Smaller claimants disadvantaged by deadline
Green MP Metiria Turei says smaller claimant groups are the ones who will be most diadvantaged by next week's deadline on historic treaty claims.
Maori have until Monday to lodge claims for Crown breaches of the treaty from 1840 to 1992.
Metiria Turei says while larger iwi have been able to develop relationships with the Crown, those groups who were worst hit by the processes of colonisation and war may miss out.
"Their claims aren't any less legitimate or even any smaller than other ones. It's just that they have ended up at the back of the queue. So it's a grossly disadvantageous and discriminatory thing to do especially since the government has no such deadline. They didn't change anything about their process to make sure it goes faster," Ms Turei says.
The Greens tried unsuccessfully to stop the deadline.
MAORI BUSINESS SAVVY SHOWING THROUGH
The head of a Maori business development agency says Maori are getting more savvy about business.
The Poutama Trust invests a couple of million dollars a year in small and medium size businesses, as advice, micro-loans or equity participation in ventures.
Chief executive Richard Jones says in the two decades the trust has been operating there have been marked changes in the way Maori go to market.
"If you asked then for a business plan or a set of financial accounts, you were lucky to get that sort of thing,. You were more likely to get a bank statement. Now when we ask for that, no problem, We get a relatively good business plan. We get a set of financial accounts which have been done up with the help of an accountant. People are getting more business savvy," Mr Jones says.
While urban based-Maori busiensses are still relatively small and entrepreneurial, the larger rural organisations are starting to diversify away from the primary sector or cluster together for greater efficiency.
YOUNG MUMS CAN'T COOOK, KIDS SUFFER
A Maori dietician says the health of young Maori mothers and their children is suffering because they lack cooking skills.
Hiki Pihema, who works for the Tairawhiti District Health Board, says many Maori women are ill equipped to provide healthy food for their whanau.
She says many of them don't get past frying or heating food up in a microwave, because parents and grandparents may not have understood the link between healthy eating and health," Ms Pihema says.
Maori health will be one of the themes of a Dieticians Conference in Hamilton next week.
MASON BROTHERS REPAIR SPLIT, BOOST LABOUR MESSAGE AMONG MOREHU
A split in a leading Ratana family has been repaired, which could boost Labour's vote.
Last election Errol Mason, the son of tumuaki Harry Mason, was Labour's candidate in Te Tai Hauauru, while his brother Andre was telling church members or morehu they should cast their lot with the Maori Party.
This time Errol Mason is again contesting the seat held by Tariana Turia, and he's being backed by his brother.
Errol Mason says their shared commitment to the Treaty of Waitangi brought them together, and they're campaigning together.
"When we're going around talking to our people, we know they are passionate about the treaty and the fact we go back to what our founder was seeking in his time and it's that thing that turns the light on with a lot of our people," Mr Mason says.
He says the important thing is that Maori take part in the democratic process and vote.
DAM PROJECT PLANNED FOR MOTU RIVER
Te Whanau-a-Apanui could benefit from a proposed hydro-electric dam on the Motu River in the eastern Bay of Plenty.
Haki McRoberts, a member of the iwi and chair of the Opotiki District Council's coast community board, says the region needs a more secure electricity supply.
Consultants have identified four potential dams on the river, and another three possible sites on the nearby Ruakokore River.
Mr McRoberts says Te Whanau-a-Apanui would need to be involved in any development, and it could even consider investing.
"There is a way Te Whanau a Ap-anui could get a good base from it money wise by hooking into them annd selling their power off at 10, 15, 25 cents, something like that, being part of it to build Te Whanau-a-Apanui's kitty," Mr McRoberts says.
The iwi is talking with Wellington based Horizon Energy about the venture.
MAORI SHOWBAND REVIVAL ON GOLD COAST
Labour list MP Dover Samuels will be dancing to a different beat this weekend, as formerf members of the Maori showbands gather in the Gold Coast for a reunion.
The former Taitokerau MP was an accomplished entertainer in his younger days, filling in at times for members of the Maori Volcanics and the Quintikis.
He says at least 30 Maori entertainers of yesteryear are expected at a powhiri today, and the sold out sign is up for the gala performance at Billys' Beach bar on Saturday night.
Mr Samuels says while the reunion is being held across the Tasman to make it easier for Australia-based entertainers to attend, the Maori Community Centre in Auckland was where it all started.
"They formed different groups like the Volcanics, the Hi Fives, the High Quins, and the demand for that type of live entertainment really launched the whole concept of Maori showbands not just in New Zealand but right around the world," Mr Samuels says.
