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 Nga mihi ki a koutou. Well, this is our last issue of RANGIKAINGA for 2007. At the beginning of every year, we talk amongst ourselves, wondering if we'll make it to Christmas and now today, one week from Christmas, we sit and look back over the year that was. And what a year it has been!!
Amongst the remarkable was the awarding of the Victoria Cross to Corporal Willie Apiata in July, the embrace by the wider public of Maori language during Te Wiki o te reo Maori in the same month and the birth of two new nieces into our whanau (Liani, 7th Oct & Ngahuia, 15th Dec). There were many sad moments we all collectively shared as well, most notably the issue of "terrorism" and the health of our tamariki. We all know much more can be done to protect our children and hope the new year will bring a fresh new approach to child well-being within all whanau. As for the terrorism, well, ae, we'll come back to that one soon.
Before we head out to the beach (or for some of us, back into the bush) for the summer, the kaupapa I would like us to all think more about is Kotahitanga. This year, I have had the priviledge to work for two Maori-focused organisations, Te Wananga o Aotearoa and the Waitangi Tribunal, and one of the primary values of these institutions is kotahitanga, or the ability for all to work together toward a common goal. Another way of saying this is Mahi Tahi (to work as one). Surprisingly, this is readily accepted without need for translation and people go about, playing their role to the best of their ability, all in unison.
Or do they?
We all acknowledge that our schedules seem busier than ever, with a variety of pressures and responsibilities crowding our diary every other day. We all live different lives, want for different things and aspire to different levels – so how then, is kotahitanga measured when we all seek different objectives? I've been involved with this very issue recently and while unity is sought, plurality is still the practice. Kotahitanga is the vision but the objectives remain divisive – one group want a single agreement, under a single leader, with one centralised agency of control; other groups seek diverse leadership, bringing together multiple issues within a union of administrative support.
Which one will prevail? I'm not too sure myself.
What I am sure of is that ultimately, the people must decide. Sure, majority rules but when the margins are slim (51% to 49%), who can say definitively, one way is the right way? My experience is that consensus-based decision-making helps bring all people to the table, opening up for continued dialogue and working toward a shared solution; autocratic decision-making rarely survives for long in the Maori World. So these holidays, can we sign off by saying, please think about how your whanau, hapu, marae, iwi work together collectively. How is kotahitanga practiced by you and your whanau day-to-day? If you get the chance, please send us a note during the break and let us know what you think about kotahitanga.
We'd like to thank each and every one of our readers, supporters and contributors for continuing to request our digital Maori services and do appreciate all the advertisers who recognise our readership, coverage and brand strength. This year has seen amazing growth (41,000 unique visitors to our site hits a month) but we would still like to provide you with the latest online services and products you need, and hope to expand in 2008 to do just that. Thanks also to our new mentor and the new Trustees – very much appreciate all your support and efforts. Thanks again to you all – nga mihi aroha ki a koe, ki a koutou.
Finally, we acknowledge all whanau who have passed on this year and express our sincere condolences to them and their whanau - for every tear, a smile.
E koekoe te tui, e ketekete te kaka, e kuku te kereru.
The tui chatters, the parrot gabbles, the wood pigeon coos.
(meaning, it takes all kinds of people…)
Hope things are great, in 2008!!
See you all next year whanau,
na Potaua, Nikolasa, Atutahi and our baby girl on the way…
TangataWhenua.com
Rangikainga Indigenous Media Network
Google Maori Project
We received HUGE interest in the many creative and innovative gift ideas, and we thank you for your interest. So we thought we add a few more :)
Aroha NZ Clothing is made in New Zealand with ranges for men, women and children. New Zealand Merino garments are the leading selling items and they also have 100% Cotton and Cotton/Elastine items.
All artwork used on the garments have been created by Glen Stringer (Ngati Maniapoto, Ngati Kahungungu). Glen is a graphic artist who previously worked for Global Culture where he played a major role in developing an indigenous range of clothing for them. Glen graduated from Christchurch Polytechnic School of Art and Design in 1996, becoming the first Maori graduate of the new Visual Communication degree and he also received the South Island Advertising Institute Scholarship in 1999.
