Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 3, 2024 4:33:15 GMT 12
RUGBY NOT READY FOR MĀORI UNION
Te Tairawhiti MP and former Ngāti Porou East Coast Rugby chief executive Cushla Tangaere-Manuel doesn’t believe it’s time for a breakaway Māori rugby union – but she wants to see more Māori input into the administration of the national game.
Having been part of a review panel that considered greater autonomy for Maori rugby, she says other improvements were tried instead.
Since then New Zealand Rugby has come a long way – but it still struggles to fully recognise the contribution of Māori to the sport.
“Not only the cultural values that kaupapa Maori brings to the game, but the economics… what sells? Our motifs, our Maori designs, are all over it. What do people think is synonymous with New Zealand rugby? The haka,” she says.....
waateanews.com/2024/04/02/rugby-not-ready-for-maori-union/
ACT CAMPAIGN THREAT TO MĀORI STUDENT WELFARE
The Tertiary Education Union Te Hautū Kahurangi says political parties are creating unnecessary division on campus through their attacks on Māori and Pasifika study spaces.
ACT tertiary education spokesperson Parmjeet Parmar has written to all universities and polytechnics asking for a list of safe spaces, the rationale for such spaces, and whether signage or other policies are changing as a result of ACT’s campaign.
She says the signage is a reminder of darker days when different races were segregated at swimming baths and barber shops, whereas modern values of inclusivity celebrate the mixing of people from different backgrounds, which is crucial to closing academic and economic disparities.
Tumu Whakarae national president Julie Douglas says a far from being divisive, the spaces allow students to feel more at home in academic life in what are Anglocentric colonial institutions......
waateanews.com/2024/04/02/act-campaign-threat-to-maori-student-welfare/
Te Tairawhiti MP and former Ngāti Porou East Coast Rugby chief executive Cushla Tangaere-Manuel doesn’t believe it’s time for a breakaway Māori rugby union – but she wants to see more Māori input into the administration of the national game.
Having been part of a review panel that considered greater autonomy for Maori rugby, she says other improvements were tried instead.
Since then New Zealand Rugby has come a long way – but it still struggles to fully recognise the contribution of Māori to the sport.
“Not only the cultural values that kaupapa Maori brings to the game, but the economics… what sells? Our motifs, our Maori designs, are all over it. What do people think is synonymous with New Zealand rugby? The haka,” she says.....
waateanews.com/2024/04/02/rugby-not-ready-for-maori-union/
ACT CAMPAIGN THREAT TO MĀORI STUDENT WELFARE
The Tertiary Education Union Te Hautū Kahurangi says political parties are creating unnecessary division on campus through their attacks on Māori and Pasifika study spaces.
ACT tertiary education spokesperson Parmjeet Parmar has written to all universities and polytechnics asking for a list of safe spaces, the rationale for such spaces, and whether signage or other policies are changing as a result of ACT’s campaign.
She says the signage is a reminder of darker days when different races were segregated at swimming baths and barber shops, whereas modern values of inclusivity celebrate the mixing of people from different backgrounds, which is crucial to closing academic and economic disparities.
Tumu Whakarae national president Julie Douglas says a far from being divisive, the spaces allow students to feel more at home in academic life in what are Anglocentric colonial institutions......
waateanews.com/2024/04/02/act-campaign-threat-to-maori-student-welfare/