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30th
NOV

Labour Selects Rino Tirikatene For Te Tai Tonga

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Labour has selected Rino Tirikatene to challenge the Maori Party’s Rahui Katene in the Te Tai Tonga seat next year. The candidate and his whanau have a long-standing relationship with the Labour Party —Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan held the Southern Maori seat in Parliament. The 37-year-old father of three was born in Rangiora and has 14 years experience working in Maori economic development roles…

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30th

ICANN poised for massive expansion of domain names

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The ICANN board meeting in December is poised to make one of the most sweeping changes in the Internet’s history, expanding the range of generic top level domains (.com, .net, etc.) to almost any string of letters and numbers, apart from a few exceptions…..What happens if a name is confusingly similar to something else?…There are concerns about domains that might appear to represent communities, such as dot Maori, but prove not to do so….

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30th

Ngati Manawa to stage hikoi to Kaingaroa Forest

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Ngati Manawa is planning a 20km hikoi next week to raise public awareness of its historical connection to the Kaingaroa Forest. Ngati Manawa is one of eight tribes in the Central North Island iwi collective. The record breaking Treelords Treaty settlement became law in September 2008 and iwi were allocated shares of Crown rental income. But the mana whenau or cultural significance of the land wasn’t determined….

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30th

New Zealand: Hauraki Hui Reaffirms Maori Women Leadership

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New Zealand: Hauraki Hui Reaffirms Maori Women Leadership A national hui of Maori women, Te Whaainga Wahine have condemned the exclusion of wahine from national, regional, local and Maori political forums. The hui made specific reference to the Iwi Leaders Group who do not speak for Maori women…

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30th

Wairarapa College Maori lagging: Report

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Maori at Wairarapa College are lagging behind both their fellow students and Maori across the country, according to the Education Review Office. The auditing authority’s report has also found that in general more students are failing NCEA level one (Year 11) compared to other decile six schools. Last year results for level one were “particularly” behind the national benchmark and some students were struggling to meet minimum literacy standard. The report notes most students enter the college with lower levels of achievement and, while they make progress by the end of Year 10, many continue to fall below the national benchmark…

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30th

Coastal bill will ‘strip’ Kiwis of birthright

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A Danish immigrant threatened to call in the United Nations if the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill is passed into law. Karl Maltesen, who lives in Marlborough, told a hearing in Blenheim yesterday that he opposed the new bill because he believed the foreshore and seabed should belong to all New Zealanders. At the same hearing, Maori Affairs select committee chairman Tau Henare had a spat with former Marlborough Mayor Tom Harrison over his submission. Eight people who made submissions in front of the select committee were opposed to the bill, which aims to replace the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed Act. Mr Maltesen wanted the 2004 act to remain until a fair alternative was found. If the bill…

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30th

Land firm bounces back

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Two years after losing $31 million in a disastrous Australian property deal, a major Taranaki farmland owner has made a dramatic turnaround – and the result is seen as great news for the region. Maori landowner and dairy farm operator Parininihi Ki Waitotara Incorporated has posted a profit of more than $3 million, a big turnaround after a failed real estate deal in Brisbane left it with major financial losses and contemplating the sale of large tracts of land. Parininihi Ki Waitotara Incorporated shareholders quashed the sale proposal because of links with ancestral land…

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29th
NOV

Weaver and heritage advocate Te Aue Davis dies

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Ngati Uekaha and Maniapoto are mourning the loss of weaver, historian and advocate Te Aue Davis, who died yesterday at the age of 85. Former Creative New Zealand deputy chair Cliff Whiting says she made significant contributions to the Historic Places Trust in its understanding of waahi tapu, to the New Zealand Geographic Board, to various treaty claims, and to the development of Maori arts organisations like Nga Puna Waihanga and Te Waka Toi. He says they first worked together in the 1980s developing the meeting house Maru Kaitatea at Takahanga Marae in Kaikoura for the Ngati Kuri hapu of Ngai Tahu. “We were approaching it from very much a community-oriented project, not a tohunga project. We set ourselves the…

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29th

Brash bashing Maori Party for Orewa faithful

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Former National Party leader Don Brash says he’s deeply troubled by the existence of National’s support partner, the Maori Party. Dr Brash, who’s paid by the government to come up with ideas about where New Zealand should be in 2025, used a speech to the party’s Orewa branch to reprise his 2004 Orewa nationhood speech, which was widely seen at the time as an attack on Maori….

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29th

Battle for idyllic beach heats up

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A battle is raging between a Maori trust and tour operators over commercial access to a remote beach in the far north. Shipwreck Bay is a popular local beach about 20km southwest of Kaitaia. The only way to get to it is by crossing a road that is owned by the Te Kohanga trust. The trust says it has no problem letting beachgoers pass through its land, but demands that tour operators pay to use the road. That has resulted in violence, arrests and strong accusations. Tour guide Greg Hall says he has been abused trying to access the beach, and claims that on one occasion, a member of the trust boarded his vehicle carrying tourists and tried to drive…

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29th

South Island iwi strongly opposed to new foreshore bill

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Top-of-the South Island Maori have attacked a planned new law on the foreshore and seabed, saying it ignores their customary rights. Strong opposition by iwi to the Marine and Coastal Area Bill has been matched by criticism from non-Maori who say the new law is racist. A Maori Affairs select committee hearing on the new bill was held in Blenheim on Monday. Ngati Tama chairman Fred Te Miha says while the bill allows the opportunity for Maori to obtain customary rights, few iwi will be able to prove uninterrupted occupancy…

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29th

Ngāti Kahungunu plans to increase Māori representation

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Ngāti Kahungunu is concerned at the low level of Māori participation and representation in local government resulting from the recently completed elections. Despite efforts to get their people to offer themselves as candidates, few were elected and Māori voter turnout was also low. The iwi’s aim is to increase both participation and representation in the 2013 election and a meeting has been called with newly elected councils to begin discussions to achieve this goal . Councils have been asked to gather on one of their Marae in the new year to begin discussions…

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