The screenprinting on the garments is done by Dave Gentry. Dave is a descendant of Ngati Kuri and has been in screenprinting for over 15 years. He won Screen printing Apprentice of the Year in 2001 and has been a judge in the Pride in Print Awards.
The face of the brand is the young Maori rugby star Tim Bateman who was Captain of New Zealand Under 19 Rugby team and is now plays for the Crusaders
 Attached is a flag design by Manu Caddie – it's intended to be a bit subversive rather than as a serious national flag option. Flagmakers.co.nz can produce 20 good quality 190x90cm flags for just over $110 each.
Manu would like you to decide if there is a market for them? The design is based on a design that was published in Mana magazine about 10 years ago.. under the heading 'IMAGINE…" Contact him by clicking here.
Manu has 15 years community development and management experience. He has held leadership positions in three non-governmental organisations, spent time in the funding and contracting division of Child, Youth & Family (Ministry of Social Development) and worked with local, national and overseas NGO's on capacity and capability building initiatives and programme evaluations designed to increase effectiveness, build collaborative learning cultures and improve outcomes.
Te Wananga-o-Raukawa is a tikanga Maori place of learning dedicated to contributing to the survival of Maori people through education. In this pursuit of higher education our three iwi (Te Ati Awa, Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Toarangatira) have been joined by many other hapu from around Aotearoa. Our main campus is based in Otaki, with selected programmes being offered at Marae Based Study locations across the motu.
Te Wananga-o-Raukawa immerses students in tikanga Maori. Our programmes are designed and presented by Maori within Maori values and settings. Knowledge is a taonga and we rely on tikanga Maori to protect and maintain taonga. Successful students at Te Wananga-o-Raukawa have become active in the affairs of their whanau, hapu and iwi.
Te Wananga-o-Raukawa strives to operate according to tikanga Maori. Manaakitanga and whanaungatanga are at the core of our values. Everyone is encouraged to express and promote tikanga.
Te Wananga-o-Raukawa offers a wide range of NZQA approved and accredited tohu, from one-year certificates and diplomas, through to three-year degrees and postgraduate qualifications.
 Courses on offer for 2008 include Administration & Management, Maori Design & Art, Hapu Development, Hauora (Health) Studies, Hiko-rau (Animation) Studies, Oranga Hinengaro, Information Management, Kaute (Accounting), Maori Laws & Philosophy, Toiora Whanau, Putaiao (Environmental) Studies, Literary Performing Arts, Matauranga Maori, Whakaakoranga (Teaching), Entrepreneurial Development, Computer Studies, Iwi & Hapu and Te Reo.
“I wanted to learn about myself,
I wanted to learn our language because
I wanted to give back to my people,
that's the reason, it wasn't about me.”
Urutakai Cooper (PMW)
For more information call 0800 WANANGA or visit www.wananga.com.
 Te Arawa CNI Iwi and Associated Claims We have just received an important panui to announce that Minister Mita Ririnui and leading Crown officials along with CFRT representatives will be visiting Rotorua this Thursday 20th December (tomorrow).
The hui in Rotorua on Thursday 20 December 2007 will be held between 2pm - 4:30, venue to be confirmed. Email CNIwhanau@tangatawhenua.com for details.
Officials will arrive at 3pm and must leave at 4:30pm in order to catch the last flight back to Wellington. Between 2pm – 3pm Te Arawa will have an opportunity to talk between ourselves before the officials arrive.
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|  Pegasus Health has recently announced its Maori and Pacific Scholarship winners. The scholarships were established in 2001 to encourage young Maori and Pacific Island students to train to work in the health sector.
Although 16% of New Zealand's population is Maori, only 2% of its general practitioners are. Pacific people make up 7% of our population, yet only 1.5% of our GPs identify as being of Pacific descent adds Dr Api Talemaitoga, a Pegasus Health Pacific GP. The figures for nurses and allied professionals would be similar – and it's an issue right across the health sector.
