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Carwyn Jones: It's critical to submit on the principles bill | E-Tangata
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“It is important that there is strong and visible opposition to the bill so that it is clear to politicians that there is no political advantage in progressing it.” — Carwyn Jones.
on Sun, 8AM
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Resisting battle fatigue | E-Tangata
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“I’m not from the kōhanga generation and I do struggle with feeling like I’m good enough, Māori enough, doing enough. But I’ve learned as I get older not to let those feelings be a barrier to action.” — Aroha Gilling.
on Sun, 12AM
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'They dishonour all our ancestors' | E-Tangata
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“Grandma is too ill to make the hīkoi this year, but all her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be there in force.” — Herewini Ammunson, on why their whānau will be joining the Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti (march for Te Tiriti).
on Mon, 9PM
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Marching into history | E-Tangata
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“We didn’t know what we were getting into and how we would be received. We only knew that we had left, we were going to march, and nothing was going to put us off that.” — Tama Te Kapua Poata on the 1975 Māori Land March.
on Mon, 7PM
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Anna Coddington: Always changing | E-Tangata
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“There was a time when I felt like I was on the outside looking in longingly at the Māori music scene, wanting to be part of it but not feeling like I had the reo or the connections.” — Singer-songwriter Anna Coddington.
on Nov 17
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Hana’s haka shows up the House | E-Tangata
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“Parliament, when haka-provoked, exposed some of the tell-tale signs of its own foundational cultural system.” — Brian Tweed and Pania Te Maro.
on Nov 17
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Moana Jackson: Decolonisation and the stories in the land | E-Tangata
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“In this country, the potential exists to develop a different and unique decolonisation discourse because there are already stories which express the power of a different truth.” — Moana Jackson, from 'Imagining Decolonisation'.
on Nov 16
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The week it all erupted | E-Tangata
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“The Treaty Principles Bill may be a lame duck without National and New Zealand First’s continued support, but te iwi Māori have already stirred in a way not seen in at least 20 years.” — Jamie Tahana.
on Nov 16
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Resist US-led politics while we still can | E-Tangata
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"Let’s not allow US neo-authoritarianism to be the next in a line of hegemonic imports that we embrace without skepticism. Let’s be a bit more discerning." — Melody Nixon.
on Nov 10
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Tearing the Crown-Māori relationship apart | E-Tangata
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“The Bill would introduce new principles that have no legitimacy, and this would undermine the founding document in our constitutional arrangements, bringing into question the legitimacy of the Crown and its institutions.” — Caren Fox.
on Nov 9
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‘Parihaka has waited a long time for this day’ | E-Tangata
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On Friday, at the historic Parihaka reconciliation ceremony, the Crown finally apologised to the people of Parihaka for the actions which had burdened
on Nov 5
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'The Mob is in our pepeha' | E-Tangata
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“Our crew has adapted over time. We know that kaupapa Māori is the way to go. We’ve got fluent speakers in our club — every club has. And the Mob is in our pepeha.”— A senior Mongrel Mob member.
on Nov 4
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'If we give up now, nothing is going to change' | E-Tangata
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“What they do today won't destroy what we'll be doing tomorrow. That’s why I keep doing this work. Because if we don't exercise rangatiratanga over our health, we’re always going to be at the beck and call of successive governments.” — Lady Tureiti Moxon.
on Nov 4
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Rangiaowhia: Voices from the embers | E-Tangata
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“The handing down of this knowledge to the whānau is a taonga for our hapū and iwi. It helps shelter us from the chill of losing every inch of our land.” — Hazel Coromandel-Wander, on the kōrero passed down from her great-grandmother, a survivor of the Rangiaowhia massacre in 1864.
on Oct 29
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Living our rangatiratanga | E-Tangata
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“We don’t need to always be reacting to kāwanatanga. Our actions can be our own declaration of rangatiratanga.” — Tracy Karanui-Golf, Mahinarangi Maika, Jota Firmin, and Carwyn Jones.
on Oct 26
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‘An attack on science and good medical practice’ | E-Tangata
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“The government’s directive is not just an attack on Māori, but an attack on science and good medical practice.” — Doctors from the universities of Auckland and Otago.
on Oct 7
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Te reo is not a Pākehā asset | E-Tangata
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“Pākehā being supportive tāngata Tiriti is more than just learning a language. We have to start with untangling our sense of entitlement to all that we can access.” — Kay Benseman.
on Oct 5
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'Disconnection is part of my whakapapa' | E-Tangata
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“Every day that I haven’t taken them to their marae adds up. It builds a mountain of guilt and inertia that gets harder to cross.” — Kim Mcbreen on introducing her kids to their marae.
