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Editorial

For me, the cover caption Thinking Ahead refl ects more than an optimism of youth in this

edition, it’s also relief that we survived another era in this economically-challenged climate.

The Christchurch earthquake in February was an ominous sign of things to come. What a hell of a year for the people of Canterbury and the Pike Riving Mining community whose pain will linger, as their valiant effort to retrieve lost loved ones continues.

The Rugby World Cup was a highlight and certainly delivered as the biggest party this country has ever seen, but it left most people directly involved completely depleted. Our zealous Kiwi #8 wire attitude is probably to blame, alongside an earnest pride to show off to the world. We proudly pulled out all stops and were suitably rewarded with the big kahuna trophy. I think the poor turnout at the triennial election that followed the effervescence of RWC could hardly muster national interest, let alone responsible citizen voting, because patriotic unity was mostly spent.

Juggling publishing deadlines and organising fashion shows in O-eleven posed challenges not anticipated in the best of our planning strategies. Likewise, budgets and their tendency to blow out despite ridiculous tight wire carefulness can fl oor organisers and zap enthusiasm.

Our RWC experience alone racked up a huge invoice for human input that is both diffi cult to equate in dollars and impossible to ever claim for. Calling in favours or acknowledging the value of Koha in the wider sense is sadly not recognised as tangible in the world of mainstream bureaucracy. Their processes are not only discouraging, but also dangerous. If unique NZ cultural experiences were readily available, they wouldn’t be unique, so those sitting on government coffers should realise there is more risk in being conservative, than loosening the purse strings.

Being sandwiched between two bits of glass under a microscope for the cocktail of Māori initiatives using taxpayers dollars can be a cruel and off-putting experience. What’s worse, key Māori in decision making positions of government agencies display a similar overcaution. A classic example of diminishing the ‘reaching for the stars aspiration’ was when, in reference to a request to support young Māori fashion designers, I was advised “…your people should learn to walk before they consider taking on a marathon.” What The Heck!

Well Newsfl ash – there’s some smart toddlers moving in the right direction in this edition who will quash (if they haven’t already) the middle-aged, brown, mediocre hum drum of iwi trusts, corporate, public sector and politically safe clones … Thank God.

See ya in 2012!

Lani Lopez Lani has a passion for natural health; she graduated as a Naturopath with an Advanced Diploma in Natural Medicine (South Pacifi c College of Natural Therapeutics) and gained a BHSc (Health Science degree) from Charles Stuart University, Sydney.

James Johnston (Ngāti Porou)

James is Chariman of Partners and heads the Commercial Team of Rainey Collins Lawyers. James has been a Partner since January 1994 and is former Chair of the New Zealand Law Foundation.

Dr Riri Ellis (Tauranga)Terina Cowan (Wellington)Montess Hughes (Wellington)

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Renee is a former editor of an iwi magazine, a journalist for TU MAI, a reporter for The New Zealand Herald, the Taranaki Daily News, and media liaison for a Treaty negotiations group representative of 13 affi liate iwi and hapu, as well as, a former press secretary, media and communications advisor in Parliament. Renee has recently established her own communications company and isTU MAI’s new Deputy Editor.

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Letter to the Editor

Responses to the issue of Māori representation suggest some deeply rooted fear amongst opponents.

Early this month, it was reported that the Whangarei District Council voted against Māori seats. Over the past month councils around the country have voted similarly except for Waikato Regional and Nelson City Councils.

In a Gisborne Herald column (16 Nov) Gisborne District Councillor, Manu Caddie addressed the most common concerns in relation to Māori wards. Gisborne District Council and all local authorities around the country would do well to engage in more informed and meaningful dialogue around this issue. Robust conversations among communities, iwi leaders, hapū members and councils would result in better understanding of what Māori wards could deliver.

One example of where better Māori representation could benefi t everyone is in the area of wastewater and sewerage. Currently around the country Māori groups (often alongside Pākehā groups) are fi ghting to uphold their responsibilities as guardians over natural resources. Hapū are concerned with the long-term well being of rivers, lakes and harbours.

Accountability to whānau requires hapū to protect that resource as a taonga, a source of food and spiritual nourishment. Yet hapū are battling short term planning that often favours cost cutting and ‘developers’. At the core of these struggles is a reluctance to share power. There is a refusal to acknowledge expertise held by local Māori over hundreds of years of care for that resource. There have been ‘economic’ wastewater decisions ma de over 30 years ago that have done nothing but explode wider costs by ruining waters and ecosystems, eventually ending up in expensive litigation. Having proper hapū representation at the decision table 30 years ago may well have saved the natural resource and public fi nances. This would have been good for ALL of the community.

A letter to the editor in The Star (Dunedin) from Peter Aitken refers to Māori representation as ‘racist’. He further aligns the concept of Māori wards to the oppressive regime of South African apartheid. That apartheid system treated black people as subservient on the principle that they were lesser human beings.

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Why the fear of Māori representation?

In fact through the ongoing denial of human rights, inhumane denigration, disgusting humiliation and outright murder, black people were treated as barely human at all. Affi rming Māori rights in relation to natural resources guaranteed by the Treaty of Waitangi will not diminish any human rights for non-Māori. Māori representation will not subjugate non-Māori as lesser human beings. It does not deny non-Māori their dignity and existence, nor exclude their active participation in decision-making.

Another fl awed line is that Māori should reject ‘special treatment’ as patronising. It is that argument in itself which is patronising. It comes from a level of ignorance and prejudice that uses the term ‘special treatment’ in the fi rst place. The issue is instead about rectifying the systemic structures that have denied Māori having real input into resource management issues that they have always been entitled to under the Treaty.

The current democratic process has failed to deliver Māori representation. Whatever the arguments, we are still left with the fact that Māori are not recognised as sovereign stakeholders. This sovereignty was guaranteed under the Whakaputanga Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Waitangi and endorsed in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It is the basis upon which Tangata Whenua agreed to welcome other peoples to our lands.

Whatever the model, it is Māori upholding their rights and responsibilities as hosts of this land which has to be the outcome. Māori representation is not an outcome in itself.

Māori cultural values and worldviews offer this country a rich source for planning and development. At the heart of these values are notions of kaitiaki and manaaki – to look after, care for, and treat with respect. Those are the endeavours of tino rangatiratanga/sovereignty and sustainable economic development.

Those opponents of Māori representation need to come to an understanding that at the heart of the Treaty – is not what you think it is.

Marama Davidson (Te Rarawa/Ngāpuhi/Ngāti Porou)


Not long ago Benji Marshall was contemplating life on the rugby league scrapheap. Multiple shoulder operations had taken their

toll, but the Wests Tigers and Kiwis superstar is yet to meet a challenge worth giving in to.

This book traces the story of the Kiwis’ captain from his early years growing up with his extended family in small-town New Zealand, to his move to a rugby league school on the Gold Coast. Interviews and insights from teammates, coaches and the player himself track Benji’s NRL career from his debut as a teenager in 2003 through to the Grand Final success of 2005 and on to the heartbreak of the Tigers’ 2010 fi nals football experience.

This is also the story of Marshall’s unwavering loyalty to the famous black jersey. Limited early test appearances changed in 2008, with Stephen Kearney and Wayne Bennett taking charge of the Kiwis and masterminding the side’s World Cup challenge. Marshall was one of the stars of the tournament, as the Kiwis registered a famous victory in the fi nal against the heavily favoured Kangaroos. And that was just the start.

This is a must-read for anyone wanting to be entertained and motivated by the story of the kid from Whakatane who looked adversity in the eye and – on more than one occasion – kicked it into touch to become the offi cial pin-up boy of the NRL.

This is the tenth in the ‘Tribute’ series. Previous titles celebrate Don Clarke (written by Richard Becht), and Tana Umaga, Andrew Mehrtens, Robbie Deans, Buck Shelford, Scott Dixon, Richie McCaw, Daniel Carter and Sonny Bill Williams, written by acclaimed award-winning sports writer John Matheson. ■

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Rena's Shortcut to Disasterlearning from the oil spill

By Dr Riri Ellis

Two months have passed since the container ship Rena grounded to a halt on the Otaiti (Astrolabe)

Reef in the early hours of Tuesday morning, 5 October 2011. Rena is technically a Flag of Convenience (FoC) vessel, Greek-owned and registered in Liberia. What should have been a routine trip from Napier through to the Port of Tauranga in Mount Maunganui ended in a disaster.

Maritime NZ, through the Minister of Transport, is empowered to remedy the grounding by way of protocols for these types of incidents; but things went from bad to worse, and within less than a week of grounding the vessel’s hull was breached and copious amounts of oil began leaking into the sea.

Something of this scale had never seen before by tangata whenua and the wider community of the idyllic Bay of Plenty coastline. Indeed the country had never witnessed an oil spill of this devastation.

And if news of leaking oil wasn’t appalling enough, the situation quickly worsened when 88 containers found their way overboard : 30 washed ashore and 58 are unaccounted for. Efforts to save and protect wildlife were immediately put in place as were salvage operations and volunteer clean up teams.

Following the Rena grounding, no one would have predicted another cargo ship Schelde Trader would lose power and crash into the side of Mauao Island, and that two Gray’s beaked whales would be washed ashore at Papamoa Beach within a day of each other.

Local Tauranga Moana iwi, already alarmed and coming to grips with the consequences of an oil spill and it’s impact on their environment, converted spiritual speculation into a fi rmer belief “that the world was going crazy”, that “no one was looking down from the heavens

and taking care”, and without doubt, “one or more men had faulted on a grand scale”.

As a fi rst for New Zealand, it took some time for people to muster the strength to understand and overcome the emotional trauma the oil catastrophe caused. However the nation was keen to seek answers about how this event had occurred and who was responsible.

The fault fi nally emerged, albeit unoffi cially. The all-too-human error of taking a ‘shortcut’ – an ill informed decision that grounded a ship on a reef.

For whanau, living on Motiti Island close to the grounded ship and those iwi and hapu most impacted by the grounding at Matakana Island, Mount Maunganui, Papamoa and Maketu, seeking answers and fi nding solutions proved challenging and frustrating.

Ngai Te Rangi Chairperson, Charlie Tawhiao took a lead role, given his iwi’s direct impact from the incident, “…our people are hurting, my own Matakana Island whanau were devastated by what had occurred. It was only a matter of time before our people starting demanding answers and calling people to account.”

Betty Dickson, Motiti Island Liaison person said, “You couldn’t imagine the pain that was being felt by our whanau on the island; no offi cial had even bothered to make contact with us in the early stages of the disaster. It wasn’t until the iwi demanded to be bought into the loop that we started getting some answers.”

