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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Whakatipu Rawa Mā Ngā Uri Whakatipu

Short video on a research project headed by Dr. Shaun Awatere along with Craig Pauling and Maui Hudson ...

"The challenge for Māori carrying out development is to determine how to balance the drivers of a neo-liberal economic approach with the very ideals and principles that define us as Māori to ensure quality social and environmental outcomes for future generations. Through a previous NPM research project 'Whakatipu rawa mā ngā uri whakatipu' the team has developed a prototype decision-making framework for collective assets, which takes into account well-being indices, tikanga Māori and financial measures."

Whakatipu Rawa Mā Ngā Uri Whakatipu | Media Centre





A real joy working with these rangatira on research vital to the interests of Maori but also wider Aotearoa New Zealand.




Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Maori Economy updates...

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The digital world is changing the traditional business landscape, but now it's enticing Māori innovators. "DigMyIdea" is a contest that encourages Māori ...
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Hemi Rolleston, Callaghan Innovation general manager Maori economy, says the trip is a wonderful opportunity to encourage Maori children to ...
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A NEW economic report shows Gisborne has the worst regional economy in New ... amenities as “potential growth areas” for the region's future economy. ... and it's still being worked on, is for the Maori economy to work together with ...
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Friday, October 09, 2015

National Statement of Science Investment 2015–2025

The government has launched a new science strategy in its efforts to harness our national intelligences and curiousities to the yoke of economic growth.

Matauranga Maori features, as it has done for several strategic statements now, dating back to the original Vision Matauranga strategy, 'To unlock the innovation potential of Maori et cetera, et cetera...



Couple of interesting points in the latest government interpretations of Maori practices and knowledge:

Kaitiakitanga – an emerging approach to environmental management based on traditional Māori principles, concepts, values and views of the environment.


I agree Kaitiakitanga is evolving but to say it is emerging is only true in the sense that the government is increasingly willing to incorporate Kaitiakitanga into its wider environmental management strategies. The risk is that funding and state support is now open to new interpretations including the thoughts and practices of Pakeha. I say this having witnessed a dramatic increase in the numbers and seniority of Pakeha researchers appropriating VM funding and therefore assuming key roles in 'unlocking our potential'.

I remain skeptical until process and personnel our within our control...


As for Matauranga, an articulated extension in its ambit is announced:

Mātauranga Māori – is a body of knowledge first brought to New Zealand by Polynesian ancestors of present-day Māori. Mātauranga Māori can exist, and be understood and applied, at various levels, including: broadly by Māori across New Zealand; or at regional, tribal, and whānau levels. Mātauranga Māori can also include the processes for acquiring, managing, applying and transferring that body of knowledge.

Yes. In other words our cultural logics are now to be explicitly included in how knowledge held by and relevant to the Indigenous People of Aotearoa New Zealand is controlled.

Lot of battles yet to come, and perhaps the Crown is naive to the implications of this statement, but as the right to decide what is true is related to the right to decide what is just, then game on. 


PS: Interesting list of submitters

Tuesday, October 06, 2015

Suicides up (updated)


Chief Coroner Judge Deborah Marshall releases latest figures:

 Quite a big increase.

For Maori, 22 deaths by suicides per 100,000 of us, 8 more than Pakeha.



Not sure if this is a disproportionate increase for Maori (I'm betting it is...). Links to the raw data from the Coronor's website, here.

Updated: Maori stats here. Very grim reading...



Friday, October 02, 2015

Te Ture Whenau reform...

...process is screwed, natch.

Carwyn Jones notes this and more at...


Process always screwed, which is no excuse (and might be fundamental to rectifying ongoing confusiuon).

I think the key point Carwyn makes is the introduction of new terms, which I would take further and say the terms will naturally go through a period of being empty signifiers (and it might be a permanent state). 

Think of kaitiakitanga which is 'seen' (i.e., through the eyes and history of Pakeha via the courts) and can't but default to whatever iwi (authorities) say it is and manifest as what they 'do' on their own lands and waters.

Empowering devolution of internal Maori sovereignty down to hapu, marae and then whanau scales must be ultimate goal.

Doubt a reformed Act will answer that challenge.
Simon Lambert

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