Dr Matea Gillies, a GP who sits on Pegasus Health's Maori Reference Group, says that encouraging young Maori and Pacific workers to train as doctors, nurses and allied health professionals not only opens the doors to new careers for those who might not otherwise consider them, but can remove barriers for some patients.
“There are lots of barriers to people accessing health care, but having the option of seeing someone of the same culture can sometimes mean the difference between visiting a health professional and not.”
“When they do see a health professional, some people will respond quite differently to a person of the same culture than they would somebody from another. I know that in my practice there are patients who will tell me things they wouldn't otherwise disclose because they know I am Maori.”
Dr Talemaitoga says that being sensitive to individual cultural barriers can make all the difference.
“We ran a ‘buddy' programme recently to try and encourage Pacific women to undergo cervical screening – friends made appointment for women to get screened and attended the appointments too. It made all the difference to have that support.”
Pegasus Health has invested more than $200,000 in the scholarships programme over the past six years, and more again into cultural education programmes for its practice teams.
“While there are excellent services targeted specifically at Maori and Pacific patients, by far the majority of care is still provided by general practice doctors and nurses,” says
Pegasus Health Managing Director Dr Paul McCormack.
. “All of our practice teams have the opportunity to undergo education programmes to help them better understand the individual needs of these groups.” Maori Nursing Scholarship Winners:
- Lisa Silk of Ngati Kahungunu descent is in her final year of studying towards a bachelor of nursing degree at CPIT
- Kressy Bryant of Nga Mahanga Otiri and Te Ati Awa iwi is in her second year of nursing training
Maori Medical Scholarship winners
- Kiri Wicksteed, of Tuhoe Whakatohea and Tuwharetoa iwi, is a 4th year medical student
- Eli Leckey, of Ngati Porou and Nga Puhi 5th year medical student at the Christchurch School of Medicine
About Pegasus Health: Pegasus Health is a registered, not-for-profit charitable company
supporting general practice teams in 94 neighbourhoods. Each Pegasus Health member practice is an independent business
that chooses to be part of the Pegasus family and shares the vision
of improving the health of the community we serve.
We recently received a message from Hana Harawira, a concerned reader, who wanted us to panui her story out to you to consider and discuss. Ms Harawira wanted to highlight the situation of Ms Trina Taia (Te Whakatohea, Nga Puhi), one of the General Managers for
Whakatohea Iwi Social & Health Services. Ms Trina Taia has spent the last decade working for her Iwi building up an organisation that has won credibility amongst many govt agencies and her local and regional communities (TPK's Kokiri Patae praised the organisation's work with Rangatahi Maori in their rohe).
We contacted Ms Taia for approval to run this story and she agreed, hoping that at the very least it would begin discussion.
Ms Taia was diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago which further developed into a tumour on her spine, as a result she has had to learn to walk again. Ms Harawira has known Ms Taia professionally for 6 years and in the beginning of this year her organisation - The Tuhoe Matauranga Trust - worked with the Whakatohea Trust Board to enter into a 6 month sub contractual relationship with Ms Taia. The relationship has developed into a highly successful venture and Tuhoe Matauranga Trust agreed that because of Ms Taia's outstanding work they would have a flexible working arrangement that could cater to her disability.
Ms Haraira believes that the Whakatohea Trust Board for which Ms Taia works has used this arrangement to restructure and rid themselves of Ms Taia. Her evidence to support this is based on several exchanges that took place. The first of which happened on Monday 29th October, when two directors of Te Wheke Atawhai Ltd arrived unannounced at Ms Taia's home and issued her with a written ultimatum saying she must return to work within two weeks or face dismissal. They provided a number of reasons including wanting her to be physically present in their building (its wheelchair inaccessible). There has also been letters stating that she had resigned (which she hadn't) and another alleging Ms Taia is responsible for mismanagement and inappropriate behaviour while working as the manager of Te Wheke Atawhai.
What Ms Harawira found most
disconcerting
was that this was all supposedly happening during the time Ms Taia was subcontracted to Tuhoe Matauranga Trust.
