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- Page 2: Contents Foreword from the Minister
- Page 6: New Zealand Mäori Council Foreword
- Page 10: Currently, there has been speculati
- Page 14: Sir Graham
- Page 18: A taste of some of the contribution
- Page 22: Mavis Mullins Manuka Henare Mavis M
- Page 26: Hon Dr Michael Cullen Dr Toby Curti
- Page 30: Naida Glavish J.P Rangimarie Naida
- Page 34: Hon Parekura Horomia Rutene Irvine
- Page 38: Raiha Lady Mahuta Mavis Mullins Rai
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<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Symposium</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
REFLECTIONS ON HIS LIFE AND LEGACY<br />
20-21 OCTOBER 2008
C<strong>on</strong>tents<br />
Foreword from the Minister of Mäori Affairs 2<br />
Foreword from New Zealand Mäori Council 4<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g>: A Biography of sorts 6<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g>’s life at a glance 12<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Symposium</str<strong>on</strong>g> programme 14<br />
A taste of some of the c<strong>on</strong>tributi<strong>on</strong>s at the symposium 16<br />
Speaker profiles and photos 22<br />
Sp<strong>on</strong>sors of the symposium 51<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g> 1
Minister’s Foreword<br />
<strong>Te</strong> Kupu Whakataki a te Hönore Parekura Horomia, Minita mö ngä<br />
Take Mäori<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
Nä te iti, nä te rawakore, ka tipu mai he rangatira i ärahi i te ao Mäori<br />
ki öna taumata. Ahakoa t<strong>on</strong>u ngä karawhiu o te wä, kua ekehia ënei<br />
taumata, ä, kua noho mai ia hei tino kaiärahi ohanga, törangapu hoki<br />
mö te iwi.<br />
He tika t<strong>on</strong>u te whakamihi a tënei hui ki a Tä Kereama Rätima,<br />
te tangata i ärahi i te Kaunihera Mäori i ngä tütünga puehu o<br />
ngä tau waru tekau. Koinei te wä i kökiri te Kaunihera Mäori,<br />
me Tä Kereama e ärahi ana, i äna take mö te hoko i ngä rawa a te<br />
Käwanatanga, ä, toa ana ko te Kaunihera.<br />
I tënei hui, ka whai wähi tätau ki te whakaatu i ä tätau körero me<br />
ö tätau wheako mö tö tätau koroua. Mä k<strong>on</strong>ei, ka whakamihi ki<br />
ngä mahi nui kua oti i a ia hei häpai i ngä kaupapa hapori, ohanga,<br />
törangapu hoki o te iwi Mäori.<br />
Nö reira – ka mihi ki a koe, e te rangatira.<br />
From humble beginnings grew a leader who, although faced by<br />
many challenges, triumphed over adversity to become <strong>on</strong>e of<br />
Mäoridom’s greatest ec<strong>on</strong>omic and political influences of our time.<br />
T<strong>his</strong> symposium is a fitting tribute to <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> Stanley <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g>,<br />
a man who <strong>on</strong>ce led the New Zealand Mäori Council in its most<br />
c<strong>on</strong>troversial period - the 80s. It was then the Council, with<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> at its helm, mounted a legal challenge against the<br />
Government over the sale of State-owned assets and w<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Throughout t<strong>his</strong> symposium we will all share our stories and<br />
our experiences of t<strong>his</strong> outstanding leader. We pay tribute to the<br />
invaluable c<strong>on</strong>tributi<strong>on</strong> he has made to the social, ec<strong>on</strong>omic and<br />
political success that Mäori enjoy today.<br />
Nö reira – ka mihi ki a koe e te rangatira.<br />
H<strong>on</strong> Parekura Horomia, Minister of Mäori Affairs<br />
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New Zealand Mäori Council Foreword<br />
Tihei Mauri ora!<br />
He h<strong>on</strong>ore ki <strong>Te</strong> Atua<br />
He maungar<strong>on</strong>go ki te mata o te whenua<br />
He whakaaro pai ki ngä tängata katoa<br />
He h<strong>on</strong>ore ki tö tätou Kïngi a Tuheitia me töna hoa rangatira. Ka<br />
maumahara tätou ki a rätou kua wehe ki te pö. Haere ngä mate,<br />
haere. Tätou te hunga ora, tënä tätou katoa.<br />
Tënä koutou kua tae mai ki tënei rä whakahirahira ki te whakanui tö<br />
tätou koroua a Tä Kerema me äna mahi rangatira mai rä anö.<br />
Whakatau mai, Nau mai, Haere mai rä.<br />
It is with great pleasure and a sense of h<strong>on</strong>our that <strong>on</strong> behalf of the<br />
New Zealand Mäori Council I thank you all for attending the <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Symposium</str<strong>on</strong>g>. Today we reflect <strong>on</strong> the life of <strong>on</strong>e of<br />
our most prominent Mäori leaders, <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> Stanley <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g>, who<br />
has given a life time of service to the wellbeing and advancement of<br />
Mäoridom.<br />
From very humble beginnings <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> has risen through the<br />
ranks of tribal leadership to become a nati<strong>on</strong>al figure influencing<br />
change in the legal process. The State Owned Enterprise Act, Crown<br />
Forest Assets Act, the Crown Forest Rental Trust, Mäori Fisheries and<br />
Mäori Broadcasting are a result of <strong>his</strong> efforts. <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g>’s legacy<br />
means that as Mäori settle more and more of their claims they will<br />
play an increasingly significant role in the ec<strong>on</strong>omic future of New<br />
Zealand. Throughout the country regi<strong>on</strong>al communities will flourish<br />
as Mäori communities prosper because of t<strong>his</strong> capital injecti<strong>on</strong> into<br />
those regi<strong>on</strong>s. New jobs and opportunities will follow.<br />
His gift has been <strong>his</strong> ability to work with different leaders from<br />
across the political divide and in the interest of all Mäori.<br />
His mentors Kemp Nathan and others chose well when they cast the<br />
korowai of resp<strong>on</strong>sibility <strong>on</strong> <strong>his</strong> shoulders to lead <strong>his</strong> people. His<br />
determinati<strong>on</strong> and visi<strong>on</strong> has fulfilled their expectati<strong>on</strong>s many times<br />
over.<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g>, we thank you for your leadership and your lifetime<br />
commitment to Mäori and the nati<strong>on</strong> and in doing so we<br />
acknowledge the silent c<strong>on</strong>tributi<strong>on</strong> and sacrifice that Lady Emily<br />
has made during her 60 years at your side.<br />
Näku noa<br />
On behalf of the New Zealand Mäori Council<br />
Jim Nicholls - Deputy Chair<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> has also made a significant c<strong>on</strong>tributi<strong>on</strong> to language<br />
revitalisati<strong>on</strong> by having te reo Mäori recognised as an official<br />
language, a ta<strong>on</strong>ga that has led to a nati<strong>on</strong>al broadcasting network<br />
and Mäori <strong>Te</strong>levisi<strong>on</strong>.<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g>’s success is attributed in part to <strong>his</strong> humility and <strong>his</strong><br />
interest in people that has spanned different age groups from<br />
different backgrounds; from mokopuna to tamariki, from rangatahi<br />
to kaumätua; from Black Power members to Heads of State.<br />
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<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> Henare Ngata writes<br />
Noel Harris<strong>on</strong> has paid a handsome tribute to <strong>on</strong>e of Mäoridom’s<br />
outstanding leaders in <strong>his</strong> biography of <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g>.<br />
I came to know <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> when he joined the New Zealand Mäori<br />
Council in 1964. I retired in 1985, so we had a l<strong>on</strong>g associati<strong>on</strong><br />
together <strong>on</strong> the Council. He rose through the ranks of the Council<br />
becoming its vice-president in the sixties and the president in 1973,<br />
a positi<strong>on</strong> he c<strong>on</strong>tinues to hold in 2002. In 1980, in recogniti<strong>on</strong> of <strong>his</strong><br />
leadership of the Council and the c<strong>on</strong>tributi<strong>on</strong> to Mäori affairs by<br />
both the Council and himself, he was knighted.<br />
Trooper <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g> and<br />
Trooper Kino Beazley, 1946<br />
Like <strong>his</strong> predecessors as president, <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> was a Nati<strong>on</strong>al Party<br />
