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Unease in the Barracks – Is Bainimarama’s Rule Under Threat?
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Insight Report: Savali editor Tupuola Terry Tavita. Insight Report – By Tupuola Terrence Tavita, in Apia. There could very well be a third coup in Fiji very soon, this time from inside the barracks. The word from reliable sources in Suva (who wish to remain anonymous) is that the powerful Military Council – most of them from Fiji’s chiefly families – have become disenchanted with how Commodore Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama is running things. The Military Council is maneuvering to call the shots from inside the barracks. One name that has come across more often now – and remember this one – is Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba – or popularly known as Roko Ului – a son of the late president Ratu…
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Mere theft defiles Parihaka history
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OPINION: Parihaka is such a special, almost mystical place that it is almost inconceivable that thieves would steal a precious greenstone mere from a glass container on the tomb of one of the Taranaki village’s founders. The sad irony of it all is that the village, founded in 1867 by Te Whiti o Rongomai, quickly became known as a peaceful place, and that reputation remains today. So it almost beggars belief that an individual or group would be prepared to defile all of that by removing the mere from Te Whiti’s tomb. In some respects it is to be hoped that the theft was committed by some total stranger who entered Parihaka and stole the taonga with the intention of…
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Hautaki Trust’s shareholding in 2 degrees diluted
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Overseas shareholders in Two Degrees Mobile have ponied up more cash to help fund the nation’s third, and newest, mobile phone network operator’s investment in infrastructure. Major shareholders Trilogy International New Zealand and Tesbrit, and founder Tex Edwards’ KLR Hong Kong bought 18 million shares at 75 US cents apiece to inject US$13.5 million into the company, according to documents lodged with the Companies Office. That’s on top the US$7.5 million Trilogy and Tesbrit put into the company in May. “It’s essentially for the ongoing capital requirements to fund investment in infrastructure - we’ve got our new 3G to roll out,” said Bryony Hilless, corporate communications manager. The injection wasn’t related to the expected $52 million loss in the nine…
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Outsider’s place at Tainui table upsets some in tribe
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King Tuheitia has appointed a tribal outsider to represent him on Tainui’s executive board - a move which has been criticised because of the appointee’s relatively recent connection to the Kingitanga. Gregory Miller, 45, is the group general manager of freight company Toll New Zealand. He said he hoped to prove his value to the movement’s followers. Mr Miller fills the kaahui ariki position left vacant when Lady Raiha Mahuta died this year. Her husband, the king’s uncle Sir Bob Mahuta, was the representative for the late queen, Dame Te Atairangikaahu. The tribe has assets worth about $500 million. Mr Miller will have full voting rights on the executive board, which also has of 10 tribally elected members. Mr Miller…
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Mayors differ on race issue
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Manukau Mayor Len Brown wants to split up Auckland on race by supporting separate Maori seats on the Auckland Council, says his main rival for the Super City mayoralty, John Banks. “I don’t support that. I’m not going to divide this city up on race,” Mr Banks said during a mayoral debate on TV3’s Campbell Live last night. The Auckland City Mayor and former National Cabinet minister is opposed to separate Maori seats on the Auckland Council, which were recommended by the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance. The Government dropped the commission’s call for three Maori seats after Local Government Minister Rodney Hide said he would resign rather than have a bill in his name that was contrary to Act…
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Tukoroirangi Morgan: Foreign land sales – we must learn from history
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Land sales to foreign investors must be stopped. For a government looking for a principled framework on which to base foreign investment policies, it need look no further than the principles contained in the preamble to Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993: ” … it is desirable to recognise that land is a taonga tuku iho of special significance to Maori people and, for that reason, to promote the retention of that land in the hands of its owners, their whanau, and their hapu, and to protect wahi tapu: and to facilitate the occupation, development and utilisation of that land for the benefit of its owners, their whanau, and their hapu.” Waikato-Tainui’s opposition to the foreign ownership of land is…
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Signage sign Ngai Tahu Ascendant
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Labour’s Maori affairs spokesperson wants other local authorities to follow Environment Canterbury and adopt dual Maori and English place names in official documents. Parekura Horomia says the policy came out of Ngai Tahu’s treaty settlement, but is only now being adopted by the council. He says it’s a sign of the weight the iwi now carries in the South Island. “When you’ve got your assets stablised, when you’ve got a plan going forward, people take not all right. They’re not to fussed about that game iof the colour of your skin or whatever else and they need to be applauded for that,” Mr Horomia says.
