A crowd in Whangārei has been told Labour is a government full of Pākehā, but committed to kaupapa Māori.
Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson after the virtual National Iwi Chairs Forum on 5 February, 2021.
Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
The prime minister and her Māori ministers have spent the morning speaking to iwi leaders and visiting locals in Whangārei ahead of Waitangi Day.
Willie Jackson told a crowd at the Hihiaua Cultural Centre that Labour was the only Pākehā government willing to make New Zealand history a core subject in schools. We have got kaupapa through that you would never have thought a Pākehā government would have got through, he said.
Celebrations for Waitangi Day are pressing ahead, with the Labour party’s Māori caucus arriving on Tuesday afternoon, after New Zealand logged the fifth consecutive day with no new Covid-19 cases in the community. Labour members were greeted by a small number of protesters calling on Crown institutions such as local councils and courts to better honour their Treaty of Waitangi obligations and uphold more treaty claims. Four cases of coronavirus.
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Greenpeace calls it “underwhelming”, while the National Party urges caution. David Williams reports
Like most others, Greenpeace campaigner Steve Abel has only started reading the Climate Change Commission’s report this afternoon.
But that’s been long enough to form a view on its agricultural section.
“It’s going to sound brutal - but pretty underwhelming, to be honest,” he says. “Certainly in regard to the ag stuff it barely tinkers and has very low ambition on reducing methane emissions.”
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reported by Marc Daalder, it will be hard for the agricultural sector to reduce methane and nitrous oxide emission to zero without reducing herds to zero, and some reductions are called for. In particular, the dairy herd is likely to shrink about 15 percent by 2030.
Iwi chairs skip Waitangi party 29 Jan 2021 09:12 AM Photo: Ngati Hineuru Trust.
Harry Burkhart: Iwi chairs skip Waitangi party
A member of the Iwi Chairs Forum says conversations with the Government will continue – even if not at Waitangi.
A member of the Iwi Chairs Forum says conversations with the Government will continue - even if not at Waitangi.
Iwi leaders have decided not to hold their scheduled hui at Waitangi in the days preceding Waitangi Day, but to instead meet online.
Harry Burkhart says it was an easy decision to make because of what they felt was a heightened risk of COVID-19 transmission in the north.
Covid 19: Waitangi Day, Ruapekapeka events will go ahead
27 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Former Te Rūnanga-Ā-Iwi O Ngāpuhi chairwoman and Treaty Negotiations Minister Andrew Little hongi at Waitangi last year. There will be less of this, this year due to Covid. Photo / File
Mikaela Collins is a reporter for the Northern Advocatemikaela.collins@nzme.co.nznorthernadvocat
There will be a heightened sense of precaution at commemorations for Waitangi Day and the Battle of Ruapekapeka - but both events are still going ahead, despite the latest Covid case in Northland.
The recent positive Covid-19 case in the region prompted questions around whether the annual events at Waitangi - which can attract up to 30,000 people - would be called off, along with the commemorations marking 175 years since the Battle of Ruapekapeka.