supporter. All three in fact – <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> Turi Carroll, Dr Pei J<strong>on</strong>es and <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> – had been parliamentary candidates for the Nati<strong>on</strong>al Party.<br />
Unlike <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> Turi, who endeavoured to maintain the independence of<br />
the Council by putting some distance between himself and the Party,<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> retained <strong>his</strong> party affiliati<strong>on</strong>, and so rejected the advice of<br />
friends in the New Zealand Mäori Council.<br />
In the event, I d<strong>on</strong>’t believe any harm was d<strong>on</strong>e. Looking back<br />
over the years, I observe that Mäori had never been given serious<br />
c<strong>on</strong>siderati<strong>on</strong> in the Nati<strong>on</strong>al Party’s designs anyway. On the other<br />
hand, Mäori political aspirati<strong>on</strong>s never regarded the Nati<strong>on</strong>al Party<br />
as a friendly c<strong>on</strong>tender.<br />
It was after the Labour Party returned to power in 1984 that <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> gained wider prominence as a Mäori leader.<br />
Noel Harris<strong>on</strong> sets out in some details the challenge <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> led<br />
against the Government’s plan in 1987 to transfer Crown assets to<br />
newly established state-owned enterprises, a move that he regarded<br />
as a crucial threat to Treaty of Waitangi settlements.<br />
The Court of Appeal verdict in favour of the New Zealand Mäori<br />
Council was, according to Noel Harris<strong>on</strong>, the crowning achievement<br />
in <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g>’s career. All the elements of high drama were certainly<br />
present: eminent counsel, prestigious judges, and a successful<br />
challenge against the power and the authority of the Crown mounted<br />
by an individual who possessed little more than <strong>his</strong> str<strong>on</strong>g belief<br />
that what he was doing was right, and <strong>his</strong> faith and courage to see it<br />
through.<br />
However, while <strong>on</strong>e agrees that the Court of Appeal decisi<strong>on</strong><br />
established a new benchmark in relati<strong>on</strong>s between the Crown<br />
and Mäori, <strong>on</strong>e cannot readily erase from <strong>on</strong>e’s mind the l<strong>on</strong>g<br />
<strong>his</strong>tory of dubious practices by the Crown that Mäori have<br />
had to bear. More often than not in the past the course that<br />
politicians have set has been determined more by expediency<br />
than by principle.<br />
There has, however, been a curious c<strong>on</strong>tradicti<strong>on</strong> in the course<br />
of recent Treaty settlements. While Labour governments have<br />
set the stage in enacting epoch-making legislati<strong>on</strong>, as it were, it<br />
has in fact been Nati<strong>on</strong>al governments which have led the way<br />
in effecting actual settlements: with Tainui, with Ngai Tahu,<br />
and in the acquisiti<strong>on</strong> of substantial fisheries assets.<br />
Waitangi Tribunal Chairman<br />
Eddie Durie, Bruce Robins<strong>on</strong><br />
(Department of Maori Affairs),<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g> and <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
Henare Ngata (member of the<br />
New Zealand Maori Council<br />
throughout the early 1980s)<br />
6 <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g> 7
Currently, there has been speculati<strong>on</strong> that changes in the c<strong>on</strong>stituti<strong>on</strong><br />
of the Waitangi Tribunal are under c<strong>on</strong>siderati<strong>on</strong>, and that these may<br />
be more favourable to the Crown than to its Mäori Treaty partner.<br />
But, for me, the most revealing insight into the character and quality<br />
of <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> was <strong>his</strong> involvement in the “mokomokai” issue. With<br />
little if anything to gain, and at some c<strong>on</strong>siderati<strong>on</strong> financial cost, he<br />
stopped the sale in England of the tattooed head of a Mäori warrior.<br />
He said he was offended that human body parts should be regarded<br />
as saleable commodities. The tattooed head was ‘tapu’ and should be<br />
returned home and given a decent burial. With no help either from<br />
the Government or the Nati<strong>on</strong>al Museum that was precisely what <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> did.<br />
Before I c<strong>on</strong>clude, I must say something about the New Zealand<br />
Mäori Council – the platform and motivating force in <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g>’s<br />
life for nearly forty years.<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g> with<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> Paul Reeves<br />
Set up in 1962 with high hopes and lofty aspirati<strong>on</strong>s, the Council<br />
was for years regarded as a Nati<strong>on</strong>al Party puppet. In fact, its<br />
membership has been drawn from a wide range of political creeds.<br />
Political bias has never been a dominant c<strong>on</strong>cern of the Council.<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> has been an adviser <strong>on</strong> Mäori issues to both Muldo<strong>on</strong><br />
and Bolger during their respective terms as prime minister. Lange<br />
and Palmer have also sought <strong>his</strong> advice, as has Prime Minister<br />
Helen Clark, according to the media. T<strong>his</strong> bears testim<strong>on</strong>y to the<br />
independence of the Council, and to the integrity and independence<br />
of <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g>.<br />
A m<strong>on</strong>thly news publicati<strong>on</strong> recently quoted <strong>on</strong>e of the members of<br />
Labour’s Mäori caucus as saying, in reference to <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g>’s efforts<br />
to persuade the Prime Minister to return to Waitangi for the 2002<br />
Waitangi Day cerem<strong>on</strong>ies, that he thought ‘it was really outrageous<br />
that a bloke who goes into print against Dover Samuels, has taken<br />
the Government to court more than any<strong>on</strong>e else, all of a sudden is<br />
now a champi<strong>on</strong>’. However unintended, t<strong>his</strong> statement must surely<br />
be a remarkable affirmati<strong>on</strong> of <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g>’s and the Mäori Council’s<br />
independence.<br />
In recent years, however, the Council seems to have lost its ‘fizz’.<br />
There are reports <strong>on</strong> internal bickering. Yet, more than ever, the<br />
Council is needed.<br />
Since <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> Hepi <strong>Te</strong> Heuheu passed away a few years ago, the Mäori<br />
C<strong>on</strong>gress (established in 1990) has almost disappeared from sight.<br />
Runanga profess to act for Mäori, but as they are organisati<strong>on</strong>s set<br />
up by government under the Runanga Iwi Act 1990 to carry out<br />
government policy, and which receive government funds to do so,<br />
it is highly questi<strong>on</strong>able as to how runanga can keep faith with both<br />
Crown and Mäori.<br />
I end these comments with a tribute to Lady Emily <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g>: a gentle<br />
pers<strong>on</strong>, but always str<strong>on</strong>g in her support of her husband and of the<br />
Mäori Council.<br />
Noel Harris<strong>on</strong>’s book makes good reading.<br />
Kia ora Ta Kereama korua ko to hoa rangatira. Ma te Kaihanga korua<br />
e manaaki.<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> Henare Ngata, 2002<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g> and <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
Edm<strong>on</strong>d Hillary with some of<br />
their mokopuna<br />
The reference for <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> Henare Ngata and Heather Ayrt<strong>on</strong> pieces are from:<br />
Harris<strong>on</strong>, N (2002) <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g>: a biography (Huia, Wellingt<strong>on</strong>.)<br />
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<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> and Lady Emily <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
Heather Ayrt<strong>on</strong> writes<br />
The complexities of Mäori thinking are often difficult for Pakeha to<br />
comprehend.<br />
When the late Dame Whina Cooper imperiously summ<strong>on</strong>ed <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g> to her bedside at Middlemore Hospital shortly<br />