Maritime New Zealand protocols are quite strict on these issues, not only do they have overarching powers regarding these types of disasters, they are not required to include any regional or local council input into the process, let alone iwi.


Getting answers and being included in the decision making process required some fi rm negotiations. Shortly after the grounding occurred iwi representatives insisted on being involved.

Those negotiations occurred 10 October 2011 at Waikari Marae, Matapihi, Tauranga where Catherine Taylor, Chief Executive Offi cer of Maritime NZ addressed a full room of concerned whanau and hapu. After extensive deliberations, the offer of one iwi liaison person sitting within the Maritime NZ operations centre was turned down, instead two positions were requested – one specifi cally for the iwi and the other for the Motiti Island whanau. Two positions were accepted.

That decision was ground-breaking and since then input by locals has occurred in several areas including volunteer coordination, environmental monitoring, environmental assessments, logistics and iwi liaison coordination.

However, another series of questions emerged regarding normal practice with these types of disasters. One would expect, a normal practice to include iwi at the table.

Over the Kaimai ranges and southwest to Rotorua lie the Te Arawa Lakes, which have been returned to iwi. Co-governance arrangements between central government offi cials and iwi are commonplace around the country and the Waikato River is now positioned within a signifi cant co-governance framework of management whereby iwi have a say on matters that are important to them. The Rena/Tauranga Moana situation should’ve been no different; iwi should not have been required to insist on this type of recognition.

The core message from iwi representatives in Tauranga is to ensure that exclusion of iwi representation at the table never happens again. Antoine Coffi n, Chairperson for Ngati Ranginui told TU MAI,

“Our people must be at the decision making table when our moana is at risk; it is a disappointment that this did not occur initially. Ensuring that iwi are at the table and that protocols and procedures are in place to make that occur is a priority for not only, Tauranga Moana iwi, but also for all of the iwi along the Te Moana a Toi [Bay of Plenty] coastline.”

Adding, “We want other iwi around the country to learn from our lessons and ensure their kainga and pataka kai are well protected from these types of disasters. We want to ensure that legislation is changed to make this an expectation as opposed to a ‘wish’. That change is an absolute must.” ■

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Hemi Rolleston (42) is a likable character who shoots

from the hip. What he lacks in fi nesse simply doesn’t

count, he’s got runs on the board and is the epitome of

combining focus, best use of Māori land, know how and

an openness to non-Māori partnerships to create wealth

and opportunities for his people.

Rolleston is buoyed by those before him – like Chairman

of Directors, Dixon Wright, who in 1985 proudly claimed,

“Te Awanui Hukapak is a 100% owned Māori commercial

enterprise based on the ohu and mahitahi principles of

old and making use of the natural rhythm to launch its

concepts. It is now a living reality.”

Going global was always a logical move and to date

strong relationships have been built with Malaysia and

Japan. Rolleston says the Kiwifruit Industry has been

good to Te Awanui, it is a strong and exciting model but

the industry does face major challenges and that is the

nature of the kiwifruit industry.

“The Māori business model of long term

intergenerational, collectivity/collaboration,

diversifi cation and risk averse with strong leadership and

entrepreneurship will see us through this and we will be

bigger, better and stronger from this.”

He demonstrated his ability to rally his troops under

pressing conditions when he organised a group

photograph of no less than 57 whanau members, as a

record of the Mataatua hosting of the 2011 FoMA Annual

Conference in Tauranga. ■

Mataatua hosts


It is said that in 1931, the late Sir Apirana Ngata, prominent lawyer and possibly the foremost Māori

politician to have ever served in parliament, collaborated with Lord Bledisloe, New Zealand’s then Governor-General, to establish two trophies of which one would recognise the sporting relationship with Australia, and the other Māori excellence in Farming.

The most handsome silver trophies took pride of place at the main stage at the recent FOMA conference in Tauranga.

Since its inception, the Bledisloe Cup – the largest in world rugby has travelled back and forth across the Tasman and contested for over 100 test matches. While New Zealand has recorded the most wins, since the introduction of the Tri-Nations in 1996, the proud holders of the trophy has been more evenly spread.

The 1933 inaugural winner of the Ahuwhenua Trophy for excellence in Māori dairy farming competition was William Swinton, from Raukokore near Waihau Bay. In 1940 Mrs Tatai Hall of Te Teko became the fi rst woman to win the competition and, in 1990/91, Rotorua’s Parekarangi Trust became the fi rst trust or incorporation to take out the honours.

Since the competition was revived in 2003, it has alternated between beef and sheep farms and dairy farms. In 2012, entrants will compete for the Ahuwhenua Trophy for excellence in Māori dairy farming.

Agriculture Industry Training Organisation (AgITO) is one of four silver sponsors of the award that values the historic competition for its unique role in encouraging Māori farmers to make the best, sustainable use of their resources to build strong agribusinesses which

provide good returns to shareholders, as well as long term employment and other economic benefi ts for New Zealanders of all backgrounds.

“Entrants all receive robust, objective and honest feedback from the judges. This allows them to implement changes and improve their performance regardless of whether or not they are chosen as fi nalists,” says AgITO’s Strategic Relations Manager, Peter MacGregor.

BNZ Head of Agribusiness, Richard Bowman, believes the dairy business is doing a great job of fuelling the global economy with a strong showing in emerging economies like India.

“Dairy farming is a huge part of this country’s heritage. The dairy sector is the life-blood of New Zealand’s agricultural sector, and at BNZ we are proud to again sponsor the Ahuwhenua Trophy Māori Excellence in Farming competition,” says Bowman, who believes competitors often see tangible benefi ts from entering within a few short months.

Alongside BNZ as the Platinum Sponsor for the Award, Gold sponsors are Fonterra, DairyNZ, and Te Puni Kokiri. Silver sponsors are AgResearch, AgITO, PGG Wrightson and Ballance Agri-Nutrients and Bronze sponsors are MAF, AFFCO, BDO, Māori Trustee, LIC and Re:Gen. Sponsor support will also be supplied by Tohu Wines, Landcorp, Ecolab and FoMA. Entries for this historic and prestigious competition close on Friday, 27 January 2012.

The winner of the competition will be announced at a Gala Awards dinner to be held at the SKYCITY Auckland Convention Centre on 8 June 2012. ■

Impressive

silverware

Pic : FOMA Chair Traci Houpapa with the Bledisloe and

Ahuwhenua trophies

Calling ALL Maori Dairy Farmers and Friends and Whanau of our Maori Dairy Farmers

SPONSORSHIP SUPPORT HAS ALSO BEEN PROVIDED BY LANDCORP, FEDERATION OF MAORI AUTHORITIES, ECOLAB AND TOHU WINES.

We acknowledge our partnership with TeTari Mahi (Department of Labour) and ACC to promote safety on farms

Entering has great benefit for all competitors whether they make the finals or not.Entrants receive:

THE PRIZESThe three finalists receive:

The winner receives:

Entry is free

This year it’s the turn of Māori Dairy farmers to accept the challenge and test themselves against some of the best dairy farmers in Aotearoa.

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Waipapa 9 Trust Chair, Dawson

Haa, holds the Dairy Trophy aloft

on winning the 2010 competition

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

benefits of entering the the

“Entering the Ahuwhenua Trophy competition was an extremely valuable exercise. The outside audit by experienced and highly qualified judges showed us what we were doing well and where we could improve.” – Waipapa 9 Farm supervisor, Bob Cottrell. Waipapa 9 Trust currently holds both the Dairy and Sheep and Beef Trophies.

“Growing and looking after people is as much a part of good business as governance and financial management. ....and the opportunity to help other farmers is just one of the wonderful offshoots of winning this competition.” – Kristen Nikora. Kristin and her husband Dean were the 2008 winners of the Ahuwhenua Dairy competition.

“Yes, entering the competition is a commitment. There are extra man-hours and a bit of paper work around it but for us, that effort has translated into dollars and cents.” – Ingrid Collins chair of Whangara Farms, the winner of the 2009 Ahuwhenua Sheep and Beef competition.


Place for small trusts

in Māori Economy

Representing a 21-hectare Māori land block in Te Tai Tokerau, Maata Matiu (66) travelled more than 300

kms on her 1989 Toyota Corolla hatchback to get to the recent Federation of Māori Authorities (FoMA) national conference in Tauranga.

“I’m on a mission to get ideas and meet Māori business movers and shakers.” Maata Matiu explained that she and her four fellow trustees want to see how they can turn their scrub-covered land into something meaningful for their 30 shareholders.

Maata’s lands trust had enough money to pay her $600 registration but, with much humility, she admits petrol costs were covered by her superannuation savings because the trust simply doesn’t have enough money for that, and she is passionate about seeing the land developed.

“I have three mokopuna, who I have never met, living in Perth and I know that to get them home means getting their parents jobs here.”

Despite some of her relatives quipping, “She’s away with the fairies,” Maata adamantly marches on – seeking a way to beckon her whanau home. But the journey won’t be easy for either party with trends showing the Māori exodus to Australia continues to grow. Determined to see her whanau, specifi cally her grandchildren, home means Maata’s going to give it her best shot and believes a step in the right direction is making the trust land, albeit small in comparison, productive.

At the 400-strong conference, she’s feeling a little out of her depth sitting amongst those she sees as ‘big wigs’, like Parininihi ki Waitotara Incorporation, Taranaki’s largest dairy supplier to dairy giant Fonterra. Then there’s the central plateau Waipapa 9 Trust boasting

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6,537 hectares of land. Farming is the core business, but forestry and commercial property is also part of the portfolio. Overall, that trust has $92 million of net assets and is governed by a board of six trustees on behalf of 1225 owners.

It maybe a far cry from Maata’s modest piece of grass up north, but she’s aware there are Māori-focused executives, with no less than fi ve key banking institutions, here to make contacts and increase their profi le in the Māori business community. So everyone, including her, has an agenda of some sort.

“I’ve only been here for a few hours and already my kete is packed with 20-something business cards. I’m actually feeling a little humbled because I have to write my details down on a piece of paper.”

What Maata doesn’t realise is that outside the ‘big wigs’, trusts like hers make up a signifi cant percentage of the Māori assets pie, which Business and Economic Research Limited (BERL) has estimated to be valued at $37 billion. The fi ve-foot tall, delicate-looking Maata belies her keen thirst to take on board whatever is being presented at the corporate-run conference.

“That John Allen [Chief Executive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade] said Māori, Pakeha and everyone else in this country must unite to secure a place for our nation in the global economy. I agree with him but many Pakeha in this country need to get over themselves and get to know us Māori on the other side of the paddock. Some Māori also need to learn to cross that paddock as well.”

Asked what she thought about the speech from Ganesh Nana, one of the country’s top economists, Maata appreciated his frankness.


