Te Ohu Kaimoana ahead of schedule
The Maori fisheries settlement trust is ahead of schedule for getting Maori fisheries assets into the hands of the tribes.
The latest iwi to complete mandating processes is Gisborne-based Rongowhaata, which is set to receive $2.1 million in deepwater quota, cash and shares in pan Maori fishing company Aotearoa Fisheries.
It now just needs to reach agreement on its coastal boundaries with neighbours Ngati Porou and Te Aitanga a Mahaki to receive the balance of its inshore quota entitlement.
Te Ohu Kaimoana chief executive Peter Douglas says he's pleased at progress, particularly after earlier complaints that the trust was moving too slowly.
"Rongowhakaata is now the 22nd of the 57 tyribes we are required to mandate, which is ahead of schedule - we are required to have 24 done by the end of this year - but my objective is now to have all of them done by the first quarter of the next calendar year," Mr Douglas says.
He says the pressure will now be on the East Coast cluster of tribes to reach agreement on inshore boundaries in time for the October fishing season.
GREEN MP WANTS MAORI ON DRINK PANEL
Green MP Metiria Turei says a government review panel looking at the regulations covering alcohol advertising should include a Maori community representative.
The panel includes Tim Rochford, a lecturer in Maori studies at the Wellington School of Medicine.
But Ms Turei says while the effects of alcohol consumption on Maori are not so different to non-Maori, there are other differences.
"For individuals who have problems and families, the interventions needed and programmes needed are different, so there should be specific representation of Maori community organisations and alcohol addiction groups on that review panel," Turei said.
Metiria Turei says if it's good enough to have a representative of the advertising industry on the panel, it should be good enough to have proper Maori representation.
WHARE MATAURANGA CENTRAL TO NAPIER KURA
Napier's Kura Kaupapa Maori o Te Ara Hou is rethinking the way schools should be built.
The kura has secured $5.9 million in government funding to replace the overcrowded, badly heated and leaky buildings it inherited from Wycliff intermediate, the previous users of its site in south east Napier.
It has a roll of 190 students, ranging from new entrants to seventh formers, and principal Wii Pohatu says the new complex should cater for up to 220 students.
He says it will have 14 classes circling around a central whare matauranga or house of learning.
"It's going to be a space that can be utilised as a teaching space, smaller spaces or a huge space, it can be turned into classrooms. It is not just a wharenui as we have on a marae, it is using that idea but not," Pohatu said.
Wi Pohatu says the kura whanau believed it was more important to have a teaching space than a space to receive manuhiri, although the whare mataurangi can be used for that.
BROADBAND CONCERN FOR MAORI IN BUDGET
Labour MPs have spread out around the country selling the Budget.
Maori MPs Dover Samuels, Dave Hereora and Shane Jones were in Northland yesterday with communications minister David Cunliffee meeting Maori and business leaders.
Mr Jones, the chair of the Maori caucus, says there were no questions about Manaaki Tauira student grants, the future of Maori Affairs minister Parekura Horomia or other issues which have exercised political circles in Wellington.
Instead they wanted to know about the extra funding for numeracy and literacy, apprenticeships, and what the impact of telecommunicaitons reform was likely to be on rural areas.
"Lots of Maori women in particular are coming back in mid-career to do long distance learning, and they were out in force today pointing out the quality of the telecommunications infrastructure is going to guide them as to whether they can continue to study," Jones said.
He said people in the north are keen that the Probe initiative to get broadband to schools should also be extended to other community organisations.
MAORI SOCIAL WORK UPSKILLING NEEDED
assey University social services lecturer Fiona Te Momo says not enough Maori are involved in paid social work.
Dr Te Momo says most Maori workers are involved on a voluntary basis but don't hold a recognised qualification.
She says the profession needs to find better ways to recognise prior learning and to build the capacity of Maori volunteers, community workers and social workers.
Dr Te Momo says there are significant questions to be answered.
"How do we encourage our people not in the homes but in the wider community to see that type of work as a profession so they can get employment, get a job, and how do we value a lot of our Maori people dong that kind of mahi anyway," Te Momo said.
Fiona Te Momo will be delivering the annual Oteha lecture at Massey University's Te Mata o Te Tau Academy Research and Scholarship in Albany tomorrow.
LANGUAGE BOSS DREAMING OF RAROTONGA
Next week's New Zealand mission to the Pacific led by Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will include represantation for the Maori language commission, Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Maori.
Chief executive Haami Piripi says it's the first time the commission has been asked to be part of such a delegation, and he's looking forward to discussing language issues with his counterparts in other Pacific nations.
Mr Piripi says he and commissioner Pat Hohepa are particularly looking forward to visiting Rarotonga, whose language is very close to New Zealand Maori.
