Maori academic to receive distinguished alumni award - Radio New Zealand

Wed, 22/02/2012 - 19:25

Maori academic to receive distinguished alumni award
Radio New Zealand
One of New Zealand's most influential Maori academics is one of six recipients of Auckland University's 2012 Distinguished Alumni Awards. Ranginui Walker, 79, and a member of the Whakatohea iwi in Opotiki, studied at the university and was awarded his ...

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Christchurch to host Maori performance event in 2015 - Radio New Zealand

Wed, 22/02/2012 - 19:25

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Christchurch to host Maori performance event in 2015
Radio New Zealand
The bid to host the event was made jointly by Ngai Tahu, the Christchurch City Council, and the Waitaha Cultural Council - the body which looks after Maori performing arts in Canterbury. Waitaha Cultural Council deputy chairperson Rangimarie ...
National Maori festival to held in Chch3News NZ

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Maori Party formally urges Treaty role in asset plan - Radio New Zealand

Wed, 22/02/2012 - 13:39

Maori Party formally urges Treaty role in asset plan
Radio New Zealand
The Maori Party has formally urged the Government to retain Treaty of Waitangi provisions in any new law that paves the way for partial asset sales. The party has just released its submission on the proposed sale of shares in four state-owned energy ...

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Joint call for quality Maori education - The Daily Post

Wed, 22/02/2012 - 12:17

Joint call for quality Maori education
The Daily Post
Maori parents should demand their children get a good education to ensure future opportunities, a Ngati Whakau educator says. Addressing Minister of Education Hekia Parata during her visit to Rotorua yesterday, Roana Bennett, the manager of Ngati ...

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Scheme aims to cut Maori smoking - Manawatu Standard

Wed, 22/02/2012 - 12:08

Scheme aims to cut Maori smoking
Manawatu Standard
A scheme to help smokers quit the habit is trying to get the smoking rate among Maori down to the same level as doctors. The Te Ohu Auahi Mutunga scheme was launched in the MidCentral region in December to break through the barriers inhibiting Maori ...

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Tradies form collective to rebuild Christchurch - Radio New Zealand

Tue, 21/02/2012 - 19:20

Tradies form collective to rebuild Christchurch
Radio New Zealand
A group of Maori tradesmen has formed the Kaihanga Collective to rebuild Christchurch and help train rangatahi. They will work together to broker larger contracts to secure jobs for smaller operators. The Kaihanga Collective has been formed by 15 men ...
Maori Trade Training collective 'whanaungatanga in actionScoop.co.nz (press release)

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Nga Maia Maori Midwives: opening of new national office, Hastings - New Zealand Doctor Online

Tue, 21/02/2012 - 16:58

Nga Maia Maori Midwives: opening of new national office, Hastings
New Zealand Doctor Online
I have always been proud of Nga Maia; the national coalition of Maori midwives, for your specialist focus on caring for our Maori whanau, and ensuring that our cultural and spiritual strength is drawn upon during the time of birth.
Turia heartened by increase in Maori midwivesRadio New Zealand

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Speech: Nga Maia Maori Midwives - Tariana Turia - Voxy

Tue, 21/02/2012 - 12:39

Speech: Nga Maia Maori Midwives - Tariana Turia
Voxy
I have always been proud of Nga Maia; the national coalition of Maori midwives, for your specialist focus on caring for our Maori whanau, and ensuring that our cultural and spiritual strength is drawn upon during the time of birth.
Turia heartened by increase in Maori midwivesRadio New Zealand

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Top scholar's passion is to save te reo - Manawatu Standard

Tue, 21/02/2012 - 12:11

Manawatu Standard

Top scholar's passion is to save te reo
Manawatu Standard
Palmerston North's Te Kauru Nohotima is fluent in Maori, and did not know a word of English until he was 8. Now, immersed in an English speaking school, he often finds himself thinking in Maori or yelling to his softball team-mates in Maori, ...

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Rediscovery of Maori goddesses - Taranaki Daily News

Tue, 21/02/2012 - 08:09

Rediscovery of Maori goddesses
Taranaki Daily News
As a youngster, Dr Aroha Yates- Smith began to question why the Maori gods were always male. She knew about Maui, Tangaroa and Tane Mahuta, but hadn't heard of many Maori female deities. However, she did ballet and knew about Greek goddesses as she had ...

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Maori delegation set to visit #India - TangataWhenua.com: Maori News & Views

Tue, 21/02/2012 - 08:09

TangataWhenua.com: Maori News & Views

Maori delegation set to visit #India
TangataWhenua.com: Maori News & Views
The Maori Research Institute is leading a well-represented Maori delegation to India to enhance business, cultural and educational relations between India and New Zealand from a Maori perspective. The delegation will be in India from 27 February to 11 ...