before her return home to Panguru to die, she purportedly<br />
transferred the mantle of her resp<strong>on</strong>sibilities for Mäoridom to him.<br />
She was also emphasising her own mana as well as her achievements<br />
and hopes for her people together with the betterment of all New<br />
Zealanders.<br />
Dame Whina’s fearlessly untiring work for Mäoridom was selfimposed.<br />
Law unto herself, she trod where neither angels nor other<br />
women dared.<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g>, <strong>on</strong> the over hand, was directed, charged and challenged<br />
by <strong>his</strong> elders into the most daunting of tasks. Essentially humble,<br />
painfully aware of <strong>his</strong> shortcomings and inadequacies, he found<br />
himself thrust into the turmoil of significant and crucial times of<br />
change and the associated needs of Mäoridom.<br />
Dame Whina was a Mäori woman and proud of it. Of mixed blood,<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> grew up more as Pakeha but was str<strong>on</strong>gly influenced by<br />
<strong>his</strong> Mäori heritage. His elders saw him as a str<strong>on</strong>g bridge between<br />
the two cultures, some<strong>on</strong>e who would be able to walk with dignity in<br />
both worlds.<br />
He always endeavoured never to let <strong>his</strong> elders or <strong>his</strong> tupuna down.<br />
His way has not been without immense difficulties. At times <strong>his</strong><br />
burden has been heartbreaking to the point of bitter despair but he<br />
has barely faltered. Often <strong>his</strong> sense of humour aided him.<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> has a reputati<strong>on</strong> for kindliness, for compassi<strong>on</strong>ate<br />
understanding but also for shrewdness. His infinite patience, <strong>his</strong><br />
preparedness to compromise where necessary, are coupled with a<br />
determinati<strong>on</strong> comparable with that of the indomitable Dame Whina.<br />
While he may be secretly pleased with <strong>his</strong> successes, he is more<br />
c<strong>on</strong>cerned that there is still room for improvements with much yet to<br />
be d<strong>on</strong>e.<br />
He frets at the restricti<strong>on</strong>s and effects of advancing years but has<br />
c<strong>on</strong>fidence that there are people to follow <strong>his</strong> aspirati<strong>on</strong>s.<br />
There can be no doubt of the influence of <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> in many<br />
spheres, in Mäoridom, politics, the Anglican Church and <strong>his</strong> kindly<br />
assistance in many lives.<br />
In writing of the life of <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g>, Noel Harris<strong>on</strong> has provided an<br />
insight into the moulding of what New Zealand <strong>his</strong>tory will regard<br />
as the man chosen for the times and how that man to the best of <strong>his</strong><br />
ability dealt with the challenges imposed up<strong>on</strong> him.<br />
Heather Ayrt<strong>on</strong>, 2002 2<br />
2 ibid<br />
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<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g>’s life at a glance<br />
7 February 1926 <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> Stanley <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g>, born Waiharara, s<strong>on</strong><br />
of Lillian Edith (nee Kenworthy) and <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g>.<br />
February 1940<br />
1943 Joined the Army.<br />
Attended Kaitaia College for two weeks in the<br />
third form.<br />
1946-1947 Served with J Force in Japan.<br />
1948 Married Emily Moore, Joined New Zealand<br />
Railways (resigned in 1961)<br />
1952: Moved to Kaiwaka, Kaipara Harbour, as<br />
stati<strong>on</strong>master; Met the Nathan family (Kemp and<br />
Jessie)<br />
1956 Elected as spokespers<strong>on</strong> for Ngati Whatua. Became<br />
a Mäori Warden.<br />
1961- 1979 Became a farmer (Tinopai, Kaipara Harbour).<br />
1963 Elected to the Tai Tokerau District Mäori Council<br />
1964 Elected to the New Zealand Mäori Council as <strong>on</strong>e<br />
of three delegates representing Tai Tokerau.<br />
1966-1975 Elected secretary, Tai Tokerau District Mäori<br />
Council.<br />
1969 Elected vice-president, New Zealand Mäori<br />
Council.<br />
1980 Knighted (investiture at Waitangi in 1981)<br />
1981-1992 Mäori vice-president of the Nati<strong>on</strong>al Party<br />
1986 Passage of the State-Owned Enterprises Act<br />
1987 Initiated a successful appeal against the State-<br />
Owned Enterprises Act, leading to a series of<br />
acti<strong>on</strong>s against the Crown, relating to land, forests,<br />
fisheries and te reo Mäori.<br />
1988 Retrieved tupuna Mäori from England, and<br />
stopped the public sale of human remains<br />
(artifacts) by aucti<strong>on</strong> houses<br />
1990- Became chairman of the Crown Forest Rental Trust<br />
1993-1998 Member of the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries<br />
Commissi<strong>on</strong><br />
1995 Returned to Pamapuria<br />
Other positi<strong>on</strong>s and offices:<br />
– Member or the General Synod of the Anglican Church<br />
– Member of the Board of the Nati<strong>on</strong>al Museum<br />
– Member of the Alcoholic Liquor Advisory Council, and director of<br />
various commercial enterprises.<br />
1969-1972 Stood unsuccessfully as the Nati<strong>on</strong>al Party<br />
Candidate for Northern Mäori electorate.<br />
1973 Elected president of the New Zealand Mäori<br />
Council.<br />
1977 Appointed as <strong>on</strong>e of the first three members of the<br />
Waitangi Tribunal<br />
1979- Chairman of the Tai Tokerau Mäori Trust Board<br />
1979-1995 Farmed at Taipuha, Kaipara Harbour<br />
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<str<strong>on</strong>g>Symposium</str<strong>on</strong>g> Programme<br />
M<strong>on</strong>day 20th October 2008<br />
4pm<br />
Pöwhiri – <strong>Te</strong> Papa T<strong>on</strong>garewa followed by an informal<br />
recepti<strong>on</strong> – guest speaker H<strong>on</strong> Shane J<strong>on</strong>es<br />
Tuesday 21st October 2008<br />
7.30 am Registrati<strong>on</strong> – <strong>Te</strong>a and Coffee <strong>on</strong> arrival<br />
8:45 am Karakia – Bishop Muru Walters<br />
New Zealand Mäori Council welcome to <str<strong>on</strong>g>Symposium</str<strong>on</strong>g> – Jim Nicholls<br />
Master of Cerem<strong>on</strong>ies – Derek Fox<br />
ACKNOWLEDGING A LEADER<br />
9.00 – 9:45am Opening address by the H<strong>on</strong> Dr Michael Cullen, Deputy Prime<br />
Minister<br />
9:10 – 9:45am Guest speakers:<br />
the Most. Rev. Brown Turei, the H<strong>on</strong> Taihakurei (Eddie) Durie,<br />
Chief Justice, Dame Sian Elias, the H<strong>on</strong> Justice David<br />
Baragwanath, <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> Doug <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g>, Rt. H<strong>on</strong> Jim Bolger ONZ.<br />
Chair: Kara Puketapu<br />
EARLY LIFE STORIES OF SIR GRAHAM LATIMER<br />
9:45 - 10:30am Speakers:<br />
10.30am<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> Henare Ngata, Rutene Irvine, JP MNZM, Mrs. Lully Heemi-<br />
Watene, Neville Baker, Sue Wood, H<strong>on</strong> Parekura Horomia.<br />
Chair: Naida Glavish<br />
Morning tea – Oceania Room<br />
THE SEEDS OF MĀORI ECONOMIC GROWTH<br />
10.50 – 11:50am Speakers:<br />
John Whitehead, H<strong>on</strong> Koro Wetere, Nganeko Minhinnick, Toko<br />
Renata, Paul Morgan, Bentham Ohia.<br />
Chair: Dr. Ngatata Love<br />
LANGUAGE & BROADCASTING – It’s past and future<br />
11.50 – 12:50pm Speakers:<br />
Professor Whatärangi Winiata, Iritana Tawhiwhirangi, Dr. Toby<br />
Curtis, Mavis Mullins, Piripi Walker.<br />
Chair: Julian Wilcox<br />
12.50 – 1:35pm Lunch – Oceania Room<br />
THE FACES OF CHANGE 1975-2008<br />
1.35 – 2:30pm Speakers:<br />
Ben Dalt<strong>on</strong>, Haami Piripi, H<strong>on</strong>e Harawira MP, <strong>Te</strong> Ringa Mangu<br />
(Dun) Mihaka, D<strong>on</strong>na Awatere-Huata.<br />
Chair: The H<strong>on</strong>ourable Justice Joe Williams<br />
LEADING US INTO THE FUTURE – Building a nati<strong>on</strong><br />
2.30 – 3:30pm Speakers:<br />
The Day in Review<br />
Raiha, Lady Mahuta, Russell Kemp, Apirana Mahuika, Chris<br />
Finlays<strong>on</strong> MP, Turoa Royal, Manuka Henare (PhD).<br />
Chair: Prof. Linda Smith<br />
3.30 – 4pm Summary of the days event - Prof. Mas<strong>on</strong> Durie<br />
Closing Remarks<br />
Dr John Tamahori<br />
Chair: Archie Taiaroa<br />
Karakia whakamutanga – Bishop Muru Walters<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Symposium</str<strong>on</strong>g> Dinner<br />