on Sep 29
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Echoes from Hawaiki | E-Tangata
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‘Echoes from Hawaiki’ shows that “the voices of taonga pūoro echo the even more ancient musical traditions of northerly islands, and carry faint memories and distant songs of farewell.”
on Sep 28
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Stuck in the middle with reo | E-Tangata
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“It’s filled from cover to cover with the version of te reo Māori that my cousins and I speak in the kitchen while we’re washing dishes. The words, the sentence structures, the expressions, the adulterated versions of famous whakataukī, and the jokes.” — Airana Ngarewa on his new book Ngāti Pātea.
on Sep 25
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Treaty bill plays on ignorance | E-Tangata
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“The Crown can’t legitimately hold this debate without the other parties — the hapū and iwi of Aotearoa — and they haven’t been included.” — Catherine Delahunty on the Treaty principles bill.
on Sep 15
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Common mistakes in reo Māori | E-Tangata
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“If you get too caught up on mistakes all the time, you get into analysis paralysis, where you focus so much on not messing up that it stunts your ability to speak.” — Hona Black on correcting errors in te reo Māori.
on Sep 14
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Nga wai hono i te po is 'the right woman for the job' | E-Tangata
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“She’s a wonderful, beautiful young woman and an amazing person. But I also cried for her. She’s only 27. And I thought: 'That poor young woman.' Because she’s got one hell of a job.” — Professor Tom Roa, on Te Arikinui Kuini Nga wai hono i te po.
on Sep 7
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When the wairua knows | E-Tangata
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“Lately, it’s felt like every single day there’s a new struggle to add to the list, a new fight to be had. But the kotahitanga I witnessed and felt at Tūrangawaewae gave me hope again.” — Siena Yates on attending the tangihanga for Kiingi Tuheita.
on Sep 7
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Vincent O’Malley: The origins of the Kīngitanga | E-Tangata
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“At first, some Crown officials... advocated ignoring the Kīngitanga in the hope that it would die if not given the oxygen of government attention. They had fatally underestimated the depth of Māori resolve.” — Historian Vincent O’Malley.
on Sep 7
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A Crown without principles | E-Tangata
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“The Crown, including the courts and the parliament, seized on the ‘principles’ as a device to maintain the status quo and to avoid the realities of Te Tiriti.” — Ngā Toki Whakarururanga.
on Aug 30
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Temuera Morrison: Walking in my tupuna's shoes | E-Tangata
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“It was scary stuff to walk in those shoes. I just don't think we have anywhere near the gifts and the special powers that our tūpuna had.” — Temuera Morrison, on playing his tupuna Rewi Maniapoto in the film Ka Whawhai Tonu (Struggle Without End).
on Jul 25
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Schools mustn’t wait for mandate to tackle racism | E-Tangata
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“A good place to start would be to simply admit that there is an issue of racism in our schools, and to start talking about it in our communities and at school.” — Ara Alam-Simmons.
on Jul 23
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Staying Māori in a global system | E-Tangata
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“Māori are accustomed to seeing how domestic institutions and systems impinge on our rights as tangata whenua. We must take this same lens with us when we explore the world and consider international institutions and systems.” — Rhodes scholar Rhieve Grey.
on Jul 15
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The pain of perpetual leases | E-Tangata
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The scheme is “one that many in Aotearoa are either unaware of, or have come to accept as a fact of life — an ongoing injustice that’s baked into the law books and become too hard to undo.” — Eugene Bingham on perpetual leases.
on Jul 8
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Making room for the reo | E-Tangata
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“As life got harder and more things started cropping up, it was the reo that kept being put on the back burner — something I swore I wouldn’t do.” — Siena Yates on life after full-immersion reo learning.
on Jun 14
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Jenny Lee-Morgan: Diversity is a slippery word | E-Tangata
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“Because I look Chinese and I'm told I sound like a Māori, it used to baffle people. Not as much today, but certainly when I was growing up.” — Dr Jenny Lee-Morgan.
on Jun 6
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Qiane Matata-Sipu: Our stories have the answers | E-Tangata
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“The whakaaro I share so staunchly in everything I do is: ‘You are enough. You're enough as you are, with what you have right now.’ Our stories and mātauranga tell us that.” — Qiane Matata-Sipu.
on Jun 2
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Poetry is our heritage — and our future | E-Tangata
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“When I started Anahera Press, there were a lot of Māori and Pasifika poets around, but they just weren't being published. The reason certainly wasn't anything to do with quality. It was because mainstream publishers didn’t want our kind of writing.” — Kiri Piahana-Wong, poet and publisher.
