Fox squeaks ahead in poll
The Maori Party's Ikaroa Rawhiti candidate is expecting a tough battle, despite a poll showing him in the lead.
A Digipoll survey for TV One's Marae programme put Derek Fox at 47.1 percent support against 45.6 percent for Labour's Parekura Horomia.
Mr Fox was picking up a higher level of support during the early part of the survey period, before a weekly newspaper revealed incidents of domestic violence against former partners.
He says it's a good wake-up at this stage in his campaign against Mr Horomia.
“Don't forget he's been elected three times by this electorate and he is in the Government, he is a minister, and the Government is fighting hard to capture Maori voters and I guess we need to know this is going to be a difficult battle,” Mr Fox says.
The poll also showed the Maori Party's two vote campaign could also hurt the government, with only 42 percent willing to give their party vote to Labour, compared with 58 percent last election.
ATTUTUDES ON EASY WORDS TIGHTENING UP
A veteran Maori broadcaster says speakers of te reo needn't be too precious about transliterations.
There's been considerable debate over the years about whether English words can be bent to serve Maori ends, or if a word in te reo can be updated.
Kingi Ihaka has been listening to a lot of archival material, and says it reminds him of the way the language is always changing.
“In my parents' day, a waka was only something that traveled on water, a canoe. A car was a motoka. There was a lot of transliteration, which seems pretty much a no no these days with a lot of broadcasters. I don’t see too much wrong with it although in broadcasting terms I think it is important that we are accurate in our delivery of the proper Maori word, as opposed to transliteration,” Mr Ihaka says.
He says while a new generation of fluent speakers is emerging, older native speakers sometimes find their style unrecognisable.
MAORI NEEDS TO BE IN THE HOME
A former Maori Language Commission head says home is the place te reo Maori really needs to be used.
Reo in the Home is this year's Maori Language week theme, and Haami Piripi, who now chairs Kaitiaia-based Te Runanga o Te Rarawa, says it's a sound strategy.
He says there's evidence language revival strategies are working, but more work is needed to guarantee long term survival.
“I notice now on marae there are lot more younger speakers speaking a better level of language and a better ability to utilise language in the context of community development so that’s improving. Now we’ve got to get language spoken in the home as an ordinary everyday language of use. Without that it’ll just be an academic language,” Mr Piripi says.
NATIONAL FOCUS ON LANGUAGE SOUGHT
A Maori language commissioner says it's time for all New Zealanders to focus on the growing the use of te reo Maori.
Hei taa Ruakere Hond o Taranaki, horekau he kaupapa koni atu i te whakatairanga i te reo i tenei wiki.
REDEMPTION POSSIBLE AFTER VIOLENT INCIDENTS
The chief executive of Women's Refuge says domestic violence shouldn't be a life sentence.
Heather Henare says it's up to the voters of Ikaroa Rawhiti to decide if Maori Party candidate Derek Fox has truly left behind his violent past.
According to a Digipoll survey done for TV One's Marae programme, support for the veteran broadcaster dropped after he confirmed a weekly newspaper story that he had been violent towards former partners more than a decade ago ... but he still polled slightly higher than Labour's Parekura Horomia.
Ms Henare says Refuge wants men to take responsibility for their abusive behaviour and take steps to change it.
“If what he said was right and he did take himself to the police, he did take responsibility that there hasn’t been any further incidents, then, so be it. He’s done what he needed to do, he’s taken some responsibility, and hopefully from that he learnt,” Ms Henare says.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT LACKING IN LANGUAGE SUPPORT
Local Government is being challenged to increase use of te reo Maori as a way to improve relationships with iwi.
Haami Piripi, the chair of Kaitaia-based Te Runanga o Te Rarawa, says councils have paid little regard to the Maori language, despite its importance to many of their ratepayers.
He says Maori would respond positively.
“They only do what they need to do to conduct their business. I don’t think there’s any emphasis ion the language for the language’s sake, or the people’s sake even. If they were able to utilize the language more they would be able to engage with our people more and we’d be much more effective at local government level so there’s a lot of work to be done there by local government,” Mr Piripi says.
LANGUAGE HAS LIFE OUTSIDE OF MARAE FORMALITIES
The theme of Maori language week is Maori Language in the Home, and Waikato University's professor of reo and tikanga says it's a reminder te reo shouldn't be confined to formal situations.
Hai taa Pou Temara o Ngai Tuhoe...kaua e waiho to tatou reo hai reo o te paepae, hai reo o te taumata.
“Nga te koreoro tonu ne mau te reo Maori nei he puawai te reo Maori ki te ngakau o tena o tena o te ngakau hoki o te iwi,” Mr Temara says.
