Living the dream
Kawakawa Fox-Reo was only months out of the New Zealand drama school Toi Whakaari when he joined Home And Away as the youngest member of the Australian drama’s first Māori family.Fast-forward three years, and the Hawke’s Bay actor found himself on stage alongside his co-stars, accepting this year’s Logie for the most popular television drama.“I was excited to be there but a little bit nervous as well,” the 24 year old says of mixing with some of Australia’s most famous faces at the ...
July 8, 2022Great Minds: Mental health unit 'chaotic',
A staffing crisis at a psychiatric facility for teenagers with severe mental illness got so severe that employees worried it would lead to "serious injury or death", according to damning inspection reports obtained by the Herald.Inspectors from the Children's Commissioner's office visited the Regional Rangatahi Adolescent Inpatient Service (RRAIS), a 12-bed facility in Porirua, twice in the past year-and-a-half and found a multitude of alarming problems relating to staffing, the physical state o...
July 8, 2022School-provided lunches needed more than ever
Jean Batten Primary School assistant principal Siolo John said families had become more reliant on the provided meals as soaring food prices made it hard to put food on the table and in the lunchbox. Checkpoint visited Countdown Māngere, where some said they were relying on extended family to get by, while others said their weekly grocery bill had doubled. "Before, $150 can feed ... three kids, now it’s like almost $300 to be ho...
July 8, 20221 in 4 preschool children
Consultant developmental paediatrician at Starship Hospital and lead researcher Dr Jin Russell said the results show a strong link between poverty and child development.She said she knew from the work she did with children on the ground that poverty had an impact on their development.But, to find out that about one in four Kiwi children weren't reaching their full developmental potential "really took me by surprise", she said of the data.Link to video and article: 1 in 4 preschool children ...
July 8, 2022Learning te reo Māori could be key
The latest Stats NZ Wellbeing Statistics survey showed Māori were sitting at 31 percent for poor mental wellbeing in 2021, an increase of 5 percentage points in the last three years.Māori are currently sitting at 13 percent to more likely to have good outcomes in all areas of wellbeing compared to Pākehā at 24.4 percent.But people being able to speak more than a few words or phrases of te reo Māori has gone from 24 percent in 2018 to now sitting at 30 percent in only three years.W...
July 8, 2022Papatoetoe Food Hub rescues wasted produce,
A South Auckland social enterprise has come up with a community-based solution to fix our "broken food system".The Papatoetoe Food Hub was started four years ago to rescue produce that normally gets thrown away, by repurposing it into affordable, cafe-quality food. The enterprise was set up by the Southern Initiative and Auckland Council's Eke Panuku Development who gave the location for the Hub.Hub director Raj Ramakrishna says we live in a time when there is so much food waste yet so much food...
July 8, 2022Urgent change needed for dental care system for children
A new paper says a multi-service approach was necessary to address the long waits being imposed on children with severe decay.University of Otago researcher Dorothy Boyd said it wasn't acceptable that children were experiencing preventable pain every day."We need to say, 'actually it's not okay that so many of our children can't chew, can't sleep, can't eat, can't play, because their teeth hurt'."The oral healthcare workforce was severely understaffed, which had been exacerbated by Covid-19, she...
July 5, 2022How Māori use maramataka to care for mental health issues
Māori are well known for using the stars and the moon to navigate across the ocean in their waka.Not so well known to non-Māori is their tradition of using the moon and stars to help treat mental health issues.It's called maramataka and will be incorporated into treatment by the new Māori Health Authority.Link to video and article: How Māori use maramataka to care for mental health issues and how the practice will be incorporated into treatment by Māori Health Authority | Newshub...
July 5, 2022Auckland school switches back
Covid-19 modellers have warned the country could be seeing the start of a second wave of Omicron, due to the more transmissible BA.5 variant.Carmel College principal Chris Allen told First Up dealing with staff and student illness had been more difficult in recent weeks than during the first two years of the pandemic."We've got to the stage now in the last few days, we've needed relievers for the relievers. People are just dropping like flies and we can't sustain this level of providin...
July 5, 2022New Zealand is not ready for a fentanyl crisis,
The NZ Drug Foundation says we are not equipped to deal with a fentanyl crisis but Pharmac claims the country has a "good coverage of [antidote] stock".Last weekend, 12 people were hospitalised over a 48-hour period in Wairarapa due to an overdose on the drug fentanyl. On Friday, a man in his 20s reportedly overdosed on fentanyl and was taken to Palmerston North Hospital.It is the first time the drug has been confirmed to be in New Zealand.Drug Foundation executive director Sarah Helm said the d...
July 5, 2022Millions spent on truancy:
14-year-old Zane Turua’s family thought he would start high school at the beginning of this year.But the teenager, who has high needs, was still at home in June.His grandmother, Christine Bellamy, said his behaviour worsened as they continued to wait for the support he needed to attend a programme at Motueka High School, north of Nelson.Turua – who has fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) and a mental disability – wanted to be at school, and...
July 5, 2022Māori authority welcomes health system
Manukau Urban Māori Authority (MUMA) is welcoming the Government's health reforms as an important first step to improving Māori and Pasifika health in south Auckland.But some in the health sector say the jury is still out on what will be achieved in Counties Manukau.Under the reforms, the country's 20 district health boards have now been replaced by Te Whatu Ora (Health New Zealand).The new Crown entity will be responsible for running hospitals, and primary and community health services.Link t...