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Sharples says Maori presence at RWC has paid off - Radio New Zealand

Tue, 21/02/2012 - 07:41

3News NZ

Sharples says Maori presence at RWC has paid off
Radio New Zealand
Maori Affairs Minister Dr Pita Sharples says he pushed to have a Maori presence at the Rugby World Cup because tangata whenua did not even get a look in during the America's Cup in 2000. The Government estimates visitors to Waka Maori contributed $9 ...
Maori prisoners' children 'forgotten'Stuff.co.nz
Funding for action-focused strategy to develop Maori assetsVoxy
Prisoners' children have problems: report3News NZ
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
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Rawiri Taonui: Paul Holmes, a cheeky Pakeha? - New Zealand Herald

Tue, 21/02/2012 - 05:31

Stuff.co.nz

Rawiri Taonui: Paul Holmes, a cheeky Pakeha?
New Zealand Herald
Using that brilliance, Mr Holmes levels a staggering number of half-truths, stereotypes and inaccuracies into a 470-word tirade depicting Maori as ghastly, smug, politically neurotic, uneducated, violent child-bashing, greedy fat over-eating weirdoes ...
Anger at Holmes' Waitangi remarksStuff.co.nz
More on Holmes and the Herald | Mauistreet Blog – Morgan GodferyTangataWhenua.com: Maori News & Views

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Maori group sets up camp at Crafar farms - New Zealand Herald

Tue, 21/02/2012 - 05:30

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Maori group sets up camp at Crafar farms
New Zealand Herald
By Adam Bennett The group has hapu links with two Maori trusts who are part of the Sir Michael Fay-led consortium that wants to buy the 16 farms. Photo / Christine Cornege A group of Maori with links to a bid for 16 Crafar dairy farms yesterday staged ...
Maori trust invites Chinese bidder to "win-win" talksPeople's Daily Online
Maori reportedly occupy Crafar farmMSN NZ News
Protesting iwi occupy crafar farmTVNZ
Stuff.co.nz -3News NZ -Yahoo!Xtra New Zealand News
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Maori delegation is ready for India trip - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

Mon, 20/02/2012 - 19:58

Maori delegation is ready for India trip
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The Maori Research Institute is leading a well-represented Maori delegation to India to enhance business, cultural and educational relations between India and New Zealand from a Maori perspective. The delegation will be in India from 27 February to 11 ...

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Government fighting to curb infectious diseases - TVNZ

Mon, 20/02/2012 - 19:25

TangataWhenua.com: Maori News & Views

Government fighting to curb infectious diseases
TVNZ
Maori and Pacific peoples are more than twice as likely as the European population to be hospitalised with a serious infectious disease, according to the findings published today in the international medical journal The Lancet.
Maori face a “stark and growing inequity burden” as infectious disease increasesTangataWhenua.com: Maori News & Views
Findings on disease rate 'a disgrace'Stuff.co.nz
Wealth gap linked to rise in infectionsNew Zealand Herald
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Maori reportedly occupy Crafar farm - MSN NZ News

Mon, 20/02/2012 - 15:51

Marlborough Express

Maori reportedly occupy Crafar farm
MSN NZ News
By AAP The property in Benneydale, 35km southeast of Te Kuiti, is one of the 16 Crafar farms being contested by Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin and a New Zealand consortium led by Michael Fay. The group occupying the farm was linked to Ngati Rereahu ...
Crafar delay looms as government lawyers weigh opinionNew Zealand Herald
Iwi occupy Crafar farm in Treaty protestRadio New Zealand
Crafar Farms Court Decision Sends Out Shock WavesThe Epoch Times

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Better prevention needed in Pacific and Maori health - study - New Zealand Doctor Online

Mon, 20/02/2012 - 15:48

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Better prevention needed in Pacific and Maori health - study
New Zealand Doctor Online
Pacific and Maori people have more than twice the risk of needing hospital care for infectious disease, write Otago University researchers in the Lancet report. Rates for Pacific Islander and Maori populations are respectively 2.35 and 2.15 times ...
Government fighting to curb infectious diseasesTVNZ
Disease figures a national 'embarrassment'New Zealand Herald
Poor worst off in disease rise: researchMSN NZ News
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Maori TV to screen highlights of Chch telethon - Voxy

Mon, 20/02/2012 - 15:31

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Maori TV to screen highlights of Chch telethon
Voxy
Maori Television had offered its services to Canterbury Television to screen the service live so all New Zealanders could commemorate the anniversary of last year's devastating earthquake. However, Maori Television chief executive Jim Mather said once ...

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Funding for action-focused strategy to develop Maori assets - Voxy

Mon, 20/02/2012 - 14:36

Funding for action-focused strategy to develop Maori assets
Voxy
Bay of Connections has just attracted $70000 in funding from the Ministry of Maori Development, Te Puni K?kiri, to produce an action-focused strategy to develop Maori assets in the region. Bay of Connections is the region's economic development ...
BOP economic development to get $70k boostRadio New Zealand

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