NZ Race Relations Roundup

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News:

Safeguarding at-risk matauranga Maori from the ongoing threat of COVID-19

Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, Carmel Sepuloni, has announced 18 initiatives to support iwi, hapu, whanau and Maori communities to safeguard at-risk matauranga Maori, and protect indigenous knowledge from the ongoing threat of COVID-19.

These initiatives are being funded through the $20 million Matauranga Maori Te Awe Kotuku programme announced in Budget 2020. Key initiatives include direct funding for national cultural organisations to deliver wananga and training programmes in partnership with communities, as well as contestable funding for specific projects…
beehive.govt.nz/release/safeguarding-risk-m%C4%81tauranga-m%C4%81ori-ongoing-threat-covid-19

Mission Ready to draw Maori into tech jobs

Auckland Council has teamed up with education provider Mission Ready to encourage more Maori and Pasifika into the tech sector.

Mission Ready director Diana Sharma says just 2 per cent of New Zealand’s technology workers come from those groups.

That has come about not just because of the so-called digital divide, with young Maori having less access to computers and the internet, but because of the existing lack of diversity in the sector…
waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjYyNzc/Mission-Ready-to-draw-Maori-into-tech-jobs

Kaumatua flats get $239k makeover thanks to community

Tradies have been anointed as part of the Nga Pekanga whanau as they help to achieve the group’s dream of providing papakainga housing for kaumatua.

A $239,500 cash injection, thanks to grants from Te Puni Kokiri (TPK), Te Tumu Paeroa (The Maori Trustee) and the Taranaki Electricity Trust (TET), means the three units owned by Nga Pekanga Catholic Maori Society on Waitara’s Bayly St will get much-needed repairs and renovations…
stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/123692509/kaumtua-flats-get-239k-makeover-thanks-to-community

Have Your Say On The Maori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Bill

The Chairperson of the Maori Affairs Committee has called for submissions on the Maori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Bill.

The bill seeks to improve processes for transferring and allocating aquaculture settlement assets to iwi. It proposes to do this by amending sections of the Maori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Act 2004…
scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2012/S00133/have-your-say-on-the-maori-commercial-aquaculture-claims-settlement-bill.htm

Articles:

Mike Yardley: PM playing a very dangerous game with Ihumatao
newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/opinion/mike-yardley-jacinda-ardern-is-playing-a-very-dangerous-game-with-ihumatao-dispute/

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