Iwi may boycott super council advisory body
Two iwi are considering boycotting a statutory Maori advisory board for the Auckland council.
Many Maori fought hard for reserved seats on the unitary council, but the Government rejected them.
Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples said the statutory board was "absolutely essential" for Maori involvement in council decisions.
"The council will have to take into account the advice of the board," he said.
"The board will provide a broad and open channel for their views to be communicated to the council and deliberated upon."
Dr Sharples said the Maori Party would continue to lobby for two reserved Maori seats.
However Ngarimu Blair from Ngati Whatua o Orakei told Radio New Zealand that the board was toothless.
Mr Blair said he understood Tainui was considering boycotting the committee, and Ngati Whatua could follow suit.
Meanwhile there has been debate about the merits of the spending cap on super-city mayoral candidates.
Under proposed legislation, those seeking the job would be allowed to spend up to $580,000 during the official three-month campaign period.
The current cap is $70,000.
North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams said it was a staggering increase that would mean only the rich or those with the support of political parties would be able to stand.
Under the bill there would be no limits on spending before the three month period.
Local Government Minister Rodney Hide has already brought in two bills, the first covering the structure of the new council and the second the power and roles of the mayor, councillors and local board members.
The third bill will transfer Auckland's assets and liabilities to the new council, protect the interests of staff who move to it and give it the powers it needs to be up and running on November 1 next year.
There will also be a Pacific advisory panel for the council's first term. After that the council can decide its own arrangements for ethnic participation.
"After 50 years of meandering debate, a government has finally acted to meet the needs of Auckland," Mr Hide said.
"I will be proud to introduce the third bill before the end of the year."
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Good News
Hope they do the same in Parliament ,no such luck.
my are the iwi not
my are the iwi not boycotting copenhagen?
oh...that's right. they've been bribed and enticed into another con.
oh these Maori don't see history repeating itself.
they claim they were robbed by Europeans in the 1800's....they are gonna have an even bigger niggle when the realise that the UN-world government plan to rob all of their land through the Copenhagen treaty...
silly sharples. very very very silly sharples
Who cares!
Ngati Whatua was and is a government created tribe with a mish mash of members of dubious or patently absurd genealogical lineage and no legitimate tribal right to any part of Auckland apart from wanting access to a big fat wallet.
Agree with prior comment.
Agree with prior comment. The Ngati-Whatua-o-Orakei Maori Trust board, a supposed customary descent group, was actually created by the Orakei ( Vesting and Use ) Act 1987 and the subsequent 1991 Orakei Act during the Muldoon era. They are already a statutory board as Ngarimu Blaire, its current chairman, complained was likely to be the outcome of the Supercity. It would be interesting to see how many of its beneficiaries actually whakapapa back to Tuperiri as the 1991 Act stipulates
European Advisory Board
Where's the European Advisory Board- Or are Maori's and Islanders recognising Europeans as far superior and not in need of extra protection of advisory boards? How about an Asian or Middle East board as well?
Good riddance to bad trash.
Good riddance to bad trash.
Ngati Independent Statutory Board
Ngarimu Blair's N.Z Herald's comments today criticizing John Key's new made up tribe he refers to as Ngati Independent Statutory Board is a sick joke considering he represents a modern statutory created tribe now called Ngati Whatua o Orakei. It seems it is one modern created statutory government body fighting another with Minister Sharples and his crew about to sell Maori down the drain altogether.
Who is this weak selfish
Who is this weak selfish prick to write such lies about me and my whanau here? How dare you or anyone else promote these ABSURD claims that try to denigrate my whakapapa and my whanau. You think we haven't heard all this pathetic rubbish before? We've put up with this crap for so long its boring, tired, old, sad, and we are still here humbly stoking the fires in Tamaki! Heed this warning, stay away from my mokopuna. Cos it will be a cold-day in hell before I let you or anyone else do this them - as well, without a bloody & fierce battle! If you are tangata whenua then you are a disgrace!
There is a conflict between
There is a conflict between cultural tikanga and the legal process that the Crown and its agents demand in the Treaty claims process, and now the question of Maori representation in the Suypercity , which has frequently lead to the Crown’s “takahia te kawa” ( trampling on their protocols and mana ) of the non-statutory, customary smaller descent groups.Meanwhile, Maori statutory bodies, trust and incorporations with land and business funding or with a trust board that receives income have a head-start over the smaller customary hapu with the strongest claims to breaches of treaty principles, who can never stack up not only the necessary funding to support their claims, and are out-numbered by the statutory and corporate bodies like the Ngati-Whatua o Orakei Maori Trust Board, Te Runanga o Ngati-Whatua, Ngati-Whatua ki Te Tonga, etc who claim a wider database of beneficiaries without the necessary critical examination by the Crown and OTS of the veracity of the latter receive all the funding.
Tamakimakaurau Iwi
Why all this emphasis on the Crown -created Ngati Whatua O Orakei, now pretending - with another Ngati Whatua group viz Ngati Whatua O Kaipara - to be a hapu of Ngati Whatua iwi? The resultant Crown mess of two named Ngati Whatua hapu of one named Ngati Whatua iwi is totally unprecedented throughout Aotearoa. And how can the largely Tainui-derived Orakei people, who claimed before Judge Fenton over a hundred years ago to belong to the tribes of Nga Oho, Te Uringutu and Te Taou, be turned into a hapu of a fourth iwi Ngati Whatua? It is the iwi of Te Taou tuturu, the recognised conquerors of Tamaki (not the Ngati Whatua interlopers), whose kupu should be heard in this debate.
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By your comments made, you appear to be the gutless unnamed wonder using obscene language such as "prick" thereby showing your true colours. If the cap fits wear it and while your at it do some proper research into your so called history like many others including Europeans are now also that truly exposes just who you all are and not before time. Read all the comments herein from both sides of the fence.
Reply to unamed source
By your comments made, you appear to be the gutless unnamed wonder using obscene language such as "prick" thereby showing your true colours. If the cap fits wear it and while your at it do some proper research into your so called history like many others including Europeans are now also that truly exposes just who you all are and not before time. Read all the comments herein from both sides of the fence.
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