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31st
AUG

Maori flag taking us down road to two nations

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New Zealand First leader Winston Peters does not want a Maori flag flying from Auckland’s Harbour Bridge, saying it is “taking us further down the road to two nations”. Mr Peters criticised plans to choose a Maori flag to be flown on special occasions as “insidious, creeping crawling dissolving of the bonds and the symbols that unite us as a nation” in his speech to the party’s conference at the weekend. “It is dangerous for the future of this nation to create another flag … Thousands of New Zealanders have died under our flag and many were Maori.”

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31st

Top Maori arts award to Witi

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IF there were any doubt that Witi Ihimaera’s best-known work is novel and award-winning film The Whale Rider, that was dispelled on Saturday. Wellington’s Duxton Hotel rang with a rousing rendition of Ngati Porou song Paikea (telling the Whale Rider story) as Ihimaera was named winner of the country’s most prestigious Maori cultural award. The writer, editor and educator was honoured with news that he is the 2009 recipient of the premiere Maori arts award — Te Tohutiketike a Te Waka Toi — at the annual Creative New Zealand Te Waka Toi Awards.

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28th
AUG

Maori Party backs off criticism of carbon deal

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In an eleventh-hour U-turn, the Maori Party has pulled a report critical of the Government’s plans for an emissions trading scheme, opening the door to a deal over a new climate-change law. Within hours, National said it was delaying by two months till October its response to a report into the Foreshore and Seabed Act review, which advocated its repeal a policy plank of the Maori Party. A spokesman for Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson denied the two were linked. The dissenting Maori Party view was one of four attached to the report from a parliamentary committee investigating the emissions trading scheme set up by the previous Labour government. Its final report was expected yesterday, including so-called minority reports at…

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27th
AUG

Maori Expo a lure for students

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It’s a chance to celebrate achievement, but the Auckland University of Technology is also using its Maori Expo as a chance to hook prospective students. AUT is expecting 20,000 students to visit Vector Arena for the start of today’s expo, where visitors will be treated to fashion shows, some of New Zealand’s top dance crews and a kapa haka competition. This evening, they can visit Ngahau i Te Po, Groove the Night, where top artists such as Herbs, Three Houses Down, House of Shem, Cornerstone Roots and Che Fu will play.

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27th

Make manawhenua part of council for true innovation

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We hear so much about innovation being the key to New Zealand’s future and a pathway out of recession. Why does innovation fall short of including new models of governance with Maori? The decision not to have Maori representation on Auckland’s (Super) new council is myopic in its lack of vision. It is a great shame that the debate is conducted in such a narrow fashion, almost like preschool children fighting over the size of a piece of cake - one side’s gain is the other’s loss.

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26th
AUG

Maori to own prison property

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Maori are set to become landlords of a prison for the first time in a deal where Corrections will rent the grounds of Wanganui’s Kaitoke Prison from tribal interests. A similar deal is underway with Wellington’s Rimutaka and Arohata prisons with an agreement in principle for the ownership of the land beneath them to go to Maori. The deals are all based on the agreement that Maori will rent the land back to the Corrections Department, which will retain control of the buildings. Maori ownership of prison land is separate from the concept of Maori managing prisons raised recently by the National-led Government’s plans for private prison management.

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26th

Last two chances for Maori seats

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The new Auckland Super City Council will now have Maori seats only if ratepayers force a referendum approving them or a future council is sympathetic enough to create them of its own accord. Prime Minister John Key yesterday rejected a last-ditch Maori Party bid to get the seats by making them a conscience vote issue, which would have allowed some National MPs to support them. Under the Local Electoral Act, a poll could be held on the issue if five per cent of ratepayers sign a petition or a council could decide to create the seats.

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26th

Maori Party earns rebuke from Tuhoe

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Tuhoe is accusing the Maori Party of having a “Jesus” complex and undermining delicate Treaty negotiations with the Crown. Iwi authority Te Kotahi a Tuhoe has rejected the Government’s first offer to settle historical grievances, and is undergoing intense negotiations to thrash out a deal by early October. The initial offer is understood to include $120 million and aspects of self-government, however, the offer did not include full ownership of Te Urewera National Park - a key motivator for Tuhoe.

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25th
AUG

Maori group evicted from building

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Protestors who have illegally-occupied a building in Kaikohe for more than four months were evicted by police this morning. Maori sovereignty group Nga Uri o Tupoto lost a High Court appeal against an eviction order on Friday, leaving building owner Glenn Hannah optimistic about gaining possession of the former furniture store he bought in April. A group of 6-8 police entered the building on Broadway just after 10 am this morning. Less than an hour later, the protestors, estimated to number 6-8, had gone.

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25th

Seat fight not over, say Maori

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The Maori Party and iwi have vowed to keep fighting for separate Maori seats on the Auckland super city, despite National siding with ACT and ruling them out. The Cabinet reaffirmed yesterday its April decision to ignore a royal commission call for separate Maori representation on the new citywide council. That came after ACT leader Rodney Hide threatened to quit as local government minister if separate seats went ahead. Prime Minister John Key said Mr Hide’s threat was a factor in Cabinet’s decision, “but not the dominant factor”. It would also have been against National Party policy and would have been unfair and inconsistent to make the change for Auckland alone. The decision pre-empted a select committee report on the…

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25th

Occupation against Juken logging operations

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An organisation named as Nga Kaitiaki/Kaumatua o Nga Ngahere o Tangitu has begun an occupation at Mangapa/Omahuta (Otangaroa State Forest) in protest at what it claims are a series of breaches of acceptable practice by Juken New Zealand, accompanied by the issuing of a trespass notice against the company yesterday morning. Spokesman Allen Heta said the kaumatua of the rohe concerned met at Kenana on Saturday morning, and agreed to the occupation of their tupuna whenua, and to serve notice on Juken NZ that, as of yesterday, the company was no longer permitted to continue its logging operations within their ngahere. Juken NZ, its contractors and sub-contractors, were required to remove all the plant and machinery from Omahuta/Otangaroa by tomorrow,…

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25th

Tainui will boycott Super City advisory role

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Tainui iwi say they will boycott any alternative, weaker role offered to them after the Government’s decision to rule out Maori seats on Auckland’s Super City council. The decision followed a high-stakes game by Act leader Rodney Hide, who had told Prime Minister John Key he would resign as Local Government Minister if the National-led Administration allowed Maori seats. Mr Hide and Maori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples will now be required to work together on an alternate way for Maori to have a say in the council. A statutory advisory board or body is likely.

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