Key positive on Maori Television future
National leader John Key expects digital broadcasting will lead to more endeavours like Maori Television.
Mr Key says claims National's broadcasting policy is a threat to Maori content is scaremongering.
He says while he was initially skeptical about a separate Maori channel, he now sees it growing an audience across all ethnic groups and pointing the way ahead.
"Under the digital model ultimately there will be more channels like Maori Television that i think will be specialist in nature. That's the beauty of digital, that you can start developing channels on a cheaper basis because the costs are greatly reduced.
"So it's not true, the funding for Maori Television will remain, there's no intention to change things there and we're supportive of what they're doing," Mr Key says.
PRISONS NEED IWI MAORI FOR PRISONER MANAGEMENT
The Prison Service is trying to make its relationship with Maori more than symbolic.
Iwi took part in this week's ground-breaking ceremony for the new Auckland Prison, which will replace the 120-year old Mt Eden Jail.
Neil Campbell, the Corrections Department's treaty relationships manager , says iwi have a role in reducing the number of people entering prisons, helping them while inside and following them back out.
"When it comes to the reintegration of offenders, and all offenders need to be reintegrated eventually back into our society, they have the type of networks that we need to facilitate a safe reintegration back into our communities," Mr Campbell says.
The two new accommodation buildings at Mt Eden are due to be finished by 2011.
IWI DRIVEN MODEL TO REVICE NATIVE SCHOOLS IDEA
A new governance model being trialed in Murupara could lead to the re-emergence of native schools throughout the country.
Pem Bird, the chair of Nga Kura a Iwi o Aotearoa, says 14 schools led by his own Te Kura Kaupapa Motuhake a Tawhiuau have signed up to a plan which gives local iwi more say in what is taught and how.
He says it will allow the development of a curriculum which taps into the dialects, tikanga and knowledge held by iwi, and harks back to the native schools which were phased out in the 1960s.
"We see the revival of that model as a step forward for us. It allows iwi to pursue their aspirations in a way that's real providing ownership, accountability and providing opportunity for iwi to determine their own destiny," Mr Bird says.
The schools are also considering forming a separate Maori education authority to assist them in their relationship with the Crown.
SCRAMBLE TO LINE UP VOTES FOR MAORI PARTY CANDIDACY
It's one of the shortest selection battles in New Zealand political history.
The three nominees to replace the late Monte Ohia as the Maori Party's Te Tai Tonga candidate have had since Tuesday to rally support.
Voting takes place this weekend in 10 locations around the South Island and Wellington.
Wellington lawyer Rahui Katene missed out to Mr Ohia in February's selection round.
She believes she can bring something that is missing from the party's caucus.
"What you've got in there are some very good people but they're mainly focused in the areas of health and education. Someone with a legal background is going to be a real help in there. You're in the debating chamber, issues come up, and a trained legal eye can see what is going on and where it is going to lead to," Ms Katene says.
With her whakapapa to Ngati Koata, Ngati Toa, Ngati Kuia and Kai Tahu, she covers the whole electorate, so she's hoping for a big turnout of relatives to the weekend voting hui.
GINA PLAYS ON GRASSROOTS APPEAL
Another nominee, Gina Haremate-Crawford, stood for the Maori Party in Invercargill last election.
She believes Mr Ohia was well on the way to winning the seat from Labour's Mahara Okeroa before his sudden death, and it's still a wide open race.
The Invercargill tertiary education worker's connections are to the East Coast and Tainui, but she says her grass-roots work throughout the South Island means she's well known among the iwi.
"I work through a lot of departments through the motu so I am actually at grassroots level working with management. I advocate on behalf of a lot of people at grassroots level, but i am also on advisory boards at the management level," Ms Haremate-Crawford says.
The third nominee is Hector Matthews from Te Aupouri and Te Rarawa, who works as a manager at Canterbury District Health Board as well as chairing the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of technology.
NEW TEAM FOR ARTS COUNCIL MAORI ARM
Hinga atu he tete kura, ara mai ano he tete kura.
The breadth of Maori art has been recognised with new appointments to Te Waka Toi.
Literature specialist John Huria, painter Kura Te Waru Rewiri and kapa haka expert Te Kahautu Maxwell have replaced Patu Hohepa, Sandy Adsett and Suzanne Ellison on the Maori arm of Creative New Zealand.
Mr Huria, from Ngai Tahu, set aside work on a PhD in English literature to become an editor with Maori publishing house Huia.
He says that's given him an appreciation of his role in the artistic firmament.
"The object of editing is to bring the writer's voice out rather than to impose your own voice over the top of it. If you let your own personal tastes as an editor get in the way, then that's just a recipe for disaster," Mr Huria says.
He has also worked on an award-winning publication on painter Shane Cotton and updated the encyclopedia of Maori Life and Custom.