Hosted by H<strong>on</strong> Parekura Horomia 5.30pm, Beehive Banquet<br />
Hall, Parliament Buildings<br />
Master of Cerem<strong>on</strong>ies – Erima Henare<br />
Toast of H<strong>on</strong>our – <strong>Te</strong> Ariki Tumu te Heuheu<br />
Entertainment – Dame Malvina Major and <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> Howard Morris<strong>on</strong><br />
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A taste of some of the c<strong>on</strong>tributi<strong>on</strong>s at the symposium<br />
David Baragwanath<br />
* Court of Appeal of New Zealand;<br />
formerly leading counsel for <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
and the New Zealand Mäori Council<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g> – notes for interview<br />
8 October 2008<br />
David Baragwanath *<br />
Following Nganeko Minhinnick’s warning about the c<strong>on</strong>sequences<br />
of the SOE Bill we had obtained from the Waitangi Tribunal at <strong>Te</strong><br />
Hapua the recommendati<strong>on</strong> that led to s 9 of the SOE Act.<br />
Nganeko then issued a further warning: that the Act would not<br />
provide protecti<strong>on</strong> in relati<strong>on</strong> to assets transferred to SOEs. So<br />
in March 1987 we had secured undertakings for Tainui from the<br />
Solicitor-General, Paul Neazor QC, that the Crown would not<br />
apply the SOE Act to land in its rohe. But it declined to provide that<br />
undertaking to other tribes; to have d<strong>on</strong>e so would have gutted the<br />
major project of the Third Labour Government.<br />
Sian Elias then introduced me to <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g>. He was faced with a<br />
c<strong>on</strong>siderable dilemma, like that encountered by the plaintiffs in the<br />
South Africa Rugby Tour case. Under the law of the time there was<br />
c<strong>on</strong>siderable doubt whether the New Zealand Mäori Council would<br />
have standing to sue. But for an individual to act as plaintiff would<br />
make him immediately vulnerable to a costs order, which for a case<br />
of such dimensi<strong>on</strong>s could be enormous. It c<strong>on</strong>cerned some 14 milli<strong>on</strong><br />
hectares, about 52 per cent of the land surface of the country. The<br />
book value al<strong>on</strong>e of assets to be transferred to the new state owned<br />
corporati<strong>on</strong>s (land being part <strong>on</strong>ly of those assets) was much in<br />
excess of $11.8 billi<strong>on</strong>. Fifty four thousand people had transferred<br />
to the corporati<strong>on</strong>s or the new departments; while nearly 5,000 took<br />
voluntary severance at a total cost to the taxpayer of over $93 milli<strong>on</strong>.<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> did not blink. Supported by Lady <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g> and the family<br />
he put all <strong>his</strong> assets <strong>on</strong> the line, including the farm which provided<br />
their security.<br />
The result of their courage and the determinati<strong>on</strong> of <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> and<br />
<strong>his</strong> team 1 was that for the first time the Treaty of Waitangi secured<br />
prominence in New Zealand law.<br />
The effects were tangible and intangible; social and c<strong>on</strong>stituti<strong>on</strong>al.<br />
The decisi<strong>on</strong> of the Court of Appeal directly:<br />
(1) stopped the privatisati<strong>on</strong> and c<strong>on</strong>sequent loss to private<br />
purchasers of disputed property which, remaining in Crown<br />
hands, had retained the potential for return to Mäori;<br />
(2) resulted in the registrati<strong>on</strong> against SOE titles of memorials that<br />
empowered the Waitangi Tribunal to claw back the land if that<br />
was required to redress Treaty breach;<br />
(3) led to the side c<strong>on</strong>tract between the plaintiffs and the Crown by<br />
which it guaranteed proper funding of the Waitangi Tribunal.<br />
The intangible results c<strong>on</strong>cerned the status of the Treaty and of<br />
Mäori. The C<strong>on</strong>stituti<strong>on</strong> Act speaks of three spheres of government:<br />
the legislature, alias Parliament, the executive, alias the Government;<br />
and the judiciary. <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> has c<strong>on</strong>tributed notably to each: to<br />
our statute book; to how the country is governed; and to the way in<br />
which justice is administered.<br />
In my generati<strong>on</strong> at law school there was no such thing as treaty<br />
jurisprudence. Outside Mäoridom, the Treaty of Waitangi received<br />
no menti<strong>on</strong> at any point. The Treaty was a relic of an episode l<strong>on</strong>g<br />
ago without c<strong>on</strong>tinuing relevance. The statute book was destitute of<br />
any recogniti<strong>on</strong> of the Treaty. Now, by c<strong>on</strong>trast, a recent computer<br />
search of the New Zealand statutes threw up 199 references via <strong>on</strong>e<br />
search engine and no fewer than 573 via another.<br />
What t<strong>his</strong> evidences is a Mäori renaissance. It has many other<br />
symptoms. Some are seen at executive level and others at judicial.<br />
The sixth case called Mäori Council v Attorney-General has just been<br />
reported in the New Zealand Law Reports; time does not permit<br />
examinati<strong>on</strong> of each of them. But their themes – land, forests, radio,<br />
televisi<strong>on</strong> and all the rest – range from the 1840 document to state of<br />
the art modern technology. <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> was party to each.<br />
Others can speak of their experiences. Mine include the wisdom<br />
and range of <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g>’s visi<strong>on</strong>. As winner in the first Mäori<br />
Council case he exhibited a generosity of spirit that dem<strong>on</strong>strated<br />
<strong>his</strong> awareness that Mäori should no more beast the Government<br />
than the Government should bully them. That less<strong>on</strong> has not always<br />
been learned. The unhappy episode of the Forests case will serve as<br />
example. Instead of accepting the c<strong>on</strong>sequences of the 1987 decisi<strong>on</strong><br />
1 Lord Cooke listed in <strong>his</strong> judgment<br />
as well as <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> Stanley <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g>,<br />
Chairman of the New Zealand Mäori<br />
Council: <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> Henare Kohere Ngata<br />
of Gisborne, chartered accountant;<br />
Dame Whina Cooper of Panguru,<br />
founder of the Mäori Women’s Welfare<br />
League; <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> James Clend<strong>on</strong> Henare<br />
of Moerewa, retired farmer; Hikaia<br />
Amohia of Taumarunui, farmer;<br />
Mas<strong>on</strong> Harold Durie of Wellingt<strong>on</strong>,<br />
registered medical practiti<strong>on</strong>er; Harold<br />
Charles Evis<strong>on</strong> of Christchurch, retired<br />
senior lecturer; Denese Letitia Henare<br />
of Auckland, solicitor; Trevor Hapi<br />
House of Christchurch; researcher Ian<br />
Hugh Kawharu of Reweti, university<br />
professor, Benedict William Kingsbury,<br />
presently of England, research fellow;<br />
Peter Maru Love of Orewa, social<br />
worker; <strong>Te</strong> Kahuiiti Morehu of Rewiti,<br />
homemaker; Claudia Josepha Orange<br />
of Wellingt<strong>on</strong>, <strong>his</strong>torian; John Nathan<br />
Pickering of Porirua, proofreader;<br />
Harata Riateuira Solom<strong>on</strong> and<br />
Matuaiwi Solom<strong>on</strong> of Wellingt<strong>on</strong>,<br />
retired; Huhurere Tukukino of <strong>Te</strong><br />
Puru, retired; Stephen Taitoko White<br />
of Urenui, farmer; Whatarangi Winiata<br />
of Wellingt<strong>on</strong>, professor of accounting.<br />
Others included the members of the<br />
New Zealand Mäori Council, a number<br />
of whom are here today; Sian Elias and<br />
Martin Daws<strong>on</strong>.<br />
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and its settlement some in authority attempted to wriggle out. The<br />
c<strong>on</strong>sequence was a further visit to the Court of Appeal, which had<br />
wisely reserved leave to return in case of future need. The result was<br />
another vindicati<strong>on</strong> of the Mäori Council and of <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> and the<br />
establishment of the Crown Forestry Rental Trust, which funded<br />
<strong>his</strong>torians and lawyers in Tribunal claims, providing equality of arms<br />
