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Tai Tokerau MP Kelvin Davis says the expanded Ngāwhā geothermal power station coming to full production is great news for the north. Mr Davis cut the ribbon on the expanded plant last week, which is now up to its full 57 MegaWatt capacity - a far cry from the experimental 8MW station built in the 1990s in a joint venture between Top Energy and Tai Tokerau Māori Trust Board. While the board no longer has a stake in the complex, Mr Davis says Top Energy has maintained good relations with tan...

Wahine Maori favoured for government boards 12 Jul 2021 14:00 PM More Related Stories Related Podcast Twenty two percent of members of public sector boards and committees are now Māori, up from 21 percent last year. Wāhine Māori hold 12.2 percent of public sector board roles. The Minister for Women, Jan Tinetti, says public sector boards are now made up of 50.9 percent women, up from 45.7 percent in 2017. She says more diverse boards make better quality decisions. Now the Government ha...

Rahui laid as Waiheke marina back in court 08 Jul 2021 12:00 PM More Related Stories HASH(0x39e6348) Supporters of the Ngāti Paoa kaumātua Trust Board this morning placed a rāhui on Waiheke’s Pūtiki Bay. The attempted ban on a controversial marina development was timed to coincide with a Ngāti Paoa Trust Board challenge in the Environment Court aimed at stopping work until a plan is in place to protect the area’s Kororā or little blue penguins. Board supporter Kelly Klink says ...

New scholarship for Maori lawyers 06 Jul 2021 12:03 PM More Related Stories Māori lawyers are being encouraged to deepen their studies of the ture. The Michael and Suzanne Borrin Foundation along with Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga, the Māori centre for research excellence, have created a scholarship for Māori law graduates who wish to obtain a post-graduate degree in law overseas or domestically. A pool of $80,000 will be available annually which may be awarded to one scholar or split be...

Wall speaks up for Uyghur tino rangatiratanga 06 Jul 2021 12:03 PM More Related Stories HASH(0x3de1270) Labour MP Louisa Wall says Māori should be concerned about what is happening to China’s indigenous Uighur minority. Ms Wallis standing by claims China is enslaving Uighurs and harvesting organs from political prisoners, saying they’re based on the findings of the 2019 independent tribunal led by distinguished UK international human rights lawyer Sir Geoffrey Nice QC. She says it’...

Reti wants go-slow on UNDRIP HASH(0x396b180) Too far too fast. That’s how National Party deputy leader Shane Reti sees the Government’s response to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson last week launched consultation with Māori on how the declaration could be implemented, saying it would not be bound by the ideas in He Puapua, a report written by an advisory panel. National has been attacking the Government over He P...

Whanau Ora ready to help Oranga Tamariki 05 Jul 2021 13:27 PM More Related Stories HASH(0x4058270) Whānau Ora is ready to step in and help Oranga Tamariki with the tamariki and rangatahi displaced by the closure of the Christchurch care and protection residence. Helen Leahy from the South Island commissioning agency Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu says working to ensure children can be raised within a loving family context is core to what whānau ora is about. She says young people in th...

Maori business tohu for Tangaroa Walkers farming tales 05 Jul 2021 13:27 PM More Related Stories Related Podcast A business that delivers online education for the dairy industry has won the premier award at the 2021 Te Kupeka Umaka Māori ki Araiteuru Māori Business Awards, which celebrate Maori business success in Otago and Southland. Judge Karen Roos says Tangaroa Walker’s Farm 4 Life edutainment channel has put Southland farming in the spotlight and made a significant impact on his ...

New sense of zeal for Kiritapu Allan 05 Jul 2021 13:27 PM More Related Stories HASH(0x378e270) Cabinet Minister Kiritapu Allan says she’s relieved and glad to be getting back to work after a bout with cancer. Ms Allan was diagnosed with cervical cancer three months ago, and has undergone an intensive 9-week course of chemotherapy and radiation. She says it has changed her outlook and brought home the gift that life is - and also the privilege she has to do the mahi that awaits her. "I ...

Related Podcast The Ministry for Culture and Heritage’s new senior Maori historian wants to see more of the way physical taonga can unlock stories. Matariki Williams has taken over the Pou Hītori Māori Matua role from Dr Monty Souter after working as curator matauranga Maori at Te Papa Tongarewa, where her mahi included co-writing the award-winning book Protest Tautohetohe: Objects of Resistance, Persistence and Defiance. She says a major focus of the new mahi is helping iwi tell the storie...