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31st
DEC

Justice delayed, now denied

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Rather than ring out the old year and ring in the new year with the usual inane rubbish about new beginnings and fresh starts, etc., how about we use the occasion for a reality check, in this case a reality check on the state of the NZ judiciary using one very important case. On October 15, 2007 a number of individuals were arrested on a variety of charges, including planning terrorist attacks. Others were arrested later, and collectively they have come to be known as the Urewera 18. On May 30, 2011, three and half years after they were arrested, the majority of these defendants will finally go to trial (three defendants will be tried separately). Not only is the…

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31st

A new view of Maori arrival

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New Year is traditionally a time of renewal as the old is farewelled and the new welcomed and embraced. This New Year I am hopeful that many of our old ideas about ancient Maori ocean knowledge and technology will be discarded as new research results are set to challenge our thinking. The new findings are a result of several years collaboration between leading researchers such as Janet Wilmshurst from New Zealand’s Landcare Research, and Atholl Anderson, from the Australian National University, and suggest a more specific and later date for human migration into certain parts of Eastern Polynesia. They suggest that Hawaii, Easter Island, Rarotonga and New Zealand were all colonised by Polynesian travellers about the same time, the travellers…

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31st

Knighthoods for educationist and judge

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Ngati Porou educationist Professor Tamati Muturangi Reedy - made a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (KNZM) for his services to education today - has had a distinguished career in Maori affairs from a public, private and an academic perspective…

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30th
DEC

Hanging out for high jinks in Hamilton

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Hamilton Lake’s swing proved a popular spot for Hena Tokoiti and the kids in his family to hang out while on holiday. His nieces Memphis Morgan, 9, Milahn Tokoiti, 11, and Hohe Turner, 9, kept shouting for him to push them higher and higher on the swing. Hearing the laughs from his cousins was too much for Mr Tokoiti’s son Tewhaiti, 5, to ignore. He also jumped on the round, trampoline-like swing for a turn with them. “It’s a great place to have fun with the kids,” Mr Tokoiti told the Times. “It’s nice for the kids down here. Even though there’s no sun and it’s a bit cold.”…

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29th
DEC

Research may spark NZ history re-write

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A New Zealand historian says the idea of Maori being indigenous may need to be reconsidered. New research led by Janet Wilmshurst from New Zealand’s Landcare Research, and Atholl Anderson, from the Australian National University, suggests Maori first settled here between 1210 and 1385 AD. That is in contrast to Maori genealogy, which traces the first arrivals back to 800 AD. The research, published in the American journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, claims prievious studies used radio carbon dated materials that carried a high level of error…

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28th
DEC

2011 Maori Scholarships to Cranfield MBA Programme (UK)

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New Zealand - Māori Cranfield School of Management is delighted to offer scholarships for outstanding New Zealand Māori to undertake the Cranfield MBA programme. Programme: Full-time MBA Value: up to £14,000 Number of awards: up to 2 Scholarship details: The scholarship is open to anyone of New Zealand Māori origin (New Zealand citizen or permanent resident) who is committed to empowering Māori economic development and who intends to return to work in New Zealand within a reasonable time after completion of the MBA. The scholarship may be applied for in two ways. Firstly on an individual basis. Secondly, in partnership with a sponsoring organisation. In the latter case Cranfield will match the sponsor’s contribution up to £14,000, but the sponsor’s…

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28th

Treaty, application, i-site

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OPINION: Treaty dream lost TRACY JOHNSTON, General manager, Destination Marlborough I recently returned from one of my regular visits to Sydney, Australia. Being a people’s person and a musician, I claim to be able to catch the vibes of the people around me. Again and again during my visits to Australia, where I lived for five years, I notice what good racial harmony exists in that country. Walking up and down Pitt St, Sydney, a multitude of languages is heard. No problem. People get on with their own cultural perceptions within their own cultural tribes. They do not force upon each other cultures that do not belong outside their sphere of culture. How different New Zealand has become. The Maori…

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28th

Iwi finds allies in oil rights bid

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The Maori Party has put its political muscle behind a Waitangi Tribunal report observing that iwi have been shut out of New Zealand’s petroleum resources. Nga Hapu o Ngaruahine Iwi Incorporated chairwoman Daisy Noble said support from the Maori Party would strengthen their resolve to turn around what they saw as a gross injustice. She said Ngaruahine will need political allies to open doors. “The tribunal has opened one door and the Maori Party is opening another. This report benefits the wider Taranaki community.” Maori Party leader Tariana Turia said it was outrageous that tangata whenua in Taranaki, who belong to land that was rich in minerals, were struggling to make ends meet while the wealth beneath them was sent…

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27th
DEC

Lindsay Mitchell: Meal-ticket children are hostages to lifestyles of parents

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…As if the child isn’t suffering anyway. Living in environments characterised by gang associations that bring a culture of threats and counter-threats; alcohol and drug abuse; sexual and incestuous abuse. These children exist in their hundreds, if not in their thousands. Children have been a source of income in New Zealand for 80 years or more. Unlike the Old Age Pension, Maori were easily able to access the Family Benefit which, with their typically large families, accrued a tidy sum by the 1940s. Enough in some rural communities for the menfolk to knock off work and spend their days drinking and gambling. Which in turn set up the right conditions for domestic disharmony and childhood misery…

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27th

Two Maori voting members on all Ak Council committees

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Maori are to have two members on all committees of the new Auckland Council. The Government rejected a proposal to allow Maori directly elected seats on the council. Instead it set up an independent Maori Statutory Board - able to have up to two votes on committees that deal with natural and physical resources…

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27th

Turia open to Labour coalition

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Maori party co-leader Tariana Turia is not ruling out working with Labour after the next election. Mrs Turia says commentators who say she would never go into a coalition with Labour don’t understand politics. She says the Maori Party has made gains with National in some areas but not in others, and it would be the same with Labour. Mrs Turia says she was deeply hurt by some within Labour who labelled her a traitor when she quit in 2004 over the Foreshore and Seabed Act, but others understood what she was doing and remain friends…

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25th
DEC

Tainui ponders farms bid

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Tainui Group Holdings is not ruling out a joint bid with Landcorp for the Crafar farms in an attempt to reclaim Waikato-Tainui land. Renewed interest in the Crafar family’s farms, which are in receivership, comes as a $200 million agreement with Chinese investors and receiver KordaMentha hangs in the balance after the Overseas Investment Office rejected the application by Hong Kong-based Natural Dairy (NZ) Holdings Ltd. Tainui Group Holdings chief executive Mike Pohio said Tainui may consider putting in a joint bid with Landcorp following the apparent collapse of the Natural Dairy deal, but no discussions were taking place at the moment. He said nothing would happen for the next two weeks while people were on holiday…

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