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29th
FEB

‘We have a lot of information on everyone’ – Police

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Operation 8: Day 11 - Tuesday 28 February ‘We have a lot of information on everyone’ by Annemarie Thorby Eight police were called on Tuesday as the Operation 8 trial continued. One officer told the court the police ‘have a lot of information on everyone’ and another saying he had initiated his own surveillance operations sometimes while on holiday. Cross-Examination of the Whetu Road Exhibits’ Officer On Tuesday the Exhibits Officer finished giving evidence about the camp site. During cross-examination Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara’s lawyer, Nick Taylor, asked about the numerous photos of spent shells found. The officer said they were very corroded, tarnished, and appeared to be weathered. However, he had not taken advice at the time about the age…

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29th

Petition forcing Maori ward poll ‘victory for democracy’

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A petition has successfully forced a poll on whether Nelson City Council should have a Maori ward. A poll will be held on whether Nelson City Council should have a Maori ward. A petition has successfully forced the council to hold the poll, which will run from the end of April. Nelson man Kevin Gardener, who organised the petition, received confirmation yesterday that the required number of signatures has been validated and the poll will be held. He called it a victory for democracy, saying the council had railroaded through its decision last November to establish a Maori ward. He believes a Maori ward is separatism, and is confident voters will reject it. Nelson electors will first vote on whether…

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29th

Urewera Trial: Raid was no joke, says police officer

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A police officer has denied seeing his colleagues laugh, joke and take pictures when they raided a house where a member of the “Urewera four” was allegedly staying in October 2007. Sergeant Craig Cartwright, officer in charge of exhibits found at a Ruatoki house where one of the accused in the trial – Urs Signer – was alleged to have stayed in October 2007, gave evidence yesterday in the High Court at…

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29th

Tuhoe Tribal Authority appoints first CEO

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The Ngai Tuhoe Tribal Authority has hired its first chief executive to build the organisation and the tribe’s economy and improve descendants’ quality of life. Te Uru Taumatua was ratified last year after two years of iwi engagement and development, and as part of its growth it aimed to appoint someone to direct and build the authority. Kirsti Luke has been appointed as the chief executive. Her role includes recruiting management staff, building relationships with stakeholders and government agencies, and developing policies to improve or co-ordinate options for housing, health and employment for Tuhoe. She will also provide business recommendations to build up the tribe’s economy. The organisation’s chairperson, Tamati Kruger, says Ms Luke holds a Bachelor of Law (LLB)…

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27th
FEB

Maori to file claim on Crafar farm deal

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Central North Island iwi say they should have been offered one of the Crafar farms and may mount a new legal challenge to block sale of the farms to Chinese investors. Trusts representing Tu Wharetoa and Ngati Rereahu are questioning the role of state-owned-enterprise Landcorp and the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) in the sale of the 16 Crafar farms to the Shanghai Pengxin Group. The sale was halted by the High Court following a legal challenge by a Michael Fay-led group, including the Maori trusts, also wanting to buy the 16 farms. State-owned Landcorp was lined up to manage the farms on behalf of Shanghai Pengxin and the OIO will now have to revisit its decision to approve the deal….

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26th
FEB

Operation 8 Trial Day 9 – Friday, End of Week Two

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The end of week two of the “Urewera Four’’ continued with more examination of evidence around alleged training exercises which police witnesses described as less than polished. Video Clips - Cross-examination The morning continued with the cross-examination of the same officer who previously had presented video evidence of both the September and October ‘camps’. Russell Fairbrother questioned about a spreadsheet created to identify shots and sequences in the video footage. He asked if the officer had ‘checked every entry against the original source’. The officer said that ‘the spreadsheet was created for him to go through and see’, and `as a guide for the enquiry team’. His ‘responsibility was to manage the staff watching videos, and he ‘went through to…

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26th

Maori trust reaches deal with oil company

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Te Runanga o Ngati Ruanui Trust, which overseas 8500 people, also hopes the relationship will provide opportunities for its young people…

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26th

a maori in manhattan

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We left Aotearoa on Wednesday 22 February, not long after the anniversary of the earthquake which devastated much of Christchurch and its people, and began a year most would rather forget. At 12:51pm, my partner Christine and I listened in meditation as the names of the dead were…

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21st
FEB

Iwi protesters occupy for-sale Crafar farm

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King Country Maori have occupied a former Crafar farm earmarked for possible sale to Chinese investors. Seven occupiers moved onto a property 22km east of Benneydale late yesterday afternoon. Rereahu iwi spokesman Edward Moana-Emery said the occupation was a “last-ditch effort” to stop the sale of two Crafar farms they say are ancestral land. Mr Moana-Emery said the properties on State Highway 30, totalling about 1900 hectares, were part of the iwi’s Treaty of Waitangi settlement negotiations. He expected occupiers’ ranks to swell when news of their occupation spread. “Our land was stolen from us in 1886 and we’ve been fighting for 126 years to get the land back. I hope this occupation will be over fast but if it…

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19th
FEB

Anger at Holmes’ Waitangi remarks

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Broadcaster Paul Holmes’ role as presenter of TVNZ’s Q&A Sunday morning current affairs show is being questioned after a “racially offensive” column he wrote about Waitangi Day. AUT indigenous studies adjunct professor Dr Rawiri Taonui has joined Mana Party leader Hone Harawira and broadcaster Willie Jackson in questioning Holmes’ suitability for the role. “It’s a sad day when a great writer repeats the prejudices of the past, but Holmes’ offer on Waitangi Day is a fall from grace,” Taonui said. Taonui, a regular Sunday Star-Times columnist, said Holmes was an intelligent writer, but said his article in the Weekend Herald, contained a “staggering number of half-truths and stereotypes”. “In a tirade he depicted Maori as ghastly, smug, politically neurotic, uneducated,…

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18th
FEB

Tuhoe envoys plan Scotland trip

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Treaty negotiators for Tuhoe who are pushing the Crown for “maximum autonomy” are planning a trip to Scotland as its Government considers independence. Britain is having the conversation now despite more than 300 years of political union because the Scottish National Party won last year’s election. Independence is a central tenet of the SNP’s ideology but until it came to power it had no mandate to push the issue. Last year Tuhoe and the New Zealand Government reopened negotiations which stalled when the Prime Minister took ownership of the Te Urewera National Park off the table in 2010. It was a defining plank in negotiations, as is “mana motuhake” or autonomy. Tuhoe’s Tamati Kruger said maximum autonomy was a long-term…

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17th
FEB

Urewera 4 Trial – Day 5: End of the 1st Week

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The trial of the four remaining people arrested as a result of Operation 8 will continue with a jury of only 11 after one juror was discharged due to a family tragedy. Today saw several CIB detectives give evidence about their gathering of evidence. The first was Adam Eltham, the officer in overall charge of the exhibits. He said that he had was responsible not just for recording the exhibits but also for tracking exhibits as they left his custody to be examined, for example, by ESR. Eltham said that he recorded all details of the exhibits and when and where they went. Prosecutor Ross Burns read through a series of texts from Tame Iti to a range of people…

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