11emailprint “Blatant bloody racism” is how MANA leader Hone Harawira described National’s call for a review into ‘the cost effectiveness of Maori health providers’. “Government spends $7 million over several years on an assessment tool for adult literacy but only $150,000 on an evaluation tool for Maori health providers and they want it yesterday”. “And [...]
(By Brook Sabin TV3) Opposition is mounting to a controversial plan to place huge underwater turbines in the Kaipara Harbour. Local Maori have placed a rahui, or ban, on the area and are vowing to do whatever it takes to stop the project. The Kaipara Harbour is one of the biggest in the Southern Hemisphere. [...]
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Update for the Hikoi ! From Mike Smith Kia ora the updated itinerary will be completed and posted on this site by Weds … theres lots of great ideas for various actions focussing on local issues coming through and I’m working on the logistics and planning for these ideas as we speak. The major task [...]
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E nga kaitiaki tangata o nga whenua, nau mai haere mai ki te hui i Opotiki, An invitation has gone out to Trustees and administrators of Maori owned land (registered under Te Ture Whenua Maori 1993) Anyone wishing to find out more about the following are invited to attend 3 informal workshops with Inland Revenue [...]
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Tamaki Makaurau MP and Maori Party Co-leader, Dr Pita Sharples has taken up the call from his constituents, to investigate funding cuts which are impacting on providers across the Auckland region. “I have been contacted by Turuki Health Care to advise that their Family Start contract in Mangere was being terminated, and this would have [...]
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Waiariki MP Te Ururoa Flavell has asked the Government to ensure a sacred Bay of Plenty mountain does not become part of a Tuhoe treaty settlement. The Ngati Manawa Claims Settlement passed its third reading in parliament on Thursday. The Ngati Manawa tribal boundary includes Murupara, Galatea and the Kaingaroa forest near Rotorua. As part [...]
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(Stuff) Thickset, face engraved with moko, fluent in Te Reo Maori. Tame Iti styles himself a Maori activist, a man battling for the soul of his nation. In court, he was likened to Nelson Mandela, a prophet who did not deserve to be misjudged in his own time. The Crown, however, has a different view [...]
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Five iwi settlement bills are about to become law. Treaty settlements for Ngati Manawa, Ngati Whare, Nga Wai o Maniapoto, Ngati Pahauwera and Ngati Porou were set to begin at 9am on Thursday. The general manager of the central North Island’s Te Runanga o Ngati Manawa, Maramena Vercoe, says the occasion brings sadness because some [...]
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(TangataWhenua.com Editor: perhaps if the organiser who spent so much time and energy on his “dream race”, first had a proper hui with the kaitiaki of Tongariro, he would have worked out a proper route. Cultural due diligence can go a long way Mr Hodder, sounds like u owe some big putea to your competitors, [...]
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