Mr Key says claims National's broadcasting policy is a threat to Maori content is scaremongering.
He says while he was initially skeptical about a separate Maori channel, he now sees it growing an audience across all ethnic groups and pointing the way ahead.
"Under the digital model ultimately there will be more channels like Maori Television that i think will be specialist in nature. That's the beauty of digital, that you can start developing channels on a cheaper basis because the costs are greatly reduced.
"So it's not true, the funding for Maori Television will remain, there's no intention to change things there and we're supportive of what they're doing," Mr Key says.
PRISONS NEED IWI MAORI FOR PRISONER MANAGEMENT
The Prison Service is trying to make its relationship with Maori more than symbolic.
Iwi took part in this week's ground-breaking ceremony for the new Auckland Prison, which will replace the 120-year old Mt Eden Jail.
Neil Campbell, the Corrections Department's treaty relationships manager , says iwi have a role in reducing the number of people entering prisons, helping them while inside and following them back out.
"When it comes to the reintegration of offenders, and all offenders need to be reintegrated eventually back into our society, they have the type of networks that we need to facilitate a safe reintegration back into our communities," Mr Campbell says.
The two new accommodation buildings at Mt Eden are due to be finished by 2011.
IWI DRIVEN MODEL TO REVICE NATIVE SCHOOLS IDEA
A new governance model being trialed in Murupara could lead to the re-emergence of native schools throughout the country.
Pem Bird, the chair of Nga Kura a Iwi o Aotearoa, says 14 schools led by his own Te Kura Kaupapa Motuhake a Tawhiuau have signed up to a plan which gives local iwi more say in what is taught and how.
He says it will allow the development of a curriculum which taps into the dialects, tikanga and knowledge held by iwi, and harks back to the native schools which were phased out in the 1960s.
"We see the revival of that model as a step forward for us. It allows iwi to pursue their aspirations in a way that's real providing ownership, accountability and providing opportunity for iwi to determine their own destiny," Mr Bird says.
The schools are also considering forming a separate Maori education authority to assist them in their relationship with the Crown.
SCRAMBLE TO LINE UP VOTES FOR MAORI PARTY CANDIDACY
It's one of the shortest selection battles in New Zealand political history.
The three nominees to replace the late Monte Ohia as the Maori Party's Te Tai Tonga candidate have had since Tuesday to rally support.
Voting takes place this weekend in 10 locations around the South Island and Wellington.
Wellington lawyer Rahui Katene missed out to Mr Ohia in February's selection round.
She believes she can bring something that is missing from the party's caucus.
"What you've got in there are some very good people but they're mainly focused in the areas of health and education. Someone with a legal background is going to be a real help in there. You're in the debating chamber, issues come up, and a trained legal eye can see what is going on and where it is going to lead to," Ms Katene says.
With her whakapapa to Ngati Koata, Ngati Toa, Ngati Kuia and Kai Tahu, she covers the whole electorate, so she's hoping for a big turnout of relatives to the weekend voting hui.
GINA PLAYS ON GRASSROOTS APPEAL
Another nominee, Gina Haremate-Crawford, stood for the Maori Party in Invercargill last election.
She believes Mr Ohia was well on the way to winning the seat from Labour's Mahara Okeroa before his sudden death, and it's still a wide open race.
The Invercargill tertiary education worker's connections are to the East Coast and Tainui, but she says her grass-roots work throughout the South Island means she's well known among the iwi.
"I work through a lot of departments through the motu so I am actually at grassroots level working with management. I advocate on behalf of a lot of people at grassroots level, but i am also on advisory boards at the management level," Ms Haremate-Crawford says.
The third nominee is Hector Matthews from Te Aupouri and Te Rarawa, who works as a manager at Canterbury District Health Board as well as chairing the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of technology.
NEW TEAM FOR ARTS COUNCIL MAORI ARM
Hinga atu he tete kura, ara mai ano he tete kura.
The breadth of Maori art has been recognised with new appointments to Te Waka Toi.
Literature specialist John Huria, painter Kura Te Waru Rewiri and kapa haka expert Te Kahautu Maxwell have replaced Patu Hohepa, Sandy Adsett and Suzanne Ellison on the Maori arm of Creative New Zealand.
Mr Huria, from Ngai Tahu, set aside work on a PhD in English literature to become an editor with Maori publishing house Huia.
He says that's given him an appreciation of his role in the artistic firmament.
"The object of editing is to bring the writer's voice out rather than to impose your own voice over the top of it. If you let your own personal tastes as an editor get in the way, then that's just a recipe for disaster," Mr Huria says.
He has also worked on an award-winning publication on painter Shane Cotton and updated the encyclopedia of Maori Life and Custom.
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