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30th
MAR

He Aitua! Archdeacon Hone Kaa dies

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Archdeacon of Tamaki Makaurau and well-known child advocate Dr Hone Kaa has died. Hone Kaa had been sick for some time with a number of health issues, and died at Auckland Hospital last night. His body will be taken to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Auckland today. As Anglican Archdeacon of Tamaki Makaurau, Kaa oversaw the two Auckland pastorates. He was instrumental in supporting initiatives to advance Maori education and the protection of children and their families. He also served as a member and spokesman for the child advocacy group Every Child Counts, established in 2005 with the aim of seeing children placed at the centre of government policy and planning. Kaa called for a shift away from using a…

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29th
MAR

Urewera trial. Crown applies to extend deadline over retrial

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The Crown prosecutor in the Te Urewera raids trial has applied to extend the deadline for it to decide whether to retry the four defendants on the main charge. Tame Iti, Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara, Urs Signer and Emily Bailey were last week found guilty on firearms charges at Auckland High Court. But the jury was unable to decide whether they were guilty of participating in an organised criminal group. The Crown was due to decide by 18 April on whether a retrial will be sought. But Crown prosecutor Ross Burns says he has applied to the High Court to have that date pushed out to 8 May. Mr Burns says the extension is needed due to lawyers’ unavailability, partly because…

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29th

Treaty Bills To Pass Under Extended Hours

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Parliament is sitting under extended hours this morning to progress a number of treaty settlement bills. The House will sit from 9am to 1pm to consider the third readings of the: Ngāti Manawa Claims Settlement Bill; Ngāti Whare Claims Settlement Bill; and Nga Wai o Maniapoto (Waipa River) Bill.

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29th

Stolen painting turns up on house

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Letitia Rahui did a double take when she spotted a painting stolen from Kahu Gallery in Napier more than a year ago hanging on a house in the city. The former Kahu Gallery curator was “blown away” to find a Maori art panel that had been ripped from the gallery by thieves in October 2010, hanging on a house just blocks from her home. Miss Rahui immediately recognised the painting she helped create, when she spotted it from the car window. “I just happened to look left and there it was – it was clear as day.” Shocked, she made the driver drive by twice to make sure her eyes weren’t deceiving her. Miss Rahui then phoned Kahu Gallery Trust…

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29th

Finlayson to defend Narrow Neck Crown land offering

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Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson is to defend a controversial $13.8 million offering of Crown land at Narrow Neck at a public meeting on Saturday. The noon meeting at the Navy gym on the land at Narrow Neck is a response to concerns about the Government’s offer to sell the 3.2ha to Ngati Whatua o Orakei as part of a Treaty of Waitangi deal which was reported by the Herald in September. A spokesman for Mr Finlayson’s office, Ben Thomas, said the minister would speak about the treaty deal as a whole but with specific reference to questions about the Narrow Neck property. North Shore MP Maggie Barry had invited the minister and would host the meeting. The site includes…

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29th

Supreme Court to rule on Maori burial rights

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A bitter feud that began in 2007 over Maori custom and rights to decide a man’s burial is set to drag on even further, with the country’s highest court agreeing to consider the issue. The Supreme Court’s decision to allow an appeal over the burial of James Takamore has come as a huge blow to his long-time partner, Denise Clarke, who thought she had won the right to bury him in her hometown of Christchurch when the Court of Appeal found in her favour last year. “I’m obviously very, very disappointed,” Ms Clarke told the Heraldyesterday. “[But] I’ll keep fighting for as long as I can.” After Mr Takamore died in 2007, his whanau from the Eastern Bay of Plenty claimed…

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29th

My happy place: Oakura pa

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Actress Shavaughn Ruakere shares her favourite spot. Oakura Marae in Taranaki. Photo / Supplied My happy place is Oakura pa. It’s in Taranaki, about 10 minutes outside of New Plymouth, where I grew up. We started going there for family holidays when I was about 13. It was always open to everyone - aunties, uncles, cousins, friends, friends-of-friends… It’s right next to the Oakura River and pretty much at the mouth of the ocean as well. It’s very relaxed. We go swimming in the river, play French cricket and touch, there are walks up the hill to the Four Square to get bread-and-milk, bread-and-milk, bread-and-milk (you always need more), and icecreams. We might go down to the beach in the…

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25th
MAR

Annette King: Solicitor-General went back on Urewera terror act decision

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The former police minister has admitted that she was disappointed when the Solicitor-General changed his mind on the use of the Terrorism Suppression Act in the Urewera raids. Police used warrants to raid alleged military training camps in the Ureweras in October 2007, alleging crimes under the Terrorism Suppression Act. Labour MP Annette King told TV ONE’s Q+A programme that she and former Prime Minister Helen Clark had questioned Solicitor-General David Collins QC whether police action under that act was appropriate the night before the raids. “We were assured by the Solicitor-General it was appropriate and we did question that. We took the advice we were given.” A month after the raids Collins said those rounded up under the Terrorism Suppression Act…

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24th
MAR

A nation divided: Inside the Urewera Four trial

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Tame Iti and his colleagues weren’t the only ones on trial for the past five weeks. The terrorism claims in the still-unresolved Urewera case have revealed deep divisions over Maori and Pakeha world views and state surveillance in the name of public safety. Mid-summer 2007 and a Pathfinder 4WD makes its way into the Urewera forest. Tuhoe activist Tame Iti is the driver. With him is a personal trainer and two teenage brothers, asked along to help demonstrate kick-boxing and general fitness to a group at a wananga organised by Iti. Suddenly, they come across a roadblock among the trees. A group of masked men, some firing guns in the air, appears and orders them from the vehicle. Iti and…

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24th

South Taranaki iwi oppose water privatisation bill

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Four South Taranaki iwi are opposing a water privatisation bill because of a lack of consultation with them by the South Taranaki District Council. The Cold Creek Rural Water Supply Bill had its first reading in Parliament on 21 March and will now be put to a Select Committee before going on to its second reading. Under the bill, the council would divest itself of the Cold Creek Water Supply Scheme - which was built using government and community funds 30 years ago - to a private company owned by local farmers. Chair of Nga Hapu o Ngaruahine Iwi Incorporated, Daisy Noble, says her iwi would have liked the Council to have included them in the plans and explored some…

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24th

Action against Tuhoe typical of NZ governments

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What was so uncanny and disturbing about that police action against the Tuhoe people at Ruatoki was that it was so typical of the way New Zealand governments have always dealt with them. The New Zealand government has always displayed a capacity for savagery and vindictiveness in their dealings with Tuhoe. There is something special about Tuhoe. As a people they have held fiercely to their independence, right from the get-go. Trouble for Tuhoe came early. In 1865 an Anglican priest was murdered at Opotiki, not by a member of the Tuhoe nation. The priest was hanged and before he was cold his eyes were ripped out and eaten. The fellow who instigated that hanging fled up into the Urewera…

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23rd
MAR

Surveillance law an attack on liberties – Harawira

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Mana Party leader Hone Harawira says the surveillance legislation passed by Parliament will allow police to spy on people without having to prove a crime has been, or will be, committed. The Government’s controversial Search and Surveillance Bill passed its final reading in Parliament on Thursday. It will come into force in April, and will replace temporary police surveillance laws passed last year after a court ruling threw the right of police to take covert video into doubt. Mr Harawira told Parliament people’s right to silence will no longer exist and the liberties and freedoms enjoyed by the public will disappear. “Enforcement officers can bug your granddaughter’s phone, install a hidden camera in your daughter’s bathroom, download the files from…

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