New $5.7 million fund
A new $5.7 million contestable fund has been launched to support Māori to protect marae taonga.The Mātauranga Māori Marae Ora is part of a wider $20m programme annnounced in December to support indigenous arts from the threats of the Covid-19 pandemic.Link to Article: New $5.7 million fund to help Māori protect taonga on marae | Stuff.co.nz...
February 9, 2021Don Brash cops backlash after standing against Māori wards in Tauranga,
Former National Party leader Don Brash is facing backlash over his stance on Māori wards after he attended a meeting in Tauranga to say they should be abolished. He was speaking at an event today set up after Tauranga City Council voted to establish Māori wards next year. "To my mind, having Māori wards — which would create wards where Māori only could vote — is a bad step,” he said. Protestors holding placards and singing in protest argued with Brash as he backed th...
January 31, 2021Māori TV, Te Ao Māori News
Māori Television has launched two new mobile phone apps.The apps, Te Ao Māori News and Māori TV, are designed to send important alerts and messages quickly to users and provide free access to a range of news and entertainment.“No matter where people are on their reo Māori language journey, they can learn with us at any time from the comfort of their own space, on their own device. For others, it’s a doorway to a unique world that’s on our doorstep,” said Māori Television’s T...
January 31, 2021Rose Pere:
Dr Rangimārie Te Turuki Arikirangi Rose Pere: educator, conservationist; b July 25, 1937; d December 13, 2020When Rose Pere was born in the remote Eastern Bay of Plenty settlement of Ruatāhuna, her mother was told that she would be a boy.But Pere’s birth on July 25, 1937, surprised them all, and her mother was taken down to the river where a tohuna tossed a branch into the water. Instead of going downstream, the branch pushed up against the current.That's how Rose Pere would be in this ...
January 30, 2021War of words: Tauranga residents butt heads
A large group of vocal protesters disrupted a meeting opposing the introduction of Māori wards in Tauranga today.The controversial meeting was initially organised in a bid to gather more signatures for a petition against Māori wards.However, the petition had already gathered enough valid signatures to prompt the poll before the meeting started.Hundreds of people turned out to the meeting at the Tauranga Yacht and Power Boat Club, some holding signs saying "No to the petition" and "Say yes to M...
January 30, 2021Māori left in 'precarious position'
Several Māori staff at Auckland's Unitec have resigned over what they say is institutionalised racism at the campus.The Unitec Māori staff collective - Te Roopu Mataara - say they have been disrespected and staff and students feel culturally unsafe.About 300 people gathered from the community this morning to stand with Tui Ah Loo who has resigned as the chair of the rūnanga.Te Rūnanga o Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka is Unitec's non-executive advisory group which was founded in 1991 to ensure t...
January 30, 2021Pākehā lack 'cultural competency' to lead Oranga Tamariki,
Pākehā have had their turn trying to look after New Zealand's vulnerable, the chair of Whānau Ora says, and should cede responsibility to Māori following the resignation of embattled Oranga Tamariki CEO Gráinne Moss.Moss stood down from the role last Friday, following months of intense scrutiny brought on by coverage of uplifts of Māori babies, who are five times more likely to be taken into state care than babies of other ethnicities.Merepeka Raukawa-Tait, Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency...
January 27, 2021Māori urged to lead on restoration
Support for the restoration of indigenous names to native plants and animals - which were given Latin names by settler European scientists - has been gaining traction, but Māori academics say indigenous people must lead the conversation.The restoration of indigenous scientific names was first put forward last year by ecologists Dr Shane Wright from Auckland University, and Len Gillman from AUT.They are calling on Māori to bring forward the original names to keep that traditional knowledge aliv...
January 27, 2021Māori councillor withdraws complaint to Race Relations Commissioner
A Māori councillor is withdrawing his complaint to the Race Relations Commissioner over an “insulting” Grey Power newsletter ahead of a meeting with its author.Ōpōtiki district councillor Louis Rapihana submitted a complaint to Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon about the newsletter in which Siva Panadam suggested Mr Rapihana could not speak English after he gave a closing karakia in te reo Māori at a meeting late last year. However, he is now withdrawing that complaint after hearing ...
January 24, 2021Timeline:
The resignation of Oranga Tamariki chief executive Grainne Moss today followed months of scrutiny due to her presiding over a policy that removed vulnerable, predominantly Māori, children from their mothers and placed them into state care.Here is how her controversial tenure unfolded:Link to article: Timeline: Oranga Tamariki chief executive Grainne Moss's road to resignation (msn.com)...
January 22, 2021Oranga Tamariki chief executive Grainne Moss
Controversial Oranga Tamariki chief executive Grainne Moss has decided to step down.It comes after repeated calls for her to resign amid a number of scathing reports bringing the Ministry into question. Moss has been under pressure since a Newsroom investigation into attempts by social workers to remove a week-old baby from its mother in Hawke's Bay sparked multiple inquiries and reports.Link to article: Oranga Tamariki chief executive Grainne Moss steps down (...
January 22, 2021Auckland gallery Māori arts curator calls out
The Māori Arts curator who resigned unexpectedly after putting together Auckland Art Gallery's largest exhibition of indigenous work, is calling on arts institutions to be better at sharing power.Nigel Borell has claimed "major issues" over the level of control he had surrounding his landmark exhibition Toi Tū Toi Ora.He said ensuring diversity was still a challenge for all arts institutions.Borell's resignation was a shock to many, as he had a pioneering role in exhibiting over 300 ...