for the first time. Its wider c<strong>on</strong>sequences have been seen in a variety<br />
of settlements, most recently the great Treelord transacti<strong>on</strong>.<br />
As well as “lands estates and forests” the English language versi<strong>on</strong><br />
of the Treaty speaks of fisheries. Standing shoulder to shoulder with<br />
<strong>his</strong> great friend, Matiu Rata, <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> fought for the fisheries as<br />
he did <strong>on</strong> other fr<strong>on</strong>ts. There are many vignettes. One, especially<br />
moving, was after Greig J’s heroic judgment, building <strong>on</strong> the work<br />
of the Waitangi Tribunal and preventing further privatising of the<br />
fisheries resource in New Zealand waters by prohibiting the creati<strong>on</strong><br />
of further itq. The presence in the Legislative Council Chamber<br />
of representatives of all Mäori, and the humble request of gang<br />
members to receive recogniti<strong>on</strong>, is unforgettable.<br />
That is of course what drives <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g>: not m<strong>on</strong>ey; not power; but<br />
the people.<br />
T<strong>his</strong> man is a farmer. He is also both a social scientist and a thinker.<br />
Increase in crime has again made headlines. Over the 21 years I<br />
have known him <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g>’s leadership has d<strong>on</strong>e much to limit<br />
the unacceptable crime statistics that bedevil our society. He has<br />
pointed the way to its reducti<strong>on</strong>: an understanding that the future<br />
of New Zealand lies in recogniti<strong>on</strong> of the dignity of each member<br />
of our community. That understanding is why successive Prime<br />
Ministers have c<strong>on</strong>sulted him regularly. It is why in time of strife<br />
the inmates of D Block at Paremoremo have accepted <strong>his</strong> mediati<strong>on</strong>.<br />
And it is why it is a privilege to take part today in t<strong>his</strong> tribute to our<br />
friend and to Lady <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g>, who throughout has been <strong>his</strong> greatest<br />
supporter.<br />
<strong>Te</strong> Ringa Mangu (Dun) Mihaka<br />
My korero will discuss my involvement in the protest movement,<br />
during which time I came into c<strong>on</strong>tact with <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g>.<br />
The main thing that drew our paths together was the issue of the<br />
Mäori language. Demanding cases to be heard in te reo was an act<br />
that set other wheels in moti<strong>on</strong>. <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> was involved with Ngä<br />
Kaiwhakapämau i te Reo Mäori.<br />
My first awareness of <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g> goes back to my childhood<br />
at Parawhenua Marae. He and other people such as Mäori Marsden<br />
would attend various tangihanga throughout the Ngapuhi rohe.<br />
In the 1970’s when I moved to Wellingt<strong>on</strong> the Reverend D<strong>on</strong> Borrie<br />
put me in touch with the New Zealand Mäori Council.<br />
I used the resources of the Nati<strong>on</strong>al New Zealand Mäori council <strong>on</strong> a<br />
regular basis in the seventies and eighties and heard that <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
had endorsed and encouraged my use of these resources.<br />
During the various protest activities such as the land march in 1975,<br />
Basti<strong>on</strong> Point in 1976-78, the Waitangi Acti<strong>on</strong> Committee (WAC)<br />
instigated march <strong>on</strong> Waitangi from 1979 <strong>on</strong>wards, through to<br />
the present day. One of the things I will always be thankful to <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> for is urging <strong>his</strong> staff to accommodate me.<br />
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Mavis Mullins<br />
Manuka Henare<br />
Mavis Mullins<br />
The cloak of influence as cast by <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> has extended to the<br />
new technological platform of “Informati<strong>on</strong>, Communicati<strong>on</strong>, and<br />
<strong>Te</strong>chnology & <strong>Te</strong>lecommunicati<strong>on</strong>s”.<br />
There is no doubt that without our accelerated uptake and then<br />
applicati<strong>on</strong> of these technologies, Mäori will again be left in the<br />
tail wind of a fast evolving global ec<strong>on</strong>omy. Surely over the past<br />
generati<strong>on</strong>s, we have learnt enough valuable less<strong>on</strong>s by being in the<br />
“catch up” sector.<br />
It is time for us to leverage the substantive Mäori asset base by using<br />
these new technologies to work in real time all the time, to better<br />
c<strong>on</strong>nect and then to drive efficiencies we are still learning more<br />
about.<br />
The visi<strong>on</strong> and determinati<strong>on</strong> of people such as <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> and<br />
others such as Whatarangi Winiata, and Hineaho and <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
Evert<strong>on</strong> have brough about opportunities for Mäori to participate in<br />
t<strong>his</strong> highly evolved area.<br />
I look forward to sharing with guests at t<strong>his</strong> very prestigious<br />
symposium, a snapshot of the journey and the opportunities of the<br />
exciting future we are working <strong>on</strong> within the telecommunicati<strong>on</strong>s<br />
arena.<br />
Abstract from Manuka Henare (Phd)<br />
“ ‘Titiro atu ki ngä taumata o te moana’: Looking to a transfigured<br />
future 50 years from now”<br />
Just before he died about 1854 the great Ngäti Hine leader <strong>Te</strong> Ruki<br />
Kawiti prophesied that Mäori would become labourers under their<br />
Päkehä friends and that <strong>Te</strong> Tiriti o Waitangi and its articles would<br />
be set up<strong>on</strong> by the sand fly. Then and <strong>on</strong>ly then he said, should the<br />
people rise up and oppose the descrati<strong>on</strong> of the ‘Papa Pounamu’ (the<br />
articles of the treaty). It is within t<strong>his</strong> <strong>his</strong>torical framework that we<br />
explore the extraordinary political and juridical events of the 1980s<br />
and the leadership of <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> Latimour and the New Zealand Mäori<br />
Council. In what I will refer to as a modern day uprising <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
Latimour together with other Rangatira opposed the c<strong>on</strong>tinued<br />
desecrati<strong>on</strong> of the Papa Pounamu through a series of challenges<br />
before the Appeal Court wherein the great principles of the <strong>Te</strong> Tiriti<br />
o Waitangi were espoused again and both the wairua and mana of<br />
the treaty was restored. The c<strong>on</strong>cluding statement in the prophesy,<br />
‘Titiro atu ki ngä taumata o te moana’ is then c<strong>on</strong>sidered as we look<br />
50 years ahead of the present time to a transfigured future.<br />
Manuka Henare<br />
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Speaker Profiles<br />
D<strong>on</strong>na Awatere-Huata<br />
Rt H<strong>on</strong> Jim Bolger, ONZ<br />
D<strong>on</strong>na Awatere-Huata is in<br />
there somewhere<br />
Neville Baker<br />
With her signature dark glasses, D<strong>on</strong>na earned a reputati<strong>on</strong>, in<br />
the 1970’s as the Darth Vader of Mäori protest. First arrested with<br />
Bruce Jess<strong>on</strong> with the feminist group Women for Equality in 1969,<br />
D<strong>on</strong>na became with Nga Tamatoa, the Land March, Hana, Eva,<br />
Joe, Nganeko, Titewhai, Ripeka, Hilda and others, the flag bearers<br />
for Mäori Sovereignty. Her book under t<strong>his</strong> title and the Springbok<br />
Tour ushered in a unique era of rangatiratanga. During the 80’s her<br />
company IHI helped government agencies become more kaupapa<br />
resp<strong>on</strong>sive. Her spell in Parliament, marked by a persistent advocacy<br />
for better literacy and educati<strong>on</strong> for Mäori, was brought to an end in<br />
the first case heard by the Supreme Court.<br />
D<strong>on</strong>na and her husband Wi are assisting <strong>Te</strong> Whänau o Waipareira<br />
Trust and the Nati<strong>on</strong>al Urban Mäori Authority build a nati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
collaborati<strong>on</strong> around the barriers to the cultural and academic<br />
potential of our families.<br />
Neville Baker<br />
Wellingt<strong>on</strong>-based Neville Baker (<strong>Te</strong> Atiawa) has devoted <strong>his</strong> life to<br />
the advancement and uplifting of Mäori.<br />