Ms Harawira has become increasing concerned during the time she has worked in the field at how a change of trustees or a new CEO can dismantle and dismiss decades of valuable mahi of GMs and CEOs of Hauora Iwi organisations. She asks: How are we protecting ourselves? Any ideas out there?
Note: at the time of publication we could not reach Whakatohea Trust Board for comment. 
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|  The Tuhoe 2008 Celebration at Waikaremoana will be held between January 1-4. The powhiri will begin with some whakawhanaungatanga beginning with a powhiri at 10am and a hangi at 11am. The following days will include information sharing and Ta Moko workshops, market days with kai and mirimiri stalls and history of the area.
If you able to help out, generators, porta loos, chiller, marques and a P.A system are all needed.
Bring a tent, sleeping bag, mattress, swim gear, gear for wet weather and snow. Dry goods eg. Tea, sugar, milo, coffee, wheatbix, porridge, powder milk, flour, biscuits, fruit and veggies.
Tthe co-ordination team contact details are as
follows:
James Waiwai 021 175 5147, Tina Wagner,
Te Weeti 027 533 5665,
tuihana@tuhoe.com. Click here for a copy of the programme.
There is now an online Maori newspaper with a blog. Check out Tuhi Kau:
He Puranga Tuhinga Maori at tuhikau.wordpress.com.
Fundraising dates for Te Waimana Kaaku have been designated. Please keep to the allocated dates as the other dates have been taken by other events happening in the valley. The long weekends (Public Holidays) are kept for weddings, unveilings and birthdays etc. Fundraising days can only be moved because of tangihanga. NB. Easter Weekend is Waimana School's Centenary celebrations. You might like to update/correct the list of delegates – remember the appointments are for 3 years. Contact Clifford Akuhata,
Chairman for Te Waimana Tribal Executive Committee.
 The Waitangi National Trust announced that from October next year, New Zealanders would be allowed free access to the grounds where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840.
The treaty grounds, which includes the house where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840 and a carved meeting house, were gifted to the trust by Lord and Lady Bledisloe in 1932. Fees have been charged since 1937 but the trust came under fire for the fees around Waitangi Day this year from government MPs who said entry should be free to New Zealanders.
"It's ludicrous, you can go overseas and see the birthplace of other nations for free. Why can't you do it in Aotearoa?" Labour MP Shane Jones said. "It should be seen as unfettered public space. If you can go to Te Papa for free, you can go to the Treaty [grounds] for free."
International visitors would still have to pay the fee, currently $12. New Zealanders will still have to pay for guided tours if they wish to take them. Chairman Jeremy Williams said the trust board had aimed to make entry free to New Zealanders for some years and it was now earning enough from visitors and other sources to allow this to happen.
"I am proud that we are able to make this important gesture as an independent board, without need for Government funding or other intervention."
Among the trust's plans for the site is a new $14.5 million visitor centre, which will be paid for from previous surpluses and a grant from ASB as the trust deed does not allow it to borrow any money.
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| The Minister of Finance is ruling out an independent board to head a new Maori development bank.
Waatea News reported a few weeks back that the Maori Trustee and Maori Development Amendment Bill which is now before Parliament will use $35 million of Maori trustee money to create a new statutory corporation, Maori Business Aotearoa New Zealand. It will be governed by a board appointed by the Ministers of Finance and Maori Affairs. The money is accumulated profits from the trustee's investments and the management of Maori land.
According to the TheyWorkForYou.co.nz website, this bill introduces changes arising out of a review of the Maori Trustee and Maori Trust Office and out of work looking at ways to bring together functions supporting Maori business being undertaken by Te Puni Kokiri, the Maori Trustee , and potentially other organisations. The bill also amends the title of the Maori Trustee Act 1953 to the Maori Trustee and Maori Development Act 1953 to better reflect the amendments.
The Federation of Maori Authorities has called for the trustee to be overseen by an board chosen by Maori, as happens for Maori fisheries settlement assets. However, Finance Minister Michael Cullen says that will not work. Dr Cullen went on to explain that the new corporation will allow for more active use of the funds held on behalf of Maori.
