Maori Archive

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  Maori Rugby: A new political football - by frog

  
  
  
  So maybe South Africa doesn’t want a visit from the New Zealand Maori team anymore, but does that mean we don’t want the team either? Those of you who took intro to logic at uni can probably give us a formal refutation in two minutes flat, and while you’re doing that, a couple of things [...] read more
  February 20, 2009 4:40 pm - 35 Comments
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  Government’s Maori education plans contradictory - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  As a novice in the Parliamentary world trying to surf the learning curve, I am becoming rapidly fascinated by the new Government’s balancing act. This menage a trois {plus Peter Dunne} is going to take some management but also some careful analysis in terms of what they can deliver. The education portfolio is a good [...] read more
  February 17, 2009 1:57 pm - 47 Comments
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  Upton warns of a laughing stock - by frog

  
  
  
  Simon Upton writes a good critique of New Zealand’s climate change situation in today’s Dom Post. It must be amazing for the former National Party Minister who got us involved with the Kyoto process in the first place to watch as once again, we go back to square one in terms of our response to [...] read more
  December 2, 2008 12:01 pm - 23 Comments
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  NZ now a joke in Europe - by frog

  
  
  
  Thanks Rodney. Thanks John. From Scoop: Specialist news service Carbon News this morning reports broker Nigel Brunel, of OMF Financial, as saying New Zealand is “a bit of a joke in Europe at the moment” following the National-Act agreement to suspend the emissions trading scheme. “This was New Zealand’s opportunity to reinvent its financial markets [...] read more
  November 22, 2008 4:13 pm - 69 Comments
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  There’s no dignity in scrapping the dole - by frog

  
  
  
  We have a international acceptance now of the policy of social welfare for bankers.  The National Party is proposing benefits specifically for people who haven’t already got a benefit.  And then the Maori Party’s Tariana Turia swims in completely the opposite direction and asks for the dole to be scrapped. Confused? The Maori Party’s advocacy [...] read more
  October 16, 2008 9:43 am - 52 Comments
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  A story I’m keen to hear - by frog

  
  
  
  The news that Black Power had lodged a treaty claim drew exactly the political response you might expect. But, as Metiria notes, there is nothing to fear from this claim.  This is simply a group of people who want the due process to have their story heard: While the Government dismisses the claim by a [...] read more
  September 18, 2008 11:22 am - 51 Comments
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  Did the Nats leave the Maori Party at the altar? - by frog

  
  
  
  There has been a whirlwind of interest and speculation as to why the National party pulled support at the last moment for a Maori Party amendment to the Emissions Trading legislation. The amendment would have inserted a clause giving effect to the Treaty of Waitangi as well as a targeted review of the effect of [...] read more
  September 11, 2008 4:32 pm - 137 Comments
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  Nats keep Maori in the backshed – as usual - by Metiria Turei

  
  
  
  National’s list is being lauded by them as fabulously diverse, but on a closer look you can certainly see what they they think of Maori and their own Maori MP’s in particular. Georgina Te Heuheu is Nationals most experienced senior Maori MP and hold enormous mana among Maori. Many Maori in the legal profession still [...] read more
  August 18, 2008 12:36 pm - 45 Comments
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  MFish and Maori - by frog

  
  
  
  Last week, during te Wiki or Reo Maori, the Ministry of Fish decided to consult on how it consults with Maori. It put out this consultation paper [pdf], where it says that, apart from its statutory obligations to consult M�?ori on policy issues, it wants to ensure its Treaty Strategy has a robust input and [...] read more
  July 28, 2008 2:29 pm - 11 Comments
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  Kevin Hague – Green Candidate Number 7 - by frog

  
  
  
  Luckily someone managed to capture on video some of the speeches that high ranked Green candidates gave at the Green Party conference a month ago.  here’s the first of them; Kevin Hague, Green Party candidate for West Coast Tasman and number 7 on the party list. Currently Kevin is the Chief Executive of the West [...] read more
  July 4, 2008 8:06 am - 9 Comments
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  Bastion Point 30 years on - by frog

  
  
  
  Today we commemorate the 30th anniversary of the forcible eviction of protesters from Bastion Point. I for one will be watching the series of documentaries starting from 9 tonight on Maori TV. Like so many events from our past, they are coloured by our impressions from the time as well as the fading of our [...] read more
  May 25, 2008 7:44 pm - 6 Comments
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  Haere r�? Mahinarangi Tocker - by frog

  
  
  
  Goodbye to Mahinarangi Tocker who died today. Tocker is a Maori musician, writer and poet, gay activist and well known and a leader in New Zealand’s gay community.  We will miss her. read more
  April 15, 2008 5:29 pm - No Comments
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  Did the Greens and Maori Party talk at Waitangi? - by frog

  
  
  
  The media jumped the gun a bit over Jeanette’s comments at Waitangi on the possibility of the Greens and Maori Party working more closely together during and/or after the election.  Nothing has been agreed and the two parties are only talking.  But, as I noted last year, there is an obvious synergy between the two [...] read more
  February 7, 2008 12:06 pm - 90 Comments