He is highly respected in both the world of Mäori and the public<br />
service, having held the positi<strong>on</strong> of Deputy Secretary of Mäori Affairs<br />
from 1985-87 and Mäori Trustee from 1987-90.<br />
Throughout <strong>his</strong> 30-year career in the public service, Neville advised a<br />
number of governments <strong>on</strong> a wide range of issues c<strong>on</strong>cerning Mäori,<br />
including: <strong>Te</strong> <strong>Puni</strong> Kökiri, Crown Forestry Rental Trust, Kohanga<br />
Reo Nati<strong>on</strong>al Trust and Department for Courts.<br />
Former Prime Minister Jim Bolger is a member of the Order of New<br />
Zealand. He is currently Chairman of KiwiRail, Kiwibank, New<br />
Zealand Post and sits <strong>on</strong> the New Zealand United States Council. He<br />
was also elected Chancellor of Waikato University in 2007.<br />
Born in Taranaki in 1935, Jim was a beef and sheep farmer, and active<br />
in farming organisati<strong>on</strong>s before entering nati<strong>on</strong>al politics in 1972<br />
when he was elected MP for the King Country.<br />
Jim Bolger was the 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand from<br />
October 1990 to December 1997. He led the Nati<strong>on</strong>al Party for almost<br />
12 years and had three c<strong>on</strong>secutive terms as the country’s head of<br />
government.<br />
His Ministerial portfolios included Labour, Fisheries, Mäori Affairs,<br />
Immigrati<strong>on</strong>, State, Associate Foreign Affairs and Trade, Associate<br />
Agriculture, and Minister in Charge of the New Zealand Security<br />
Intelligence Service.<br />
Mr Bolger was President of the Internati<strong>on</strong>al Labour Organisati<strong>on</strong><br />
in 1983 and was appointed member of the Order of New Zealand <strong>on</strong><br />
31 December 1997. He was appointed New Zealand Ambassador to<br />
Washingt<strong>on</strong> from 1998 to 2001.<br />
It was under <strong>his</strong> Government that the Treaty of Waitangi settlement<br />
process began and he, al<strong>on</strong>gside <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> Doug <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g>, were <strong>on</strong> hand for<br />
the signings of settlements for Ngai Tahu and Tainui.<br />
Rt H<strong>on</strong> Jim Bolger, ONZ<br />
He is a trustee of the Wellingt<strong>on</strong> <strong>Te</strong>nths Trust and chair of a<br />
number of runanga and marae organisati<strong>on</strong>s. Neville has held other<br />
governance positi<strong>on</strong>s with: Parkway College Board of Trustees,<br />
Aotearoa Traditi<strong>on</strong>al Mäori Performing Arts Festival (Wellingt<strong>on</strong><br />
1998), <strong>Te</strong> Atiawa Nui T<strong>on</strong>u, Poutama Trust, Matiu-Somes Island<br />
Trust and Corresp<strong>on</strong>dence School Board of Trustees; he is a former<br />
director of Mäori Development Corporati<strong>on</strong> and director Wellingt<strong>on</strong><br />
Rugby League Franc<strong>his</strong>e.<br />
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H<strong>on</strong> Dr Michael Cullen<br />
Dr Toby Curtis<br />
H<strong>on</strong> Dr Michael Cullen<br />
Deputy Prime Minister<br />
Attorney-General<br />
Minister of Finance [Including Resp<strong>on</strong>sibility for the<br />
Government Superannuati<strong>on</strong> Fund]<br />
Minister in charge of Treaty of Waitangi<br />
negotiati<strong>on</strong>s<br />
Leader of the House<br />
Dr Michael Cullen is the Deputy Prime Minister, Deputy Leader of<br />
the Labour Party, and <strong>on</strong>e of Labour’s l<strong>on</strong>gest serving MPs. He has<br />
been Finance Minister and Leader of the House since Labour took<br />
office in 1999.<br />
He was first elected to Parliament in 1981 as the Member for St Kilda<br />
in Dunedin.<br />
BA Dip/Tchg MA(H<strong>on</strong>s) PhD<br />
AFNZIM FNZEAS FCCEAM EAAUT<br />
Toby is c<strong>on</strong>sidered <strong>on</strong>e of New Zealand’s foremost Mäori<br />
educati<strong>on</strong>alists. Toby has worked in the Mäori Schools service,<br />
Special Educati<strong>on</strong>, and in primary and sec<strong>on</strong>dary schools in<br />
deputy and principal positi<strong>on</strong>s. He was appointed Vice Principal of<br />
Auckland <strong>Te</strong>acher’s College and later Director of Primary <strong>Te</strong>acher<br />
Educati<strong>on</strong> at the Auckland College of Educati<strong>on</strong>. Past commitments<br />
involved executive membership NZ Council of Educati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
Administrati<strong>on</strong> Society and Vice President of the Comm<strong>on</strong>wealth<br />
Council of Educati<strong>on</strong>al Administrati<strong>on</strong>. He is a former Chair of the<br />
Nati<strong>on</strong>al Mäori Sports Associati<strong>on</strong> and <strong>Te</strong> Mängai Paho (Mäori<br />
Broadcasting Funding Agency).<br />
Dr Toby Curtis<br />
Dr Cullen has two daughters, a steps<strong>on</strong> and stepdaughter and is the<br />
proud grandfather of two. He is married to Lows<strong>on</strong> Anne Collins, a<br />
primary school teacher and a former Labour MP. Dr Cullen has New<br />
Zealand nati<strong>on</strong>ality but was born in L<strong>on</strong>d<strong>on</strong>. He emigrated here as a<br />
child. His birthdate is 5 February, 1945.<br />
Dr Cullen was made Senior Government Whip when Labour took<br />
office in 1984 and entered the Cabinet in 1987 as Minister of Social<br />
Welfare and Associate Minister of Finance. He added Associate<br />
Minister of Health to <strong>his</strong> mix of portfolios in 1988 and in 1989 was<br />
made Associate Minister of Labour.<br />
He became Deputy Leader in 1996 when Labour was in Oppositi<strong>on</strong>.<br />
His shadow portfolios in the oppositi<strong>on</strong> years included: Social<br />
Welfare, Accident Insurance and Finance.<br />
Before entering Parliament, Dr Cullen was a Senior Lecturer in<br />
History at the University of Otago. He did <strong>his</strong> MA at Canterbury<br />
University, was a UK Comm<strong>on</strong>wealth Scholar and did <strong>his</strong> PhD at<br />
Edinburgh University. He has written two books: The Statistical<br />
Movement In Early Victorian Britain and Unlawfully Occupied.<br />
The Minister likes to listen to music, read, play golf badly and<br />
renovate houses in <strong>his</strong> spare time.<br />
Ben Dalt<strong>on</strong><br />
Ben is CFRT’s Chief Executive. Prior to t<strong>his</strong> appointment, he held the<br />
positi<strong>on</strong> of CFRT’s Manager Service Delivery for three years. During<br />
1998-2000 Ben was appointed to the Mäori Ec<strong>on</strong>omic Development<br />
Commissi<strong>on</strong>. He has also served with <strong>Te</strong> Runanga A Iwi O Ngapuhi<br />
and the Lottery Community Facilities Fund, and earlier roles include<br />
establishing a Private Training Establishment, being the owner/<br />
operator of a mobile sawmill, and working as a housing c<strong>on</strong>tractor.<br />
Ben has an MBA from Auckland and <strong>his</strong> hobbies include rugby,<br />
rugby league, fishing, biking, military <strong>his</strong>tory, travel and reading.<br />
H<strong>on</strong> Taihakurei (Eddie) Durie, BA.LLB, DCNZM. H<strong>on</strong>ourary<br />
Doctorates Victoria University of Wellingt<strong>on</strong>, Massey University<br />
and Waikato University. Born <strong>on</strong> the eve of the 100th anniversary<br />
of the Treaty of Waitangi, to Aorangi marae of Ngati Kauwhata<br />
and <strong>Te</strong> Hiiri o Mahuta marae of Ngati Rangatahi. Also of Ngati<br />
Raukawa and Rangitane. Graduate of <strong>Te</strong> Aute College and of<br />
Victoria University. Former lawyer (from 1965), Mäori Land Court<br />
judge (from 1974), Chief Judge Mäori Land Court and Chairpers<strong>on</strong><br />
Waitangi Tribunal (from 1980), Judge of the High Court (from 1998)<br />
and New Zealand Law Commissi<strong>on</strong>er (from 2004). Now retired from<br />
public service and retrieved for service to <strong>his</strong> iwi.<br />
Ben Dalt<strong>on</strong><br />
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H<strong>on</strong> Taihakurei (Eddie) Durie<br />
H<strong>on</strong> Taihakurei (Eddie) Durie<br />
Chris Finlays<strong>on</strong> MP<br />
H<strong>on</strong> Taihakurei (Eddie) Durie, BA.LLB, DCNZM. H<strong>on</strong>ourary<br />
Doctorates Victoria University of Wellingt<strong>on</strong>, Massey University<br />
and Waikato University. Born <strong>on</strong> the eve of the 100th anniversary<br />
of the Treaty of Waitangi, to Aorangi marae of Ngati Kauwhata<br />
and <strong>Te</strong> Hiiri o Mahuta marae of Ngati Rangatahi. Also of Ngati<br />
