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Hui help iwi's future leaders

Since the new year began I have attended three whanau-oriented hui and I made sure I took at least one of my kids to each of them.

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Message of Waitangi Day often lost

I can't help wondering what Waitangi Day might mean to our kids. At the moment, not that it has really registered, it means a day off school spent at the marae running around with their cousins.

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Shane Taurima has 'stuffed up'

Shane Taurima appears to have well and truly stuffed things up.

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Shocked city still so battered and broken

I was staying in the Christchurch CBD, visiting from Dunedin, the weekend before the February 2011 earthquake. I had been there off and on following September 2010 and had the experience of a few...

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Is Kohanga Reo row a media beat-up?

I can't help but think a fair bit of the Kohanga Reo National Trust controversy has been seriously assisted by a biased media beat-up and an equally biased opposition party beat-up.

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Presence of Maori growing in dairy industry

The first animal milk produced in the South Island was probably goat or sheep milk from a small trading post at the mouth of the Otago Harbour in 1815.

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Time for Phillipstown leadership, not hysteria

Dear Phillipstown School, please get a grip. Fight to the death? Really?

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Crime rates unimaginable, compared to safe, little NZ

My wife is convinced that Oscar Pistorius is 100 per cent guilty and that his entire story is preposterous.

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Haphazard in matters of life and death

I am clearly no hero.

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Rest of NZ needs to bite bullet for Chch

When we were kids we had a holiday in Fiji. It was not long after a cyclone had blown through and as we drove from Suva to Sigatoka the landscape looked like giant grass scattered after a monster...

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Is a larger world conflict looming?

I can remember quite vividly my personal anxiety when, in 1990 during the Gulf War, Iraq started launching missiles at Israel. I had this impending sense of doom and I was convinced that some...

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Daughter issues challenge to support those in need

This week my wife and I went and watched the film Dark Horse. I can see what the fuss was about. For someone like myself who has worked with many bipolar and schizophrenic Maori men it was almost...

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Hager vs Slater is not clash of the Titans

The past week has really seen the bunsen burner put to the election buildup with the release of Dirty Politics.

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Performance matters in the teaching profession

I am not sure what the problem is with incentivising performance based on outcomes in the classroom. I am currently involved in governance at a number of levels and in every case the emphasis is on...

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Whose rules apply in this MKR MMP kitchen?

At 5.30pm the MKR 2014 contestants arrived at the front door of the Internet Mana house. They had already had a week of delicious food and this was the deciding night. The judges, John Campbell and...

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Team left out in Labour campaign

At the time of writing this, Kim Dotcom is in the process of releasing more details about the supposed John Key GCSB mass surveillance conspiracy.

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Maori swing to Labour was misguided

If anyone has been reading my recent columns they will know that, overall, Saturday's result will have come as no surprise to me. There were, though, some things that were unexpected.

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Trivial power issues highlight real problems

Auckland has been crippled by a major crisis as they suffer through a power cut. If the news is anything to go by then the Aucklanders are experiencing great hardship. They cannot get a latte.

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Home ownership opens up a new world

The policy platforms that Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu has developed are quite a mixed bag but there should be no surprises.

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After initial discomfort, Little hits his stride

In the very brief time that Andrew Little has been at the helm of the Labour Party, he has performed remarkably well.

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