NZ First wary on trust plan
New Zealand First's Maori spokesperson is urging caution in the creation of a new Maori business development organisation.
The plan is for the Government to put $40.5 million in capital into Maori Business Aotearoa New Zealand, with another $35 million dollars coming from the Maori Trustee's accumulated profits.
Pita Paraone, who worked for the Maori Trust Office before entering Parliament, says his party supports Maori economic development, but concerns raised week at the Maori Affairs select committee last week need to be investigated.
"We do need to consider the business of the Maori Trustee because any business that has $35 million taken off its balance sheet and with no likely return is of some concern and we need to take due regard to the comments made by the Maori trustee himself," Mr Paraone says.
The Maori Trustee, John Paki, told the select committee he didn't think it prudent to invest his funds in Maori Business Aotearoa New Zealand in its present form, but he was keen more work be done on the idea.
REO PACKAGE TO ENCOURAGE WATER SAFETY
Maori are being encouraged to swim for life ... in Maori.
Mark Haimona from Water Safety New Zealand says resources in te reo are being sent to all kohanga reo, kura kaupapa and marae.
More than one in five people who drown in New Zealand are Maori, and Akona Te Kauhoe programme aims to get more Maori learning how to look after themselves in the water.
PUBLIC SERVICE LIFE KEEPS COMMENTATORS QUIET
A shortage of Maori political and social commentators is being blamed on the public service.
Rawiri Taounui, the head of Maori and indigenous studies at Canterbury University, says the increase in Maori media means there's a need for more Maori with academic and life experience to speak out.
But many end up being gagged by their employers.
"Once people do degrees or once they get known there's lots of job offers and if you get into the pubic service or get a high ranking private position, you become muzzled so a lot of really talented people we have out there are not really free to speak," Mr Taonui says.
WAKATU MOVES INTO NEW NELSON HEAD OFFICE
One of the big players in the Maori commercial scene has a new home.
Wakatu Incorporation's new Nelson headquarters includes was opened last week.
The four-storey central city building includes an eight metre pou carved from Northland swamp kauri, which depicts the migration of Te tau Ihu tribes.
Keith Palmer, the incorporation's chief executive, says the building has got the town talking.
"They've really kind of respected that Wakatu's come of age in terms of being an essential part of Te Tau Ihu's commercial scene and it's kind of got a life of its own. We didn't really mean for it to make a statement but the whole community's embraced it," Mr Palmer says.
Only a small head office team is needed to run Wakatu Incorporation's $250 million business in land, horticulture and fishing, so most of the building is leased out.
FREE TRADE DEAL A THREAT TO RANGATIRATANGA
The Maori Party says the China free trade deal is a threat to New Zealand's rangatiratanga.
Co-leader Pita Sharples says the party intends to vote against the treaty when it comes before Parliament later this year.
He says its stance getting flak from some Maori, but there's not a lot in the deal for this country or for tangata whenua.
"It will put pressure on our immigration policies and practices whether we like to admit that or not. Now it's not about excluding people either. It's about keeping our rangatiratanga, our control of New Zealand and being able to stop the flood that will follow of finance as well as people coming in to run businesses and so on," Dr Sharples says.
He says the deal gives China a virtual free rein from day one, while key New Zealand sectors like dairy and forestry must wait years for any loosening of restrictions.
BUSTS OUT OF DUST AND INTO LIGHT OF NEW CENTURY
An attempt to cast Maori in a European light has been rescued from the dusty depths of Te Papa.
Te Mata, the Ethnological Portrait, which opened at the Adam Gallery in Wellington at the weekend, includes a collection of heads sculpted early last century for the Dominion Museum.
The curator, Roger Blackley, says sculptor Nelson Illingworth was commissioned to depict Maori types, but he ended up depicting prominent rangatira of the time including Patara te Tuhi from Tainui, Kahutea te Heuheu from Tuwharetoa and Tikitere from Te Arawa.
"A century after they were produced I think that whole anthropological thing has shifted off them, they're now cared for by the Maori department at Te Papa, not ethnological but matauranga Maori, and there they are some portraits of some really important people from 100 years ago," Mr Blackley says.
