5emailprintTangataWhenua.com’s CEO, Potaua Biasiny-Tule was asked to present a think piece for NZ Educational Administration & Leadership Society (NZEALS) Conference 2012 – which he did with his effortless flare, but what was more interesting was the presentation that came after. We were humbled to have the opportunity to listen to a presentation on the He Kakano [...]
Forward to your whanau with all those amazing skills and talent, first prize is $100k!!! Weatherman Tamati Coffey has been announced as the new host of New Zealand’s Got Talent. TVOne’s new entertainment series is set to hit our screens in coming months after auditions are held throughout the country. Coffey says the opportunity to [...]
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A report just released by the Productivity Commission is calling for independent community authorities to achieve better outcomes for Maori wanting to realize the dream of homeownership. The Commission’s findings and recommendations highlight Maori aspirations for warm, safe, healthy and affordable housing – rural and urban, on general or Maori title land. The following are [...]
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(By Kelly Makiha of the Daily Post, Photo Credit: TangataWhenua.com) A suspicious fire at Rotorua Lake High School last night destroyed a classroom and came close to other buildings, including the school’s marae. The fire is being treated as suspicious because the same classroom was set alight a week ago. Senior station officer Richard Anastasi [...]
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Minister Steven Joyce, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment, is responsible for the appointment of four governance appointments to each university, polytechnic and wananga council. This email seeks your nominations for candidates who have governance experience and expertise, and would add value as members of the folloiwng councils: Victoria University of Wellington Lincoln University [...]
Continue reading …A classroom was aflame this evening as Emergency Service vehicles made their way to Rotorua Lakes High School. (9:16pm) Eye witness reports confirmed that the class that Aunty Bea uses for relief teaching and which was attacked by arson last week was again attacked tonight and from our understanding completely destroyed. The class had several [...]
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RadioNZ reported today that a housing loan programme backed by the government to assist Maori wanting to build on homes on ancestral lands had made just 4 loans in 2 years. The programme was developed to address the problem of building on land that is has multiple owners (i.e. papakainga) which find getting loans to [...]
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(SunLive) Tributes are flowing as the nation mourns the death of New Zealand’s first Maori Speaker of the House, Sir Peter Tapsell. Sir Peter died in his sleep at his Ruatoria Farm on Thursday, April 5. Sir Peter Tapsell died in his sleep on Thursday. Sir Peter, 82, entered Parliament as a Labour Party MP [...]
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Sir Peter will be spending the night at his home here in Rotorua with close friends and family before being taken to Maketu tomorrow Sunday arriving there about 12 o’clock.
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(NZ Post) New Zealand’s first Maori Speaker of the House, Rotorua’s Sir Peter Tapsell, has died. The 82-year-old died in his sleep at his Ruatoria farm on Thursday night. Sir Peter entered Parliament as a Labour MP in 1981 and remained until 1996. He was born and lived in Rotorua for much of his life. (Radio [...]
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