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31st
AUG

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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31st

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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30th
AUG

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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30th

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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30th

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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30th

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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29th
AUG

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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29th

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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28th
AUG

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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28th

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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27th
AUG

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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26th
AUG

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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