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Māori cultural appropriation, or simply a fish?

Two of Auckland's hippest restaurateurs have engaged in an online stoush over whether the name of a new restaurant, kingi, is a case of Māori cultural appropriation or merely a shortening for kingfish.Owners of popular Auckland restaurant Orphans Kitchen, Tom Hishon and Josh Helm, are about to open a new seafood restaurant this October named kingi.READ MORE:• Paul Little: Is it cultural appropriation, or just sharing?• Sarah's Day 'cultural appropriation': Fitness star 'heartbroke...

NGĀTI TŪWHARETOA SET TO BECOME FIRST IWI TO UTILISE

Ngāti Tūwharetoa set to become first iwi to utilise a Section 33 Transfer with Waikato Regional Council.Ngāti Tūwharetoa, in the central North Island of New Zealand, is set to become the first iwi in the country to utilise a Section 33 of the Resource Management Action 1991 with Council.Today, the Tūwharetoa Māori Trust Board approved the handover of water quality monitoring functions around Lake Taupō from the Waikato Regional Council under Section 33 of the Resource Management Act 1991....

Oranga Tamariki Waitangi Tribunal hearing:

Parts of the Oranga Tamariki Act still undermine the role of whānau, hapū and iwi in the protection of tamariki, and to achieve true partnership under the Treaty, the Crown must devolve power to iwi, the Waitangi Tribunal has been told.An urgent hearing is under way into Oranga Tamariki practices in relation to tamariki Māori and whether they are compliant with Te Tiriti o Waitangi.Judge Michael Doogan began the hearing by laying out the take (purpose) of the Tribunal hearing, which was to fi...

What will it take for OT

Oranga Tamariki goes into PR overdrive with the release of a report into its successes as a Waitangi Tribunal hearing begins. Is now really the right time to release such a report? asks Bonnie Sumner.Cynical. That is what’s being said about the timing of a new Oranga Tamariki report, released on the same day urgent hearings began at the Waitangi Tribunal into the harm being done to Māori by the child protection agency.A raft of distinguished leaders spoke on Thursday and Friday, including the...

Resource Management Act review

After decades of successive Waitangi Tribunal reports highlighting the failings of the Resource Management Act, a review panel has put forward a raft of changes - including strengthening the Te Tiriti clause - to give iwi more power in environmental law.A report into the Resource Management Act, conducted by a review panel led by retired Court of Appeal judge Tony Randerson, has proposed scrapping the RMA.The report highlighted that "despite the large number of provisions in the RMA designe...

Candidate 'disappointed' after election hoardings

A candidate has been forced to spend an afternoon scrubbing his election signs after they were tagged over his use of te reo Māori.Troy Mihaka, who is standing for Integrity New Zealand in the Rongotai electorate, decided to write the authorisation on his hoardings in te reo Māori.On Monday, two days after the sign went up on the corner of Ira St and Devonshire Rd in Miramar, he discovered one had been spray painted with the word "English."“As a Māori candidate, I decided I wanted to write ...

Encouraging young Māori

Before Nikora Heraka Mahakanui Rautahi-Mahuika started his business he did labouring jobs and was even homeless for a time.Today, the 30-year-old runs a barber shop in Invercargill and he hopes it will be a stepping stone to other businesses.He’s an example of young Māori that are being encouraged to embrace the business world.Growing up, his father had his own pounamu carving business which meant it [running a business] was something he didn’t see as impossible.Link: https://www.stuff...

Matariki should only become a new public holiday

OPINION: Tied to the rising of the Pleiades star cluster in the night sky, Matariki marks the start of te Mātahi o te tau, the Maori new year.Once a casualty of colonisation, Matariki has undergone a comeback that fosters greater use of te reo Māori and recognition for Māori customary practices.Stuff has launched a campaign to make Matariki a public holiday from 2021. Do you support Matariki becoming an official, national public holiday?An MP from each side of the house gives their ...

Census 2023:

Iwi leaders are urging the government to set new priorities for the next census that give Māori much more say.The government has increased the budget for the 2023 Census to $210 million, two thirds more than in 2018, but less than Stats NZ advised would improve data quality.The Data Iwi Leaders Group says it supports the boost but recognised it was less than the $226m that Stats NZ had asked for and said was "needed to make significant change"."The group believes it is incumbent on Stats N...

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...