Rahui Katene Maori Party pick
The campaign started today for the Maori Party's Te Tai Tonga candidate.
Rahui Katene was picked from a field of three to replace the late Monte Ohia, who died suddenly last month.
The Wellington lawyer and treaty consultant is taking on Labour's Mahara Okeroa, the Minister of State and associate minister of conservation, arts and heritage and social development and employment.
Ms Katene says her opponent has a higher profile after almost nine years in Parliament.
"That's not to say he has an advantage because of that higher profile because people are still dissatisfied with the way the Labour Party has treated them. Don't forget that it was Te Tau Ihu that started the Maori Land Court case on the foreshore and seabed and who took it through the whole way, People there are very aware of how they've been short-shafted," she says.
Ms Katene is the daughter of Ngati Koata leader John Hippolite and also has links to Ngati Toa, Ngati Kuia and Kai Tahu.
NEW HEALTH SERVICE FOR SOUTH OF AUCKLAND
Pukekohe-based Huakina Development Trust will this evening sign a memorandum of understanding with a general practice group aimed at improving health services to Maori in Franklin.
Kate Moodabe from ProCare Network Manukau says the two organisations have worked together on marae-based health promotion.
That will expand to providing primary care at three hub marae, giving people access to many services for the first time.
She says it will give ProCare a much better indication of the health status of the marae population and put in interventions which can extend life expectancy.
The service will include a GP, practice nurse, podiatrist, psychologist, smoke cessation councillor, self management facilitator and a community health coordinator.
HOKIANGA KAUMATUA JOE TOPIA DIES
Communities around Hokianga are mourning Joe Topia, who died yesterday from cancer.
The kaumatua was a founding member of the Hokianga Health Enterprise Trust and chaired Health Care Aotearoa Kaunihera Maori.
He also chaired Panguru Area School and was a member of Te Taitokerau Catholic Regional Pastoral Council, the Pompallier Hokianga Trust and the Panguru parish council.
A lifelong friend, Bob Newson, says he was one of the better speakers of te reo Maori in the north.
"A guy that had a lot of humour in his korero but also vocabulary from the old people, these Maori words. Joe was also part of the group working on a Ngapuhi dictionary, so he has retained a lot of knowledge from the old people. We certainly mourn the loss of a very great rangatira," Mr Newson says.
Joe Topia is lying in state at Waipuna Marae in Pangaru.
CANNIBALISM BOOK MAKES A MEAL OF MANA THESIS
It's a meaty topic, but it's not about mana.
That's the conclusion Auckland historian Paul Moon has come to in his study of Maori cannibalism.
He says claims in some academic quarters the practice never existed aren't backed up by a review of the archaeological evidence, the eyewitness accounts of European explorers, whalers and missionaries, and by tribal histories.
But the interpretation that emerged in the second half of the 19th century, that people were consumed for their mana, doesn't pass muster.
"If you look at a lot of the oral history of most hapu and iwi, you donlt find a lot of people who are remembered because they ate lots of other people. In other words, you didn't earn your mana through eating lots of people. You earnt it though being able to look after yourself, handle yourself in battle, be a good leader or whatever. that's what people looked up to. People didn't look up to you because you ate 26 people," Dr Moon says.
This Horrid Practice will be published next month.
HARAWIRA WANTS MAORI INPUT TO IMMIGRATION POLICY DELIVERY
A Maori Party MP says the Immigration Service needs to involve Maori more in the way its policies are implemented.
Hone Harawira says the party wants Maori to have a say in who settles here.
He says the Immigration Service has a comprehensive section on the Treaty of Waitangi on its website, but the message gets lost in the real world.
"Stuff up there is very good stuff. It is not being enacted in terms of being translated to those people who are coming in. The relation between the theory of the treaty and the practice of the treaty in reality,. So we wanted a role in both places, in policy making and in policy delivery," Mr Harawira says.
MORE MAORI NEEDED IN ARCHITECTURE
One of New Zealand's leading architects wants to see more Maori influence on the way buildings are designed in this country.
Ivan Mercep has just received the the New Zealand Institute of Architects' gold award for more than a half century of contributions to the profession.
The 78-year old says Maori can offer a unique cultural perspective which challenge familiar practices of construction and design.
"The more Maori that get involved in that, the more impact they can probably have on the direction of New Zealand architecture and particularly how it might relate to both cultures. There are some benefits there in terms of openness of planning and relationship to topography, something that sits naturally in the landscape. Those are the sort of things that are important for New Zealand and reflects our climate and the land we live in in a sense," Mr Mercep says.