 Yvonne Tahana recently reported that a "Maori gateway to the silver screen" may emerge with the New Zealand Film Commission's injection of $600,000 over three years. On 21 November the commission signed a deal with Nga Aho Whakaari - the organisation that represents Maori working in film and television. NAW will appoint six members to Te Paepae Ataata, whose job it will be to generate more feature films from Maori directors and screenwriters.
The commission, which receives $22 million in Government and Lottery Grants Board funding, doesn't make grants but instead invests in films as a business proposition. Every year, it aims to back four feature films and nine short films.
Mr Maxwell said getting projects developed to a point where the commission would support them is the focus of the group's work. He said the start of Maori Television had seen an explosion of production houses that were producing for that medium but films hadn't yet filtered out to the market - that was because of the cost and the fact that the production houses did not have the economic base to develop films.
But there was a critical mass of people working in the industry who could support more Maori films, he said. Broadcaster and producer Tainui Stephens said the development was also about bringing Maori methods of doing things to films - that meant including karakia, hui and being aware of the spiritual issues.
Mr Stephens said it was encouraging a new film generation of producers and directors, including Chelsea Winstanley, Te Arepa Kahi and Rhonda Kite, knew that there was a place for them in New Zealand film.
"They've got Maori mohio [knowledge] and Pakeha clever. You mix those things and you've got magic." Commission chief executive Ruth Harley said: "What we want in New Zealand cinema are more voices - different voices."
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|  The Young Maori Party (YMP) now has a website. The Young Maori Party (Generation Two) has been born out of Rangatahi who wanted to become the driving force behind the Maori party.
They are keenly aware of the power and influence that a united Maori Rangatahi voice can have in Aotearoa, and the positive influence this collective voice can have on events and opinions in Aotearoa.
The YMP celebrate and acknowledge all those that have gone before them in this kaupapa and are honoured to continue to build on their aspirations and dreams for us as Nga Rangatira mo apopo.
The Young Maori Party are about:
- Empowering Rangatahi - Through waiata/music, dance, reaching the stars in whatever we want to achieve,
- Helping the Maori Party - crack it for us in Parliament,
- Showcasing Young Maori - for the talented, fabulous, gifted, purotu, Ataahua beings that we are,
- Mobilising ourselves - to vote! To become the waka of choice for Rangatahi Maori
- Being heard - “Ka pu te ruha, ka hao te rangatahi” Rangatahi doing it for themselves.
Register now and help the Young Maori Party get Rangatahi Maori out to the Ao whanui!
Tumeke whanau, the TangataWhenua.com team would love to see this crew kickin it on Bebo and getting into some cool flaxroots viral marketing campaigns!
An article was sent our way which we wanted to pass on. The title of this article is taken from Tony Simpson's book TE RIRI PAKEHA (The White Man's Anger, 1979) to explicate the fateful morning of October 15 th, 2007.
That morning bore witness to the ugly, brutal siege on innocent whanau of Ruatoki, who felt the full force of Commissioner Police Howard Broad's TE RIRI PAKEHA made effective and backed up by the Suppression of Terrorism Act. Whanau were traumatised by combat geared up masked, helmet police, repulsive high powered rifles, handcuffed and photographed. As TE RIRI PAKEHA sought to protect themselves against potential terrorists attack from Tuhoe families. This armed expedition into Ruatoki reignited the memory of the police march into Maungapohatu in 1916. The siege experienced by the whanau of Ruatoki will add another permanent legacy of burden and distrust among Tuhoe. Koia tatau i hikoi ai! Click here to read the article in full.
 As the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change ends, the Global Forest Coalition has expressed great concern that market-based mechanisms are being promoted and do not give enough guarantees to indigenous peoples and forest dependent peoples to ensure their rights.
Global Forest Coalition's Managing Coordinator, Simone Lovera stated, "The outcomes of the forest negotiations here in Bali do not include any guarantee that the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities regarding their forests, which have been enshrined in the UN Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, will be respected. Instead, this entire proces s is dominated by the corporate interests of logging, soy and palmoil companies that have started to demand compensation for every tree they don't cut down.
