Key Māori news stories for the week ending 22 June 2012
- On Monday Nga Pae o te Maramatanga (the Māori-focused Centre of Research Excellence), announced funding for six projects:
- Investigation into the fisheries resources and interests of iwi, hapū and marae within Tauranga Moana and the impacts caused by the grounding of the CV Rena (Associate Professor Paul Kayes, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi)
- Networks of support for Māori mental health: The response and recovery of Tangata Whaiora through Ōtautahi earthquakes (Dr Simon Lambert, Lincoln University, )
- Ka Awatea: An iwi case study of Maori student experiencing success (Professor Angus Macfarlane, University of Canterbury)
- Indigenous agroecology (Dr Marion Johnson, University of Otago)
- Tiakina Te Pā Harakeke: Māori childrearing within a context of whānau ora (Dr Leonie Pihama, University of Waikato)
- Aue Ha! Māori men’s relational health (Mohi Rua and Professor Darrin Hodgetts, University of Waikato)
- Humphrey Wikeepa has been appointed to the board of Network for Learning Limited, a new Crown-owned company.
- Last Wednesday an Iwi Education Authority was established, to ‘improve achievement of tamariki and mokopuna’. Twenty-three kura are reported associated with the initiative.
- A number of Māori providers have been successful in gaining contracts, (or have become preferred bidders), for the supervision and care of young beneficiaries as a part of the welfare reforms. (Refer pānui 2 March E6/2012 for details, i.e. the outsourcing and extension of the former Youth Transition Service). Māori providers includes Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Porou (Gisborne), Te Rūnanga o Turanganui a Kiwa (Gisborne), Tui Ora (Taranaki), Whai Marama (a division of Te Rūnanga o Kirikiriroa) (Hamilton), Solomon Group (Manurewa), and Ngāti Hine Health Trust (Whangarei).
- On Thursday Urs Signer and Emily Bailey (two members of the ‘Urewera Four’) were sentenced to nine months home detention for a range of firearms charges. Signer and Bailey have indicated that they will appeal their sentences.
Posted by Honoria on June 25, 2012
http://www.panui.net/2012/06/25/key-maori-news-stories-for-the-week-ending-22-june-2012/