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Maori claim part of cape
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Local Maori are claiming a big section of Cape Kidnappers land owned by American billionaire Julian Robertson. Known as Rangaika, the 130-hectare block has spiritual significance for Maori and was set aside as “native reserve” in the initial land purchase in the area in 1855. It will be transferred to Maori ownership if an application to the Maori Land Court succeeds. Hastings man John Moananui, the oldest direct male descendant of 19th-century chief Whakato, and his legal researcher, Peter Nee Harland, believe the reserve status has never been changed. Mr Moananui, who is at present in hospital in Christchurch, is in the process of asking the court to rule on the status of the land. “That area has great significance…
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Author overcomes near death tragedy to triumph
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Historian Judith Binney has won New Zealand’s top book award, eight months after almost losing her life in an accident. A week after launching her research on the “lost history” of the Tuhoe tribe, Dame Judith was hit by a truck while crossing Princes St in Auckland and suffered serious head injuries. Last night, her book Encircled Lands was recognised as the New Zealand Post Book of the Year, and the best non-fiction book. In an ironic twist, the award was presented by Arts Minister Christopher Finlayson, who is also Minister of Treaty Settlements. In May, he turned down Tuhoe’s request for ownership of Urewera National Park…
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Dame Kiri honoured with top Maori arts award
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Dame Kiri Te Kanawa’s operatic success was recognised tonight with the top Maori arts award. The internationally renowned soprano was among 10 leading Maori artists to receive recognition from Creative New Zealand’s Maori arts board, Te Waka Toi, at a Wellington ceremony. Accepting the top award from England, Dame Kiri said her parents had made great sacrifices to enable her to have the life and career she had enjoyed. “My mother told me 60 years ago that it was the Maori part of me which would be important. My father, Thomas Te Kanawa, would have been very proud indeed if he had known about my Te Waka Toi award.”
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Iwi ties up big treaty claims package
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Another Marlborough iwi is close to an agreement with the Crown about its multi-million-dollar historical treaty claims package. Rangitane iwi announced today the deed of settlement had been initialled by the Crown and would be ratified by members before becoming official later in the year. The agreement includes financial and commercial redress of about $24.8 million, as well as ownership of significant sites around Marlborough. Rangitane principal negotiator Richard Bradley said the financial and commercial package would be used to develop the iwi’s social and economic future, and would give the iwi a chance to re-establish an economic base.
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Cullen: New Zealand should be republic
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Prince Charles is strange and his father so insensitive and prejudiced that he could be a breakfast TV host, says New Zealand’s former deputy prime minister. Michael Cullen’s comments, contained in notes for a speech he will make in Wellington this week, are bound to outrage supporters of the monarchy. As a senior Cabinet minister, Cullen described himself as the Labour Government’s “token monarchist” and fought against any move for New Zealand to become a republic. But, in a major about-turn at a constitution conference on Friday, he will publicly lay out a road map to becoming a republic when the Queen dies. He will also propose that New Zealand adopt a tino rangatiratanga flag as its own, albeit in…
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The fall and rise of Ngati Whatua
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The rise of Ngati Whatua, the demise of Ngati Whatua and then the rise again is a story laced with irony and of two worlds living side by side yet not knowing each other. But perhaps we now have a better story to tell as, instead of a more divided future, what we are actually seeing is a more integrated community with everyone able to participate on equal terms. Ngati Whatua o Orakei holds mana whenua over central Auckland and, with assets soon to hit the half-billion dollar mark, is fast becoming a powerhouse in the city’s economic and political landscape. Today Ngati Whatua o Orakei controls a property asset base worth in the range of $400 million dollars. This…
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Maori have duty to help fund their own
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The Maori aristocracy has turned a deaf ear to Paula Bennett’s plea to them to stump up some of their own cash so abused kids could be placed in iwi rather than state care. True to form, the tribal leaders haven’t bothered themselves sufficiently to make a collective response to Bennett. (Although her office says she is going to explain her proposals further at the invitation of some individual iwi). The young Cabinet minister went up in my estimation with her blunt message to the iwi leaders’ group to “put your hands in your own pockets” to help find families who could take on children from within their own iwi “because the Government doesn’t have the money for it right…
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Stranding ‘sign of support’
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The stranding of 58 pilot whales on a Far North beach was a sign of support for an iwi battling against a subdivision on an historic burial ground, a kaumatua says. Ngati Kahu kaumatua Alan Hetaraka said last week’s mass stranding on the Karikari Peninsula was just a few hundred metres from a subdivision which the iwi was due to fight in the High Court in less than two weeks’ time. “It’s ironic that these things turn up at that spot. You could say it’s nature doing what nature does. But to us it’s a sign … It’s a sign that they’ve come to support us.” The court battle centres on a former campground behind the dunes, where an American…
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Bennett request over the top
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Labour leader Phil Goff says Social Development Minister Paula Bennett’s targeting of iwi to put their hands in their pockets to pay for child abuse programmes is over the top. Ms Bennett last week told iwi leaders half the chidren under the care of Child, Youth and Family were Maori, and she wanted iwi to take some responsibility … but there was no money in her budget to pay for what she wanted. Mr Goff says the 21,000 children abused and neglected last year is a problem for everybody. “For Paula Bennett just to single out Maori and then to say ‘you pay for it yourself’ I thought was really over the top. What she should be doing is looking…
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Iwi rule out autopsies on stranded pilot whales
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The 49 pilot whales which died after a mass stranding on the Far North’s Karikari Beach have been buried without scientific analysis. Scientists are keen to study stranded whales in the hope of finding out why the creatures beach themselves, but that can clash with Maori values. Kaumatua of the two Ngati Kahu hapu on the Karikari Peninsula, Te Whanau Moana and Te Rorohuri, decided the animals would be buried without dissection or the removal of organs. Forty-five were buried in the dunes behind Karikari Beach, in a historic burial ground, after a service on Sunday.
