3emailprintTe Arataura – The executive board of Waikato-Tainui Te Kauhanganui Inc – has today reaffirmed Tukoroirangi Morgan as its Chair. Acting Chair Patience Te Ao said the rules of Te Kauhanganui are clear that a resolution to oust the Chair needed to be supported by 50 percent of marae. “That threshold was not met when [...]
Tuku Morgan and Hemi Rau released a joint statement today which no doubt Waikato Tainui hopes will end the controversy which emerged in 2010, when Mr Morgan fired Hemi Rau. Hemi Rau was chief executive of the tribe’s administration arm, Waikato-Tainui Te Kauhanganui Inc, at the time and had been has been accused of breaching [...]
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Giving Maaori the opportunity to take stakes in some of New Zealand’s biggest SOEs could be one way for the Government to implement its mixed ownership model without risking significant chunks of strategic assets falling into foreign hands, says Tukoroirangi Morgan, Chair of Waikato-Tainui’s Te Arataura. “I support the Government’s efforts to look at ways [...]
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TangataWhenua.com has been told that the vote against the motion to dismiss chairperson Tania Martin, chairperson of Te Kauhanganui, was significant with 32 against, 21 for and 7 abstained or unclear on the motion to dismiss Tania Martin. As a contributor astutely pointed out: “I’m assuming that’s marae, though that would be 6 short, right?” [...]
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TangataWhenua.com has heard via our Facebook contacts, that “commonsense prevailed today with Waikato – Tainui and Ngaati Maniapoto voting to retain the elected chair of Te Kauhanganui, Ms Tania Martin” (kia ora to Mihirawhiti Searancke for this panui). Yvonne Tahana had reported in the NZ Herald today that the extraordinary meeting was to be held [...]
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(By Rawiri Taonui) There is an old Maori saying “ko Waikato, he piko, he taniwha” – at each bend along the Waikato River lies a chief. That is the conundrum that lies at the heart of the tensions dividing Tainui. Tainui have opted for a complex structure to control their affairs – the hereditary Kingitanga, the [...]
Continue reading …By RAWIRI TAONUI – Last month, the descendants of the Maori prophet Wiremu Tahupotiki Ratana gave their blessing to the one-year-old National-Maori Party partnership. Prime Minister John Key’s no-baggage, no-nonsense, straight talking “let’s work together” style is a race-relations revelation. He knows what matters and what doesn’t (flying two flags is not a drama), and [...]
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