Carbon offset projects financing such compensation schemes do not contribute anything to mitigating climate change, they are no more than a convenient lie to subsidize some of the most destructive industries on earth. Considering the crisis we are in, carbon offsets are unacceptable: We desperately need both forest conservation AND policies that cut emissions at source" The International Forum of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change, expressed their profound concern in a statement read inside the UNFCCC about Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries (REDD).
"REDD will not benefit Indigenous Peoples, but in fact, will result in more violations of Indigenous Peoples' Rights. It will increase the violation of our Human Rights, our rights to our lands, territories and resources, steal our land, cause forced evictions, prevent access and threaten indigenous agriculture practices, destroy biodiversity and culture diversity and cause social conflicts. Under REDD, States and Carbon Traders will take more control over our forests."
"To worsen matters, World Bank President Robert Zoellick announced their latest scheme called the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility," stated Dr. Miguel Lovera, Chairperson for the Global Forest Coalition. "They are going to use the failed model of carbon trading to supposedly protect forests, but just like agrofuels, the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility is going to exacerbate deforestation at a faster rate, worsen human rights abuses and do nothing for the climate but make it less inhabitable," he said.
Contacts: Dr. Miguel Lovera (Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Dutch and Italian) +595-21-663654 Hubertus Samangun (Bahasa and English) +62 813 10778918 Anne Petermann (English) +62 813 38918437.
Background: The Global Forest Coalition is a worldwide network of non-governmental organizations and Indigenous Peoples Organizations that promotes effective rights-based forest conservation policies.
 Global Justice Ecology Project takes action to address the common root causes of social injustice, economic domination and environmental destruction. GJEP is the North American Focal Point of the Global Forest Coalition.
The term 'agrofuels' is a more accurate label for the production of fuel from industrially produced agricultural crops (and is also used by the FAO). The term 'biofuels' gives a false impression that these fuels are environmentally friendly, when they are in fact environmentally and socially destructive.
In a 4 December press conference, Global Forest Coalition and Global Justice Ecology Project released the advance copy of a major new report that reveals the social and ecological impacts of large-scale production of agrofuels. The True Cost of Agrofuels: Food, Forests and the Climate [specifically details the threats on forests and forest-dependent people that are resulting or are predicted to result from the production of agrofuels from food, oil and cellulose crops]. The report is available online.
Statement from the International Forum of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change (IFIPCC) at the 13th Session of Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC--SBSTA 27, concerning agenda item 5/REDD.
The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility is the World Bank folding the carbon storage potential of forests into their carbon trading scheme as another way to avoid emissions reductions from polluter countries.
Click here to read the UK's Independent Newspaper's take on the conference.
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 Auckland University recently announced that it would be restricting entry ot undergraduate programmes. Both the Green Party and the Maori Party are dismayed at the University's decision and are worried that this new strategy will adversely affect Maori students.
Green Party MP Metiria Turei says that Auckland University is using the tertiary funding
reforms as an excuse to disenfranchise thousands of students from university
education, and that low income and Maori students will be at highest risk of
being turned away.
 "Maori women will be the most disadvantaged by this exclusion. Only 18
percent of Maori women leave secondary school with any kind of
qualification. Many go on to work and raise families and then return to
university as adult students to further their education and pursue the
opportunities that this brings," Mrs Turei says.
Maori women with graduate or higher qualifications have the highest median
income of all ethnicities.
"Auckland's new exclusions will make sure that low income Maori women remain
that way for the rest of their lives, as 82 percent do not qualify for
university entry based on secondary school qualifications.
"The tertiary funding reforms that Vice Chancellor Stuart McCutcheon uses to
excuse his new restricted entry scheme are necessary to reduce the perverse
incentives in the system. These led to increased competition within the
tertiary education sector, and students being seen as cash cows by the
university administration."
Auckland University's move follows new funding frameworks devised by the Tertiary Education Commission which will now fund universities based on students successfully completing courses rather than "bums on seats".