“Some of the people at my table thought he was a bit harsh when he said we needed to ‘export or die’ but I agree with him. There is nothing growing on my land; there’s no work for the local families, so they’ve moved elsewhere. As a result, many parts of our culture are dying, so this is how I know that Ganesh isn’t scaremongering when he says that. Like it or not, it is true.”

She also drew strength from learning that global trends point to the emergence of smaller nations as new the economic leaders. “It was also refreshing hearing from Ganesh that other brown people in the world are doing really well. Who ever thought that the people of Asia would rise up to dominate the world markets? I always thought it would be the US and Europe, but it seems their dynasties are fast falling.”

By day two, Maata identifi es a soil scientist, a banker and a broadband expert among the attendees. Her goal is to talk with each of them and get their contact details, so she can “stalk” them in the future. “I need a soil scientist to tell me what our land would be good to grow – on a mass production basis; a banker to help us secure some capital; and a broadband expert to put some more bloody grunt into my internet.”

Armed with her paper-packed kete conference pack, the feisty 66-year-old pursues all three and manages to get their contact details to follow up with them after the conference. Her strategy is working as planned.

Day three the fi nal day of the conference arrives and kuia Maata is back, looking at who else among the hundreds she can connect with. “I hear there’s a Māori here who started as a grocery stacker at Pak ’n Save and now owns the New World supermarket on Auckland’s Viaduct. I think he’ll be a good role model for a lot of the Māori boys in my whanau, so I’m going to try talk with him today, but if not, then I might call into see him next time I am in Auckland.”

As the conference draws to a close, kuia Maata decides to leave a little early as she has a long drive ahead of her. “The fi rst thing I’ll be doing when I get back home is fi nding some funds to get soil tests done on our land. My dream isn’t to get rich. I just want my mokopuna back home.”

Asked if she’ll be back at next year’s FoMA conference. “Of course, but I’ll try to fl y down next time, Dear.” ■


Taupo Nui a Tia –

the hearth

There aren’t many women who can boast that they were instrumental in the return of their ancestral lake

from the Crown – or that they survived a power-heavy political league of boys’ clubs (Māori and Pakeha) in one of the country’s most redneck fraternities. There was also the occasion where she was responsible for making the American Air Force One aircraft circle the airport because of cultural correctness. And there are few women, Māori or otherwise, who bring her poise, humility and grace into a room.

Georgina te Heuheu (Tuwharetoa, Tuhoe, Te Arawa and Ngati Awa) attended the Victoria University and was the fi rst Māori woman to gain a law degree and be admitted to the High Court as Barrister and Solicitor. She practised law before entering parliament.

As Georgina Manunui te Heuheu stood to deliver one of her fi nal speeches as an MP to a 400-plus audience at a Māori business conference in Tauranga recently, some of her kinfolk candidly admitted they assumed her delivery would have the pre-election, monotoned, pedestrian approach usual to so many politicians.

Whanau candidness can be cutting; some of her homefolk muttered comments about a long night, or suggested standing early to sing her waiata and getting another wine for what they anticipated would be a long, lacklustre speech.

Long serving, loyal National Party lister Georgina te Heuheu has fallen out

of love with politics and in love with her new mokopuna. Renee Ritete takes

a look at the soon-to-be retired MP’s time in parliament, including her

fi nal speech – delivered just before the nation took to the polling booths.

They could not have been more mistaken as the typically well-dressed, seasoned politician gets going. It’s clear her impending retirement means she is relaxed (no doubt relieved); she is funny, frank and has her audience hanging on every word.

“For 15 years I have had two families – the home family of Tuwharetoa and the family of National Party. The fi rst family have, of course, without reservation supported the need for me to be here, even when the second family has from time to time, I suspect, harboured doubts.”

Whatever was fuelling te Heuheu’s eloquence, the soon-to-be retired 68-year-old MP even shared some caucus secrets – the type of talk at high-powered political party meetings where what’s said in the room, (usually) stays in the room.

“On my fi rst day in Parliament I bumped into New Zealand First MP John Delamere. We exchanged the hongi and then, like two excited kids, we hugged each other.

“The next day in my fi rst caucus, a former colleague said, ‘I saw you hugging the Opposition.’ When I realised what he was referring to, I said, ‘He’s a relative!’ Back came the retort: ‘He’s the enemy!’ I considered that – but only for a second – and replied, ‘The enemy he might be, but he’s a relative and I’ll hug him when I like.’ Welcome to the world of politics!”


But Minister te Heuheu’s hongi with Delamere wasn’t the only nose-pressed highlight of her in time in the corridors of power. At the 1999 APEC conference, she sent the then US President Bill Clinton and his Air Force One waka into a yoyo ride around Auckland Airport.

“While waiting with the offi cial party dressed in our korowai, I asked my two colleagues, ‘Do you think we should hongi the President?’ They agreed. “At that point I alerted Ambassador Beeman who gave me a startled look and said, ‘Just wait a minute. I’ll need to alert the President’s security on Air Force One.’ – which at that moment was getting ready to land. “As he radioed Air Force One to alert the President’s security of our intention, we noticed the plane was doing another circle over the airport. Within minutes Ambassador Beeman came back and said ‘That’s fi ne, but it was important that we let them know because we don’t want any security people suddenly jumping on you guys when you approach the President.’” The sauvignon blanc fetched by the minister’s six kinfolk earlier in the night hasn’t even reached half-way point as she switches from talking about hongi moments to the more serious side of politics, cultural duty and the state being too much of a control freak when it comes to Māori land.

“I fi nd that, 15 years on, the need to build bridges to enhance understanding, to grow relationships, and to forge and maintain economic and political alliances is even more critical than when I came in, given our country’s increasing diversity and the need to reconcile seemingly competing interests.

“I was raised in the backblocks of Tūwharetoa in the middle of the North Island, observing leaders who were committed to the principle of autonomy in all matters. “By our position as tangata whenua, Māori are born into politics …. My upbringing revolved very much round notions of independence, and included a responsibility to contribute to the common cause – the greater good. “My father-in-law, the late Sir Hepi te Heuheu, put it this way : ‘You’re a lawyer, I think you need to go and give them a hand.’”

“Going forward there will be a need to review the Māori Land Court’s role in the administration of Māori land. I think there are no businesses in the country that are so constrained by external control …. Enterprising measures will eventually be developed to replace the outworn system of the Māori Land Court, so that Māori enterprise can blossom.”

In the minister’s 2000+ word-speech, there’s not one mention of her unhappiest time in parliament. And if the absence of any talk about ex-National Party leader Don Brash, who stripped her of the Party’s Māori affairs portfolio after she criticised his polarising Orewa speech in 2004, indicates anything, it is that he doesn’t actually mean anything to her, which shouldn’t surprise anyone.

She did however talk at length about the times that made it worth her while being away from her husband Timi and two sons Tuirirangi and Manunui, who live near the serene shores of Lake Taupo.

“The opportunity to work alongside the Māori Party members has been one of the highlights of my time in the House. I began quietly building a bridge with them when they fi rst arrived.

“It fi ts our Māori way, not least because many of us share kinship ties. For as many years as I can remember, Māori have worked together on the big issues, despite differing political and tribal affi liations.

“A landmark day for me was the day that John Key took over the leadership of our Party. At his fi rst ever press conference in that role he was asked for comment, if I recall, about the place of Māori in New Zealand. His reply was ‘Māori are tangata whenua of New Zealand.’

“I do not think I had heard a leader make that statement. Whether he appreciated fully the impact of the statement at the time, I was not certain, but I applauded him for it.

“Among other things it signalled a return to the place we had been in the 1990s, and from whence we had temporarily strayed when we came into Opposition. There is no turning back on this one.”

Back to the minister’s whanaunga who have not yet reached the bottom of the single bottle of wine they eagerly pursued before her speech. “You don’t like that wine?” I ask. “It’s lovely, but we we’re too busy checking out everyone in this room, seeing how they are reacting to our lady. We’ve got her back.”

Towards the end of her speech, this most loyal Tuwharetoa and Nat warrior says she will miss the House, but that the bell is ringing back home for her at Taupo Nui a Tia. And who can argue with that. After all she has a future rangatira to groom, in her fi rst-born mokopuna Rongomai-te-Ngangana te Heuheu.

It is a call, she says “… from the hearth and it is time to go.” ■


Networking Nous

› Awhina Thatcher, Huhana Rolleston,Ngawiki Dickson, Tania Smith and Huia Haeata› Pehimana Brown, Wayne Amaru, Butch Amaruand Rewi Thompson

› Murray Denyer, Neil Te Kani, Bruce Cameronand Steve Rieger› Victoria Werohia, Richard Orzecki, Helena Fagan and Leon Wijohn

The annual conference and AGM of New Zealand’s largest

national network of Māori land-based trusts, the Federation

of Māori Authorities (FoMA), was hosted in the Mataatua region

of the Bay of Plenty in early November. An impressive line up of

guest speakers enthralled the near 500 attendees over three days.

Listed in the programme was respected Senior Economist

for Business and Economic Research Limited (BERL), Ganesh

Nana; Hon Hekia Parata; owner operator of the largest New

World Supermarket in NZ, Jason Witehira; Native Indian Trade

Association President, Calvin Helin and 2011 New Zealander of

the Year, Professor Sir Paul Callaghan.

FoMA was instituted to promote development, sound

management and economic advancement for the estimated

150 Māori authority membership, most of which have between

500 and 5000 shareholders. Collectively these Māori authorities

have an estimated asset base of $13.7 bil. As well as learning

valuable insights from the line up of speakers, members had

the opportunity to network among themselves. ■

Despite our best efforts to name everyone in the images we apologise in advance for a couple of unnamed people.

› Murray Denyer, Carlos Ellisand Anaru Timutimu› Judge Caren Fox, Corinna Gageand Mere Takoko


› John Hata, Jan Hata and David Herewini› Mark Stephen, Claudia Young, Leslie Harrisand Mark Barton

› Huia Haeata, Anaru Timutimuand Puaaorangi Taikato› Alby Marsh, Melanie Shadbolt, Dr Amanda Black and Richard Hunter

› Hinewai Taningahue, William & Makoha Gardiner› Materoa Dodd and Toni Kerr› Busby Leaf and Heather Smith› Wikitoria Mc Elhinney, Katerina O’Brien, Vervis Punoho Mc Causland, Ripeka Evans, Materoa Dodd› Matiu Northcroft, James Kilty, Janet Carson,Dr Charlotte Severn, Judy Harris, Danny Loughlin and Dominic Bowden › Roger Pikiao and Muhamad Singh Taukiri› John Kapua Hurirangi, Mihaere Kirby and Lhi Te Iwimate› Jamie Gray and Janet Carson


Top 10 Music Clicks

What's the point of an e-magazine if you're not using all the bells and whistles?Word alone music reviews go so far but video clips go a heck of a lot further. Enjoy our Top 10 this month ...

