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Whānau Māori 'torn apart'

Whānau Māori are being “torn apart” in a broken Fmily Court system, a new report says.The report, published on Monday, gives voice to whānau Māori who have been through care and protection proceedings in the Family Court.Te Taniwha I Te Ao Ture-a-Whānau report calls for changes that would centre tikanga and Te Tiriti.Researchers interviewed 36 participants from whānau Maori across Aotearoa, spread across every Family Court region.Link: https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/122242...

Revitalising Matariki:

Since 2000, Auckland City Council (ACC) has been hosting, fostering and supporting events celebrating Matariki.Over the years the format has changed, the events have improved, attendance has grown, and awareness of what the season means has increased.“It’s grown,” said Auckland Council’s Matariki Festival Director Ataahua Papa. “But what’s really awesome is that people are focusing on the reason that we’re getting together.”Auckland’s month-long festival began at the turn of th...

Emma Espiner: Witnessing a heath system that fails Māori

The power sharing, trusting Māori, and the funding of Māori initiatives will need to occur to achieve better health outcomes for Māori, says trainee doctor Emma Espiner.In her new podcast Getting Better: A Year in the Life of A Māori Medical Student, the trainee doctor and award-winning writer Emma Espiner (Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Porou) explores the front lines of healthcare in New Zealand.She witnesses the real life results of the inequity that sees Māori die younger, get chronic ill...

Wāhine Māori catches racist landlord red-handed

A wahine Māori has caught a racist landlord red-handed, after she was rejected for a property and then re-applied with a Western name.Te Iwi Kemp has applied for 10 Christchurch rentals in the past fortnight, but was told they were no longer available.She then reapplied as Maria – and three of the landlords got back to her.When she told one of the landlords her real name, she says he laughed and said he didn't want her sort in his house, saying Māori wreck houses, have gangs and the dru...

NFL ex-Redskins to be Washington Football Team for 2020

The former Washington Redskins will use Washington Football Team as an interim name for the 2020 NFL season, the club announced Thursday, dropping the team's logo as well.The team made the announcement in the wake of growing US social movements against racist symbols and monuments, the name team owner Dan Snyder once vowed never to change being retired before the start of the 2020 campaign.Going with a temporary name will allow more time to make a choice about a longer-lasting nickname moving fo...

How Social Work England responds to criticisms of CPD recording

After we reported on how few social workers had recorded CPD on their Social Work England accounts, several practitioners commented to question the purpose and process of doing so. Here's the regulator's responseFollowing the recent Community Care article ‘Social Work England: 18% of social workers have recorded CPD, four months out from deadline’, a number of comments and questions were posted by social workers about recording continuing professional development.In this article, we have res...

Māori woman says landlord told her he didn't want 'her sort' in his house

A Māori woman says a Christchurch landlord told her he didn't want "her sort" renting his property.Iwi Kemp had applied for 10 rentals but had no luck - after a friend joked it could be because of her name, Kemp reapplied under the name Maria, NZME reported. Three landlords got back to her and one set up a viewing for the next day.Link: https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/m%C4%81ori-woman-says-landlord-told-her-he-didn-t-want-her-sort-in-his-house/ar-BB1756vT?ocid=msedgdhp#image=1...

WHO concerned about COVID-19 impact

GENEVA, Switzerland (UNNews) — With the Americas still the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact on the region's indigenous people is of deep concern, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.More than 70,000 cases and over 2,000 deaths were reported among this population as of July 6, according to the UN agency. There have been at least six cases among the Nahua people, who live in the Peruvian Amazon, latest information has revealed. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebr...

Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples Face a Triple Threat from COVID-19,

With the Brazilian state failing to protect them from coronavirus, indigenous groups have been forced to find ways to monitor and care for their own communities while also putting up serious resistance to destructive government policies. But these peoples already face increased risks because of longstanding discrimination, inequality, and the recent intensification of efforts to dismantle environmental protections. For the sake of indigenous groups and the environment that they do so much to pro...

Iwi have fundamental right to put people's needs first

Misguided criticism of a trio of Taranaki iwi which offered to support their members into work has thrown light on a section of law which provides for “positive discrimination” to create equality.However, a leading Māori academic said iwi had a right to put the needs of their members first as they are fighting against a backdrop of colonisation and institutional racism.In a recent post on Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Maru Taranaki Trust Facebook page, the group, along with Ngāti Ruanui and Ngārua...

What is Matariki, the Māori new year?

Before the turn of this century, few people knew of Matariki or understood its significance. Now, people across the country celebrate Matariki as if we always have. As Stuff begins a campaign to mark Matariki with a public holiday, National Correspondent Carmen Parahi explains its meaning and significance to Aotearoa New Zealand.WHAT IS MATARIKI? Matariki is the Māori name used to describe the entire star cluster also known as Pleiades.Before sunrise during New Zealand’s winter...

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All Black Israel Dagg to host

All Black Israel Dagg is teaming up with New Zealand astronomers for a live event celebrating a highlight of the Māori New YearCanterbury local Israel Dagg will be up early to celebrate Matariki on Tuesday, and he wants all Kiwis to join him.Matariki signifies the end of the year in the Māori lunar calendar, marked by the appearance of the Matariki star cluster in the skies over New Zealand. Falling on July 21 this year, Tourism New Zealand has enlisted the star power of Dagg, as well as astro...