Raukawa and Rangitane. Graduate of <strong>Te</strong> Aute College and of<br />
Victoria University. Former lawyer (from 1965), Maori Land Court<br />
judge (from 1974), Chief Judge Maori Land Court and Chairpers<strong>on</strong><br />
Waitangi Tribunal (from 1980), Judge of the High Court (from 1998)<br />
and New Zealand Law Commissi<strong>on</strong>er (from 2004). Now retired from<br />
public service and retrieved for service to <strong>his</strong> iwi.<br />
Professor Mas<strong>on</strong> Durie<br />
Mas<strong>on</strong> Durie is a member of the Rangitane, Ngati Kauwhata, and<br />
Ngati Raukawa tribes. He has a medical background as a specialist<br />
psychiatrist.<br />
From 1986-1988 he was a Commissi<strong>on</strong>er <strong>on</strong> the Royal Commissi<strong>on</strong><br />
<strong>on</strong> Social Policy and was appointed to the chair in Mäori Studies<br />
at Massey University in 1988. He is currently Professor of Mäori<br />
Research and Development and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Mäori) at<br />
Massey University. He chairs <strong>Te</strong> Kahui Amokura, the Mäori Standing<br />
Committee of NZVCC and leads the Guardians Group of Sec<strong>on</strong>dary<br />
Futures. In additi<strong>on</strong> he is <strong>on</strong> the governing body of <strong>Te</strong> Wananga o<br />
Raukawa, a tribal tertiary educati<strong>on</strong> instituti<strong>on</strong> based at Otaki.<br />
Christopher Finlays<strong>on</strong>, MP<br />
Chris Finlays<strong>on</strong> was born in Wellingt<strong>on</strong> in 1956. Chris first joined<br />
the Nati<strong>on</strong>al Party whilst at St Pat’s and, since that time, has been<br />
very active in the Party. At various stages of <strong>his</strong> career, he has been<br />
a Branch, Electorate and Regi<strong>on</strong>al Chair. He has also served <strong>on</strong> the<br />
Rules Committee of the Nati<strong>on</strong>al Party and as the Chairman of the<br />
Policy C<strong>on</strong>sultati<strong>on</strong> Committee.<br />
Chris attended Victoria University, Wellingt<strong>on</strong>, where he graduated<br />
with a BA in Latin and French and a Masters Degree in Law. For<br />
twenty-five years he has practised law in Wellingt<strong>on</strong>, first in a firm<br />
called Brand<strong>on</strong>s where he was a partner for a number of years then,<br />
from 1990 – 2002 as a partner in Bell Gully in Wellingt<strong>on</strong>. In 2003<br />
Chris became a barrister sole.<br />
currently a member of the Rules Committee of the High Court. T<strong>his</strong><br />
Committee regulates court procedures in New Zealand. For many<br />
years he maintained <strong>his</strong> links to academic life through part-time<br />
teaching at Victoria University’s Law Faculty.<br />
Chris served <strong>on</strong> Creative New Zealand’s Board for six years and<br />
Chaired the Arts Board from 1998 – 2001. He is currently a Trustee of<br />
the New Zealand Symph<strong>on</strong>y Orchestra Foundati<strong>on</strong> and is involved<br />
in the Futuna Trust which was established to purchase Futuna<br />
Chapel in Karori.<br />
Caucus Resp<strong>on</strong>sibilities<br />
• Shadow Attorney-General<br />
• Spokesman for Arts, Culture and Heritage<br />
• Spokesman for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiati<strong>on</strong>s<br />
Select Committee<br />
• Justice and Electoral (Deputy Chairman)<br />
• Mäori Affairs<br />
Derek Fox<br />
Derek Fox first met the then <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g> many years ago - when<br />
they were both c<strong>on</strong>siderably younger. <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> was a member of the<br />
Mäori Council and the youngish Derek Fox used to cover the Mäori<br />
Council meetings at Parliament. Later the two worked together in<br />
publishing a copy of the Treaty of Waitangi in every major morning<br />
newspaper in the country <strong>on</strong> Waitangi 1986 – <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> had<br />
secured the funding for the project.<br />
At the time it was the greatest outing the Treaty had ever had in t<strong>his</strong><br />
country and was in a letter to the nati<strong>on</strong> signed by <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> who<br />
saw the value in spending the $25,000 it cost. There was more work<br />
over the years when Derek was invited to join a group champi<strong>on</strong>ed<br />
by the Mäori council and led by Prof Whatarangi Winiata to apply<br />
for the third televisi<strong>on</strong> warrants <strong>on</strong> behalf of the Mäori people. Years<br />
later that resulted in the establishment of Mäori <strong>Te</strong>levisi<strong>on</strong>. Derek<br />
Fox very happily agreed to help out with t<strong>his</strong> symposium and a<br />
televisi<strong>on</strong> documentary being made about <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> when he<br />
was asked.<br />
Derek Fox<br />
Chris has represented clients in all of New Zealand’s Courts and<br />
Tribunals, including nine appearances in the Privy Council. He is<br />
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Naida Glavish J.P<br />
Rangimarie Naida Glavish J.P.<br />
Chief Advisor Tikanga GM Mäori, He Kamaka Oranga,<br />
Mäori Health<br />
Auckland District Health Board<br />
<strong>Te</strong>na Tatou Katoa<br />
<strong>Te</strong>nei te mihi atu ki nga ahuatanga katoa e pa ana kia ngai tatou te<br />
iwi Mäori. Ki wa tatou tini aitua kua hurihia atu ki tua o te arai, kua<br />
tangihia kua mihingia kua ea te wahanga kia ratou. Ko tatou enei i<br />
nga ahuatanga o te wa tena koutou kia ora huihui ano ra tatou katoa.<br />
Ko Atuanui <strong>Te</strong> Maunga<br />
Ko Kaipara <strong>Te</strong> Moana<br />
Ko Hoteo <strong>Te</strong> Awa<br />
Ko Puatahi te Marae<br />
Ko Ngati Hine me Ngati <strong>Te</strong> Rino nga hapu<br />
Ko Ngati Whatua me Ngapuhi nga iwi<br />
I have spent my whole adult life as an advocate for Mäori people and<br />
others.<br />
In May 1984 as a humble toll operator I challenged the might of the<br />
then Post Office and w<strong>on</strong> for us the right to use our kupu Kia Ora<br />
across Aotearoa me te Waipounamu. I am most certainly a lot less<br />
naive now.<br />
I am always reminded of the profound wisdom of our kaumatua<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> James Henare when he said, “we have d<strong>on</strong>e too much to not do<br />
more, we have come too far to not go further.”<br />
Career summary<br />
• Commissi<strong>on</strong>er – Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commissi<strong>on</strong> (1993<br />
to 2005)<br />
• Deputy Chairpers<strong>on</strong> – <strong>Te</strong> Whanau o Waipareira Trust (1986<br />
to 2006)<br />
• Chairpers<strong>on</strong> – Ngati Whatua Nga Rima o Kaipara current<br />
• Chairpers<strong>on</strong> – <strong>Te</strong> Runanga o Ngati Whatua current<br />
• Mäori Advisor – Police Taumata Advisor – Auckland District<br />
Police current<br />
• Advocate – Restorative Justice<br />
• Patr<strong>on</strong> of Wing 239, The Royal New Zealand Police<br />
College 2007<br />
• Member – Auckland Metro NZ Police Commissi<strong>on</strong> current<br />
• Mäori Advisor – Organ D<strong>on</strong>ati<strong>on</strong> of New Zealand current<br />
• Member – Rodney District Council Taumata current<br />
• Member – Auckland University of <strong>Te</strong>chnology Mäori Advisory<br />
current<br />
• Mäori Advisor – Health and Disability Commissi<strong>on</strong> current<br />
• Chief Advisor Tikanga (C.A.T), ADHB current<br />
• Chairpers<strong>on</strong> – <strong>Te</strong> Kaunihera Kaumatua, ADHB current<br />
• Member – Lab Plus Forensic Steering Group, ADHB current<br />
• Member – Auckland Clinical Ethics Advisory Committee, ADHB<br />
current<br />
• Member – Auckland Mortuary Review <strong>Te</strong>am, ADHB current<br />
• Member – Forensic Governance Group, ADHB current<br />
• Member – Mäori Health Advisory Committee (MHAC), ADHB<br />
current<br />
• Member – Community Public Health Advisory Committee<br />
(CPHAC), ADHB current<br />
• Member – Clinical Ethics Advisory Committee, ADHB current<br />
• Member – Regi<strong>on</strong>al Funding Forum, NDSA current<br />
• Chairpers<strong>on</strong> – Whanau Oranga Hinengaro – Regi<strong>on</strong>al Mäori<br />
Mental Health and Addicti<strong>on</strong>s Forum current<br />
• Chairpers<strong>on</strong> – James Henare Mäori Research Centre, Auckland<br />
current<br />
• Deputy Chair – Kakarauri Whakapiringa, Auckland/Waitemata<br />
Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee<br />
• Member – Mana Ririki Trust Against Violence to Children<br />
current<br />
• Chief Advisor Tikanga General Manager Mäori, Mäori Health,<br />
