Pukawa hui brings together tribes of lake and river
Ngai Tahu chief executive Tahu Potiki says the most important thing that came out of the weekend gathering of tribes at Pukawa may be the strengthening of links between hosts Tuwuharetoa and Waikato-Tainui.
Heavy rains kept attendance down to about 3000 people, and meant one of the aims of the hui, a discussion on the structures needed to carry Maori into the future, could not be completed.
Mr Potiki says any such structure would need to build on tradition, and that is why the hui was important.
“Two of the major powerhouses still within Maori society are the house of te Heuheu and the house of the Kingitanga. Often Pakeha people from outside don’t really understand that. If they come together at any time, they can have an impact on that old guard Maori world,” Potiki says.
Tahu Potiki says to be effective Maori leadership structures will need make room for the modern leadership styles of people like Sir Tipene O'Regan and Shane Jones, who are not afraid to speak their minds and use the media to get their views across.
SMOKING SLEEPING COMBO CAN BE LETHAL
The head of the government-appointed Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee says Maori mothers need to stop smoking and stop sleeping in the same bed as their babies.
Barry Taylor says those two things are what drives the persistently high rate of Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI) among Maori.
Professor Taylor says smoking in pregancy triples the risk of cot death.
He says the risk then increases markedly if mothers sleep with their babies.
“The trick is that you can get rid of that very high risk by just removing one of those factors. You don’t have to stop both smoking and bed sharing, though that would be the ideal. You can actually reduce the risk quite dramatically, where the mother smoked in pregnancy, by not bed sharing,” Taylor says.
Barry Taylor says existing education campaigns clearly aren't working, and new strategies are needed to get through to Maori mums.
BUY MAORI EFFORT NEEDED
Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples is challenging Maori to buy from their own to boost the Maori economy.
Pita Sharples says despite the buzz about Maori being some of the most entreprenurial people in the world, many Maori businesses don't last.
He says many of the peoples who now call New Zealand home go out of their way to buy from their own, and Maori should follow suit.
“We're third in the world for creating businesses and entrepreneurship and leadership, but 37 percent of our businesses don’t last after three and a half years. So it’s sustainability. Like the Maori authorities, Maori businesses have to work together. We have the capital, and we have to use it,” Sharples says.
LAKE WALL LEASE IRKS LANDOWNERS
Ngati Pikiao landowners are trying to overturn a deal giving Environment Bay of Plenty land needed for construction of a wall in Lake Rotoiti.
The wall along the Ohau Channel will ensure nutrient-laden water from Lake Rotorua flows directly into the Kaituna River.
Tepora Emery says trustees granted the council a 35 year lease over the 28 hectare Te Koutu Mauri Ohau Channel Block, without consulting with the owners.
Ms Emery says the deal fall far short of expectations.
“If it was a Pakeha person’s land they would be coming up with a figure like $2 million. What the council is offering us is $175,000 compensation, for the 35 year period, and the money will be applied to build a toilet at the marae,” Emory says.
She says the Maori Land Court will be asked this week to reject the lease.
DIABETES RISK BEING ADDRESSED
Associate Health Minister Mita Ririnui says Maori are well aware of the health issues that affect them.
He says a claim by Dr Paul Zimmet from the International Diabetes Institute that diabetes could make Maori extinct by the end of the century ignores what is being done already.
He says the Government has been working with Maori to develop public health programmes addressing the causes and treatment of diabetes.
“The people are saying work with us, let us finds the solutions, and that is probably the best response you can get. It’s all very well for an international scientist or a professor to make a statement about the extinction of a race, but the people he is talking about are the people whose points of view really matter,” Ririnui says.
KING BUZZES IN TO SPORTS AWARDS
The Maori king took a break from the weekend's Pukawa hui to drop into the Maori Sports Awards is South Auckland.
King Tuheitia and minder Ngarau Tupaea were flown by helicopter from the southern shores of Lake Taupo to Manukau, were an ope of 200 manuhiri were waiting to be welcomed into the Telstra Clear Event centre.
Tuheitia's late mother, Te Arikinui Te Atairangikaahu was the patron of the Maori Sports Awards.
SPORTWOMAN AIMS TO BRUSH UP TE REO
Meanwhile, the Maori sports personality of the year intends adding te reo Maori to her impressive list of credentials.
Women's rugby captain Farah Palmer, from Ngati Mahuta, grew up in the small King Country town of Pio Pio.
As well as being a member of the Black Ferns squad for the past decade, she completes a PhD from Otago University and is now employed by the Ministry of Maori Development, Te Puni Kokiri.
Dr Palmer says te reo is her next challenge.