Te Mata also includes paintings from the same period by artists like Charles Frederick Goldie.
The plan is for the Government to put $40.5 million in capital into Maori Business Aotearoa New Zealand, with another $35 million dollars coming from the Maori Trustee's accumulated profits.
Pita Paraone, who worked for the Maori Trust Office before entering Parliament, says his party supports Maori economic development, but concerns raised week at the Maori Affairs select committee last week need to be investigated.
"We do need to consider the business of the Maori Trustee because any business that has $35 million taken off its balance sheet and with no likely return is of some concern and we need to take due regard to the comments made by the Maori trustee himself," Mr Paraone says.
The Maori Trustee, John Paki, told the select committee he didn't think it prudent to invest his funds in Maori Business Aotearoa New Zealand in its present form, but he was keen more work be done on the idea.
REO PACKAGE TO ENCOURAGE WATER SAFETY
Maori are being encouraged to swim for life ... in Maori.
Mark Haimona from Water Safety New Zealand says resources in te reo are being sent to all kohanga reo, kura kaupapa and marae.
More than one in five people who drown in New Zealand are Maori, and Akona Te Kauhoe programme aims to get more Maori learning how to look after themselves in the water.
PUBLIC SERVICE LIFE KEEPS COMMENTATORS QUIET
A shortage of Maori political and social commentators is being blamed on the public service.
Rawiri Taounui, the head of Maori and indigenous studies at Canterbury University, says the increase in Maori media means there's a need for more Maori with academic and life experience to speak out.
But many end up being gagged by their employers.
"Once people do degrees or once they get known there's lots of job offers and if you get into the pubic service or get a high ranking private position, you become muzzled so a lot of really talented people we have out there are not really free to speak," Mr Taonui says.
WAKATU MOVES INTO NEW NELSON HEAD OFFICE
One of the big players in the Maori commercial scene has a new home.
Wakatu Incorporation's new Nelson headquarters includes was opened last week.
The four-storey central city building includes an eight metre pou carved from Northland swamp kauri, which depicts the migration of Te tau Ihu tribes.
Keith Palmer, the incorporation's chief executive, says the building has got the town talking.
"They've really kind of respected that Wakatu's come of age in terms of being an essential part of Te Tau Ihu's commercial scene and it's kind of got a life of its own. We didn't really mean for it to make a statement but the whole community's embraced it," Mr Palmer says.
Only a small head office team is needed to run Wakatu Incorporation's $250 million business in land, horticulture and fishing, so most of the building is leased out.
FREE TRADE DEAL A THREAT TO RANGATIRATANGA
The Maori Party says the China free trade deal is a threat to New Zealand's rangatiratanga.
Co-leader Pita Sharples says the party intends to vote against the treaty when it comes before Parliament later this year.
He says its stance getting flak from some Maori, but there's not a lot in the deal for this country or for tangata whenua.
"It will put pressure on our immigration policies and practices whether we like to admit that or not. Now it's not about excluding people either. It's about keeping our rangatiratanga, our control of New Zealand and being able to stop the flood that will follow of finance as well as people coming in to run businesses and so on," Dr Sharples says.
He says the deal gives China a virtual free rein from day one, while key New Zealand sectors like dairy and forestry must wait years for any loosening of restrictions.
BUSTS OUT OF DUST AND INTO LIGHT OF NEW CENTURY
An attempt to cast Maori in a European light has been rescued from the dusty depths of Te Papa.
Te Mata, the Ethnological Portrait, which opened at the Adam Gallery in Wellington at the weekend, includes a collection of heads sculpted early last century for the Dominion Museum.
The curator, Roger Blackley, says sculptor Nelson Illingworth was commissioned to depict Maori types, but he ended up depicting prominent rangatira of the time including Patara te Tuhi from Tainui, Kahutea te Heuheu from Tuwharetoa and Tikitere from Te Arawa.
"A century after they were produced I think that whole anthropological thing has shifted off them, they're now cared for by the Maori department at Te Papa, not ethnological but matauranga Maori, and there they are some portraits of some really important people from 100 years ago," Mr Blackley says.
Te Mata also includes paintings from the same period by artists like Charles Frederick Goldie.
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