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Trustee in gun over cash deal
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A Maori leader has lost his place on two land trusts after taking $2000 after helping sell a collective-owned property well below its accepted value. Weo Maag, a member of the Guardian Establishment Committee which is to oversee management of the Waikato River, helped Kelvin Stanley draw up an application to buy a section of land near Benneydale. The land belonged to Tiroa E and Te Hape B Trusts. Mr Stanley offered $15,000 for the property which had a four-bedroom house on it. The trustees accepted the offer in March 2006 and deal was finalised by October that same year. Mr Maag accepted $2000 from Mr Stanley after the completion of the sale – a move which cost him a…
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Regional iwi signs treaty plan for historical claims
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Nelson-Marlborough iwi Ngati Kuia has become the first top of the south iwi to sign an agreement with the Government over its historical treaty claims. Ngati Kuia signed its draft deed of settlement with the Government on Friday, part of a wider Te Tau Ihu (top of the south) iwi package worth nearly $300 million which includes Crown land and money. It is expected Ngati Kuia will get a share of $42.41 million in redress and a further $37.2m over licensed Crown forest land.
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Black Power support ‘naive’
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Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples has been criticised as “naive” for trying to save a Black Power stronghold from being demolished. The MP wrote to the Auckland City Council asking staff to ignore illegal structures on the Mt Wellington property - the hub of a $1.5 million cannabis ring - and to grant a waiver for breaches of the district plan. The Black Power headquarters was seized and sold under the Proceeds of Crime Act to a new owner, who was in negotiations to sell the property to a trust connected to Dr Sharples’ Tamaki Makarau electorate manager.
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Abuser pays? Paula Bennett says Maori should pay for their child abuse
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Maori leaders have been told to face up to the fact Maori babies and children are being beaten, abused and killed. They have also been told to pay up in order to help it stop. The harsh message came from Social Development Minister Paula Bennett in a speech delivered behind closed doors this week. Ms Bennett told iwi leaders to put their hands in their own pockets and commit to a joint effort. Ms Bennett told them ‘the Government does not have all the money right now.’ The minister wants them to fund a ‘whanau finder’ system, with abused children being looked after by iwi, rather than the state. The Minister reminded the leaders 11,000 of the 21,000 cases of abuse…
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PM hears from iwi leaders
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The Prime Minister, John Key, has been in Ngaruawahia today attending the annnual hui marking the coronation of King Tuheitia. Dodging intermittent rain, Mr Key was accompanied onto Turangawaewae Marae by the Minister of Social Development, Paula Bennett, and associate Maori Affairs Minister Georgina Te Heuheu. The Prime Minister spent the previous evening meeting iwi leaders at Hopuhopu. Hearing them reiterate their desire for ownership of the foreshore to be shared by Maori and the Crown under a new treaty title. Mr Key indicated this was unlikely. However he was more positive at the iwis’ willingness to become involved in public private partnerships to build new government infrastructure.
