Maori land registration project

The Maori Land Court has launched a four year project to clearly identify all Maori freehold land and put information about it into Land Information New Zealand's Landonline database.

Project Amanda Watson says the status of the land isn't being changed, but the exercise allows the court to clear a backlog of outstanding orders.

It will also allow people to search for their land online from home.

Ms Watson says because a lot of Maori freehold land was never surveyed, the project means for the first time ever all Maori records will have some form of visual represention of areas and boundaries.

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Amanda Watson, project manager of the Maori Freehold Land Registration Project.

Haami pacific reo

Maori Language Commission chief executive Haami Piripi is floating the idea of a pan-Pacific language to reverse the decline in the numbers of fluent speakers of individual Polynesian languages.

Mr Piripi says such a project would start with a language database that could be used to form a Meta Polynesian language.

He says a lot of research has already been done into linguistic and cultural similarities:

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Haami Piripi says the New Zealand and Australian Governments should fund the language database, because of their role in the decline of Pacific languages.

Ball on Mangere exhibition

An exhibition starting at the Mangere Arts Centre week will provide a unique insight into taa moko or traditional Maori tattooing.

The Living Art of Pacific Tattoo show features photographs by Serena Stevenson of some of the more intimate and not often seen aspects of the taa moko process.

Curator Stephen Ball says it is and unknown world for many.

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Mangere Arts Centre curator Stephen Ball

dyson violence

The Minister in charge of the Child Youth and Family Service, Ruth Dyson, says domestic violence has not increased over the past 40 years, but New Zealander's attitudes to it have changed.

She says it is certainly not just a Maori problem, as it is currently being painted.

Ms Dyson says people forget how violence was part of the lives of many families and communities in the 1950's and 60's.

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Ruth Dyson

brenda close

Maori nurses say taking out references to the Treaty of Waitangi from health legislation would hurt Maori.

Brenda Close from Te Runanga O Aotearoa, the Maori arm of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation, says the New Zealand First-sponsored Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Deletion Bill now before a parliamentary select committee should be seen as an attack on Maori health.

Ms Close says during their training every nurse must pass units on cultural safety, which includes a strong focus on the treaty.

She says removing that sort of training and requirement for equity could compromise the quality of care deliverd to Maori.


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Brenda Close from the New Zealand Nurses Organisation.

de bres marae

Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres says he'd like to see Maori sharing more of their culture with non maori.

Mr de Bres says there are mutual benefits to be gained, as Maori could also learn a great deal from non Maori, especially migrant communities.

He says previous race relations conciliators have run marae visit programmes.

Mr de Bres says he was concerned by a Te Puni Kokiri survey which found that only six percent of non-Maori had been on a marae.

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Race Relations Commissioner, Joris De Bres.