Māori Media Needs More Investment, Not Funding Cuts – Green Party
The Green Party is gravely concerned about a major cut to funding for flagship Māori news and current affairs programmes Te Karere and The Hui by Te Māngai Pāhō.
“This is a terrible outcome for Māori media, and sadly consistent with this Government’s continual undermining of our culture,” says the Green Party Spokesperson for Māori Development, Media and Communications, Hūhana Lyndon.
“The complete gutting of funding for The Hui is particularly galling, as it has been such an effective vehicle for telling stories that are uniquely Māori and which also hold those in power accountable.
“Our media ecosystem is struggling in an environment of budget tightening under a Government which can find billions of dollars in tax cuts for landlords and tobacco companies but nothing for Māori news and current affairs. It comes down to choices.
“Te Karere has been delivering a quality national Māori news service on mainstream media for four decades. So it’s essential that the Minister of Māori Development Tama Potaka step up and ensure this vital service is not lost.
“It is also an opportunity for TVNZ and other mainstream broadcasters to demonstrate what good te Tiriti partnership looks like.
“We must invest more in Māori media, and there’s an urgent need to look for new partnerships to ensure the likes of Te Karere and The Hui survive, as the Government is failing its responsibility to support, promote and protect Te Reo as a taonga.
“The Green Party would increase funding for a media network that is unapologetically Māori, enhancing regional collaboration and helping communities across the motu develop a sense of ownership in the programmes that inform and resonate with us,” says Hūhana Lyndon.
Hūhana Lyndon is right to criticise the enormous cut backs in Māori Media but it is more malicious than just a budget cut, the crucifixion of Māori Media is intentional.
This Government’s anti-Māori, anti-Treaty, anti-Worker, anti-Renter, anti-Beneficiary, anti-Disabled, anti-Environment agenda can only pass if the Fourth Estate doesn’t wake the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu-Zilind.
The Government can rely on NZME to stick to the party line, they can rely in TVNZ being timid and RNZ/Stuff have too small a social media footprint to generate political backlash, but Māori media have been front and centre in challenging this Government’s terrible agenda.
THAT is the real reason they have been cut and the pathetic downgrading to a news hub run by the most timid Māori Network in NZ is to ensure Māori media is muzzled in the election year.
We should be disgusted but the blitzkrieg tactics of this Government have left many tired and exhausted so these types of naked abuses of power are barely remarked upon.
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More Pakeha theft from Maori .When will it end ?Another diSgrace in the history of NZ and this COC Where are all the Maori members of this government or are they all just potato Maori ,brown on the outside and white on the inside .?
Luxon might shed a tear, if the NZ dollar lost value, or if the inflation rate nudged the top of the reserve bank range risking an interest rate increase, or if there was a share market downturn, but he won’t give a toss about this documentary: https://www.maoriplus.co.nz/show/the-stolen-children-of-aotearoa/season-1/episode-1/play
Last week, the Government made it harder for some victims to access compensation.
Basically, if a victim of state abuse has gone on to commit a serious crime they won’t automatically get compensation. They’ll have to fight on a case by case basis.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360865411/verity-johnson-grubby-grotty-attempt-shirk-responsibility-decades-horror
NZ Law Society president Frazer Barton has resumed his position today after a six-month leave of absence while he was investigated over his role in the destruction of historical abuse records at Presbyterian
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/541027/nz-law-society-president-frazer-barton-back-after-abuse-record-destruction-investigation
I wonder if the PM and the Law Society President would make the same decisions if they were injected with paraldehyde or sodomised or had electric shocks to their testicles, even though Judith is adament this didn’t constitute torture. Whether Luxon could stay on the straight and narrow of being a law abiding citizen, after such torture that destroyed so many lives in “gods own”. I mean, if what happened at lake ALice, had been reported to Police as happening in the house next to Lake Alice, then you couldn’t have stopped Police mounting a major operation to round up all the perpetrators, which is a good thing. The horror of the crime would be the same, and the perpetrators just as eveil, yet because the perpetrators were public servants at Lake Alice, they got a get-out-of-gaol-free-card. While any ordinary citizen can’t even get off a speeding ticket. This corruption is baked in. And in terms of the reputation of police, created by actions of police, so what goes around comes around. Can the proceeds of crime act be used against former public servants involved in covering up, so their assets can be used to pay victims? If the laws were changed, meaning that victims of state abuse were automatically exempted from paying any income tax. And killing public servants who covered up abuses became justifiable homicide – then things would change mightily.
Why exactly does Maori media “need” more investment? How many Joel Maxwells, Moana Jacksons and Mihi Forbes’ do we really need?
And it’s not like Maori media do a good job of being watchful and critical of Maori leaders and organisations.
go back to Israel .Are you keeping an eye on all the theft of public money Luxon is getting away with while kicking Maori out of homes and onto the street .You are a nasty person .
And it’s not like Pakeha media do a good job of being watchful and critical of Pakeha leaders and organisations.
There, fixed that for you Ada.
Well we could do away with Mike Hosking, Heather du Plessis-Allan and replace them with the names you mentioned, that would be a great start.
As many as we can get.
We have an over-abundance of Hosking, Plunket, H.Duplicity Allens, Sopers and all the rest of the right sycophants.
We need balance, which is slipping away every day.
It proves we need balance desperately, that you and your ilk see no parallel between yourselves and ‘rumps maga cult. You shy away from real discussions, you denigrate and mock those who try to help you understand, so that’s where you are heading.
100% agree Joy
Yet another spiteful and racist ‘attack’ on Maori? To allow this current abysmal, corrupt and incompetent CoC-up to continue to attempt to run our lovely NZ, is criminal! Please intelligent folk out there, bury your racism and prejudices, open your eyes really wide, read the ‘real’ truth – ‘tho not much of it out there from our RW media, and vote with your brain engaged. Our country and its people can no longer tolerate this obnoxious bunch of Wannabe’s, destroying everything they meddle with. Luxon has again fled to get away from the flak and the growing proof that more and more voters are seeing how inept and gutless he really is. Funny, but not really funny, he still truly believes he is not narcissistic, despite having no integrity, honesty, kindness or respectfulness. He’s vacant and totally devoid of human emotions – it’s all about HIM! If you still don’t get it, you’re past help!
Luxon sees himself as a WORLD leader .What a joke he is a nobody on the world stage and the only thing the real leaders remember about him is his ugly head .I bet Unilever are glad he is no longer there as are Air NZ .
The National Party since Bolger said “we are part of Asia now” has been down with multiculturalism/diversity rather than kiwi biculturalism. There is less unity in that multicultural diversity so all the better to divide and rule. Of course they don’t want, the maori voice.