranaki’s mayor says his council will positively promote Māori wards ahead of this year’s referendum during local body elections.
A Hāwera councillor says there’s no point trying to convince stubborn racists and the focus needs to be on what he reckons is a majority of fair-minded voters.
The promise to promote South Taranaki District Council’s Māori wards came at the year’s first hui of its iwi committee Te Kāhui Matauraura.....
See full article HERE
Propaganda:
Treaty Principles Bill: 15-year-old slams bill, says it’s damaging Govt’s ‘positive’ relationship with young people
Biggest political take away from Waitangi 2025
All Treaty attacks Should Stop
“There is no Māori privilege,” Co-Chair of Kura Kaupapa Māori Council tells select committee
The move follows the same framework as Ngāi Tahu’s 2020 statement of claim seeking recognition of its rangatiratanga over the freshwater resources in its rohe [area].....
See full article HERE
Taranaki council vows to promote Māori wards
South Taranaki’s mayor says his council will positively promote Māori wards ahead of this year’s referendum during local body elections.
A Hāwera councillor says there’s no point trying to convince stubborn racists and the focus needs to be on what he reckons is a majority of fair-minded voters.
The promise to promote South Taranaki District Council’s Māori wards came at the year’s first hui of its iwi committee Te Kāhui Matauraura.....
See full article HERE
Propaganda:
Treaty Principles Bill: 15-year-old slams bill, says it’s damaging Govt’s ‘positive’ relationship with young people
Biggest political take away from Waitangi 2025
All Treaty attacks Should Stop
“There is no Māori privilege,” Co-Chair of Kura Kaupapa Māori Council tells select committee
Monday February 17, 2025
News:
Nelson Tenths case: Māori land claim leader Rore Stafford seeks Supreme Court hearing to expedite justice
The descendants of customary landowners at the top of the South Island have been trying since colonial settlement in the 1840s to resolve an agreement to reserve 15,100 acres (6110ha) of land as the Nelson Tenths Reserves during settlement.
The Crown announced last November it was appealing a large and significant compensation decision, celebrated by iwi at the Top of the South Island (Te Tauihu) as a major turning point in what now stands as one of the country’s oldest property law claims.
The losses for Nelson Māori over unresolved land deals might have amounted to more than $1 billion, but it paled in comparison to the pain and suffering from the cultural loss of customary land, the High Court heard last year.
It said in an interim ruling last October that iwi from this part of the South Island were entitled to thousands of hectares of Crown land and millions of dollars in compensation.
It followed a 2017 Supreme Court ruling that said the Crown had a duty to honour the 1840s agreement to reserve the portion of land.
A clue to the Government’s position lay in a Budget allocation last year when it set aside $3.6 million of taxpayer funds in preparation for appealing the High Court decision.
Now, Stafford has responded by asking for the matter to skip the Court of Appeal and go straight to the Supreme Court, to avoid the already years-long case being dragged out further.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Rodney Hide: Schooling Through a Te Ao Maori Lens
Dieuwe de Boer: Rogue Bureaucrats and Feeble Ministers
Propaganda:
Kāwangatanga belongs to Māori too
The stakes could not be higher
Clues to the story of your life
The losses for Nelson Māori over unresolved land deals might have amounted to more than $1 billion, but it paled in comparison to the pain and suffering from the cultural loss of customary land, the High Court heard last year.
It said in an interim ruling last October that iwi from this part of the South Island were entitled to thousands of hectares of Crown land and millions of dollars in compensation.
It followed a 2017 Supreme Court ruling that said the Crown had a duty to honour the 1840s agreement to reserve the portion of land.
A clue to the Government’s position lay in a Budget allocation last year when it set aside $3.6 million of taxpayer funds in preparation for appealing the High Court decision.
Now, Stafford has responded by asking for the matter to skip the Court of Appeal and go straight to the Supreme Court, to avoid the already years-long case being dragged out further.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Rodney Hide: Schooling Through a Te Ao Maori Lens
Dieuwe de Boer: Rogue Bureaucrats and Feeble Ministers
Propaganda:
Kāwangatanga belongs to Māori too
The stakes could not be higher
Clues to the story of your life
Sunday February 16, 2025
News:
Labour critical of $270k staff cost over Treaty Principles Bill hearings
More than $270,000 dollars has been spent on hiring and backfiilling staff to support the Justice Select Committee in considering the Treaty Principles Bill.