“That's one of the things I’ve always been most ashamed of is that I’ve got only a limted amount of reo, and I’ve made a commitment to enroll in Te Atarangi next year, and my mum and my sister are already doing it this year, so I’m looking forward to that,” Palmer says.
Heavy rains kept attendance down to about 3000 people, and meant one of the aims of the hui, a discussion on the structures needed to carry Maori into the future, could not be completed.
Mr Potiki says any such structure would need to build on tradition, and that is why the hui was important.
“Two of the major powerhouses still within Maori society are the house of te Heuheu and the house of the Kingitanga. Often Pakeha people from outside don’t really understand that. If they come together at any time, they can have an impact on that old guard Maori world,” Potiki says.
Tahu Potiki says to be effective Maori leadership structures will need make room for the modern leadership styles of people like Sir Tipene O'Regan and Shane Jones, who are not afraid to speak their minds and use the media to get their views across.
SMOKING SLEEPING COMBO CAN BE LETHAL
The head of the government-appointed Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee says Maori mothers need to stop smoking and stop sleeping in the same bed as their babies.
Barry Taylor says those two things are what drives the persistently high rate of Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI) among Maori.
Professor Taylor says smoking in pregancy triples the risk of cot death.
He says the risk then increases markedly if mothers sleep with their babies.
“The trick is that you can get rid of that very high risk by just removing one of those factors. You don’t have to stop both smoking and bed sharing, though that would be the ideal. You can actually reduce the risk quite dramatically, where the mother smoked in pregnancy, by not bed sharing,” Taylor says.
Barry Taylor says existing education campaigns clearly aren't working, and new strategies are needed to get through to Maori mums.
BUY MAORI EFFORT NEEDED
Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples is challenging Maori to buy from their own to boost the Maori economy.
Pita Sharples says despite the buzz about Maori being some of the most entreprenurial people in the world, many Maori businesses don't last.
He says many of the peoples who now call New Zealand home go out of their way to buy from their own, and Maori should follow suit.
“We're third in the world for creating businesses and entrepreneurship and leadership, but 37 percent of our businesses don’t last after three and a half years. So it’s sustainability. Like the Maori authorities, Maori businesses have to work together. We have the capital, and we have to use it,” Sharples says.
LAKE WALL LEASE IRKS LANDOWNERS
Ngati Pikiao landowners are trying to overturn a deal giving Environment Bay of Plenty land needed for construction of a wall in Lake Rotoiti.
The wall along the Ohau Channel will ensure nutrient-laden water from Lake Rotorua flows directly into the Kaituna River.
Tepora Emery says trustees granted the council a 35 year lease over the 28 hectare Te Koutu Mauri Ohau Channel Block, without consulting with the owners.
Ms Emery says the deal fall far short of expectations.
“If it was a Pakeha person’s land they would be coming up with a figure like $2 million. What the council is offering us is $175,000 compensation, for the 35 year period, and the money will be applied to build a toilet at the marae,” Emory says.
She says the Maori Land Court will be asked this week to reject the lease.
DIABETES RISK BEING ADDRESSED
Associate Health Minister Mita Ririnui says Maori are well aware of the health issues that affect them.
He says a claim by Dr Paul Zimmet from the International Diabetes Institute that diabetes could make Maori extinct by the end of the century ignores what is being done already.
He says the Government has been working with Maori to develop public health programmes addressing the causes and treatment of diabetes.
“The people are saying work with us, let us finds the solutions, and that is probably the best response you can get. It’s all very well for an international scientist or a professor to make a statement about the extinction of a race, but the people he is talking about are the people whose points of view really matter,” Ririnui says.
KING BUZZES IN TO SPORTS AWARDS
The Maori king took a break from the weekend's Pukawa hui to drop into the Maori Sports Awards is South Auckland.
King Tuheitia and minder Ngarau Tupaea were flown by helicopter from the southern shores of Lake Taupo to Manukau, were an ope of 200 manuhiri were waiting to be welcomed into the Telstra Clear Event centre.
Tuheitia's late mother, Te Arikinui Te Atairangikaahu was the patron of the Maori Sports Awards.
SPORTWOMAN AIMS TO BRUSH UP TE REO
Meanwhile, the Maori sports personality of the year intends adding te reo Maori to her impressive list of credentials.
Women's rugby captain Farah Palmer, from Ngati Mahuta, grew up in the small King Country town of Pio Pio.
As well as being a member of the Black Ferns squad for the past decade, she completes a PhD from Otago University and is now employed by the Ministry of Maori Development, Te Puni Kokiri.
Dr Palmer says te reo is her next challenge.
“That's one of the things I’ve always been most ashamed of is that I’ve got only a limted amount of reo, and I’ve made a commitment to enroll in Te Atarangi next year, and my mum and my sister are already doing it this year, so I’m looking forward to that,” Palmer says.
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