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Te Pamu - CasanovaSmokefree Pacifi ca Beats & Smokefree Rock Quest 2010 winnershttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUauEhwjEtk&feature=related

The Hypnotics - Coincidencehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vycZr_xAMUU&feature=share

AS - I Need Your LoveFilmed by Haka Boy fi lmshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTlP8wMm6rk

St Joseph's Māori Girls' College- Takoto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZTWAvDFqko

Foundation – Hold Me Closehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKJ4fE_JJR4&feature=share

Iva Lamkum - Raise Your Glass http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4JNBSwv6n4&list=UU4N-Y0VDa570rXaiZGRhpag&feature=plcp

Six60 - Don't Forget Your Rootshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqnwqsJYyiU

Maisey Rika - Sink or Swimhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j577A53EIic

Chad Chambers Grand Champion of Homai Te Pakipakihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27hYtVXzyRI&feature=related

Lazy J & Big Guy feat. Buxx- Just My Imagination

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tyVd9EmVqs&feature=related


Feature

David Dallas - The Rose Tint http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMgISbaeDps&feature=related

http://www.daviddallas.co.nz/https://www.facebook.com/DavidDallasMusic

Tui Award winning hip-hop artist David Dallas offered his highly anticipated album The Rose Tint for free download from <http://

www.daviddallas.net> and was met with unprecedented demand, clocking up a staggering 8000 downloads in just 24 hours.The clean production and immaculate beats attract and hold his loyal followers. His play on words differs from his fl ow of tempo, it rhymes, is often about women who have played him, fame, family and travel. In fact, much of the content of The Rose Tint relates to his self-fashioned adventure to the birthplace of Hip Hop, New York City. The album features singles Til Tomorrow, Sideline featuring Che Fu and the current radio single Caught In A Daze with American MC, Freddie Gibbs.

Now based in New York City after securing a deal with prestigious U.S hip-hop label Duck Down Music, Dallas has impressed stateside audiences including some of the world’s most infl uential hip-hop sites and publications including Nah Right, 2dopeboyz, XXL, and The Sourc. Not surprisingly, controversial hip-hop fashionista Kanye West highly rated David back in 2010 for his track Big Time. On West’s personal blog, he remarked that the sky was the limit for Dallas who represents New Zealand and is stamping his mark on the American hip hop scene. ■

Size Matters

Female weta aren't ashamed to admit it – size matters. A recent study by

Massey University post-doctoral researcher Cilla Wehi has found that the

bigger a male tree weta's head is, the better his chances of mating with a female.

"Having the big head is a plus in terms of getting and guarding females," says

Wehi, adding, "The big head means a male has a larger mandible [jaw] that

helps win the battles with other males for control of females."

Dr Wehi, whose research has just been published in the Journal of Evolutionary

Biology, made the discovery by chance, while researching the potential

downsides of some males having such big heads.

Her theory was that those weta were more obvious targets for predators such

as rats and morepork – something she hoped would be refl ected in their

predation rates. "If there were more females than males, then we would know

that there is a cost to having that big head."

She and her colleagues gathered data from 58 tree weta populations across the

country, looking at six of the seven species, and was surprised to fi nd the number of

adult males and females was about the same. But Dr Wehi is convinced there must

be some evolutionary downside, otherwise the size of male weta heads would just

keep getting bigger and bigger. ■


James Johnston is a Partner with Rainey Collins Lawyers.Rainey Collins is based in Wellington looking after a range of clients across New Zealand.

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1.$125,000 fi nes and reparationfollowing worker’s death A fi ne of $35,000 for failing to ensure the safety of employees was imposed on an employer after a worker was electrocuted while working as a line mechanic. The company had already paid $38,000 to the family to cover expenses and had a life insurance policy of $100,000, which also went to the family. The Court held that the employer’s fi ne would have been $75,000 apart from the guilty plea, reparation already paid and previous excellent record.

The crane company also involved was fi ned $15,000 and ordered to pay reparation of $30,000. The crane operator was fi ned $2,500 with $5,000 reparation.

2.$12,000 fi ne for broken arm An employer was fi ned $12,000 after a worker had their arm broken in four places by a conveyor belt. The company could have installed a guard or turned it off during maintenance. The hazard had been overlooked because maintenance on the conveyor belt was uncommon.

3.$65,000 fi ne and reparation for port death A port company was fi ned $15,000 plus $50,000 reparation after a port worker was killed when a mooring rope broke. The Court held that the rope was not strong enough for its purpose.

4.Conviction for failing to report serious harm An employer was convicted for failing to notify the Department of Labour of an incident where an employee suffered serious harm at work. The employee had slipped over on a wet fl oor and hurt their hand. A week later a fracture was diagnosed in the wrist.

Even though there was no evidence of permanent damage the Court held that the employee had suffered a temporary severe loss of bodily function and therefore the obligation to report to OSH arose when the fracture was discovered a week after the accident.

The High Court said that the company’s failure to report was based on a genuine (but mistaken) belief and the company was therefore convicted and discharged. The Court overturned the original $5,000 fi ne.

The Court went on to warn that other employers should not anticipate similar leniency, as they will have the opportunity to learn from the situation that this company found itself in.

5.Conviction for injured employee In a recent case an employer was convicted and fi ned after an employee was injured at work. The Court held that the accident was preventable but that proper training had not been carried out and hazards had not been identifi ed in the work place. The fi ne was $43,000 and reparation $17,500.

Taking Carepoints from the Health and Safety Legislation

Courts are imposing stiff sentences for breaches of the Health and Safety in Employment Act and employers cannot expect any leniency now that the provisions have been in place for some time and prosecutions have received wide publicity.


What you need to know and do You need to know about the Heath and Safety provisions and how they will affect your business.

The major points are : • The imprisonment penalty is up to 2 years • Maximum fi nes can be $500,000 • Harm includes mental harm and stress • “All practicable steps” to avoid harm must be taken. • Vehicles are places of work • Volunteers are now covered in some circumstances • All employees are entitled to participate in

improving safety • Employees may refuse to do work if they believe it is

likely to cause serious harm • Insurance against fi nes is illegal

Who is Liable?The Health and Safety in Employment Act places duties on employers, persons in control of places or plant, self-employed, principals (eg hirer of a contractor), people who sell or supply plant and employees. You can be more than one of these at a time.

Volunteers ... are they covered? Volunteers who do work for another regularly on an ongoing basis and the work is an integral part of the business of the other person are covered by the amended legislation. However, volunteers doing a fundraising activity (amongst other things) are excluded. Even though volunteers are exempt in certain circumstances from the Health and Safety legislation the Crimes Act imposes duties to take care of everyone.

Eliminate, Isolate or Minimise HarmYou must take all practicable steps to identify then eliminate, isolate or minimise hazards. This must be regularly reviewed. Keep written records of this process as proof that it was properly carried out. “All practicable steps” now depends on the circumstances including the nature and severity of the harm, the current state of knowledge of the harm and its avoidance and the availability and cost of avoidance.

Mental harm and StressHarm includes mental as well as physical and covers stress from work hazards.

An Australian security guard has been awarded $AUS1.9m against his employer for relentless and brutal bullying. The employee was found to be suffering from major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, which meant he was incapable of working again.

New Zealand employers are responsible for providing a safe working environment for employees and this includes protection from bullying. You must have in place policies that make it clear that bullying is not tolerated and you must follow through to ensure that bullying is dealt with appropriately.

Employees involvement in planning Employees must be given reasonable opportunities to participate in improving safety in the workplace. If you have 30 or more employees you must follow a set process for adopting an employee participation scheme. Employers must give some leave for health and safety training of employee representatives.

InsuranceIt is now unlawful to be indemnifi ed or insured against fi nes under the Act. You can still insure against reparation orders and these often exceed the fi nes in magnitude.

The only defence to a prosecution is a total absence of fault.

If your activities are covered by the Act you must : Keep a register of all incidents where a person was or might have been harmed. Report serious harm to OSH immediately and in writing within seven days. Do not disturb the accident scene (except for safety reasons) if serious harm occurs. Provide employees with an opportunity to have input into your safety plan.

Free Safety Action Plan We have prepared an easy to follow Safety Action Plan. If you would like a free copy then please contact us on [email protected] or check out our website www.raineycollins.co.nz

Even if you are not covered by the Act still take all care to identify and eliminate or manage hazards so no one is hurt during your activities. ■

TAKING CARE | LEGAL


Incorrectcar seatinstallation puttingKiwi kidsin danger

Many New Zealand parents are incorrectly using child car restraints – and are unknowingly putting

their children at risk in the event of a road crash.

To help address this issue, the Minister of Transport and Safekids New Zealand launched a new tool – the 'Kids that Click' website and DVD. Developed with funding from the Road Safety Trust, the website and DVD feature videos that help parents pick the right child restraint for their children, teaches them how to install it correctly, and where to fi nd help. Motor vehicle accidents are one of the leading causes of injury for children up to the age of 14. “Every year an average of 16 children are killed 279 and others are injured or permanently disabled as passengers in a car crash on New Zealand roads,” said Ann Weaver, Director of Safekids New Zealand.

According to the government’s road safety strategy to 2020, Safer Journeys, New Zealand has one of the highest child road fatality rates in the OECD, and part of this is due to the lack, or incorrect use, of appropriate restraints.

International research shows that four out of fi ve child car seats used are incorrectly fi tted in one way or another. “Incorrect installation can greatly reduce the safety benefi ts of a child car seat,” Ann added.

When used correctly at the time of a crash, child car restraints: - reduce the risk of death for infants by up to 70% - reduce the risk of death for toddlers by up to 54% - reduce the need for hospitalisation for children four years and under by up to 69%. - Booster seats for school-aged kids under 148cm in height reduce the risk of hospitalisation and death by up to 59%.

“Car seats and booster seats, when installed and used correctly, save children’s lives. Kids that Click provides at-their-fi ngertips information that will allow them to make the right decisions that will give children the best chance of survival in the event of a car crash,” Ann said.

To watch Safekids’ child restraint installation videos visit www.mysafekids.org.nz/passengersafety.

People can rent a child restraint at very little cost from a Plunket car seat rental scheme. They will also install the car seat correctly in your vehicle. ■Ria and Hinearangi Ngatai at Otaki BeachRia and Hinearangi Ngatai at Otaki Beach


BUYING A CAR SEAT?