July 5, 2022Should Aotearoa
Winter, spring, summer and autumn aren’t relevant to our environment, says Rereata Makiha of Te Māhurehure, Te Aupōuri and Te Arawa. The renowned astronomer and authority on maramataka tells Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes why. We all look forward to summer, when the environment warms up and we enter the festive season. Those terms, the festive season and even summer, were introduced to this country along with the western Gregorian calendar that follows the sun and 365-day year.Rereata ...
July 3, 2022Great Minds:
Mental health as a topic of discussion has come leaps and bounds over the past decade. As public discussion has opened up, many people have also developed a range of mental health tools to deal with the reality of our day-to-day lives.As wonderful as mental health initiatives are - not to mention the feel-good factor that we all get from giving a platform to these issues - there remains fear and misunderstanding on multiple fronts, and nowhere more imposing than in the workplace.Say I'm experien...
July 3, 2022Auckland Museum’s first Māori curator
Chanel Clarke (Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Waikato, Ngāti Porou) was the first Māori curator at Tāmaki Paenga Hira in 2000 and this week she was recognised for it.This week, Tāmaki Paenga Hira hosted its museum medals ceremony recognising excellence and innovation in the study of cultural and natural heritage.Clarke was awarded the Associate Emerita of Tāmaki Paenga Hira, which she says is a tribute to those that led the path for her.“I think of Sir Hugh Kawharu, people like Henar...
July 3, 2022REFLECTIONS
When I moved to Turanganui-a-Kiwa to live with my partner, he was working as an archaeologist with a range of iwi. This allowed me to follow him into a world I knew little about. We were on the beach at Whareongaonga the day he and the mana whenua moved some kōiwi back from the eroding coastal urupā. We were wrapped in Ringatū karakia from before dawn and until after the ceremony. It was safe and beautiful, and I was beyond humbled to stand there behind the whānau.Link to article: ...
July 3, 2022Translating The Lion King
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July 3, 2022Classic Lion King waiata: Sung te reo Māori
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July 3, 2022Ensuring access
Kaiārahi i te reo — reo Māori teachers — employed in Aotearoa schools have been offered the first pay equity settlement for a Māori workforce in New Zealand history.If it’s accepted, a kaiārahi i te reo currently earning $23.03 per hour would be paid $41.31 per hour.Overall, the average proposed pay increase is 79 per cent — paid to a group that’s made up mainly of wāhine Māori.Āwhina Kihi is one of those wāhine, a kaiārahi i te reo working at a primary school in R...
July 3, 2022Oral History; Tahitian Islands
Jontelle Beech-Cullen 29 June at 14:23 · There is oral history in the Tahitian islands (Hawaiki)Credit to KI Na 🥰🙏Here is a map of sorts with the pacific islands being likened to a giant octopus.The islands are on each arm and Ra’iatea (Rangiatea/Hawaiki)and Tahiti at the head as Ra’iatea (which was the most important and sacred place in Eastern Polynesia).When you hear the story of Kupe finding NZ by chasing and conquering the giant Octopus Te Wheke-a-Muturangi (Mutur...
July 3, 2022HAPA Unique Gifts
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July 3, 2022Tauranga fund
Tauranga City Council is launching a new fund to celebrate Māori culture in the city.The Kaupapa Māori Legacy Event Fund will reopen this Friday, July 1. It provides support to recurring events that celebrate tangata whenua, promote tikanga Māori, and raise awareness of historical and culturally significant events in Tauranga Moana.The focus of the fund is to support hapū and iwi to elevate and share their culture, and provide opportunities for the community to connect with the Māori c...
July 3, 2022From Aotearoa to Australia:
As the thick bass line to Don't Forget Your Roots thumps, Nunukul Yuggera Aboriginal dancers emerge from the wings, becoming silhouetted against a red, smoke-filled stage.The sound of the didgeridoo rings out, hauntingly, over a sold-out crowd of 10,000 as a Māori kapa haka group moves in.Singer Matiu Walters begins - first in English, "don't forget your roots my friends, don't forget your family," before switching into Māori, "Kia Mau Ki Tō Ūkaipō."Fans are frenetic as two cult...
July 3, 2022Head of Māori Health Authority Riana Manuel says
On Friday, the biggest transformation in New Zealand's public health system took place where 20 district health boards were dissolved and replaced by one centralised entity, Health New Zealand. Working alongside it will be the Māori Health Authority.The upheaval comes as COVID-19 and the winter flu overwhelm an exhausted workforce.One day into their jobs, the bosses of Health NZ and Māori Health Authority joined Newshub Nation to discuss their vision for their new roles and both said they...
July 2, 2022Wāhine Māori police graduates
Out of 70 constables who graduated in Wing 355 on Thursday, 24 are wāhine Māori - a record number.In 2017 there were only 22 out of the entire year's 496 graduates.Commissioner Andrew Coster called it a good sign but he recognised there was still a way to go."It's fundamentally important that when New Zealanders look at their police service they can see themselves in it," Coster said."We deal with really diverse communities with really diverse problems and the best way for us to properly under...
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