A Digipoll survey for TV One's Marae programme put Derek Fox at 47.1 percent support against 45.6 percent for Labour's Parekura Horomia.
Mr Fox was picking up a higher level of support during the early part of the survey period, before a weekly newspaper revealed incidents of domestic violence against former partners.
He says it's a good wake-up at this stage in his campaign against Mr Horomia.
“Don't forget he's been elected three times by this electorate and he is in the Government, he is a minister, and the Government is fighting hard to capture Maori voters and I guess we need to know this is going to be a difficult battle,” Mr Fox says.
The poll also showed the Maori Party's two vote campaign could also hurt the government, with only 42 percent willing to give their party vote to Labour, compared with 58 percent last election.
ATTUTUDES ON EASY WORDS TIGHTENING UP
A veteran Maori broadcaster says speakers of te reo needn't be too precious about transliterations.
There's been considerable debate over the years about whether English words can be bent to serve Maori ends, or if a word in te reo can be updated.
Kingi Ihaka has been listening to a lot of archival material, and says it reminds him of the way the language is always changing.
“In my parents' day, a waka was only something that traveled on water, a canoe. A car was a motoka. There was a lot of transliteration, which seems pretty much a no no these days with a lot of broadcasters. I don’t see too much wrong with it although in broadcasting terms I think it is important that we are accurate in our delivery of the proper Maori word, as opposed to transliteration,” Mr Ihaka says.
He says while a new generation of fluent speakers is emerging, older native speakers sometimes find their style unrecognisable.
MAORI NEEDS TO BE IN THE HOME
A former Maori Language Commission head says home is the place te reo Maori really needs to be used.
Reo in the Home is this year's Maori Language week theme, and Haami Piripi, who now chairs Kaitiaia-based Te Runanga o Te Rarawa, says it's a sound strategy.
He says there's evidence language revival strategies are working, but more work is needed to guarantee long term survival.
“I notice now on marae there are lot more younger speakers speaking a better level of language and a better ability to utilise language in the context of community development so that’s improving. Now we’ve got to get language spoken in the home as an ordinary everyday language of use. Without that it’ll just be an academic language,” Mr Piripi says.
NATIONAL FOCUS ON LANGUAGE SOUGHT
A Maori language commissioner says it's time for all New Zealanders to focus on the growing the use of te reo Maori.
Hei taa Ruakere Hond o Taranaki, horekau he kaupapa koni atu i te whakatairanga i te reo i tenei wiki.
REDEMPTION POSSIBLE AFTER VIOLENT INCIDENTS
The chief executive of Women's Refuge says domestic violence shouldn't be a life sentence.
Heather Henare says it's up to the voters of Ikaroa Rawhiti to decide if Maori Party candidate Derek Fox has truly left behind his violent past.
According to a Digipoll survey done for TV One's Marae programme, support for the veteran broadcaster dropped after he confirmed a weekly newspaper story that he had been violent towards former partners more than a decade ago ... but he still polled slightly higher than Labour's Parekura Horomia.
Ms Henare says Refuge wants men to take responsibility for their abusive behaviour and take steps to change it.
“If what he said was right and he did take himself to the police, he did take responsibility that there hasn’t been any further incidents, then, so be it. He’s done what he needed to do, he’s taken some responsibility, and hopefully from that he learnt,” Ms Henare says.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT LACKING IN LANGUAGE SUPPORT
Local Government is being challenged to increase use of te reo Maori as a way to improve relationships with iwi.
Haami Piripi, the chair of Kaitaia-based Te Runanga o Te Rarawa, says councils have paid little regard to the Maori language, despite its importance to many of their ratepayers.
He says Maori would respond positively.
“They only do what they need to do to conduct their business. I don’t think there’s any emphasis ion the language for the language’s sake, or the people’s sake even. If they were able to utilize the language more they would be able to engage with our people more and we’d be much more effective at local government level so there’s a lot of work to be done there by local government,” Mr Piripi says.
LANGUAGE HAS LIFE OUTSIDE OF MARAE FORMALITIES
The theme of Maori language week is Maori Language in the Home, and Waikato University's professor of reo and tikanga says it's a reminder te reo shouldn't be confined to formal situations.
Hai taa Pou Temara o Ngai Tuhoe...kaua e waiho to tatou reo hai reo o te paepae, hai reo o te taumata.
“Nga te koreoro tonu ne mau te reo Maori nei he puawai te reo Maori ki te ngakau o tena o tena o te ngakau hoki o te iwi,” Mr Temara says.
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