Waatea English News 2012

Providing news bulletins from a Māori perspective, Waatea English News features 12 daily news bulletins highlighting Maori Current Events featuring around New Zealand 

2012

May

Business group to oversee welfare reform

Thursday, 17 May 2012

Ngati Ruanui chief executive Debbie Packer has been appointed to a controversial new board that will oversee a new investment approach to welfare.... More»»

Greens’ static view irks developer Jones

Thursday, 17 May 2012

Labour’s regional development spokesperson says the Green Party and its fellow travellers in the Mana Party are selling Maori people down the creek with their anti-development agenda.... More»»

Maori Party celebrates warmer houses

Thursday, 17 May 2012

The Maori Party is celebrating the 150,000th home to be retrofitted with insulation as part of the Government’s Warm Up New Zealand programme.... More»»

Apathy over Wairoa Maori ward

Thursday, 17 May 2012

There has been a low turn-out in the poll to determine whether Wairoa will have dedicated Maori seats.... More»»

Ngapuhi encouraging council participation

Thursday, 17 May 2012

Meanwhile, Ngapuhi is trying to encourage more Maori to participate in local government in its rohe.... More»»

Green cost asset sale loss

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Greens co-leader Russell Norman says the Government’s asset sales will leave the Government at least $100 million a year worse off.... More»»

Ngati Porou looking to double forests

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Ngati Porou Forests has signed a memorandum of understanding with Korea Green Promotion Agency which could lead to another 10,000 hectares of Maori land on the East Coast being planted in forest.... More»»

Community role in suicide prevention plan

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne wants to see Maori communities having more say in Maori suicide prevention.... More»»

Kingitanga day time for reflection at university

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

It’s Kingitanga Day at Waikato University, when students and the community are given a chance to reflect on the contribution of tangata whenua to the institution and the country.... More»»

Sound base for Ririki to move ahead

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

The new chair of Te Mana Ririki Trust says her predecessor left her with as solid foundation for the fight against Maori abuse and violence towards children.... More»»

Greens see no benefit for Maori in asset sales

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

The Greens are dismissive of the idea that Maori could benefit from the sale of shares in state assets.les ... More»»

Class sizes to increase

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Education sector unions say Budget changes in the education vote will have a negative effect on the bottom 20 percent of primary school students, which includes a disproportionate number of Maori.... More»»

Indigenous representation a cause for hope

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Hauraki Waikato MP Nanaia Mahuta says the contribution Maori have made to the political life of the country needs to be celebrated.... More»»

Pressure growing on asset sales

Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Hauraki-Waikato MP Nanaia Mahuta says iwi need to up the pressure on the Government over the sale of shares in the state-owned power generators.... More»»

Kingitanga day symposium looks at treaty

Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Constitutional change is on the agenda for this year’s Kingitanga Day at Waikato University.... More»»

Tauranga hapu help in wetland restoration

Tuesday, 15 May 2012

A previously inaccessible island has been opened up by a restoration project in a Tauranga wetland.... More»»

Scott hopes Tuhoe will get architectural treasure

Tuesday, 15 May 2012

The son of architect John Scott hopes the visitors centre his father built at Aniwaniwa on the shores of Lake Waikaremoana ends up in Tuhoe hands.... More»»

Benefit baby ploy cynical politics

Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Greens co-leader Russell Norman says National’s plan to have WINZ workers offering free contraception to beneficiaries is politics, not policy.... More»»

Kuni Jenkins to chair Te Mana Ririki Trust

Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Educationalist Kuni Jenkins has been appointed to chair Maori anti child abuse advocacy group Ririki.... More»»

Raukawa signs Waikato clean-up deal

Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Waikato tribe Ngati Raukawa has signed a joint management agreement with the Waikato Regional Council to co-manage that part of the Waikato River catchment in its rohe.... More»»

Leonard weaving links with North America

Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Te Arawa artist Karl Leonard has a full schedule this northern summer.... More»»

No mystery left in Urewera case

Monday, 14 May 2012

The lawyer for Tuhoe advocate Tame Iti says there is no big untold story about what was really going on in camps in Te Urewera in 2006 and 2007.... More»»

Donna Awatere blocked from trust role

Monday, 14 May 2012

running a Ngati Kahungunu land trust... More»»

Maori tourism slips off state radar

Monday, 14 May 2012

Labour’s tourism spokesman says National is failing to support the growth of the Maori tourism sector.... More»»

Kamo dig finds 800-year-old fires

Monday, 14 May 2012

Archaeologists working on the Kamo bypass north of Whangarei have identified a site that could have been occupied by some of the earliest Polynesian settlers.... More»»

Push for Waikaremoana whare to get historic status

Monday, 14 May 2012

The Historic Places Trust is calling for submissions on whether the former Te Urewera National Park Visitor Centre, should be given a Category 1 registration.... More»»

AIDs Foundations failing Maori

Monday, 14 May 2012

A leading Maori public health specialist has slammed the AIDS Foundation for its criticism of a Whangarei Maori preschool which suspended a student with HIV.... More»»

Kaikohe kura expansion lesson in bungling

Monday, 14 May 2012

The Education Ministry had changes the way school projects are managed because of a bungled expansion of Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Kaikohe.... More»»

Suicides spark community assessment

Monday, 14 May 2012

Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia believes Maori communities need to develop responses to an epidemic of suicide.... More»»

Tuwharetoa challenge not to be taken lightly

Friday, 11 May 2012

Labour’s Maori affairs spokesperson says Prime Minister John Key would be unwise to dismiss the threat Ngati Tuwharetoa represents to his asset sales programme.... More»»

 
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