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Ikaroa Rāwhiti MP Cushla Tangaere-Manuel says the new traffic light system for benefit sanctions offers no incentives or alternatives for people to move off the dole. The Government is demanding more reporting in by beneficiaries and evidence they are hunting for jobs, with the threat their Jobseeker benefit will be cut if they don’t comply. Ms Tangaere-Manuel says it ignores the challenges faced by people struggling to survive on a benefit. “Th…

New Zealand

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Traffic lights fail to inspire jobless

Middlemore Hospital’s bereavement care service is marking 30 years of successfully to handling the needs of both the deceased and their whānau. Manager Reon Scharvi says it was set up in 1994 after complaints of a lack of cultural respect towards tūpāpaku in the hospital’s mortuary. Changes were made to ensure tikanga was followed for Maori and Pasifika peoples – and then all peoples with cultural needs. “The service that we do, it’s an open ser…

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland

Hospital brings culture to bereaved

Social Development and Disabilities Minister Minister Louise Upston says disabled people will be consulted on changes to how services are delivered to them. The Ministry for Disabled People, Whaikaha, is being downsized to focus on policy advice, advocacy and monitoring, with responsibility for delivering support services going to MSD. Changes by previous minister Penny Simmonds in March to the way disability services were funded sparked widespr…

Whaikaha disabled after budget crunch

An expert in Māori custom law cases says there no truth to a claims by Hobson’s Pledge founder Don Brash that the courts are rubber stamping claims for customary marine title. Dr Brash told Waatea Digital every claim that has gone to court under the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act has been successful – and that’s not what parliament intended. Hobson’s Pledge says every bit of coastline is under claims which could result in people bei…

Wellington, New Zealand

Wellington

Brash history fails fact check

A waka ama veteran says the sport is in no hurry to join the clamour around the Olympic Games. As athletes make their way back from Paris, thousands of paddlers including almost 600 from Aotearoa are arriving in Hawai’i for the International Vaka Federation sprint championships on Hilo Bay. James Papali’i , who’s coaching Takapuna-based Taniwha Outrigger Club, says what makes waka ama unique is its cultural aspects of waka ama and the way it cel…

Olympics

Sports

San Francisco, California

San Francisco

Waka tradition out of stroke with Olympics

Nurses Organisation kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku says Māori nurses are ready to rumble. The annual Indigenous Nurses Aotearoa Conference begins today with a powhiri at Papakura marae before shifting to Waipuna Lodge for two days of talk and debate. Ms Nuku says they’re angry over things like the wind back of smokefree efforts and the axing of the Maori health authority. “Repeal, repeal, reduction, reduction, and this is what we are completely frustr…

Papakura

Māori nurses angry voices silenced

Kua whakatūhia taiapa e te kaunihera o Rotorua Lakes ki te maunga o Ngongotahā hei kaupare atu i te hunga porowhiu para. Hei tā tētehi o ngā mema o te Komiti o Rotorua Lakes, hei tā Kingi Biddle, he takahi mana, he patu wairua, he mahi nanakia rawa atu ngā mahi whiu rāpahi ki te taiao katahi, hēoi ki tētehi wāhi tapu, he mahi tīkai nui.kia tahuri atu ki ānan whakamāramatanga. ‘He tino take tēnā te whakatūhanga o ērā o ngā taiapa i te mea ko te m…

Rotorua

Kingi Biddle | Kāti te taki i te mana o maunga Ngongotahā

Mā Ardie Savea te kapa Ōpango e ārahi anō i tō rātou tukinga tuarua ki a Āketina i te whakataetae Rugby Championship. He maha ngā panonitanga tā Scott Robertson ki te rāngai ingoa i tākoro i tō rātou hinga ohorere ki te kēmū tuatahi i Pōneke.Ka hoki a Anton Lienert-Brown rāua ko Mark Tele’a ki te pae whakahiri kia whai wāhi mā Caleb Clarke rāua ko Rieko Ioane te eke ki te whīra timata ai. Kua puta katoa a Sevu Reece, ā mā Will Jordan taua tūrang…

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