It meets NZ-approved standards

It’s right for the child’s age, height and weight

It’s installed and used correctly

Make sure that:

For all you need to know about car seats, visit:www.mysafekids.org.nz/passengersafety

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There is something about the human spirit. No matter how suffocating the fi res of devastation that touch

it, the will to survive will endure. Farida Sultana’s story Purple Dandelion, written with Shila Nair, is a testament to that truth.

The facts of Farida Sultana’s life are simple. She was born in Bangladesh to a middle-class Muslim family. As a girl she received only limited education, was put into an arranged marriage with a total stranger, had a child before she was 19, was abused physically and mentally by her husband and lived a life of servitude as his wife.

She was locked into the traditions of a culture that had subjugated her mother and her mother’s mother before

Purple Dandelion A Muslim woman’s struggle against violence and oppression

By Farida Sultana with Shila Nair Exisle Publishers Reviewed by L.E. Scott

her. But unlike them, she did eventually fi nd the will – and the opportunity – to escape her situation and leave the man who, like his father and his father’s father, saw his wife as his property.

Those of us who do not live in the society that Farida Sultana was born into could have little knowledge of the price she had to pay to save herself and her daughter from the life that was to have been their destiny. The story that unfolds from the pages of Purple Dandelion opens the door to that life and allows us to gain some understanding of it and what it cost to escape from it.

Her husband was a doctor and, as far as her family was concerned, a very suitable match. She had been groomed from childhood to learn the role she must play in life, so as a young girl she too had dreamed of the day when she would be taken to the man her family had chosen for her. All she would have to do was open her legs when told to, smile, behave like a ‘good

BOOK REVIEW | PURPLE DANDELION

Muslim wife’ and obey her husband. But while she awoke from the dream to a different reality, the brutality and unhappiness she encountered in the marriage could not penetrate the cultural veils her family wrapped around her – and they refused to see her pain.

Purple Dandelion follows Farida’s life as her husband takes her to Iran to further his career. As time goes on it becomes increasingly clear that her role in his life is defi ned no further than as the provider for his needs. It is when they move again, this time to the United Kingdom, that things begin to change, for although her husband still exerts complete control over her life, the external environment offers a glimpse of something different and Farida begins to rebel against the suffocating repression of that control.

The rebellion doesn’t come without a cost and she fi nds herself on the streets of England without her daughter and with no money, food or shelter. The struggle to stay alive and gain custody of her daughter leads her to contemplate suicide. Several times she returns to her husband – in the blind and desperate hope that she could still make a life with him, but with each return the knife cuts deeper. One of the paths she takes on this diffi cult journey leads her to the door of an English refuge centre for women, and this marks a turning point in her life.

The long and twisting road of fate fi nally brings the family to Aotearoa/New Zealand, where her husband leaves her and her daughter while he goes to America to further his medical studies. It is here that she fi nally gains independence and is able to shape a new world for herself and her daughter. And now as a survivor of that struggle for freedom, she has dedicated her life to advocacy against violence and cultural and religious oppression against women, particularly on behalf of immigrant women.

Purple Dandelion is a book about freedom and about paying the price for freedom. As the old folks say, “freedom ain’t never been free”. ■

She was locked into the traditions of a

culture that had subjugated her mother

and her mother’s mother before her.


Well, since we live in an age in which silence is not only criminal but suicidal, I have been making

as much noise as I can.” So said James Baldwin, one of the greatest writers ever to walk on this fl oating blob we call Earth. And that was no lie. By the time he died in 1987 at the age of 63, he had fathered more than twenty books of fi ction and non-fi ction in which he told the world truth, in a thousand ways, about the country of his birth, America, a country that had perpetrated one of the darkest white evils against humankind – the enslavement of millions of Africans in ‘the New World’.

Throughout his life James Baldwin bore witness against those souls who could create such an evil, and against their children who could not or would not accept that the racist fi re still burned in the fabric of their country. He left no room for those who would remain in denial. As he said, “It is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent.”

Of course, James Baldwin paid the price for telling white America about its racism, its duplicity and the falsity of the ‘American Dream’, that nightmare that has made Black Americans’ blood run thick with humiliation. When he died the white knives came out to carve into his remains and one of the pieces of fl esh they offered up was that he had lost the power of reason and was nothing but a bitter old man.

But in his life Baldwin had already responded to that rhetoric when other Black men like Paul Robeson, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. DuBois had been cut with the same knife. What Black person would not feel bitter hanging from a tree? What Black person would not feel bitter with their children blown up in church? What Black person would not feel bitter at the killing of untold civil rights workers? What Black person would not feel bitter sipping from the cup of white America’s sickness and the hypocrisy of its split tongue?

If Baldwin was a bitter old man, he was not a bitter old man without reason. He had been trying to tell white

James Baldwin –The Cross of Redemption Uncollected Writings

Edited with an introduction by Randall Kenan Published by Pantheon BooksReviewed by L.E. Scott

America all his life that their denial of Black people’s humanity polluted their own – and he was still having to tell them.

More than 20 years have passed since James Baldwin’s death, so Randall Kenan’s book, James Baldwin – The Cross of Redemption (Uncollected Writings) was greeted with considerable anticipation. It is an assembly of previously uncollected writings by Baldwin, including essays and speeches, profi les, letters, forewords, reviews and prose. And between its covers the fi re lives, as in these words in ‘An Open Letter to My Sister Angela Y. Davis’, written when she was arrested by the FBI and dragged in front of the world media in chains, charged with murder and conspiracy :

‘One might have hoped that, by this hour, the very sight of chains on Black fl esh, or the very sight of chains, would be so intolerable a sight for the American people, and so unbearable a memory, that they would themselves spontaneously rise up and strike off the manacles. But no, they appear to glory in their chains; now, more than ever, they appear to measure their safety in chains and corpses. And so Newsweek, civilised defender of the indefensible, attempts to drown you in a sea of crocodile tears (“it remained to be seen what sort of personal liberation she had achieved”) and puts you on its cover, chained. …. Some of us, white and Black, know how great a price has already been paid to bring into existence a new consciousness …. If we know, then we must fi ght for your life as though it were our own – which it is …. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.’

James Baldwin – The Cross of Redemption reminds us of the fi re of his passion and his unblinking truth. It also reminds us that James Baldwin believed, in spite of everything that had told him otherwise from the moment he was born a Black child in America, that maybe white America could drag itself out of its racist cesspool and fi nd the moral courage to clean its house. And that if it did not, it would indeed be The Fire Next Time. ■

JAMES BALDWIN | BOOK REVIEW


A book on Māori moko written by University of Waikato academics has won an award from the

University of French Polynesia.The French translation of Mau Moko: The World of Māori Tattoo was named the students’ favourite textbook for 2011 at the University of French Polynesia.

Its authors, Professor Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Associate Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora, and student researchers, Mohi Rua and Rolinda Karapu were surprised to receive the award – a pyramid made from Swarovski crystal - in the post.

“We were stunned, thrilled and humbled,” says Dr Nikora who is Director of the Māori and Psychology Research Unit at Waikato. “It turns out the book is being used by students there in a number of disciplines – English, anthropology, art history and Pacifi c history, and we’ve also heard it’s being used in secondary schools.”

Mau Moko looks at moko from pre-European times to the present day. It examines the use of moko by traditional and contemporary Māori and links it to other aspects of Māori culture. It covers gender issues, different

Mau MokoA student favourite offshore

techniques and case studies. It also looks at the role of tattooists and the exploitation of the moko in popular culture. It’s been described as the closest thing there is to a "complete" book on moko.

The book was fi rst published in 2007 and won the lifestyle and contemporary category in the Montana Book Awards the following year. In 2009 it was named the inaugural Māori Book of the Decade. Last year the French translation was launched in Tahiti, and immediately sold out when it went on sale in Paris.

Professor Te Awekotuku has been invited to present at the Etonnants Voyageurs International Book Festival in St Malo, France, in May next year. “This is so exciting, and unexpected! The festival is prestigious, scholarly, and concerned primarily with exploration and adventure, usually in Africa or Asia. Next year, the focus is the Pacifi c, and questioning the colonial process here. Mau Moko is honoured to be part of that.” ■

Left to right : Associate Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora, Professor Ngahuia Te Awekotuku and Mohi Rua with their award from the University of French Polynesia and the French edition of Mau Moko.


Flax roots tane, wahine and tamariki from throughout

Aotearoa are talking about the strengths of

contemporary Māori life and the values that keep their

whānau healthy and help it thrive.

Following a series of nationwide hui, there were six

concepts identifi ed as the underpinning values and

actions to ensure whanau and hapu lead lives that build

on the strengths found within Te Ao Māori.

The concepts address responsibility for actions, and

to look after, nurture and protect whanau and hapu.

Tai Tokerau kaumatua, Bobby Newson, described the

essence of E Tu Whānau as “te mana kaha o te whānau,

the strength and power of the whānau.”

Every two months TU MAI will focus on one of the

following concepts:

Aroha – expression of love/feeling loved

Whānaungatanga – being connected to whānau

Whakapapa – knowing who you are

Mana/Manaaki – upholding people’s dignity/giving of

yourself to others

Korero/Awhi – open communication, and being

supportive

Tikanga – doing things according to values

Aroha is the concept for this

festive and holiday season. Other

anecdotes are most welcome so

people are urged to contribute and

highlight the positives happening

in Māori communities.

Everyday voices

“Love, respect, honouring each other – ‘aro’ means ‘to look’ and ‘ha’ is ‘the breath,’ so when you take it from that point of view, ‘aroha’ is about sharing the breath with each other.” Poihi (30)

“The birthing of my son and being there to catch him, plus the whole pregnancy itself and just having to provide for them is my aroha to them.” Hemi (18)

“I love you Nana.” These are melting moments that you just treasure as a grandparent. We should always be using those words. I continually tell him, “I love you too, my mokopuna.” Bobby (Kaumatua).

“Aroha is the thing we go out of our way for; it’s the little subtle things like offering your seat to an elderly person to offering the t-shirt of your back for someone who is a little bit colder than you … that’s what it is to me anyway.” Marv (26)

“My Nanna use to try and threaten us with a hiding using a big a stick, then hug us and confess she would use a matchstick.” Dawn (57)

“My mokopuna insists that her nanna’s scrambled eggs are much more yellower’ and tastier than what her parents serve her. What she or her parents don’t know is that I sneak a little bit of curry powder in the recipe. He he he … I want to be remembered by my moko for having the best ever scrambled eggs.” Jacqui (50)

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Miromoda

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Since its fi rst national fashion design competition in 2009, Miromoda – the Indigenous Māori Fashion

Apparel Board – has been pivotal in exposing its winners and runners up to NZ Fashion Week, the country’s premier fashion trade event, and also to international media and buyers.

