Wednesday January 7, 2026
News:
Te Pati Maori co-leader Rawiri Waititi is the highest-spending MP - in terms of Parliamentary Service funding
A new Taxpayers' Union briefing paper shows he spent almost 275-thousand dollars over the past 21 months.
It shows Labour's Damien O'Connor came in second - and the Greens' Huhana Lyndon third.
Union Policy Analyst Austin Ellingham-Banks says total MP spending reached 15-million dollars for the period, on travel, accommodation and transport.
But he says some spend far more than others, with no line-by-line tally to show why....
See full article HERE
More on the above here > A Peek into the Books: MPs’ Expenses in Numbers
Articles:
Geoff Parker: What Tribal Governance Would Mean for Ordinary Māori
Anonymous: Extracting the Self - A Survivor’s Account of Spiritual Coercion
John Robertson: Skin Is Not a Badge of Virtue or Vice
Propaganda:
Te Reo on the Road — A Big Kaupapa for Māori Visibility and Safety
Education in 2025 — A Year of Change, Challenge and Māori Resistance
Te Mana o te Takutai Moana — Standing for Ancestral Rights
Te Pāti Māori aims to unite, not divide, says co-leader
Dame Naida Glavish — Te Reo, Mana and Leading With Heart
But he says some spend far more than others, with no line-by-line tally to show why....
See full article HERE
More on the above here > A Peek into the Books: MPs’ Expenses in Numbers
Articles:
Geoff Parker: What Tribal Governance Would Mean for Ordinary Māori
Anonymous: Extracting the Self - A Survivor’s Account of Spiritual Coercion
John Robertson: Skin Is Not a Badge of Virtue or Vice
Propaganda:
Te Reo on the Road — A Big Kaupapa for Māori Visibility and Safety
Education in 2025 — A Year of Change, Challenge and Māori Resistance
Te Mana o te Takutai Moana — Standing for Ancestral Rights
Te Pāti Māori aims to unite, not divide, says co-leader
Dame Naida Glavish — Te Reo, Mana and Leading With Heart
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 January 6, 2026
News:
Iwi partnership behind new DOC development in Invercargill
Between 60 and 80 Department of Conservation staff will be housed in a new office in Invercargill by the end of 2026.
The new building, currently under construction on the corner of Kelvin and Spey streets, is part of a development led by Ngāi Tahu through Hokonui Rūnanga and Murihiku Regeneration.
News:
Iwi partnership behind new DOC development in Invercargill
Between 60 and 80 Department of Conservation staff will be housed in a new office in Invercargill by the end of 2026.
The new building, currently under construction on the corner of Kelvin and Spey streets, is part of a development led by Ngāi Tahu through Hokonui Rūnanga and Murihiku Regeneration.
DOC Southern South Island operations director Aaron Fleming said the new facility was “designed to support shared aspirations for conservation, community engagement, and all things naturing, in partnership with Ngāi Tahu”.....(paywall)
See full article HERE
$1.2 million award to pioneer Indigenous-led antiviral discovery
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland senior lecturer Dr Natalie Netzler has secured a prestigious Mana Tūānuku Research Leadership Fellowship worth $1.2 million over four years, to lead Ancestral Wisdom, Modern Science: Indigenous-Led Discovery of Antiviral Therapies.
Her work will weave together Indigenous medicinal knowledge and cutting-edge virology to identify novel antiviral treatments for viral diseases such as dengue, Zika, and measles - conditions that disproportionately affect Pacific communities and currently have no approved antiviral therapies.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Geoff Parker: He Puapua and New Zealand 2040 - The End of Equal Citizenship
Peter Bassett: From Impartiality to Instruction - How Journalism Rewrote Its Own Rules
Matua Kahurangi: How Waipareira survived deregistration by paperwork and power
Pee Kay: Wishful Thinking
Sprinkling Māori Words as a Form of Social Signalling
Geoff Parker: Aotearoa - A Name And A Choice
Propaganda:
Māori culture goes from being ‘awkward’ to in demand for domestic tourists
My ancestors were colonisers - Max Rashbrooke
Opinion: Courthouses in Crisis — Is Justice delayed, Justice denied? - Matthew Tukaki.
99th Aotearoa Māori Tennis Championships in Rotorua: Winners, results and highlights
$1.2 million award to pioneer Indigenous-led antiviral discovery
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland senior lecturer Dr Natalie Netzler has secured a prestigious Mana Tūānuku Research Leadership Fellowship worth $1.2 million over four years, to lead Ancestral Wisdom, Modern Science: Indigenous-Led Discovery of Antiviral Therapies.
Her work will weave together Indigenous medicinal knowledge and cutting-edge virology to identify novel antiviral treatments for viral diseases such as dengue, Zika, and measles - conditions that disproportionately affect Pacific communities and currently have no approved antiviral therapies.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
Geoff Parker: He Puapua and New Zealand 2040 - The End of Equal Citizenship
Peter Bassett: From Impartiality to Instruction - How Journalism Rewrote Its Own Rules
Matua Kahurangi: How Waipareira survived deregistration by paperwork and power
Pee Kay: Wishful Thinking
Sprinkling Māori Words as a Form of Social Signalling
Geoff Parker: Aotearoa - A Name And A Choice
Propaganda:
Māori culture goes from being ‘awkward’ to in demand for domestic tourists
My ancestors were colonisers - Max Rashbrooke
Opinion: Courthouses in Crisis — Is Justice delayed, Justice denied? - Matthew Tukaki.
99th Aotearoa Māori Tennis Championships in Rotorua: Winners, results and highlights
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.
3 comments:
Has Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland senior lecturer Dr Natalie Netzle found that playing while music to kauri trees didn't work, so the University has found a new way of extorting and wasting taxpayer's money.
I bet nothing useful will appear from this in my lifetime, or my children's.
7th The maori proclivity to live for the present and spend up, as demonstrated by Waititi, goes further to explaining the disparity between the general wealth of maori and other colonist descendants than most other excuses.
I nearly choked on my porridge this morning. The Herald published Geoff Parker's recent musings on the use of the term Aotearoa, complete with acknowledgement of BV. Whether the notably mild article is sufficiently forceful to encourage more interest in BV remains to be seen.
So, the Herald published Geoff's piece on the awful "A" term for our fair Country. Great, now it would greatly improve the newspaper's standing and maybe its coverage if it were to publish a number of Geoff's other articles in full. I'm thinking the Jan 3 offering: " He Puapua and New Zealand 2040 - The End of Equal Citizenship" would be a good start.
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