The Clerk of the House confirmed eight additional fulltime temporary staff were assisting the committee, with a projected cost - until 14 May - of $189,000.
That is on top of the eight fulltime permanent staff the Clerk has allocated to the committee. Overtime for permanent staff in support of the committee is forecast to cost around $13,000.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Peter Williams: My submission on the Treaty Principles Bill
Bob Edlin: Tākuta Ferris – chided by Shane Jones for delivering apology only in Maori....
Propaganda:
Waitangi Day – a peacemaker
Ngāi Tahu witness allays fears over water consents
Kāi Tahu holds strong to right to invite PM
The committee, who received an unprecedented number of written submissions, is hearing another seven hours of oral submissions on Friday.
The Clerk of the House confirmed eight additional fulltime temporary staff were assisting the committee, with a projected cost - until 14 May - of $189,000.
That is on top of the eight fulltime permanent staff the Clerk has allocated to the committee. Overtime for permanent staff in support of the committee is forecast to cost around $13,000.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Peter Williams: My submission on the Treaty Principles Bill
Bob Edlin: Tākuta Ferris – chided by Shane Jones for delivering apology only in Maori....
Propaganda:
Waitangi Day – a peacemaker
Ngāi Tahu witness allays fears over water consents
Kāi Tahu holds strong to right to invite PM
This Breaking Views Update monitors race relations in the media on a weekly basis. New material is added regularly. If you would like to send Letters to the Editor in response to any of these articles, most media addresses can be found HERE.
10 comments:
Re: Labour critical of $270k staff cost for TP Bill, that is a bit rich considering the money they flushed down the toilet while they were in power. At least David Seymour is trying to fix things in spite of the loonie left and TPM (oh same thing really) pushback and wailing.
$270,000 is nothing. Apparently many hundred jobs with far above averge pay are associated the Waitangi Tribunal directly or indirectly, and millions are spent on legal wrangles. Then there is the colossal total cost of all the time and effort frittered nation wide in consultation and co management adopted in conned recognition of latest interpretation of the Treaty. If just a hint of Seymour's bill rubs off, these expenses should hugely reduce.
Do not hold your breath on this - as soon as the TP Bill processed is formally halted by Parliament, the WT gravy train will chug on as usual - National and Luxon will make sure that this happens. The land claims are accelerating al over NZ.
Seymour's Bill and Treaty debate may pay dividends at the 2026 election - if he can find a way to keep the issues in front of the public.
Regarding the clues to the story of your life article above, it says that you will be taught 'how to think" when you learn te reo. How to think in the so-called maori way. Oh really?
I watch people in my local library joining te reo classes. They gather at a table in the middle of the book area, not in a side area away from everyone. They are mostly people of other ethnicities who are learning it, even though I live in south auckland which is fairly maori and polynesian dominant. Indeed the teacher is a white marxist male. If you walk near them, they all look up at you smuggly smiling. It gives me the creeps.
Anon. Darling,
Hope you are very old but spry and living life to the full...... you deserve as much fun as you can get!
Seriously, who would want to be humiliated publicly for one's ethnicity? This is coming - Truth Commissions and the like. Unless your apology ( for 1840 !) is recorded , you will be cancelled.
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Does anyone know why new zealanders are heing called maori or non-maori the main stream mdsia loves to do this. Yet you never hear Australian people being defined as aboriginals or non-aboriginals do you? Can you imagine? I'm a non aboriginal, a lesser citizen, only allowed to reside here in Australia because the Aboriginals have allowed me to stay here? Get a grip kiwis. We all belong.
Councils and others seem unable to realise that maori partnership, co governance etc is effectively maori control. Maori put forward pre selected candidates directed by activists with a coordinated nation wide agenda. Random elected diverse, niave, usually pc brain washed councillors are overwhelmed.Once established, near impossible to reverse.
Councils do realise ... and relish it. Take a close look at the FNDC, meetings conducted in Te Reo, staff indoctrinated in it and made to "love it", preferred contractors from the iwi. It is blatant maori control and our new local govt minister Simon Watts will no doubt be fully content with that as it will please his boss Luxon, give him even more smarty points than he has earned from selling NZ up the river on climate change stupidity.
My sympathies are extended to the neighbours at O Rakau. Endless coming and going, rubbish, camping, hakas, neighbourhood petty crime (especially if victims clearly pakeha), random parking.
I would like a free $4.3 million supply of power. How will charges compare with major companies? Any penalty if I omit to pay?
Well said, Anon. !!
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