2020 International Indigenous Research Conference

NPM's biennial 2020 International Indigenous Research Conference (#IIRC20) is going online! From 18 - 20 November, we will host a virtual "Gathering of Indigenous Minds" from our base here at Waipapa Marae, University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Join us online for three days of live discussions. Be inspired by Indigenous researched solutions. We are excited to announce that our currently confirmed keynote speakers include world renowned Indigenous scholars Professor Rangi Matamua (Tūh...

Publication:

This book examines the struggle against racial and cultural inequity in educational systems, presenting the case study of a New Zealand school and its community s determination to resist alienating environments.If we look at an untouched colouring book, for instance, we think of the pages as blank. But they’re not actually blank, each page is uniformly white, with lines established to dictate where colour is allowed to go. Children by this are taught about the place of colour and the importanc...

'Māori protocols against COVID protocols':

Matariki is a time for Māori to remember loved ones who have passed since the appearance of the last star cluster, marking the end of one lunar year and the beginning of another. This year, the rise of Matariki is particularly poignant. Due to the restrictions put in place by the Ministry of Health throughout the COVID-19 response, many whānau were unable to hold tangihanga - Māori traditional funeral service - to farewell their loved ones. Tangihanga, typically held on a marae...

Government appointment 'best way'

Māori health representatives in Marlborough say government appointed health boards may be the “best way” to get Māori on health boards.The Health and Disability Systems Review, released last month, proposed district health boards be entirely government appointed, rather than having some members locally elected by the public.Iwi Health Board chair Dawn McConnell, who resides in Picton, is in her third term as a ministerial appointment to the Nelson Marlborough District Health Boar...

Te reo Māori names reinstated around

Pukeatua and Dyers Pass, Ōrongomai and Cass Peak, Tapuwaeharuru and Evans Pass – te reo Māori names have been reinstated for 13 places on Te Pātaka-o-Rākaihautū/Banks Peninsula.The te reo names have been officially restored and have the same legal status as their European equivalents.The changes were proposed by Te Hapū o Ngāti Wheke (Rāpaki Rūnanga) to the New Zealand Geographic Board, with Land Information Minister Eugenie Sage formally announcing the changes at Rāpaki Marae on Wed...

Māori, Pacific and Chinese NZers less comfortable

Māori, Pacific and Chinese New Zealanders are less likely than others to feel their values are in alignment with criminal justice system, according to a survey out today.The Ministry of Justice has released its Social Wellbeing and Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System report, which draws on feedback from 8000 people about their experiences and perceptions of crime.Sector deputy secretary Tim Hampton said the views differed depending on people's background."Māori, Chinese and Pacific...

Te reo Māori news more than

OPINION: Did you know that in Aotearoa we have three daily national news services in te reo Māori? Āe, e toru ngā ratonga pūrongo.They’re all funded by the state under various Treaty of Waitangi obligations.On television, there’s Te Karere, the koroua or granddaddy that started on TVNZ in 1983 and Te Ao, produced by Māori Television, itself now 16 years old; both shows are subtitled in English. The third is the reo-only Waatea News, produced since 2004 by Auckland-based urban Māori rad...

Opinion: Explore Tikanga Māori but remember,

By Precious ClarkOPINION: In the 1800s, my seven-times great grandfather Apihai Te Kawau was a bridge between our people and the newly arrived Pākehā. He was one of the forefathers of Auckland City, yet you've probably never heard of him. I invite you to ask yourself, why that is so?He cultivated a relationship with William Hobson, making large areas of Tāmaki Makaurau available for settlement on the understanding that the Government would be established in Auckland, thereby assuring the...

Child protection’s culture of silence

Oranga Tamariki's refusal to acknowledge systemic issues within the organisation is intolerable, writes social worker and social work researcher John DarrochRecently Newsroom published an article based on interviews with practising social workers who described systemic issues within Oranga Tamariki.As a social worker, and post-graduate student conducting research into statutory social work, what Newsroom has reported resonates with my experience and what I have learnt through my o...

‘The tip of the iceberg’

Since publication of Newsroom’s extensive investigation into serious issues at Oranga Tamariki, our inbox has been flooded with stories from more current and former employees. In less than 48 hours after Newsroom’s in-depth inquiry into the children's ministry was published we received a high volume of correspondence from current and former Oranga Tamariki employees and others who interact with the agency. Every one confirms the issues brought to light in our ar...

17-year-old launches book about maramataka Māori

Today Te Wharekura o Rakaumangamanga student Hana Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke launches her new book at her school in Huntly.The book, Maahina, encourages rangatahi to take an interest in the stars and the moon to heal themselves.“I wanted rangatahi Māori to become more aware of the environment and how it can help us physically mentally and emotionally and help us with the everyday things we do in life like studying and NCEA.”The 17-year-old created Maahina about seven months ag...

Waitematā DHB Māori Nurse of the Year announced

Waitematā District Health Board Māori Nurse of the Year Chloe Maeva didn't let a worldwide pandemic, motherhood, study or being pregnant get in the way of her work and commitment to Māori mental health.Maeva was presented with a korowai for the award by the board today during a special ceremony where she was named the latest winner of the Te Kauae Raro Māori nursing and midwifery award.The korowai is passed from winner to winner each year and is highly symbolic of the board's organisational ...