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31st
JUL

Ngati Whatua: Attacks on Waka strengthen project

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Having an election campaign at the same time as the Rugby World Cup was identified early as a risk in the planning for the Waka Maori project says Waka Maori steering group member Ngarimu Blair. He says first Labour’s Shane Jones attacked this Maori project and now Hone Harawira and a tribal member have attacked the project as a means of trying to get at the sitting MP Hon Dr Pita Sharples. “We have tried to stay politically neutral in this process however with the most recent attacks on Dr Sharples by political opponents we believe we must respond. “Dr Sharples has backed the idea that there must be a strong Maori cultural presence in Auckland for the Rugby World…

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31st

Hone renews war with Maori Party

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Hone Harawira has renewed his feud with the Maori Party. The Mana Party leader has confirmed he is now looking at going head-to-head with his old party in all seven Maori electorates. And the firebrand MP – re-elected to Parliament last month after the byelection in the Te Tai Tokerau electorate – says his new political movement is being built “on the back of the failure of the Maori Party”. But Maori Party bosses have hit back, questioning whether Mana is even a Maori-orientated political movement. Harawira’s comments come as he says Maori Party co-leaders Pita Sharples and Tariana Turia are yet to tell him in person whether they will accept an “olive branch” deal that involves the opposing parties…

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31st

Maori brothers eye Major League Baseball

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Two young Australian-born Maori boys have rounded first base on the journey to possibly becoming the first Kiwis to play Major League Baseball. Boss and Moko Moanaroa tell Ben Stanley about their journey from Newcastle to the minor league ballparks of the United States… Fenway Park, Boston, October 2015. The Red Sox are in trouble, bases loaded and two out in the bottom of the ninth. One run behind the hated Yankees, with a win needed for a spot in the playoffs and a rookie first baseman taking his place at home plate. Boss Moanaroa, a proud Maori boy, takes a practice swing, noticing his older brother Moko standing at third base after a pinch-hit single early in the innings….

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31st

Online guide points back to cultural roots

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Move  over Google Maps – here comes Maori Maps, making it possible for Maori to find their way back to their cultural homes thanks to a website being launched tomorrow. Maori Maps aims to document more than 800 tribal marae to help save a heritage under threat. Te Potiki National Trust began setting up Maori Maps five years ago as a response to an emerging crisis – Maori being alienated from their roots. Otago University professor Paul Tapsell, who helped found the trust, said many young people did not know how to find their way back to their cultural homes, and as a result traditional marae – the focus of tribal values since Maori arrived in Aotearoa – were under…

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31st

Lawyers cash in as Treaty of Waitangi process rolls on

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A National government-led surge in Treaty of Waitangi claim negotiations is pumping millions of taxpayer dollars into the coffers of big law firms. Former National ministers have also cashed in. Figures obtained by the Sunday Star-Times show former attorneys-general in National governments, Sir Doug Graham and Paul East QC, have been paid $166,135 and $109,130 each for negotiations work. Former prime minister Jim Bolger is now also involved, negotiating for the Crown with Ngapuhi. The figures, obtained under the Official Information Act, show law firms and individuals have been paid more than $7 million in the past four years. The annual government spend has climbed steadily from $1.08m in the year to June 2008 to $2.38m in the 11 months…

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30th
JUL

“E Tu Ake – Maori Treasures” at Musée du Quai Branly in Paris

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Paris, 29 July 2011, Art Media Agency (AMA). From 4 October 2011 to 22 January 2012, the Musée du Quai Branly presents an exhibition dedicated to the Maori civilisation. “E Tu Ake – Maori Treasures” will feature approximately two hundred and fifty works from a variety of eras. The majority of pieces on display are from the Te Papa Tongarewa Museum in New Zealand, the institution that initiated the event. The exhibition consists of three parts and provides insight into a group of people with a strong and rich culture, fighting against globalisation to preserve their origins and determine their future. To illustrate these values and the continuity of this culture, contemporary artworks are exhibited alongside ancestral treasures. The first…

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30th

Expressway will ‘force bodies out of ground’

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Bodies will be popping out of the ground if an expressway runs alongside a Maori burial ground in Waikanae, a local iwi spokeswoman says. Labour’s transport spokesman Shane Jones announced at a meeting of about 80 expressway opponents in Waikanae this week that a Labour government would fund 100 per cent of a two-lane western link road instead of National’s proposed four-lane expressway through the district. The long-planned $120-million link road, designed to reduce congestion on State Highway 1 and link coastal communities, was ditched when Transport Minister Steven Joyce announced the $380m to $500m, 100-metre-wide expressway about 18 months ago, roughly along the…

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30th

Public meetings on oil drilling start Monday

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Public meetings begin in Tai Tokerau on Monday to drum up opposition to deep-sea oil drilling. Greenpeace and East Coast iwi have joined forces to campaign against the mining of fossil fuels and they are taking their take around the country. Veteran activist Mike Smith is representing Greenpeace, and Dayle Takitimu is speaking for Te Whanau-a-Apanui. The Government recently announced it would not accept any bids for drilling in Northland waters. Mr Smith says Greenpeace believes that’s because of recent iwi protests against an oil survey off East Cape but he says that may change after the election. The first meeting’s on Monday at 6pm at Whangarei’s Otangarei marae.  

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Accusations fly over makeup of key committee

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A move to incorporate a Maori viewpoint into a key council body has stirred fierce debate among regional councillors, including accusations of cronyism and “on the hoof” decision-making. Waikato regional councillors this week agreed on the makeup of a six-member committee to hear submissions on the proposed regional policy statement from…

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30th

Echoes of a lost past

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A major exhibition of Maori artefacts - more than a decade in the making - “Te Ao Maori: Maori Treasures from the Otago Museum” opened last week at the Shanghai Museum, in Dunedin’s Chinese sister city. John Gibb accompanied a 16-strong Otago Museum delegation to the opening. The major Maori exhibition that opened in Shanghai last week may also shed new light on an ancient riddle, involving the disappearance of the Yue people of southern China, which has long puzzled scholars, Shanghai Museum vice-director Prof Chen…

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High level of Maori natal deaths

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A new report by the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee has found Maori and Pacific mothers are more likely to experience stillbirths or have a baby die before reaching 27 days old. The committee found Maori mothers had 9.4 stillbirths and 5.8 neonatal deaths per 1000 births in 2009, compared with 5.3 stillbirths and 1.9 neonatal deaths in every 1000 births to Pakeha mothers. Chairperson Cynthia Farquhar said with 14 per cent of all perinatal deaths considered avoidable, that means 98 lives that could have potentially been saved.

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Maori owned Geothermal power station sells carbon credits

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Maori landowners and an electricity SOE have made $9.3 million from selling emissions credits to Germany. The credits were incurred by Nga Awa Purua geothermal power station, north east of Taupo. The 140 megawatt station is run jointly by Mighty River Power and the Tauhara North No. 2 Trust. The money came from the sale of 410,000 Emissions Reduction Units from the power station to Deutsche Bank AG. The credits are available because Nga Awa Purua’s geothermal energy displaces the need to generate far more polluting energy by burning fossil fuels. Copyright © 2011, Radio New Zealand

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