Matua Kahurangi: Māori want to talk about genocide

Just not the genocide they committed against the Moriori

Every time there is talk about an alleged genocide happening in Palestine, you can guarantee there will be loud activist Māori voices screaming about it. Debbie Ngawera=Packer this week started to cry out about injustice, oppression, colonisation, and the suffering of the people in Gaza. When it comes to the genocide their own ancestors carried out against the Chatham Islands' Moriori, they go deadly silent.

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Point of Order: $236.5m to tackle NZ’s big challenges

Among them, reigniting ‘mauri’ and ‘engaging multisensory experiences’

A press statement which advises that $236.5 million has been bestowed on 71 projects in the latest Endeavour Fund allocations is headed Research projects set to tackle NZs biggest challenges.

The message is reinforced in the first sentence, which says money has been allocated to projects

“… that seek to address some of our biggest challenges such as climate change.”

Researchers working on two methane projects have been granted $999,999 each over three years.

Karl du Fresne: Don't mention the war

The most obvious question was the one Susie Ferguson didn’t ask during an interview on Morning Report last week about the Crown’s settlement of Moriori compensation claims.

Speaking to Moriori spokesman Maui Solomon about the passing of the Moriori Claims Settlement Bill, Ferguson tastefully avoided any mention of the invasion of the Moriori homeland Rekohu (aka the Chatham Islands) in 1835 by the Ngati Mutunga and Ngati Tama tribes from Taranaki, who killed or displaced an estimated 95 per cent of the peaceable resident people and enslaved the survivors. You might call it a “don’t mention the war” moment.

Clive Bibby: History and the facts

Most kiwis will have missed the news from Parliament recently of the passing of a bill that supposedly brings to an end the long suffering of the Chatham Island tangata whenua - the Moriori.

But we would be fools to believe that now a settlement has been reached, we can all return to normal.

There are reasons why it is not possible in the current climate.

The settlement of claims against the Crown can only be described as breathtaking, considering the scale of its disingenuous response to legitimate grievances.

The behaviour of some Crown Ministers who had responsibilities for drawing a line under one of the darkest chapters in this country’s history can only be described as contemptuous.

Mike Butler: Treaty deal for descendants of killers

Chatham Islands Ngati Mutunga have agreed on who will represent them in treaty negotiations but there is a big question of why any payout would be suitable for the descendants of those who invaded the Chatham Islands in 1835 and murdered hundreds of peaceful Moriori.

Mandating hui were held in February and March in Auckland, Waitara, Wellington and Christchurch, with a final meeting two weeks ago on the island, where tribe members cast their votes, Radio New Zealand reported today.