 Auckland Museum Library opening hours have been extended. The Museum Library is
pleased to report that from 12 January 2008 the Museum Library will be open a full day on Saturdays. This is designed to make the extensive information and research resources of one of the country's major research libraries more accessible.
Opening hours:
- Monday to Friday 1pm-5pm
- Saturday 10am-5pm (from 12 January 2008)
1867-2007: In November 2007 the Museum Library marked 140 years of existence. In that time by donation and purchase we have collected a treasure trove of books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, paintings and ephemera covering New Zealand, Pacific and general world society and culture and the natural environment.
Visit the Library foyer to see the display case containing some of our acquisitions from 1867 to the present day and where you can also pick up one of our commemorative bookmarks.
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|  Te Kawe Ratu recently attended the International Battlegrounds Hip Hop Competitions held in Melbourne last weekend Sunday 9th. Over 300 dancers from 5 Countries were there.
Out of 8 Junior crews from NZ and Australia, NZ placed 2nd and 4th. Lil Saints placed 2nd and received the certificate for crowd favourite. Blitz placed 4th and also performed very well. In the open division of 26 teams 4 of the 6 NZ teams placed in the top 7. With Diziah Placing 3rd, Sweet and sour 5th, Haser 6th, Crucial 7th, Phusion 11th and DCypher 14th.
The winners for the Open was Xtatic from the Philippines, and Junior Winners KStar from Melbourne.
Te Kawe also wanted to extend "big ups" to Eric and his crew from Melbourne and Marco and his Crew from Sydney.
 Maori TV will begin its four-part series called GRAFFITI VERITE on Friday December 21 at 8.30pm. The series explores the underground art and music scene of urban Los Angeles, challenging traditional perceptions of graffiti art and artists by introducing viewers to more than 400 pieces of high-end street art. The documentary interviews 24 graffiti artists and features footage of their bold,
colourful
outdoor w ork. The interviewees draw a connection between their work and ancient hieroglyphics and cave paintings and also describe graffiti art as a subversive means of counter-programming the culture.
After all, graffiti art on walls and fences contends with equally large advertising billboards, and strives to convey something separate from commercialism. Painting a fresh picture of graffiti enthusiasts, the documentary annihilates the image of the graffiti vandal and introduces the graffiti artist.
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| The Whanganui River Wananga - Tira Hoe Waka 2008 will be held 4-19 January at Maungarongo in Whanganui. Registration forms can be collected from Awa FM. For further details contact
Gerrard and Susan Albert
06 344 4445 or 021 705 420.
It's not a conference, it's a Confluence: "the premier gathering of the New Zealand and international outdoor sector this decade". The Confluence - Tutakitanga, will bring the industry together for four days with seminars, workshops and speakers from seven countries. Topics on offer include "Cowboys and Cotton Wool: The Role of Men in Adventure Education", "The Spiral in Action: A Pathway of Outdoor Education in Low-Decile Secondary Schools", "Maori and Rivers" and "Extreme Sport Subcultures: Big Wave Surfing".
Registrations close January 7, 2008. Contact the following for more details 04 385 7287
fax: 04 385 9680.
 The 2008 Waka Ama National Sprint Championships will be held 14-19 January 2008 at Lake Karapiro. This event will feature competitors and teams from all over the country competing in a variety of short course races.
You can view entries here and choose to search by event or club. The course consists of:
- 500m straight course for W1, W6 and W12 500m
- 250m course for turn races - W6 1000m and 1500m events
Heats had been set to use 8 lanes but due to the number of entries lane 9 has been opened up. Lane 9 is usually a spare lane for racing and as such will be allocated to the slowest seeded paddlers, or international teams.
There are a couple of entries from Australia, they can only race in the outside lane, and can only progress to semi's and finals in the outside lane, so it does not effect the regular progressions for NZ teams.
Canoe Type: W6/W12 - Mahi Mahi, W1 - Surfrigger (Regions will be allocated a number of waka based on their number of entries, this will be advised in a later panui).
Click here to view the full panui and access the race schedule. For more information contact Maggie at
email: maggie@wakaama.co.nz or check out the Waka Ama Website.
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