While our Cyclone Gabrielle focus must still be on the continuing danger of the immediate threat to life, we must begin demanding to know why Marae, who are doing so much of the heavy lifting in this natural disaster, are not resourced and respected more!
Right now, the Emergency Management Bill is stalled in Parliament because the Labour Government are concerned the co-governance elements in the Bill that will enable and resource Marae will be seized upon by National and ACT as another dog whistle to spook the electorate…
Emergency management generally garners cross-party consensus in Parliament, but the Government’s effort to legislate for Māori participation in emergency management governance in the bill promises to be politically fraught. The Opposition has routinely attacked Labour’s work on co-governance between the Crown and Māori.
…this concern for political narrative may be strategic, but tactically it has left Marae without the agency to face the very challenges they are now enduring.
As soon as we have found everyone and ensured the immediate needs of everyone are met and their next 3 months ensured for by the State, we must demand the Emergency Management Bill is urgently brought forward with extra co-governance measures that ensure Marae are not only resourced for the new resilience we require, but that where possible, the damaged ones remain, get repaired and are future proofed against weather events.
Many Marae are located in places because of very specific culturally important factors. Moving them would be traumatic. Where we can, Marae should stay where they are and get repaired with extra resourcing to ensure they are points of resilience in those communities.
The time of consequences is upon us, and these obligations must be met with resolve and not resentment.
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It turns out doubling bureaucracy creating co everything doesn’t double the outcomes.
Who would have thought?
Not Labour.
And there it is. The elite in the representative entity that has a mandate to represent themselves and the Marae which is not. The Marae is representative of whanau and the Hapu whereas an entity is a construct to engage with the machinery within the pakeha system.
The devil is always in the detail which will be in the iwi entities deed which will say something like,”the trustees will have all the powers and authorities to make all decisions…” bla bla bla. Meaning, the whanau and Hapu have no say in decision making but they will get ‘consulted’ too.
Translates to: “The government is so tied up in race based thinking it can’t even produce a bill of law.”
It reminds me of Nicola Sturgeon and her convoluted thinking over gender and I suspect the result will be the same.
(Oh, and some Marae are poor locations so unsuitable for emergency management.)
Andrew, Firstly before speaking negatively about Maori in general!! Are you gonna apologize for your bigoted rant that the Moriori were here before maori?
Stephen you are right. Instead in 1835 Māori travelled to the Chatams and colonised them killing 200 and enslaving the rest. Seems that they did the same to Moriori as Pakeha did to Maori. But worse.
Labour then needs to tasks it MP lawyers to write better bills then.
And frankly the country is pretty much over Labour using emergencies for their ideological policies that the country has little use for.
Yes I’m sick of the Labour tactic of using other peoples misery to win votes.
We now have Hipkins using the same propaganda format that Jacinda Ardern used.
Hopefully the public are not so naive this time round.
What a fuck wit, however if you’re right, then National used the Christchurch earthquakes and global financial crisis as a misery tactic to win votes. No? Then stop the utter bullshit or is it only when the left are having to deal with crisis?
And to Reactionary, the country as a whole are just so very grateful that Labour are in charge in contrary to your hard right generalizations. What were those policies during this emergency that the country are over?
The public would be so very naive to believe the crap that you espouse. You and the sausage should climb back under the rock whence you came, you disgusting pieces of shit. Trying to politicize a disaster where lives were lost, just so you can post your immature posts are at the lowest of lows. We find it funny that the people of the daily blog community tolerate your propaganda.
Tolerate?
Maybe they agree.
I agree with Martyn. Aotearoa has a marvellous resource in Marae scattered all over the country. We saw them spring into action during covid-19, and now with the cyclone. The race based political scaremongering is without foundation given there is already cogovernance, some put in place by National and Act.
David Seymour loves to hate Māori’s, it’s part of ‘ACTS manifesto’. Yeah sure some of his candidates like Seymour claim Maori heritage and love playing the race card for their political gain, and then replicate ‘Winstons Peter’s’ trick by putting the boot into the culture they’re apparently affiliate knowing that type of race baiting resonates with a sector of NZ society.
Does Seymour and his apparent Maori crew have any association with their apparent respected ‘Hapu’? do they visit their ancestral marae regularly to do working Bs? attend Tangi’s? Do work at the back of Marae’s? Support fundraising initiatives.? help local’s affiliated with that Marae etc….
I listen to the Working Group pod with John Tamihere & Seymour, Damien Grant, Bomber. Seymour and Tamihere were exchanging heated overture when John Tamihere had accused David Seymour sabotage his (Waipareira trust) Covid19 response by publicly releasing a Pin number and rightly called him a nasty mean spirited man. The far-right tactics that ACT employ are nasty vindictive low level trash bin discourse to appease his wealthy Pakeha donor overloads the 1% of NZ Aotearoa.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2023/02/14/the-working-group-with-john-tamihere-david-seymour-damien-grant/
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/act-party-donations-drive-nets-almost-1-million-from-rich-listers/TC65IND7DIGN6GIMQAK3IGYTQ4/
This is the eternal dilemma of NZ politics. Helen Clarks government had to implement rushed legislation to counter judicial decisions about access to the foreshore and seabed. At the time Don Brash was wielding the ‘one nation’ mantra that refutes any redistribution on the basis of historical injustice.
In a Pakeha majority democracy is this type of self-immolation by the Labour government actually necessary to protect the longer term progressive arc in NZ?
It seems to take very little to stir up dark and ugly voices when it comes to progressive policy for Maori. The NZ media stands passively by as though the explicit attacks on so called Maori “privilege” have little consequence to the people being targeted.
Luxon may dog whistle his way to an election victory but if he thinks that this is a consequence free strategy he is wrong.
Eh you your not one of us.
Like that,you not one of us,ask my childern,of your eigit bigot,moron,eh Aotearoa.moron.
Round the bus,got the train slaughter,knowin of brain fucked up slaughter,fir a spark egit,dont.Eh fool.
EH compulsory unionism.
Bigotry, Martyn? People who disagree with you are bigots?
Should my care be nice.
If maori get to own the water. Will we be responsible when our water wreaks havoc in future?
I won’t be “Maaori” owning the water. It will be the iwiocracy, who haven’t shown a lot of practical concern for the lives of ordinary working-class Maaori.