"The Cook Islands still has living language communities, people who grow up speaking Maori, people who go to bed and dream in Maori. In New Zealand, while we have a strong push towards regeneration of language, it is at acquisition of language rather than the high proficiency end. We are losing high proficiency speakers becuase our elders die much earlier than other New Zealanders," Piripi said
The latest iwi to complete mandating processes is Gisborne-based Rongowhaata, which is set to receive $2.1 million in deepwater quota, cash and shares in pan Maori fishing company Aotearoa Fisheries.
It now just needs to reach agreement on its coastal boundaries with neighbours Ngati Porou and Te Aitanga a Mahaki to receive the balance of its inshore quota entitlement.
Te Ohu Kaimoana chief executive Peter Douglas says he's pleased at progress, particularly after earlier complaints that the trust was moving too slowly.
"Rongowhakaata is now the 22nd of the 57 tyribes we are required to mandate, which is ahead of schedule - we are required to have 24 done by the end of this year - but my objective is now to have all of them done by the first quarter of the next calendar year," Mr Douglas says.
He says the pressure will now be on the East Coast cluster of tribes to reach agreement on inshore boundaries in time for the October fishing season.
GREEN MP WANTS MAORI ON DRINK PANEL
Green MP Metiria Turei says a government review panel looking at the regulations covering alcohol advertising should include a Maori community representative.
The panel includes Tim Rochford, a lecturer in Maori studies at the Wellington School of Medicine.
But Ms Turei says while the effects of alcohol consumption on Maori are not so different to non-Maori, there are other differences.
"For individuals who have problems and families, the interventions needed and programmes needed are different, so there should be specific representation of Maori community organisations and alcohol addiction groups on that review panel," Turei said.
Metiria Turei says if it's good enough to have a representative of the advertising industry on the panel, it should be good enough to have proper Maori representation.
WHARE MATAURANGA CENTRAL TO NAPIER KURA
Napier's Kura Kaupapa Maori o Te Ara Hou is rethinking the way schools should be built.
The kura has secured $5.9 million in government funding to replace the overcrowded, badly heated and leaky buildings it inherited from Wycliff intermediate, the previous users of its site in south east Napier.
It has a roll of 190 students, ranging from new entrants to seventh formers, and principal Wii Pohatu says the new complex should cater for up to 220 students.
He says it will have 14 classes circling around a central whare matauranga or house of learning.
"It's going to be a space that can be utilised as a teaching space, smaller spaces or a huge space, it can be turned into classrooms. It is not just a wharenui as we have on a marae, it is using that idea but not," Pohatu said.
Wi Pohatu says the kura whanau believed it was more important to have a teaching space than a space to receive manuhiri, although the whare mataurangi can be used for that.
BROADBAND CONCERN FOR MAORI IN BUDGET
Labour MPs have spread out around the country selling the Budget.
Maori MPs Dover Samuels, Dave Hereora and Shane Jones were in Northland yesterday with communications minister David Cunliffee meeting Maori and business leaders.
Mr Jones, the chair of the Maori caucus, says there were no questions about Manaaki Tauira student grants, the future of Maori Affairs minister Parekura Horomia or other issues which have exercised political circles in Wellington.
Instead they wanted to know about the extra funding for numeracy and literacy, apprenticeships, and what the impact of telecommunicaitons reform was likely to be on rural areas.
"Lots of Maori women in particular are coming back in mid-career to do long distance learning, and they were out in force today pointing out the quality of the telecommunications infrastructure is going to guide them as to whether they can continue to study," Jones said.
He said people in the north are keen that the Probe initiative to get broadband to schools should also be extended to other community organisations.
MAORI SOCIAL WORK UPSKILLING NEEDED
assey University social services lecturer Fiona Te Momo says not enough Maori are involved in paid social work.
Dr Te Momo says most Maori workers are involved on a voluntary basis but don't hold a recognised qualification.
She says the profession needs to find better ways to recognise prior learning and to build the capacity of Maori volunteers, community workers and social workers.
Dr Te Momo says there are significant questions to be answered.
"How do we encourage our people not in the homes but in the wider community to see that type of work as a profession so they can get employment, get a job, and how do we value a lot of our Maori people dong that kind of mahi anyway," Te Momo said.
Fiona Te Momo will be delivering the annual Oteha lecture at Massey University's Te Mata o Te Tau Academy Research and Scholarship in Albany tomorrow.
LANGUAGE BOSS DREAMING OF RAROTONGA
Next week's New Zealand mission to the Pacific led by Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will include represantation for the Maori language commission, Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Maori.
Chief executive Haami Piripi says it's the first time the commission has been asked to be part of such a delegation, and he's looking forward to discussing language issues with his counterparts in other Pacific nations.
Mr Piripi says he and commissioner Pat Hohepa are particularly looking forward to visiting Rarotonga, whose language is very close to New Zealand Maori.
"The Cook Islands still has living language communities, people who grow up speaking Maori, people who go to bed and dream in Maori. In New Zealand, while we have a strong push towards regeneration of language, it is at acquisition of language rather than the high proficiency end. We are losing high proficiency speakers becuase our elders die much earlier than other New Zealanders," Piripi said
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