It was their incorporation of Maori humour and culture into a musical entertainment that made the showbands unique.
Maori have until Monday to lodge claims for Crown breaches of the treaty from 1840 to 1992.
Metiria Turei says while larger iwi have been able to develop relationships with the Crown, those groups who were worst hit by the processes of colonisation and war may miss out.
"Their claims aren't any less legitimate or even any smaller than other ones. It's just that they have ended up at the back of the queue. So it's a grossly disadvantageous and discriminatory thing to do especially since the government has no such deadline. They didn't change anything about their process to make sure it goes faster," Ms Turei says.
The Greens tried unsuccessfully to stop the deadline.
MAORI BUSINESS SAVVY SHOWING THROUGH
The head of a Maori business development agency says Maori are getting more savvy about business.
The Poutama Trust invests a couple of million dollars a year in small and medium size businesses, as advice, micro-loans or equity participation in ventures.
Chief executive Richard Jones says in the two decades the trust has been operating there have been marked changes in the way Maori go to market.
"If you asked then for a business plan or a set of financial accounts, you were lucky to get that sort of thing,. You were more likely to get a bank statement. Now when we ask for that, no problem, We get a relatively good business plan. We get a set of financial accounts which have been done up with the help of an accountant. People are getting more business savvy," Mr Jones says.
While urban based-Maori busiensses are still relatively small and entrepreneurial, the larger rural organisations are starting to diversify away from the primary sector or cluster together for greater efficiency.
YOUNG MUMS CAN'T COOOK, KIDS SUFFER
A Maori dietician says the health of young Maori mothers and their children is suffering because they lack cooking skills.
Hiki Pihema, who works for the Tairawhiti District Health Board, says many Maori women are ill equipped to provide healthy food for their whanau.
She says many of them don't get past frying or heating food up in a microwave, because parents and grandparents may not have understood the link between healthy eating and health," Ms Pihema says.
Maori health will be one of the themes of a Dieticians Conference in Hamilton next week.
MASON BROTHERS REPAIR SPLIT, BOOST LABOUR MESSAGE AMONG MOREHU
A split in a leading Ratana family has been repaired, which could boost Labour's vote.
Last election Errol Mason, the son of tumuaki Harry Mason, was Labour's candidate in Te Tai Hauauru, while his brother Andre was telling church members or morehu they should cast their lot with the Maori Party.
This time Errol Mason is again contesting the seat held by Tariana Turia, and he's being backed by his brother.
Errol Mason says their shared commitment to the Treaty of Waitangi brought them together, and they're campaigning together.
"When we're going around talking to our people, we know they are passionate about the treaty and the fact we go back to what our founder was seeking in his time and it's that thing that turns the light on with a lot of our people," Mr Mason says.
He says the important thing is that Maori take part in the democratic process and vote.
DAM PROJECT PLANNED FOR MOTU RIVER
Te Whanau-a-Apanui could benefit from a proposed hydro-electric dam on the Motu River in the eastern Bay of Plenty.
Haki McRoberts, a member of the iwi and chair of the Opotiki District Council's coast community board, says the region needs a more secure electricity supply.
Consultants have identified four potential dams on the river, and another three possible sites on the nearby Ruakokore River.
Mr McRoberts says Te Whanau-a-Apanui would need to be involved in any development, and it could even consider investing.
"There is a way Te Whanau a Ap-anui could get a good base from it money wise by hooking into them annd selling their power off at 10, 15, 25 cents, something like that, being part of it to build Te Whanau-a-Apanui's kitty," Mr McRoberts says.
The iwi is talking with Wellington based Horizon Energy about the venture.
MAORI SHOWBAND REVIVAL ON GOLD COAST
Labour list MP Dover Samuels will be dancing to a different beat this weekend, as formerf members of the Maori showbands gather in the Gold Coast for a reunion.
The former Taitokerau MP was an accomplished entertainer in his younger days, filling in at times for members of the Maori Volcanics and the Quintikis.
He says at least 30 Maori entertainers of yesteryear are expected at a powhiri today, and the sold out sign is up for the gala performance at Billys' Beach bar on Saturday night.
Mr Samuels says while the reunion is being held across the Tasman to make it easier for Australia-based entertainers to attend, the Maori Community Centre in Auckland was where it all started.
"They formed different groups like the Volcanics, the Hi Fives, the High Quins, and the demand for that type of live entertainment really launched the whole concept of Maori showbands not just in New Zealand but right around the world," Mr Samuels says.
It was their incorporation of Maori humour and culture into a musical entertainment that made the showbands unique.
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