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30th
MAY

Tuhoe forms trust for Kaingaroa forest assets

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The North Island iwi Tuhoe has settled a new trust that in July will receive $66 million from its share of the $400 million “Treelords” deal - the Central North Island Forests Iwi Collective settlement. Seven trustees signed the Tuhoe Establishment Trust deed at Waimako Marae in Waikaremoana, 67km northwest of Wairoa. Tuhoe was required to establish a trust to receive its forestry assets. The trust deed was endorsed during a series of hui this month.

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29th
MAY

Proud to be Maori

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“I’m just so proud to be Maori, papa!” That’s what young Lewin Husband said to his dad, Radio Waatea host Dale, in an interview on the hikoi last Monday. It was a heartfelt statement that probably summed up the feelings of most of the those on the 7000-strong hikoi that marched in support of Maori seats on Auckland’s supercity council. Lewin’s statement was important because Maori pride, identity and rights were being challenged.

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29th

Budget boosts police, prisons, pennies for whanau

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Maori have not been left out of Finance Minister Bill English’s austere budget. The Government is pointing to general health and welfare measures as benefiting Maori, including the safeguarding of entitlements to income support, Working for Families, pensions and student loans. It has also been quick to claim that and extra $244 million for the insulation of homes will be attractive to Maori, with grants of up to $1800 available to homeowners without being income tested.

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28th
MAY

Plenty of room to compromise on Maori seats

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According to the Prime Minister, yesterday’s hikoi up Queen St was the wrong forum to push for Maori representation on the Auckland Council. To a degree, he may be right. The protest has made it more difficult for the Government to accommodate the marchers’ concerns without appearing to have backed down. But from other angles, John Key has missed the point. The hikoi demonstrated, as probably no other means would have, the depth of feeling in Auckland’s Maori community and the extent of the Government’s misjudgment when it abruptly rejected a royal commission recommendation for three Maori seats - two elected and one appointed by local iwi - on the Super City council.

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28th

Makutu family ‘affected by group hysteria’

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Group hysteria meant the actions of Janet Moses’ family became more bizarre as they tried to treat her for a Maori makutu, or curse, a psychiatrist says. In the High Court at Wellington yesterday, Rees Tapsell said group hysteria occurred in times of high emotional stress in which lack of sleep, isolation and other factors cause extreme actions.

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28th

Mayor speaks up for Maori rights

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This week’s hikoi highlights the denial of rights to Maori and all Aucklanders, says Shore mayor Andrew Williams. About 6000 protesters, including Mr Williams and some North Shore city councillors, marched in Auckland to protest against the dumping of Maori seats proposed for the new supercity. The hikoi was held in opposition to the government’s dumping of a Royal Commission recommendation for three Maori seats on a 23-member proposed Auckland Council.

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27th
MAY

It’s about our future

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When democracy is under attack, stand up, fight back. Those words were chanted by the hundreds of people who marched from Bastion Pt to the central city on Monday to protest the government’s Auckland supercity plan. Protesters congregated from the north, west, south and east to march up Queen St in a fight against the loss of democratic rights and the government’s rejection of the Royal Commission’s recommendations for three designated Maori seats.

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27th

Hikoi sends message to government

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Marchers at Monday’s hikoi in support of Maori seats on an Auckland supercity council weren’t surprised Prime Minister John Key had already dismissed their efforts. “Why wouldn’t he? The guy is not listening,” Martin Wilson of Greenlane said. Mr Key said on breakfast TV that the hikoi would not make much difference to government plans, saying it was the wrong forum to raise concerns.

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26th
MAY

Kaa urges Maori to vote yes in upcoming smacking referendum

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Te Kahui Mana Ririki chairman Dr Hone Kaa is in Gisborne today urging Maori to vote yes in the upcoming referendum on smacking. “The referendum question is misleading: ‘Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand?’ This question links smacking with good parental correction, which it is not,” says Dr Kaa.

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26th

Sharples sees Maori alternative

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Maori will develop their own infrastructure within Auckland if they are not given seats on the planned super-city, says Maori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples. Speaking after yesterday’s hikoi, Dr Sharples was confident that Prime Minister John Key was still open to ideas. But he said if Maori seats were not accepted, Maori infrastructure would grow and Maori would have their o

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25th
MAY

SuperCity Maori seats hikoi

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Around 2000 banner-carrying hikoi protesters - most of them Maori - are marching up a rainswept Queen Street in Auckland city in protest against the Government’s Supercity plans. Others are already at the Town Hall to meet the main contingent. The group had converged on the intersection of Customhouse and Queen Street after marchers arrived in the city from Auckland’s east, west, north and south.

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25th

Land returned to Whanganui Maori

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Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson on Saturday handed back a 35 hectare block beside the river to Te Poho a Matapihi Trust, which represents hapu interests in the lower reaches.

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