January 20, 2021Why Aotearoa New Zealand's early Polynesian settlement
OPINION: Aotearoa New Zealand likes to think it punches above its weight internationally, but there is one area where we are conspicuously falling behind — the number of sites recognised by the UNESCO World Heritage Convention.Globally, there are 1121 recognised World Heritage Sites, both cultural and natural. Each has had to satisfy at least one of ten possible selection criteria, adjudicated by the World Heritage Committee, meaning it possesses “outstanding uni...
January 20, 2021Biosecurity champion brings Western science
Biosecurity champion Tame Malcolm wants to elevate Māori traditional knowledge in science to help protect the environment from pests.Embarking on a PhD this year, Malcolm plans to research anecdotal knowledge, gathered by word of mouth to help tackle some of New Zealand's most pressing pest problems.For example, when different plants are flowering in the bush, Māori will use different lures for trapping pests, he said.“When kawa kawa is flowering we use cinnamon but when hangehange is flower...
January 20, 2021Māori and Pasifika architects
Trailblazing Māori architects, such as the late John Scott and Rewi Thompson, would be impressed - the work being done by their followers has taken on a new significance in recent years, as architects strive to create stronger, more meaningful connections between the built environment, tangata (people) and whenua (land).It’s enough of a change to lead Māori architect Nicholas Dalton, principal of Tāmaki Makaurau Office (TOA) Architecture, to describe it as a “powerful point in history”....
January 20, 2021Waikeria: Protesting inmate 'assaulted by others'
A protesting Waikeria Prison inmate who surrendered on Thursday was assaulted by other prisoners who wanted to stop him leaving, according to the Department of Corrections.Māori MP Rawiri Waititi offers to negotiate with Waikeria Prison rioters.It comes as Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi calls on the Minister of Corrections to step in and resolve the situation at the Waikato jail after the MP met with inmates.Smoke is still rising from the century-old 'top jail' where 16 inmates rema...
January 2, 2021Oranga Tamariki is leaving kids in meth homes to be abused,
Children are being abused and dying because Oranga Tamariki is reluctant to remove them from homes where parents are using methamphetamine, former social welfare boss Christine Rankin says.Her comments come in the wake of revelations that the child protection service knew that 2-year-old Nevaeh Ager was living with a father who used meth but did not intervene. The father, Aaron Izett, has been convicted of her murder.Rankin, who was chief executive of Work and Income NZ (which is now p...
January 2, 2021What are we afraid of
OPINION: I grew up, like many others around me, in a privileged white middle-class family, although slightly eccentric, immersed in a community and school system that observed the world through a Pākehā lens.I was oblivious to the undertones of racism that was serving to marginalise Māori through everyday language presented in acceptable speech, classic storytelling, and the use of common phrases that bolster the ideology of Pākehā dominance.An ideology fed by 19th-century Darwinism vi...
January 2, 2021Children's Commissioner calls for probe
The Children's Commissioner is demanding to know whether police are routinely taking pictures of young people on the street nationwide.He joins others, including Wairarapa iwi, calling for an investigation after the police in the region admitted illegally taking pictures of young Māori. Whānau in Wairarapa described their sons walking alone in broad daylight when police approached and insisted they take their picture before letting them go on their way. Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft s...
January 2, 2021Shelly Bay opponents Mau Whenua
Iwi members fighting the sale of land at Marukaikuru / Shelly Bay are pinning their hopes on the Māori Land Court after the funder for their High Court case pulled out.Mau Whenua have been occupying the land in Wellington where a controversial $500 million development is planned.The Wellington City Council voted to sell the land in early November and Mau Whenua was due to appear in the High Court next March in a bid to overturn the sale.In a statement last week, Mau Whenua said a major party fu...
January 2, 2021Maori boys' boarding school
Historic Māori boys' boarding school St Stephens (Tipene) is closer to reopening at Bombay.Twenty years after the school closed, its board has submitted a draft application to the Ministry of Education to become a special character school and will now put in a formal application to reopen in 2022 with 50 students. it already has a waiting list of 150 so plans to expand rapidly.Former student and St Stephens School spokesperson Nathan Durie reunited with other former students both from the boys'...
December 17, 2020Oranga Tamariki ‘review’
Children's Minister Kelvin Davis has ordered Oranga Tamariki to stop its 'reverse uplifts' of children from foster care, after a limited internal review raised systemic issuesAn internal Oranga Tamariki review of a 'reverse uplift' of children from their foster parents - highlighted in a court-injuncted Newsroom documentary - did not even talk to those parents and did not look into how they were treated by the agency.The review, by the Chief Social Worker, instead focused on something that ...
December 17, 2020Sir Jerry Mateparae ‘aghast’
Sir Jerry Mateparae is calling out racism in health research to help lift the lid on what he says is a pervasive issue, Laura Walters reportsFormer Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae says racism in health research is pervasive and is hindering the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders.Mateparae (Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Kahungunu) became chair of the Healthier Lives National Science Challenge in June, and now he’s using his position to call out racist comments and beliefs hel...
December 17, 2020Listen to your ancestors:
Shilo Kino has written previously on the challenge of being a Māori journalist. But this year the Marae reporter has discovered the power of Māori journalism that comes from telling our own stories.The night before I met the four sisters, I couldn't sleep. I spent hours reading through the court documents which detailed the horrific abuse, the injustice and travesty of what these girls had gone through.It was heartbreaking, emotional and heavy to say the least. As I lay awake on my bed thinkin...
December 16, 2020Te Paati Māori takes on
Te Paati Māori co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi started off the term with clashes with the Speaker and a bit of interior redecorating. As part of a year in review series, they spoke to Newsroom about their working relationship and plans for the next three years"Oh, are those still here?" Debbie Ngarewa-Packer mutters to Rawiri Waititi as they enter the room.We're meeting in Te Paati Māori's new caucus room. A dozen old political cartoons from the Muldoon era adorn the w...
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