on May 27
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Tikanga Māori and the rights and obligations of free speech | E-Tangata
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Māori tikanga “provides a different way of thinking about free speech than simply an individual right. Rather, it suggests a focus on the obligations to the community that are always inherently bound up with the exercise of rights in the Māori legal order.” — Dr Carwyn Jones.
on May 5
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‘I give thanks for being Māori every day’ | E-Tangata
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“To show up in life, to be present, loving, unapologetically Māori and happy is a political statement. It pokes its tongue out at the expectations of others.” — Maungarongo Te Kawa.
on May 5
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Language imperialism is alive and well in New Zealand | E-Tangata
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“I arrived here with the baggage of ignorance, thinking that New Zealand was a white country. I spent several years living in that wilful ignorance, and I kept my head down trying to be a model minority.” — Ahmed Aziz.
on Apr 22
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Be very careful what you wish for, Mr Seymour | E-Tangata
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“The Treaty principles bill is highly radical. Act essentially don't agree with the slow, steady, progressive way the law has evolved in New Zealand.” — Matthew Hooton.
on Apr 6
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Spying on our Pacific ‘family’ | E-Tangata
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“We can’t claim to be a trusted partner when we spy on our Pacific family on behalf of others. We also can’t claim to have an independent foreign policy when outside interests operate within our spy agency.” — Dr Marco de Jong.
on Mar 31
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How do we face this moment, and not turn away? | E-Tangata
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“I realise that I’m looking for an action that will feel as effective, as true to who I am as becoming vegan. Action driven by what I feel when I watch coverage from inside Gaza: a feeling of incineration, of urgent helplessness.” — Simone Kaho.
on Mar 30
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Treaty Principles Bill: Painting over Te Tiriti | E-Tangata
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Act’s proposed Treaty principles “contain barely an echo of the actual terms and conditions of Te Tiriti. They don’t even mention Māori.” — Melanie Nelson.
on Mar 21
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We go to more tangi | E-Tangata
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“We start losing our loved ones earlier than our tangata Tiriti peers. We go to more tangi. We are less likely to experience being the ‘sandwich generation’ who raise their own children and moko while also caring for elderly parents.” — Tui MacDonald.
on Mar 17
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Siding with the US sells out our Pacific family | E-Tangata
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“Pacific nations can see the step-change in the way New Zealand is conducting its foreign policy. The shift away from an independent, nuclear-free and Pacific-led foreign policy towards the adoption of a US-led, Indo-Pacific strategy is clear. Our actions in Yemen confirm it.” — Dr Marco de Jong.
on Feb 11
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New Zealander of the Year | E-Tangata
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“My reo journey is one of constant conflict. There are times when the reo just flows out of me, from a place that I believe lies somewhere both within and beyond myself. Then there are times I can’t even string a basic sentence together.” — Tīhema Baker.
on Feb 11
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I have an idea for a referendum, too | E-Tangata
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“The time has come for us to have a referendum on whether the people of Epsom should be allowed to have an electorate MP.” — Carwyn Jones.
on Feb 10
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Joanna Kidman: Standing for peace in an angry world | E-Tangata
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“If we stop talking about peace — and peace is not simply the absence of conflict — if we take it off the agenda altogether, then the only option left is war without end.” — Professor Joanna Kidman.
on Dec 24
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The great leap backwards | E-Tangata
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“The challenge to tangata Tiriti is what we’ll do to support a fightback led by tangata whenua. Will Pākehā, in particular, be prepared to march in solidarity with tangata whenua and all people directly affected by the neo-racist political programme?” — Catherine Delahunty.
on Dec 20
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Margaret Mutu: The coalition agreements are a catalyst for Māori | E-Tangata
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“I look at all the examples around the country of the strides and changes we’ve made. And suddenly this government wants to take it all away? Nah. It's not going to happen. Because our people are already on the journey, and they're not about to be stopped.” — Professor Margaret Mutu.
on Dec 9
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A culture war? Te ao Māori is ready | E-Tangata
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“An excessive number of items on the coalition’s list buy a culture war that Pākehā New Zealand isn’t ready for. Believe me when I say that te ao Māori is prepared.” — Deb Te Kawa.
on Dec 2
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Why Act's Treaty referendum is disrespectful and arrogant | E-Tangata
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“I agree with Helen Clark that it would ‘rip us down the middle’, and with Jim Bolger that it’s a ‘bloody stupid’ idea.” — Dame Anne Salmond on Act’s proposed Treaty referendum.
on Nov 18, 2023