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31st
MAY

Waatea: Kruger keen on Tuhoe settlement before apology

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A Tuhoe negotiator says the iwi is in no hurry to pursue an apology for police actions around the arrest and trial of Tame Iti and other activists. Tamati Kruger says the immediate priority is to support Iti and Te Rangiwhiria Kemara, who were jailed last week for two and a half years on arms charges, and raise funds for their appeals. He says pressure for an apology to the iwi and the people of Ruatoki have been coming from outside Tuhoe. “We’ve always said this year we wish to put our full effort and focus on our raupatu claims. We wish to put this matter to the side and we will probably get back to it next year some…

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31st

Spat looms over Island Bay’s island

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As Wellington Maori prepare for looming court action, new details have emerged about their worsening dispute with a rival iwi’s $120 million Treaty of Waitangi settlement bid. The future ownership of Island Bay’s Taputeranga Island appears central to the spat, as do plans to give lower North Island Ngati Toa cash to buy three Wellington schools. The Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust also says the Crown was “duped” into recognising Ngati Toa’s so-called maritime empire, which trust chairman Sir Ngatata Love says “never existed”. The details are revealed in Justice Ministry documents and affidavits issued to The Dominion Post. The trust has been granted an urgent Waitangi Tribunal hearing challenging aspects of Ngati Toa’s proposed cash and property settlement package,…

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31st

Nation ‘lucky’ there were no Urewera reprisals

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One of the country’s biggest iwi says police and the whole of New Zealand are lucky there were no reprisals due to police raids in Te Urewera and how they were handled. Waikato-Tainui says the two-and-a-half year sentence given to Tame Iti of Tuhoe last week is outrageous and disproportionate to the firearms crime he was convicted of. Iti and another accused were found guilty at a jury trial for possessing firearms and restricted weapons - namely, a Molotov cocktail - and are serving their sentence in Auckland’s Mt Eden Prison. Waikato-Tainui says it is speaking out because Iti’s mother is from Tainui. The chair of the tribe’s executive Te Arataura, Tom Roa, says the restraint shown by the people…

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30th
MAY

Syria’s Regime To Survive Despite Recent Violence

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Stratfor Middle East analyst Ashley Lindsey examines the latest violence in Syria and explains why the al Assad regime will maintain its grip on power unless a foreign military intervention occurs. See video dispatch at You Tube.

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30th

Papakainga and marae development features in Auckland Plan

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The Auckland Council’s 30-year strategic plan was launched today. It included five key priorities for Maori: the establishment of papakainga, co-management of natural resources with local Maori, work together to protect wahi tapu, enable marae to thrive and be self-sustaining, and support sustainable Maori development.

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30th

Marae keen to buy all Flaxmere’s state houses

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A marae in Hastings wants to buy all 317 Housing New Zealand houses in the city’s poorest suburb. While the houses are not on the market, Te Aranga Marae has asked the housing corporation to consider selling its entire Flaxmere stock. Chairman Henare O’Keefe said the purchase could raise the standard of living and deal with the social problems bringing down the community. With a high crime rate, Flaxmere often hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons. “We’re taking our community back, culturally and commercially. We want to be masters of our own destiny.” The marae wants to improve the housing and create a pathway for affordable ownership. Mr O’Keefe said a mortgage scheme had been devised that was…

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30th

Plan aims to tackle chronic health problems in Maori workforce

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Nelson Marlborough District Health Board says evidence shows if the Maori workforce is left unchanged, chronic conditions such as heart disease and diabetes will become more prevalent. The board has established a Maori health workforce action plan that aims to train the current Maori workforce. It is holding three hui in Motueka, Nelson and Blenheim this week to discuss the plan. Maori health director Harold Wereta says a survey completed a few years ago showed a need to recruit more young Maori into science and health-related careers. He says the plan also recommends four pathways to support the current workforce - which are training and development, recruitment, retention and information. The submissions for the plan close on 22 June. Copyright…

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30th

Regret over Urewera expressed by Broad

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Former Police Commissioner Howard Broad says his biggest regret of the Urewera raids case in 2007 is that the operation looked like it targeted the people of Tuhoe. He says the raids were actually directed at a much wider group. Police believed they were investigating an organised militia group during the Urewera raids. Tuhoe wants an apology for the way police treated innocent bystanders. Mr Broad, who is retired, hopes the police will make an effort to fix their relationship with the iwi and he is happy to be involved if needed. Seventeen people were initially charged but only four ended up going to trial. Last Thursday, Tame Iti and Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara were sentenced in the High Court at…

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29th
MAY

NZH Editorial: Police chief right to back Urewera team

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Once the Independent Police Conduct Authority report into the Urewera raids is released, it is expected the Police Commissioner, Peter Marshall, will visit Ruatoki to attempt to repair relations. Achieving some degree of rapprochement will not have been made any easier by his statement last week after the jailing for 2 years of activist Tame Iti and co-defendant Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara. The Tuhoe leader, Tamati Kruger, said the fate of the pair, who were convicted of five firearms charges and one charge of unlawfully possessing Molotov cocktails, had flabbergasted the iwi. The likelihood of a cooler reception does not mean, however, that the commissioner erred. Indeed, his forthrightness in putting the police perspective was welcome. Mr Marshall expressed regret for…

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28th
MAY

Water is a Taonga

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Monday, 28 May 2012, 12:50 pm Press Release: Treaty Education Council Water is a Taonga FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Treaty Education Council May 28, 2012 Water is perhaps the most unique and vital natural resource there is; every aspect of life on this planet is water dependant. Because water is so important for life’s existence access to it has been described as a right ~ it is a treasure that arguably belongs to everybody collectively. In New Zealand natural flowing water is not owned as it is in some countries; it is managed by the Crown and use of it is allocated to people and entities so that we may live. There are a great number of uses for water; one…

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28th

Ngati Awa tell Iti: We support you

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After Tuhoe activist Tame Iti was sentenced to a prison term yesterday, Ngati Awa said they would support the Tuhoe people in any way they could. A haka broke out as Iti was given a prison sentence on firearms charges relating to the 2007 Urewera raids. Iti and fellow accused Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara were found guilty on six firearms charges and both were sentenced in the High Court at Auckland to two and a half years behind bars. Urs Signer and Emily Bailey were found to have played a lesser role and were sentenced to nine months’ home detention, pending a report from probation on whether their home at Parihaka, Taranaki is suitable. Signer was earlier found guilty of five…

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28th

Chris Trotter: No Comparison: Why Tame Iti Has No Role In “Smith’s Dream”

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THE POSTER featured at the top of this posting indicates how very far from reality the Far Left in this country has drifted. So far that they can no longer even distinguish the salient differences between C.K. Stead’s 1971 novel Smith’s Dream (which Roger Donaldson turned into the 1977 New Zealand film Sleeping Dogs) and Tame Iti’s embryonic “private militia”. In Stead’s/Donaldson’s fictional setting, New Zealand finds itself in the grip of an authoritarian dictatorship - complete with secret police, imprisonment without trial, torture, military tribunals, executions and lethal violence meted out to protesters on the streets. Not surprisingly, this leads to the formation of an armed resistance movement, which in turn spurs the government to invite in American “advisers”….

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