Kiri Nathan, the 2009 runner up in the Miromoda Emerging category, won the opportunity to debut at NZ Fashion Week. Although at the time she was heavily pregnant with her fi fth child, she was determined to take advantage of the great opportunity. Two years later, Nathan is set to collaborate with accomplished fashion designer, publisher, entrepreneur and businesswoman, Annah Stretton, to produce a collection of couture-inspired evening gowns in 2012. “It [Annah Stretton collaboration] is a wonderful opportunity and one I don't take lightly; I'll be doing everything I can to make the most of this learning and growing part of the journey,” says Nathan.

With 17 stores nationwide and two in Australia, the Annah Stretton brand is well established – a popular and distinctive label known for fusing different genres, fabrics and textures with an element of edginess. A high profi le and determined player in the fashion industry, Stretton has built a number of companies under her direction. In the extremely competitive fashion industry, Stretton is well positioned to know how diffi cult it can be for new fashion designers and how to overcome hurdles, hence her commitment to ‘nurturing’ emerging fashion design talent like Kiri Nathan.

“Next step for my label is to sign off a collaborative line with Annah for production, as well as setting up a workspace for my label on the top fl oor of her Ponsonby store,” says an excited Nathan, who is also collaborating with her husband Jason and his line of jewellery, as well

as Auckland photographer David K Shields. “We’re producing an exhibition of my label, contemporary cloaks inspired by traditional korowai and pounamu along with installations in Auckland during Matariki 2012, followed by an exhibition at Collette Gallery in Paris.”

In the same 2009 Miromoda Fashion Design Awards competition, Haute Couture category winner, Keri Wanoa, earned two opportunities to showcase at NZ Fashion Week. Wanoa so impressed Miromoda’s head judge (and founding director of NZ Fashion Week), Pieter Stewart, that she was invited to be part of the Next Generation show on top of the Miromoda showcase.

Launching her label ‘Whiri’ in 2010, Wanoa was invited to be part of a Designer Collection Show alongside more established names like Liz Mitchell and at NZ Fashion Week 2011, Wanoa’s Whiri label was the fi rst from the Miromoda stable to host a solo show at NZ Fashion Week.

“It’s just incredible to see talent like Kiri Nathan collaborate with a big player like Annah Stretton, and for Keri Wanoa to go from participating at NZ Fashion Week to having her own solo show in just three years. This is hugely satisfying for all concerned,” says Miromoda Co-founder, Ata Te Kanawa.

But Wanoa and Nathan are not alone, shoe designer Wiremu Barriball picked up the established and overall winner titles in 2009 that saw him invited to show at the Planet Indigenous Festival, Toronto, soon after his debut at NZ Fashion Week. Under his label ‘Tuake’, Barriball has been exporting his designer shoes to Australia and Hawaii since his NZFW debut. In early 2011 he opened his own retail store ‘Revolution Aotearoa’ in North City Plaza, Porirua.

Miromoda Project Coordinator, Terina Cowan says there is no shortage of success stories for Miromoda designers,


Photographer David K Shields,make-up Phoenix cosmetics, models Chloe Chapman and Astley Nathan.


including excellent outcomes for the winners and runners up in the 2010 and 2011 competitions.

“The year has been extremely hectic and demanding, but the outcomes affi rm our indigenous point of difference is both commercially viable and valuable in the competitive world of fashion. It’s also useful to feed positive feedback to our sponsors and be motivated for future competitions and events, even international,” says Cowan.

Demonstrated by great feedback from the Miromoda Extravaganza, which was part of the REAL festival that ran alongside 2011 Rugby World Cup in Wellington just weeks after NZ Fashion Week. In his review, REAL Festival New Zealand blogger, Jock Phillips asserts that the urban spin of Māori fashion designers is a logical development given the huge shift from rural areas in the early 1960s. ‘These young Māori designers have grown up in the city; and their work reveals urban sophistication. The designs were consistently stylish, creative and really interesting to look at. They were all so elegant.’

Phillips take was refreshing given it was from a typical Kiwi ‘bloke’ – someone not normally versed in fashion.

The red, white, and black-favoured palette for Māori political parties Māori and Mana, and dozens of kapahaka performing arts costumes, is also commonly found on the kowhaiwhai panels of meeting houses in scores of marae scattered throughout the country and also used on the tino rangatiratanga fl ag of Māori Sovereignty. But a new version of the palette popped from the end of the catwalk fuelled with the confi dence to make a new statement!

Auckland Label, Dmonic Intent – which immediately suggests anything but rural and cultural Māori – sent a model down the catwalk wearing a creation from their ‘Once were Righteous’ collection. It too screamed confi dence and sophistication as it fused structured wool with hounds tooth and signalled that Māori fashion designers under the Miromoda brand have well and truly moved beyond predictable koru-stamped attire.

The 200 VIP guests, including a large group of French visitors and a cluster of business people, hosted by New

Zealand Trade & Enterprise were suitably impressed. “They loved every minute of the dinner, exhibition and show,” says Paris-based Trade Commissioner for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, Ariane Gonzalez, who hopes to discuss opportunities for Māori fashion in the future with Miromoda organisers.

Excited to have hosted the French business people as well as other diplomatic guests, organisers admit they underestimated the pressure on themselves to impress the international fashion eye, hence their relief to hear the French visitors exclaim ‘magnifi que, brillante’ and how Miromoda could and should show in Paris.

But talented Māori fashion designers alone are not what the Miromoda brand relies on. Project Coordinator, Terina Cowan, says in 2008 NZ Fashion Week Founding Director, Pieter Stewart, directed organisers to organise a national competition for Māori fashion designers and only cast Māori models – to emphasise the indigenous point of difference on the catwalk.

“Pieter wanted to show international media and buyers something they wouldn’t see at Fashion Weeks in Australia, London and New York; so we pulled out all the stops to cast Māori models, make up artists, hair stylists and crew for any of our shows and, as a result, we get what we want, she gets what she wants, and a whole lot of young people who would never be involved in fashion of this calibre or scale get to experience it all,” says Cowan.

She referred to twelve students from Wellington’s NZ Fashion Tech doing the three-year Fashion Diploma who jumped at the chance to be dressers, as well as her own younger sisters and their friends who eagerly volunteered.

Winners and runners up of the annual Miromoda competition have now cemented a place at Auckland’s NZ Fashion Week, recently presenting a show in the Westpac Tent packed to a capacity 1000 people.

The Miromoda Fashion Extravaganza in Wellington included a one-off exhibition of ten kakahu (ceremonial cloaks) from fi ve weavers, across four generations of one family, as well as a trade hall comprising 15 stalls all selling fashion-related product. ■


We can't say for sure, but Keri Wanoa’s easy way with skinny jeans, denim button downs and edgy bags may have helped pave the way for what is now widely known as designer-off-duty style.

Captured at various New Zealand Fashion Week events promoting her label WHIRI, she looks especially fab every time. What's not to love about a designer looking like a rock star?

Stylist Miss Mondo asks :

What is behind the Whiri look?

What is your personal style?

• I'm an emotional dresser so it's very dependent on what mood I wake up in, but generally I'd say "relaxed chic" for that effortlessly together look.

What is your earliest fashion memory?

• Hmm, my mum always said that right from a wee tot I knew exactly what I wanted to wear; she once spent a whole morning pulling up my white knee high socks after I pulled them down ... pretty sure I went out the house in my fl oral cord skirt, slouchy socks & leather t bars. When I look back now, my sisters and I were all really lucky as mum always had us in some pretty cool get ups.

What is your latest fashion buy or wardrobe addition?

• Raglan feathered sweatshirt from our AW2012 collection.

What was your worst fashion moment?

• Third Form spiral perm with a fringe that looked like a veranda, add to that a pink turtleneck and blue and pink MC Hammer pants ... oh dear.

What are your favourite fashion items?

• Leather moccasins and my marcasite watch, both belonged to my Nana so have huge sentimental value. I wear my moccasins at home always and Nana's watch really only comes out on special occasions.

• Also a woven kete by my Kuia – strictly ‘display only’ for preservation.

• A Vintage Cream Brocade Dress I've had for a number of years, wore it to my very fi rst NZFW back in 2007.

• Whiri Velvet Jeans which I wear every second day; I love them because they are so comfy but look so stylish, I can wear them dressed up to one of Hemi's exhibitions or dressed down with jandals and a tee for a trip to the supermarket, neither look out of place!

• Lastly, I've been thrashing a pair of white leather lace up fl ats I got from a vintage boutique in Auckland; am wearing them with everything, skirts, jeans, dresses, the works!

• Can I also sneak in my gold Wanoa & Shaw black onyx ring and my chunky knit cardie from our Crossing Generations Collection, new favs – luv luv luv ■

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Waka Māori

To capitalise on the Rugby World Cup, it was a given that Māori rugby greats would play an important role in celebrations a

hosting opportunities.

So in the somewhat controversial Waka Māori docked near Auckland’s Te Wero Bridge at Wynyard Quartet at the Viaduct basin, and amidst Māori Rugby Exhibition, a 3D theatre, the stars came out to play.

“It is a pleasure for Māori to share their culture and for Māori it is a delight to be able to have quality engagement with visitors and have the chance to talk and laugh together,” says Waka Māori Project Manager, Blair Ngarimu.

Following the criticism regarding the reported $2million Waka Māori, Ngarimu asserted, “Waka Māori was what we wanted – which was that foreign visitors and New Zealanders are able to see our culture as a living and breathing part of this country.”

Some of the rugby players to visit the complex included Sir Brian Lahore, Todd Blackadder, Eric Rush, Murray Pierce, Bull Allen and John Kirwin. Peter Potaka, the manager of the Māori All Blacks, who was at the Māori Rugby Exhibition for most of the duration, reported feedback and numbers were great.

“We have even had people in tears as they look for a grandfather or family member’s name on the roll of honour of Māori All Blacks. It has been something quite special,” said Potaka. ■

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Next in LineThe emerging generation of Māori leaders

POLITICAL | NEXT IN LINE

By Terina Cowan & Ata Te Kanawa


NEXT IN LINE | POLITICAL

Nanaia Mahuta

Simon Bridges

The 2011 Māori electoral seat holders, apart from Nanaia Mahuta, are looking noticeably older. And at 41, she is hardly a spring chicken.

She and her Tainui people would have to be proud of her political career and grateful she started out relatively young.