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Knowledge at risk with death of Te Miringa Hohaia
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Hundreds of people have been through Parihaka Marae today to pay final tributes to Te Miringa Hohaia. The artist, activist and kaitiaki of Te Paepae o te Raukura died suddenly on Tuesday aged 58. Former Te Tai Tonga MP Mahara Okeroa, who served with Mr Hohaia on Parihaka trusts for more than 20 years, says his friend had been conducting wananga for members of Taranaki Tuturu on the iwi’s treaty claims and on its traditions relating to te taiao, the environment, te moana, the sea, and Taranaki maunga. “We were getting the benefit of knowledge that had almost been lost and now it’s lost again because he was the interpreter for us in terms of the really traditional stuff and…
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Call for next Maori governor general
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Maori Council member Maanu Paul is calling for the next governor general to be Maori. The term of the current queen’s representative, Sir Anand Satyanand, ends in a year. Mr Paul says it has been 20 years since the country has a Maori governor general, Sir Paul Reeves. He says major constitutional matters are in the wind, so an eminent Maori with experience in the law would be ideal for the role. “Sir Eddie Durie, a retired High Court judge, has sufficient mana, has more than sufficient ability, and has the personality to carry out being a governor general for Aotearoa,” Mr Paul says. He says Sir Eddie Taihakurei Durie would have the support of Maori throughout the country.
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Passport scam accused offers $100k to Haiti
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A man accused of running a passport scam is offering a $100,000 donation to the people of Haiti if charges against him are dropped. Gerard Otimi is now facing 56 charges of altering a document to cause loss. He told the district court in Manukau today that he was prepared to make a $100,000 donation to the victims of Haiti’s January earthquake if police returned his confiscated money from the passport scam, believed to be about $51,000. The trial is scheduled to go ahead despite the offer. Outside court, Crown prosecuter Ross Burns said the offer “is not something the Crown would take into account when determining if proceedings would continue or not”.
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Ngati Porou historian dies
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Respected Ngati Porou kaumatua and historian, Dr Te Kapunga Matemoana Dewes, otherwise known as ‘Koro’, has died. Mr Dewes passed away yesterday at his sister Mereheni’s home in Te Araroa on the East Coast. He was 80 years old. Widely-known for his fierce intellect and his oratory, Mr Dewes had whakapapa links to several Ngati Porou hapu including Te Whanau a Rakairoa, Te Whanau a Hunaara, Te Whanau a Hinerupe, Te Whanau a Te Aopare and Te Whanau a Tuwhakairiora. Minister of Maori Affairs, Dr Pita Sharples paid tribute to Mr Dewes, saying his prowess in debate was as awe-inspiring as his passion for the Maori language and the many issues surrounding.
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Harawira threatened over Pakeha remarks
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Hone Harawira says he has had death threats over his comment that he didn’t want any of his children to date a Pakeha. In a weekly Northern Age newspaper column Mr Harawira said his remark had thrown up “the regular nasty responses, including some nutters threatening to kill me”. But he said he also got a lot of support and included snippets from people supportive or joking about his stance. He also said when taking an Air Zealand flight last week he was the butt of jokes. “When our plane flew through a bad storm and bucked and bounced and rocked and then thumped its way down onto the runway, scaring everyone in the process, this blond-haired blue-eyed fair-skinned Maori…
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Parihaka Peace Festival director dies
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The director of Taranaki’s Parihaka Peace Festival and an advocate for Maori land rights in Taranaki, Te Miringa Hohaia, died suddenly this morning, aged 58. Friend Jamie Tuuta said Mr Hohaia died of natural causes around 11am. He was today lying in state at Parihaka. His death had come as a shock to the family, who were still making funeral arrangements, Mr Tuuta said. Mr Hohaia was a strong advocate for Maori land rights in Taranaki through the Waitangi Tribunal and Parihaka, he said. “He was one of the pillars of Parihaka in terms of continuing the legacy of his forbears and others. Te Miringa has touched many people with the work he has done.” Tariana Turia, Maori Party co-leader…
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Binge drinking upsets minister
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Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia wants to see Maori communities addressing issues of binge drinking. Hundreds of people marched in Manukau City at the weekend against what’s seen as an explosion of liquor outlets in the city. Mrs Turia says it’s poor policy to have alcohol so freely available in poor communities where there is already so much stress, and it’s a problem that needs to be tackled on a number of levels. “We’re concerned about the numbers of our people in particular who when they drink, essentially don’t behave well. We’ve got huge issues around violence. A lot of the road deaths are caused through alcohol. It’s something that’s got to be talked about in our communit,” Mrs Turia…
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Stone wave sculpture wins engineering award
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A collaboration between master carver Te Warihi Hetaraka and sculptor Chris Booth has won an award from the Association of Consulting Engineers. Judges said the sculpture at the entrance to Whangarei harbour of a wave breaking over a waka, made out of stones connected with steel pins, was pioneering in its conception and clever engineering. Mr Hetaraka says took a long time to complete, but was worth the wait. He says the waka represents the culture and the waves indicate that whatever adversity is thrown at it, the culture will survive
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