His long career includes designs for several marae, including Whaiora, Hoani Waititi and Waipapa in Auckland.
Rahui Katene was picked from a field of three to replace the late Monte Ohia, who died suddenly last month.
The Wellington lawyer and treaty consultant is taking on Labour's Mahara Okeroa, the Minister of State and associate minister of conservation, arts and heritage and social development and employment.
Ms Katene says her opponent has a higher profile after almost nine years in Parliament.
"That's not to say he has an advantage because of that higher profile because people are still dissatisfied with the way the Labour Party has treated them. Don't forget that it was Te Tau Ihu that started the Maori Land Court case on the foreshore and seabed and who took it through the whole way, People there are very aware of how they've been short-shafted," she says.
Ms Katene is the daughter of Ngati Koata leader John Hippolite and also has links to Ngati Toa, Ngati Kuia and Kai Tahu.
NEW HEALTH SERVICE FOR SOUTH OF AUCKLAND
Pukekohe-based Huakina Development Trust will this evening sign a memorandum of understanding with a general practice group aimed at improving health services to Maori in Franklin.
Kate Moodabe from ProCare Network Manukau says the two organisations have worked together on marae-based health promotion.
That will expand to providing primary care at three hub marae, giving people access to many services for the first time.
She says it will give ProCare a much better indication of the health status of the marae population and put in interventions which can extend life expectancy.
The service will include a GP, practice nurse, podiatrist, psychologist, smoke cessation councillor, self management facilitator and a community health coordinator.
HOKIANGA KAUMATUA JOE TOPIA DIES
Communities around Hokianga are mourning Joe Topia, who died yesterday from cancer.
The kaumatua was a founding member of the Hokianga Health Enterprise Trust and chaired Health Care Aotearoa Kaunihera Maori.
He also chaired Panguru Area School and was a member of Te Taitokerau Catholic Regional Pastoral Council, the Pompallier Hokianga Trust and the Panguru parish council.
A lifelong friend, Bob Newson, says he was one of the better speakers of te reo Maori in the north.
"A guy that had a lot of humour in his korero but also vocabulary from the old people, these Maori words. Joe was also part of the group working on a Ngapuhi dictionary, so he has retained a lot of knowledge from the old people. We certainly mourn the loss of a very great rangatira," Mr Newson says.
Joe Topia is lying in state at Waipuna Marae in Pangaru.
CANNIBALISM BOOK MAKES A MEAL OF MANA THESIS
It's a meaty topic, but it's not about mana.
That's the conclusion Auckland historian Paul Moon has come to in his study of Maori cannibalism.
He says claims in some academic quarters the practice never existed aren't backed up by a review of the archaeological evidence, the eyewitness accounts of European explorers, whalers and missionaries, and by tribal histories.
But the interpretation that emerged in the second half of the 19th century, that people were consumed for their mana, doesn't pass muster.
"If you look at a lot of the oral history of most hapu and iwi, you donlt find a lot of people who are remembered because they ate lots of other people. In other words, you didn't earn your mana through eating lots of people. You earnt it though being able to look after yourself, handle yourself in battle, be a good leader or whatever. that's what people looked up to. People didn't look up to you because you ate 26 people," Dr Moon says.
This Horrid Practice will be published next month.
HARAWIRA WANTS MAORI INPUT TO IMMIGRATION POLICY DELIVERY
A Maori Party MP says the Immigration Service needs to involve Maori more in the way its policies are implemented.
Hone Harawira says the party wants Maori to have a say in who settles here.
He says the Immigration Service has a comprehensive section on the Treaty of Waitangi on its website, but the message gets lost in the real world.
"Stuff up there is very good stuff. It is not being enacted in terms of being translated to those people who are coming in. The relation between the theory of the treaty and the practice of the treaty in reality,. So we wanted a role in both places, in policy making and in policy delivery," Mr Harawira says.
MORE MAORI NEEDED IN ARCHITECTURE
One of New Zealand's leading architects wants to see more Maori influence on the way buildings are designed in this country.
Ivan Mercep has just received the the New Zealand Institute of Architects' gold award for more than a half century of contributions to the profession.
The 78-year old says Maori can offer a unique cultural perspective which challenge familiar practices of construction and design.
"The more Maori that get involved in that, the more impact they can probably have on the direction of New Zealand architecture and particularly how it might relate to both cultures. There are some benefits there in terms of openness of planning and relationship to topography, something that sits naturally in the landscape. Those are the sort of things that are important for New Zealand and reflects our climate and the land we live in in a sense," Mr Mercep says.
His long career includes designs for several marae, including Whaiora, Hoani Waititi and Waipapa in Auckland.
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