In his second term National’s MP for Tauranga, Simon Bridges (35) has his people of Ngāti Kinohaku monitoring his steps. They were duly impressed at the way he increased his winning margin of 11,000 in the 2008 Election, to a whopping 16,000 in November 2011. Needless to say, the cunning owl NZ First Leader, Winston Peters was wise to not stand in the Tauranga seat again. Not taking anything away from what Māori political warriors have achieved thus far, but who might make up the next wave of Māori politicians? Who has the passion and drive? Who is currently being groomed?

There is an emerging generation of Māori leaders who are charismatic, bright, articulate, and yes, fl uent speakers of te reo Māori for good measure.

Māori are the closest they’ve ever been to realising the defi nition of, and being recognised as ‘Citizens of the World’. The world beyond whanau, hapu and iwi are noticing the presence and voice of Māori political prowess.

The irony of the Māori Party’s result is that with two seats less than in the previous election and a majority government not quite needing to buddy up, they are still in a better bargaining position than three years prior.

With Māori Party Ministers Turia and Sharples signalling their names will be absent from the next voting forms, the pressure is on to fi nd able replacements. Accordingly, the people have to measure up; the skills of the person at the helm of the waka have never been so critical. Who are earning their iwi stripes?

Come 2014, a luxury of choice would be fantastic. So where and who are these freshmen and ladies? Those young Māori who live and move confi dently and comfortably in both worlds, fl uent in both languages and cultures, groomed to succeed in whatever they choose to pursue.

Fortunately, they do exist so the outlook for Māori leadership is bright. The long term strategic planning of leaders from the initial Hui Taumata Summit a couple of decades ago is now bearing fruit.

In education, the revitalisation of Te reo Māori, access to Māori Language nests in Te Kohanga Reo, and the Kura kaupapa secondary school commitment to the language, as well as the establishment of Te Wananga O Aotearoa can take much of the credit.

Opposite Page : At a meeting of young leaders, Horiana Irwin is fi rst in line to greet US Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton while Edon Hoppener Nick Chapman, Kieran Brown, Mahinarangi Baker and Areti Metuamate wait in anticipation.


Further success in mainstream education and enterprise have also allowed Māori access to resources and opportunities previous generations could only dream of.

Mason Durie says, “Modern Māori leaders require a set of competencies that are necessary for today and tomorrow. Māori have knowledge, skills and foresight to create a future where younger generations, and generations yet to come, can prosper in the world and at the same time live as Māori.”

The romance that Māori are a homogenised people is out. Contemporary Māori society has broad ranging political, religious, social and economic views. While still signifi cantly disadvantaged according to social and economic measures, the task for the next generation of leaders is to take up these challenges – defi ning and realising that Tino Rangatiratanga is very much attainable.

A fundamental requirement of incumbents at all levels of governance is to encourage engagement and participation from younger generations. That is essential.

A fundamental requirement of incumbents at all levels of governance is to encourage engagement and participation from younger generations. That is essential.

This was no better refl ected than in the recent election list candidates for both the Māori Party, with Kaapua Smith (29), ranked number two and Tina Porou (35) at number four, and the Green Party that put forward Jack McDonald (18) for the Te Tai Hauauru Māori electoral seat against seasoned campaigner, Tariana Turia (67).

First time Labour candidate, Rino Tirikatene (39) with his obvious political whakapapa saw the scales tip in his favour to the demise of Māori Party one-term, hard-working MP Rahui Katene. Although not quite in the same league status-wise, Misty Harrison (24) is ranked number fi ve on the Mana Party list.

Back to the young guns, Kaapua Smith is buoyed by a PHD in Political Studies and extensive experience working in the public sector and Māori Party offi ces in parliament. Featured on cover for TU MAI in 2006 as a brain to watch out for, it’s no surprise that this clever and capable woman has earned her stripes and is ready to take the next step. Given Māori demographics, it is also about the math and taking a strategic view.

“As a young person, I recognise the ‘leap of faith’ taken by my pakeke [elders] but we know 50% of Māori are aged 23-years and under, so that was their rationale and I’m prepared to step up, ” says Smith.

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Jack McDonald

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Misty Harrison has worked as part of the Mana Public Relations machine to encourage youth support via social media networking shares similar sentiments.

“It is important that rangatahi participate in the decision making process. My passion is to educate our people so that they can do this. We have to engage with them anyway we can – today it is through Facebook, tomorrow it will be something else,” says Harrison.

Māori have embraced technology becoming increasingly cyber-connected and informed through social media, which has provided a forum for voices to be heard like never before. Like the Green Party, Mana benefi ted from social media in their pre-election campaign. By all accounts, the Mana Party presence on Facebook was, and still is, enviable. The impact of social media on who is elected to Parliament is unknown.

The emerging theme for Māori, regardless of political or social position, of gaining and maintaining Tino Rangatiratanga seems overriding. According to Josh Hitchcock (26), an established Māori lawyer working in the Treaty of Waitangi fi eld, the key to achieving Tino Rangatiratanga lies in unlocking the economic potential of Māori land.

“As I discovered in my research on this subject, Māori land is, on the whole, under-performing and under-utilised. Māori are sitting on 1.2 million hectares of land and it is not being put to productive use. This is why I consider unlocking the economic potential of Māori land the most important issue facing Māori this decade,” claims Hitchcock.

While this is not a new concept, Hitchcock believes that the most effective way to improve the use of Māori land will be achieved through improving the skills of those who own and manage the land, and improving access to development and fi nance.

Interestingly, Jamie Tuuta (34) is the new young man at the helm of the headquarters of the Māori Trustee Offi ce after 15 years under the management of John Paki (60).

In the commercial arena, the youthful corporate ideal is being modelled through Te Awanui Hukapak, a 100% Māori-owned commercial enterprise that includes pack and cool storage for kiwi fruit and avocado. The company manages and leases 108 hectares of kiwifruit and avocado orchards, including a 15–20 year development lease of 57 hectares. Leading from the front is 42-year-old, Hemi Rolleston.

Specialising in Environmental and Resource Management Law, Horiana Irwin (25) believes it is an exciting time for Māori, acknowledging the constant challenges alongside the opportunities to progress Māoridom – subject to the right leadership.

“We need to diversify our thinking on how we use all the resources

Joshua Hitchcock

Jamie Tuuta

Hemi Rolleston

Areti Metuamate

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available to us, and sometimes employ non-traditional thinking to ‘reoccurring issues’, you know if it’s not working let’s try something else,” says Irwin.

The increasing growth and value of the Māori economy from traditionally Māori dominated industries such as farming, forestry and fi shing have provided a solid platform for Māori to diversify into different areas of the New Zealand and global economy – including but not limited to the three new ‘fs’ of Māoridom, fashion, fi lm and food.

In order to build a sustainable economic future Māori are looking to diversify and invest in non-traditional Māori enterprise as well linking non-traditional partners. Key leadership roles in science and innovation, particularly in areas of food production, cultural stories behind fashion statements and movies are just some examples.

Mahina-a-rangi Baker (25) is working as a sustainability and product specialist in Copenhagen, Denmark. She believes that as well as development of Māori land assets, the key part in achieving Tino Rangatiratanga will be realised through Māori ability to retain and develop their own good, clean, fair food at whanau and economic levels.

“Even in contemporary society with the hourly emergence of new technology and innovation, traditional Māori knowledge still has a place in ensuring environmental sustainability as well as economic growth, a balanced and educated Māori point of view has real value, but we as Māori need to value our opinion and knowledge as well,” says Baker.

Areti Metuamate (26) concurs, “Valuing ourselves as Māori, our whakapapa and knowledge is essential in moving forward. It is about a change in perspective for all New Zealanders especially the continuance of having Māori language and culture adequately recognised as the key component in achieving Tino Rangatiratanga.” Adding, “I strongly believe Māori will perform better socially, economically and politically if we can look at our legal and political institutions and see ourselves refl ected in them – and I am not talking about the negative statistics we are so often featured in.”

In 2008, Metuamate was appointed by former Prime Minister Helen Clark to attend the UN Alliance of Civilizations Forum and he is currently the postgraduate student president at the Australian National University. This international experience is has allowed him to develop skills he thinks all Māori leaders should posses.

“We really need to get global experiences, a global education and develop global networks so that we know what we are doing is world class!” says Metuamate.

To achieve the goal of a Māori global leader, foundations to nurture children and help them realise their full potential is something Kaapua Smith is confi dent Whanau Ora can be instrumental in.

“Whanau Ora will ensure that whanau are independent and self-sustaining, freedom from vulnerability; or in other words rangatiratanga. It's not about being rich, it’s about having your right to decent housing met, while also ensuring that you have security, and freedom to make your own decisions (regardless of who is in Government).”

It’s clear to achieve Tino Rangatiratanga in all areas, Māori leaders and decision makers need to be strategic, resourceful and optimistic, and wider representation at the business end of Parliament is where effective change can be made according to Areti Metuamate.

“I think we need more Māori politicians in the major parties, including the Greens. I have nothing against the Mana party and Māori Party, in fact I admire the Māori Party a great deal, but we will not achieve as much if we separate ourselves. We need to have our voices everywhere,” says Metuamate.

Contemporary Māori society and its future Māori leaders will come from diverse social and economic backgrounds. They will not be your cookie cutter run-of-the-mill clones, but will share a belief that Tino Rangatiratanga is achievable, not limited to the political banners of protest of yesteryear.

Possible Māori Electoral seats Old to New?

1 Nanaia Mahuta – Horiana Irwin 2 Parekura Horomia – Areti Metuamate 3 Tariana Turia – Che Wilson4 Hone Harawira – Misty Harrison 5 Rino Tirikatene – Mahina-a-rangi Baker 6 Pita Sharples – Kaapua Smith 7 Te Ururoa Flavell – Jack McDonald

First Māori Prime Minister – Simon Bridges ■



"The Māori Party is committed towards driving a Transformation Agenda based around our

policy goals of Whanau Ora; Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Kawanatanga. The intention is to support and endorse pathways for our people to express themselves through the strength of whanau.

Let’s be clear, kai on the table; fuel in the car; clothes for the kids; jobs for the rangatahi are all a vital part of the transformation we seek. And the Māori Party is ambitious: we will do our utmost to make a real difference, a difference that will be felt in the hearts and homes of our people.

Whanau Ora will increasingly bring into the approach a focus on employment, housing, educational excellence, and care and protection of the most vulnerable,

including those on low income. We have to eliminate third world diseases of poverty from our midst; we need warm and secure housing; we need a decent living wage. Whanau wellbeing is our bottom-line – quality of life is non-negotiable.

But as the song goes, free your mind and the rest will follow.

The Transformation Agenda moves from an industry derived out of the misery of our people, into whanau ownership of the decisions. It emerges out of our history of hunters, gatherers and growers. We strive to support all our whanau to be self-determining, to depend on themselves rather than being reliant on the state.

