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30th
NOV

Laws and Mair to face off in boxing ring

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Two of Wanganui’s most polarising characters will be doing their best to flatten each other in the boxing ring this weekend. Former mayor Michael Laws will fight Maori activist Ken Mair to raise money for the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal. Mr Laws has just four more days to prepare for a fight his mouth cannot get him out of. And the outspoken talkback host is acutely aware that it could all end badly. “If I get knocked out in the first minute, and that photo is replayed all throughout New Zealand and 3 News lovingly replay it as their lead story on Sunday, then there will be a whole lot of people going ‘I told you so’.” His opponent, who once…

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30th

Takamore hapu to consider options

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A lawyer representing a whanau member who took the body of James Takamore says meetings will be held with the wider hapu to discuss how to proceed following a court ruling. James Takamore died of an aneurysm in 2007 and before his tangi in Christchurch his Bay of Plenty family took him to be buried near Opotiki. That was against the wishes of his widow Denise Clarke, who says she will continue to fight to bring him home. In a ruling last week the Court of Appeal deemed the actions of the whanau to be unlawful and referred the case back to the High Court to work out a solution. The family intends to hold a series of hui with…

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30th

Waikato research centre launched

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Waikato University’s Te Piringa Faculty of Law launched a new research centre on Tuesday which will tackle a variety of environmental law issues, including Maori and indigenous governance. Professor Barry Barton, who heads the new centre, says staff will also focus on water, energy efficiency, petroleum and minerals, the coastal and marine environment and international environmental law. He says it brings together a range of expertise which the university has been developing for some time. “It is quite a diversity of capability and it is great to see it coming together as a centre,” he says. The centre will initiate its own research programmes and take on board suggestions for projects from the community, industry and government. The launch at…

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30th

Treaty and te reo priority for new Greens Maori MP

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New Green Party Maori MP Denise Roche says there is still a long way to go to until the country properly recognises the Treaty of Waitangi. Ms Roche is of Ngati Raukawa descent. As one of nine children she left school with no qualifications but returned to education later and became a union organiser. The Waiheke Island resident says as part of acknowledging Te Tiriti she is passionate about te reo. Ms Roche wants to raise the status of the language and increase the opportunities for Maori to learn te reo and tikanga, particularly for those who don’t live mainly Maori areas. She says she wants to ensure all children have access to te reo, and not just Maori children,…

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29th
NOV

18 per cent of Maori now live oversea

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A leading demographer says we need to rethink what it means to be Maori after finding that almost a fifth of all Maori in the world now live outside New Zealand. Dr Tahu Kukutai, a Stanford-educated research fellow at Waikato University, told a Population Association conference in Auckland yesterday that 151,000 of the 815,000 Maori people in the world now live overseas - 140,000 of them in…

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29th

Asset sales no bar to Maori Party deal

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Asset sales look set to be parked outside any deal between National and the Maori Party, clearing the way for John Key to stitch up a bigger majority for his second-term government. National’s potential coalition allies shuttled through Mr Key’s 9th floor office door yesterday to begin the horse-trading over policy concessions and ministerial portfolios. But while this week’s talks…

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28th
NOV

Peters warns Maori Party over asset sales

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New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is warning the Maori Party it faces oblivion if it doesn’t continue to oppose asset sales. It can’t have “a bob each way” and oppose sales unless iwi get a piece of the action, he says. The Maori Party’s policy is unclear because it opposes asset sales but at the same time wants iwi to be able to buy shares. “You can’t stand with one leg on each side of a fence because it gets very painful,” Mr Peters said on Monday. “Moreover, it will lead to oblivion for the Maori Party by 2014 if not sooner.” Mr Peters says asset sales won’t help most Maori. “Corporate Maori can look after themselves so don’t…

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28th

Conservative reaches out to Maori voters

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The leader of New Zealand’s newest party says Maori have much to gain from his policies. Businessman Colin Craig says while his Conservative Party’s positions aren’t overtly Maori-focused, its emphasis on education and employment will help young Maori. Mr Craig was aiming to win the National-held seat of Rodney so he could take other Conservative Party MPs into parliament.

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28th

Maori Party want more than short-term gains from National

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Despite a battering at the polls, Maori Party leaders will today push John Key for more than “short-term gains” as the party seeks to solidify its position in the National-led Government. The Maori Party has three MPs and although National does not need them to govern, Mr Key has said he would like…

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27th
NOV

Finger-pointing a fast track to nowhere

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Every time a child, usually Maori, is killed by a family member, there are calls by children’s advocates for Maori to “own the problem”. There’s so much about that I don’t understand. “Children’s advocate”, for instance. That sounds about as meaningful as “peaceworker” or “man about town”. Is it a profession? Are there people who are against children? As to Maori “owning the problem”, I’m even more confused. Does it mean every Maori should do something about it? Does it mean only Maori need to do something about it? The figure for violent child deaths is shocking, but it’s not an epidemic. And it’s not Maori who have the problem. It’s a few sick, pathetic thugs. Telling Maori to own…

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27th

Maori party takes a hit

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The Maori Party won’t be making government coalition talks easy for National after being delivered a “disappointing” election result. Labour took back the southern Maori seat of Te Tai Tonga and the Maori Party had a poor showing in the party vote. Co-leader Pita Sharples, who himself suffered a severe cut in his electorate majority, said that showed voters did not like the split with Hone Harawira or the relationship with National. Sharples had been looking tired and despondent as the results flowed in. But as he stood up to speak the crowd performed a rousing haka and seemed to enliven him. He told them that despite the reduced number of seats they should “stay strong”. “The perception was that…

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26th
NOV

Plenty on the line in trust koha battle

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Horowhenua Library Trust has every chance in the world of defeating an American corporation in a battle over the trademarking of a Maori word in a potential David v Goliath battle, according to an intellectual property consultant. The word in question – koha – is the name of a library management system developed by the trust in 1999. Since then, the program had been free to use by anyone around the world, and was the most popular management system in United States’ libraries last year. However, American company Liblime had their application to trademark “koha” – Maori for donation or gift – in New Zealand accepted by the Ministry of Economic Development earlier this month. If anyone tried to use…

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