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31st
DEC

Keri Kaa receives New Year Honour CNZM

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Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) - Hohi Ngapera Te Moana Keri Kaa, QSO, Gisborne, for services to Maori and the arts.

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31st

Twitter stoush between MPs

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A war of words has broken out on Twitter this morning after National MP Tau Henare was listed in a Herald on Sunday poll as one of the 10 MPs who should have performed better this year. Political columnist Matt McCarten ranked Mr Henare as the sixth MP who should have performed better than he did. “Humiliatingly hawking himself for the Speaker’s job to his political enemies because his own party wouldn’t support him. When you started life as a working class hero and morph into someone who publicly offered to sweep the floor for Don Brash, there’s nothing else to say. Referred to these days as Uncle Tau. Sad and embarrassing,” Mr McCarten wrote. Mr Henare, who is chairman…

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31st

Waimarama – a place of myth and Maori legend

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From the east coast’s endless expanses of soft white sand to the rugged beauty of the west coast, New Zealand’s beaches remain among our greatest treasures. In the first of a six-part journey around the North Island, reporter Jamie Morton and photographer Alan Gibson travel to Hawkes Bay’s Waimarama. Waimarama, say its tangata whenua, is a place of myth. Walk to the water’s edge and face north, to sweeping brown hills looming above like the laps of giants, and watch as they roll into headlands, diving into the Pacific blue. Peer beyond the sea spray and you might make out Mahia Peninsula, 200km across the ocean at Hawkes Bay’s other extreme. Behind you is Waimarama’s most striking resident, Motu-O-Kura or…

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31st

Solomon’s wisdom recognised

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Mark Solomon is a man of few airs and graces, and having the title of “Sir” precede his name is unlikely to change that. The chairman of Ngai Tahu’s tribal council, Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu, has today been made a knight in the 2013 New Year honours for services to Maori and business during his 15 years in the role. Speaking from Oaro, south of Kaikoura, where Sir Mark is spending his holiday break - in shorts and T-shirts working in the garden - he said he was “blown away” by the honour. “You don’t expect these things at all.” Sir Mark, 58, had been a foundry metal-maker for nearly 20 years when he was first elected to the…

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31st

Korero sees role in righting a wrong

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Henare Rakiihia Tau says he was never interested in New Year Honours - but today he must accept the title of Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit graciously. “I found out in October. I said, ‘I better write and say I can’t accept it’. But I forgot,” he said. “I would still like to know who is responsible.” He is korero, or speaker, for his pa at Tuahiwi and for Ngai Tahu, as well as a staunch advocate for Maori land and water rights. Tau has spent his entire life living at Tuahiwi, and says his focus is the same as that of his ancestors: the cultural and spiritual wellbeing of the tribe. He was a lead negotiator…

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30th
DEC

Richard Cornes: Chief justice should hear water case

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Appeal will be decided according to law, writes Richard Cornes The Maori Council’s water rights appeal is to be heard by the Supreme Court at the end of next month. Should Chief Justice Sian Elias recuse herself when the Supreme Court hears the water rights claim? According to Fran O’Sullivan in the Weekend Herald, unnamed Cabinet ministers have been floating that question. The answer is almost certainly no; Sian Elias should be in the court’s central seat when the case is called. Certainly where there are grounds for a judge recusing him or herself, and where he or she has not volunteered to do so, parties before the court should raise the issue. Where there are no reasons for recusal,…

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30th

McCarten: The MPs who could and should have done better

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For these 10 prominent politicians, I believe events this year seal their fates. For all practical purposes their careers are over. 10. Tariana Turia: On her way out. Presiding over the imminent death of her Maori Party. Trying to force out her co-leader was clumsy. Was the deal she got with National over the foreshore and seabeds any different from what she was offered by Labour? Does anyone remember or care? 9. Brendan Horan: Political career stillborn. He didn’t understand rumours of him spending a little old lady’s money was a bottom line for Winston Peters. After all, little old ladies are NZ First’s core constituency. 8. Maryan Street: Hasn’t landed a single blow on her opposite number. The only…

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30th

Baches razed in ‘P’ war (up North)

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Families living in fear after drug arrests and ‘insult’ to sacred mountain Hilda Halkyard-Harawira says there is no mana in drugs. Photo / APN Six waterfront baches have been razed as a holiday hotspot is ripped apart by vengeance attacks and vigilante justice. The rift stems from a major drug bust, in which police seized $2 million of assets and allege they found hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash and methamphetamine-baking apparatus and cash. The idyllic community of Whangape is riven and said to be living in fear, with the local marae committee too scared to meet - and the family of MP Hone Harawira is at the heart of the dispute. He and his wife Hilda Halkyard-Harawira have…

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30th

Online tangihanga?

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When Vicki-Jane Ross’s sister died suddenly, she could only just afford to fly home to New Zealand from Perth for the tangi. Her 12-year-old daughter had to stay in Australia. “She was devastated that she couldn’t participate in seeing her aunty off. It felt like something was missing,” Ross said. If an online video stream of the tangi had been available, it would have helped her daughter grieve and learn the traditions of the Maori culture, she said. “There are a lot of Maori over in Australia who can’t afford to come home who would want to participate in that way.” Online tangi is a part of the growing cultural participation by the Maori diaspora on the internet but elders…

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27th
DEC

Taiwhenua leads truancy battle

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Hastings organisation Te Taiwhenua o Heretaunga will lead a new Ministry of Education programme in Hawke’s Bay which aims to tackle truancy. It begins at the start of the 2013 school year. The taiwhenua has been awarded the ministry’s contract to deliver its new School Attendance Service which will take an innovative approach to helping children realise their educational potential. The service will target schools from Tutira, north of Napier, to Wairarapa in the south. It will support young people facing difficulties in continuing with their education. The taiwhenua already provided a range of youth education and social services and its education and social services general manager Nathan Harrington said the new Attendance Service would complement existing youth services. It…

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25th
DEC

Iwi looks for co-operation with settlement

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Picton-based iwi Te Atiawa Manawhenua Ki Te Tau Ihu will look for shared business interests with other iwi in the South Island to get the greatest benefits from its $20 million Crown settlement package. Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson signed a deed of settlement on behalf of the Crown with Te Atiawa Manawhenua ki Te Tau Ihu Trust chairwoman Glenice Paine, Kaikoura MP Colin King and iwi members at Waikawa Marae on Friday afternoon. The settlement consisted of a financial package of $11.76 million and $6m of land in the top of the south from Queen Charlotte Sound to Golden Bay. It included properties such as the Picton police station and the Department of Conservation building in Motueka. The package…

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23rd
DEC

Crown reaches agreement with Taranaki iwi

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The Crown has reached a significant milestone in negotiations with Taranaki Maori. It has signed agreements with three tribes aimed at reaching settlements for past wrongs including arrests, exile, plundering and land confiscation. Treaty Negotiations Minister Christopher Finlayson hopes the agreements will help the healing process, after much delay. “Nothing really has happened for a long time, but I am very keen to move on and both the iwi and the Crown have been working very hard on these settlements for about 18 months.” The next step is a deed of settlement, which will include an official apology. - Newstalk ZB

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