Our agenda is to establish a Whanau Ora commissioning entity that will govern, coordinate and implement Whanau Ora. We also want to bring together funding from relevant appropriations into one Whanau Ora appropriation. This is about whanau driving us forward – creating their own answers in ways that are relevant, meaningful and measurable.

Our ultimate goal is to promote best outcomes for whanau across iwi and Māori providers, government agencies, NGOs and private sector providers.” ■

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By Lani LopezNaturopath BHsc, Adv Dip Nat.

The Will to Win – and Lose

Lose Weight Long Term

FASHION | FASHION THROUGH TRADITIONHEALTH | EXERCISE TAKES ON CANCER

Forget it! Dieting doesn’t work. The whole idea is wrong. Dieting is a short-term solution to the life-long

problem of weight management.

The equation of weight loss is simple : food/energy in needs to be less than energy. But simple is not the same as easy, as any failed dieter knows : this is a mental battle. Here’s how to win it.

It starts in the mind. Albert Schweitzer put it beautifully : “The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds.”

Step 1 | Mental Preparation

• Know why you want to change. Defi ne your motivation and visualise your goal. Set the weight loss or change you want. “I will lose ‘x’ cms off my waist,” or “I will weigh ‘y’ kilos.” Picture yourself living your goal, in detail. See yourself the healthy size and shape you want, feeling energised, comfortable, athletic and sexy.

• Set a date. On this plan average weight loss is around 500g to 1kg a week, so set a date. Count every day, week and month on your plan as steps closer.

• What excuses undo you? I often hear : ‘I don’t have time. It’s a hassle. I need a treat.’ Deal with obstacles in advance, make changes to solve them, for example prepare and freeze meals.

Step 2 | Physical

• In the weight-loss equation, exercise is our energy weapon to burn off excess fat. Get an exercise plan and get started. Don’t wonder how far to walk. Get out the door! Plan while you walk. Exercise is a proven mood elevator and once you start, becomes its own reward.

• If the thought of exercise is daunting, start small. Resistance, simple weight training or use your body as a weight. For cardio start walking, gradually increase your pace, week to week and measure your progress. Exercise is a foundation of health; its benefi ts go from head to toe. The fi rst effects you’ll see : increased energy, better sleep, less anxiety. A month into your plan exercise will be a habit.


EXERCISE TAKES ON CANCER | HEALTH

Top Nutrients for Weight Loss

¬ Chromium and Gymnema herb helps balance blood sugar levels, ending cravings for carbohydrates and sugars.

¬ Essential fatty acids in fi sh oil, fl ax oil and evening primrose oil speed up the rate our body burns fat and glucose. Reduces cravings for fat.

¬ Bitter Orange helps burn stored body fat without stimulating heart rate or blood pressure.

¬ L-Carnitine increases the rate of fat oxidation and may aid body fat loss.

¬ Iodine nourishes the thyroid gland, responsible for metabolic rate. Best sources are seaweeds like kelp and Multi–vitamins.

¬ Protein ensures regeneration of lean muscle and improves your resting metabolic rate, important for toning and looking great. Whey provides a high quality complete protein. A combination of proteins-whey isolate, whey concentrate and caseinate protein are ideal, enhancing tissue repair, muscle recovery, growth and fat loss. Combining these proteins provides high quality time-released protein for sustainable muscle repair and growth.

¬ Resveratrol is currently one of the world’s most researched natural compounds. "Looking at the research so far, though more is needed, resveratrol has unprecedented promise for improving people's physical endurance and helping them control their weight," says Dr. James Smoliga, Assistant Professor of Exercise Physiology at Marywood University, Pennsylvania.

¬ White Willow (Salix alba) – contains salicin, similar to the chemical makeup of aspirin. Decrease appetite; increase energy and metabolic rate to burn fat by combining with bitter orange and guarana or caffeine.

¬ Green tea, caffeine and guarana caffeine can heighten alertness helping motivation to exercise, decreases appetite and supports body fat loss. Can cause anxiety and insomnia, if so switch to B complex vitamins and adrenal tonics.

Step 3 | Nutrition

• Start a food diary and record everything you eat. Studies worldwide show that overweight people eat more than they think.

• Eat more – fruits, vegetables, whole grains, brown bread, fi bre, nuts, seeds, plant oils, fi sh and lean meats. Eat less – processed food, salt, refi ned white sugar, white fl our, dairy, starch, processed carbohydrates and saturated fat.

• Drink more – water, green and herbal teas.Drink less – fl avoured beverages including alcohol.

• Good food is the basis of good health. The Father of medicine Hippocrates said, “Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine thy food.”

Step 4 | Social

• A 32-year study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that excess weight is contagious. “A person's chances of becoming obese increased by 57% if they had a friend who became obese in a given interval. Among pairs of adult siblings, if one sibling became obese, the chance that the other would become obese increased by 40%.” Not only are you what you eat, you are who you eat with too.

• If you have any unhealthy social circle, you are unlikely to achieve your goal. Conversely, every gym or personal trainer will tell you at sign up, ‘if you want to succeed, get a training partner.’ Use the power of peer pressure.

• Find a friend to workout, plan and shop with. Your shopping habits are going to have to change. Convenience foods are out, fresh produce is in. Skipping a walk or yoga session by yourself is easy. But a friend waiting there for you makes opting out a lot harder.

• Invite a friend on your weight-loss journey; shared success is twice the fun. Go Well! ■


NEW FACE

IN NEW YORK

Despite her striking beauty, svelte physique, long golden mane, ample pout and piercing blue eyes,

international model Jessica Roimata Clarke (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Raukawa, Pakeha) is a self-confessed country girl, who was raised in rural Palmerston North.

Among whanau and friends she has a “natural and easy going ahua [manner],” says her aunt, Agnes Naera. Although her glamorous lifestyle includes travelling to all the big fashion catwalks and to photo shoots around the globe, Agnes says, “Jessie is still a bit of a hori.”

When Jessica was home from France recently, her whanau pored over images of her latest fashion shoot in Paris, while Jessica herself preferred to pull on an old fl eece sweatshirt, don gumboots and get outside to help her dad load sheep on the trailer. “That’s the Jess we know; she loves to muck in, or for that matter tuck in to creamed paua and boil up.”

Agnes said that when Jessica was home last summer her dad, Shaun, tried to advise her against going to the local river for a swim, but then realised that living alone in NYC probably equipped her for a lot more than what she would encounter at the local swimming hole.

At the tender age of 18, Jessica achieved what no other Kiwi model had done before by being cast to walk exclusively for the internationally acclaimed fashion house ‘Calvin Klein’ in the 2010 spring show in New York; one can only imagine the fee for knocking out the other competing designers in the Big Apple.

Then came the opportunity to model in the prestigious Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Considered the most renowned and respected contract for an established model, but for someone with barely two years experience a monumental achievement.


Jessica Clarke in various poses of being at home with mother Louise, father Shaun, brother Sam and friends, along with high fashion international photo shoots.


Other models in this league include names like Heidi Klum, Gisele Bundchen, Tyra Banks and Miranda Kerr. An annual event, the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show attracts international celebrities like Orlando Bloom, Kanye West and Jay-Z who secure front row seats. The highlight of this year's event was the US$2.5 million diamond-encrusted bra, worn by Orlando Bloom’s wife, Miranda Kerr.

A former national netball rep and latest ‘it’ girl on the modelling scene, Jessica is of Māori and European decent; she was crowned Miss Teen Manawatu 2008 at 16. She was named as an ‘Emerging Talent for NZ Netball’ so a professional sporting career was in sight says her mother, Louise.

“Jess was always outdoorsy, into sport and never dainty or fl uffy, but the modelling opportunity completely threw her plans to attend university and play professional netball.”

Louise, who was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2010, says she and her husband Shaun are extremely proud of how Jessica copes with being away from home –refl ecting on the huge transition she herself made when she moved from Hokianga to Auckland as a young adult.

The last 18 months being away have been particularly hard for Jessica because of her mother’s illness and chemotherapy treatments, but Louise credits technology and the wonders of Skype with keeping them in regular contact.

“There are times when Jess thinks she’s had enough of the modelling scene, but her father quickly reminds her that nothing worth working hard for comes easy, so

she is used to his guidance and disciplinary direction – probably thanks to his military background,” says Louise.

Despite Jessica’s love of netball, she had to choose between that and modelling. “She couldn’t have both because sport builds and requires muscle mass and that’s not considered ideal for modelling,” says Louise.

Louise says prior to modelling, Jessica was consumed and committed to playing netball seven days a week, and envisaged heading to university to study physical therapy but for the time being, those plans are on hold.

It wasn’t an easy decision but once she was spotted at the local movie theatre by a model talent scout and catapulted into an international modelling career she has no regrets. “It’s moved fast for me, but I’m not going to stop,” admits Jessica.

Within two months of her initial signing with top NZ model and talent agency Clyne, Clarke landed her fi rst cover shoot for Australian Magazine Frankie. This was soon followed by an installation for Calvin Klein in Sydney. She was then booked on international catwalks and photo shoots for Marc Jacobs, Dolce & Gabanna (D&G), Pucci and Lanvin in London, Milan, Paris and New York; an even bigger thrill came when Clarke was chosen for the closing of the 2011 spring Blugirl by Blumarine show in Milan.

She appeared in a D&G campaign photographed by Mario Testino and Japanese Vogue editorial, photographed by Tommy Ton – just a few big names listed in Jessica’s impressive and growing portfolio. “It was kind of surreal to shoot with Mario Testino. He’s incredibly talented but also the nicest man,” said Jessica.

Clyne Management Agency Director &International Placement agent, Marama Nicholas said a lot of energy has been invested to get Jessica to this point. She is now signed with New York based DNA. Renowned casting director Ashley Brokaw, whose elite client base includes designers from Prada to Rag & Bone, posted to Cathy Horyn of The New York Times on Facebook; “Just saw a girl Jessica Clarke @DNA. VERY excited about her. Classic supermodel material from New Zealand.”

The once naïve softly spoken teen and newcomer to the industry is now well versed in the modelling game and poised to become one of New Zealand’s most successful models since the top model export Kylie Bax. ■

“Jess was always outdoorsy, into

sport and never dainty or fl uffy,

but the modelling opportunity

completely threw her plans

to attend university and play

professional netball.”


Melissa Cowan’s captured images are concerning. Not R18 concerning, but they are provocative and

prompt the viewer to see what is not there, and to not see what is there.

The Wellington photographer making a name for herself is a talent who would have rewarded her art tutors many times over.

She takes experimentation to a new height with a fusion of fashion and far-fetched compositions, while using manipulation as naturally as breathing. Her works speaks for themselves as seen on the cover. ■

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