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Haere ra He Puapua. Maori Development Minister Willie Jackson today thanked the independent group which came up with the controversial report on how New Zealand could deliver on its commitment to the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - and announced a two stage plan to develop the Governments own plan. For the next six months there will be engagement with Maori individuals, organisations and iwi, followed by wider community consultation next year on a draft Declarat...

Rules fight for control at Maori Council 28 Jun 2021 12:15 PM More Related Stories HASH(0x34b0270) A new co-chair of the New Zealand Māori Council expects a scrap with former executive director Matthew Tukaki to continue - but says under current rules he has no place at the table. Mr Tukaki failed last week to get an injunction against the council holding its annual meeting in Wellington over the weekend, at which George Ngatai from Tāmaki ki te Tonga and Harvey Ruru from Te Tau Ihu we...

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All Blacks take training to south Auckland 24 Jun 2021 12:06 PM More Related Stories Related Podcast In the lead up to the Pasifika tests the All Black squad is in south Auckland today and tomorrow engaging with Māori and Pasifika communities. All Blacks Head Coach Ian Foster says a key part of the squad’s preparation is being in a community outside its regular base. Last year it was Whakatāne and this time it’s south Auckland, which has had a tough time of late with two community o...

Land-based effects need attention in Tikapa Moana plan HASH(0x3c77300) A Māori aquaculture pioneer is welcoming the new plan for Tīkapa Moana, the Hauraki Gulf as a good start. Harry Mikaere says the spatial management plan announced yesterday by Environment Minster David Parker and Acting Conservation Minister Ayesha Verral manages to balance industry and customary interests. He says Hauraki iwi have little land but extensive interests in Tīkapa Moana that can be developed. More work is nee...

Sturm warning echoes through the ages 23 Jun 2021 12:09 PM More Related Stories Related Podcast A Canterbury University scholar has attributed to Māori writer J.C.Sturm a poem published in a university magazine 70 years ago lamenting the effect of colonisation on Māori. Professor Paul Millar, who is Sturm’s literary executor and is preparing an edition of her Collected Works for publication, says the poem Brown Optimism leapt to his mind when National MP Paul Goldsmith claimed that on...

Related Podcast Martyn Bomber Bradbury: It’s difficult to appreciate just how confused National seem to be when it comes to the impact of colonisation on Māori. Paul Goldsmith’s claim that on balance, western technology and democratic infrastructure outweighed the almost total population collapse and disenfranchisement of 95% of Māori land in less than a century, seems bewilderingly simplistic. Judith Collins waded into the debate by claiming she as an Anglo-Saxon was a victim of coloniza...