ADHB 2008 (dual role 2008)<br />
Dedicated advocate for the Tikanga of Ngati Whatua<br />
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<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> Douglas <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
H<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> Doug <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> Doug was born in Auckland in 1942 and educated at Southwell<br />
School, Auckland Grammar School and Auckland University.<br />
He graduated LLB in 1965 and from that time practised and taught law<br />
until <strong>his</strong> electi<strong>on</strong> to Parliament. He established <strong>his</strong> own practice in 1968<br />
and lectured in legal ethics at Auckland University from 1973 to 1983.<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> Doug was active in the Nati<strong>on</strong>al Party in the Remuera electorate<br />
from 1978 and entered Parliament in July 1984 when he w<strong>on</strong> the<br />
Remuera seat.<br />
His parliamentary career prior to Cabinet appointment included<br />
involvement in foreign affairs, ec<strong>on</strong>omic and c<strong>on</strong>stituti<strong>on</strong>al aspects<br />
of government. His Ministerial portfolios included: Justice, Cultural<br />
Affairs, Disarmament and Arms C<strong>on</strong>trol, Courts, and Treaty of<br />
Waitangi Negotiati<strong>on</strong>s. He was also Attorney-General.<br />
and became the uni<strong>on</strong> delegate taking an active role in the wharfies<br />
lock-out in 1951. She married Bill Heemi, <strong>Te</strong> Rarawa in 1954.<br />
She worked as a toll operator in Auckland before transferring to<br />
Wellingt<strong>on</strong> and Silversteam before talking up the teleph<strong>on</strong>ist role at<br />
Mäori Affairs. She returned to Hauraki and has been a member of the<br />
Hauraki Mäori Trust Board is a trustee of Nga Iwi FM the Hauraki<br />
radio stati<strong>on</strong>s and sits <strong>on</strong> a number of sub committees.<br />
Manuka Henare<br />
Manuka Henare, BA (H<strong>on</strong>s), PhD (VUW)<br />
Associate Dean (Maori and Pacific Development)<br />
The University of Auckland Business School<br />
Tribal Affiliati<strong>on</strong>s: <strong>Te</strong> Aupouri, <strong>Te</strong> Rarawa and Ngati Kuri<br />
August 2008<br />
H<strong>on</strong>e Harawira MP<br />
During <strong>his</strong> time as Minister in charge of Treaty of Waitangi<br />
Negotiati<strong>on</strong>s from 1991, <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> Doug oversaw the negotiati<strong>on</strong>s for two of<br />
the largest settlements up to that point – Tainui-Waikato in 1995 and<br />
Ngai Tahu in 1997.<br />
H<strong>on</strong>e Pani Tamati Waka Nene Harawira<br />
Born in Whangarei in 1955 and raised in West Auckland, H<strong>on</strong>e is<br />
proud of <strong>his</strong> wide tribal c<strong>on</strong>necti<strong>on</strong>s throughout the Tai Tokerau.<br />
“One way or another I’m related to every Mäori from north of the<br />
Tamaki river,” says H<strong>on</strong>e with a chuckle, “including the <strong>on</strong>es who<br />
d<strong>on</strong>’t want to be, like <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> and Shane J<strong>on</strong>es!”<br />
His heroes are people like Muhammad Ali, Syd Jacks<strong>on</strong>, Nels<strong>on</strong><br />
Mandela, Mäori Marsden, <strong>his</strong> mum Titewhai and <strong>his</strong> wife Hilda.<br />
H<strong>on</strong>e is proud of <strong>his</strong> <strong>his</strong>tory as a Mäori activist, and played a major<br />
role in Treaty issues, language revitalisati<strong>on</strong>, land occupati<strong>on</strong>s, Mäori<br />
broadcasting, tribal development, and fighting racism in Aotearoa and<br />
abroad.<br />
H<strong>on</strong>e led the Foreshore and Seabed Hikoi from the Far North to<br />
Wellingt<strong>on</strong> in 2004 which led to the formati<strong>on</strong> of the Mäori Party, and<br />
was elected to parliament in 2005 as the Mäori Party candidate for the<br />
Tai Tokerau electorate.<br />
H<strong>on</strong>e has seven children, and at last count, 6 mokopuna.<br />
Lully Heemi-Watene (Ngati Maru)<br />
Manuka Henare is active in the private sector specialising in Maori<br />
business enterprise and development ec<strong>on</strong>omics.He advises private<br />
companies and is a member of the Institute of Directors. He is<br />
currently a board member of the NZ Pacific Business Council, whose<br />
companies work across the Pacific Regi<strong>on</strong>, and since 2003 a member<br />
of the Envir<strong>on</strong>mental Risk Management Authority (ERMA). Recently<br />
he was appointed to the Council of <strong>Te</strong> Wananga o Aotearoa. He<br />
advises private companies, hapu and iwi, government departments,<br />
local authorities and other instituti<strong>on</strong>s <strong>on</strong> internati<strong>on</strong>al interfaith<br />
dialogues, diversity and bicultural policies, and has served <strong>on</strong><br />
government delegati<strong>on</strong>s and advisory committees <strong>on</strong> interfaith<br />
dialogues, development assistance, peace and disarmament, archives,<br />
<strong>his</strong>tory and social policy.<br />
Manuka is a <strong>his</strong>torian of Maori society, business and ec<strong>on</strong>omics,<br />
particularly <strong>on</strong> He Whakaputanga o <strong>Te</strong> Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni<br />
(the NZ Declarati<strong>on</strong> of Independence 1835) and <strong>Te</strong> Tiriti o Waitangi.<br />
He joined the University of Auckland Business School in 1996 where<br />
he is Associate Dean (Maori and Pacific Development) and Senior<br />
Lecturer in Maori Business Development. He is the foundati<strong>on</strong><br />
Director of the Mira Szászy Research Centre for Maori and Pacific<br />
Ec<strong>on</strong>omic Development and leads a number of multidisciplinary<br />
research project teams. His research interests are: innovati<strong>on</strong> in the<br />
seafood, tourism and forestry sectors, and internati<strong>on</strong>al development,<br />
social and spiritual capital, APEC and globalisati<strong>on</strong>, the role of Maori<br />
religi<strong>on</strong> in ec<strong>on</strong>omics and business, alternative ec<strong>on</strong>omies with a<br />
focus <strong>on</strong> indigenous peoples’ ec<strong>on</strong>omies.<br />
Manuka Henare<br />
A feisty but much loved kuia of Hauraki Whanui, Lully was born to<br />
Puti Tipene Watene Hauraki who later became and MP and Phyllis<br />
Rukutai 7 Feb 1932.<br />
Went to Onehunga Primary and Maunkau Intermediate. When she left<br />
school she went to work at Hellaby’s Meat works, Otahuhu in 1947<br />
Manuka teaches in the UOA Graduate School of Enterprise where<br />
he is Coordinator of the Huanga Maori Graduate Programme in<br />
Business Development – the largest postgraduate Maori business<br />
programme in Aotearoa, includes postgraduate diplomas, MBA,<br />
Masters of Management and PhDs.<br />
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H<strong>on</strong> Parekura Horomia<br />
Rutene Irvine<br />
Member Parliament since 1999; Member of Parliament for Ikaroa<br />
Rawhiti; Born 9 November 1950, Tolaga Bay; Widower, three s<strong>on</strong>s<br />
and <strong>on</strong>e mokopuna.<br />
Educated at the Mangatuna Native School and Tolaga Bay Area<br />
School and brought up in an extended whanau with particular<br />
guidance from <strong>his</strong> grandmother.<br />
After initial labouring, fencing and scrub cutting jobs in <strong>his</strong> teenage<br />
years, he worked in all aspects of the Newspaper Industry and<br />
qualified as a printer. He then worked as a shearer farm overseer and<br />
forestry and fencing c<strong>on</strong>tractor.<br />
Rutene Irvine was born 12 June 1926 at Opotiki (<strong>Te</strong> Whanau-a-<br />
Apanui). He attended Torere, Whakatutu Primary School and was<br />
aged 13 when the war broke out. In 1942 at age 16 – (he said he was<br />
22!) Rutene enlisted as part of the 14th, 15th, 16th reinforcement of<br />
the 28th Mäori Battali<strong>on</strong>.<br />
When <strong>his</strong> Mother found out he had enlisted she influenced a relative,<br />
Captain Ferris to have him discharged. Rutene re-enlisted in 1945<br />
and met <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g> in Papakura Camp. He served in Fiji, New<br />
Guinea and then Japan for 3 years. He was discharged as Warrant<br />
Officer 1951 and took a rehab farm of 45 acres milking 18 cows. He<br />
trained and worked as a carpenter for 40 years.<br />
Rutene Irvine, JP MNZM<br />
H<strong>on</strong> Parekura Horomia<br />
From there he moved into a career path which eventually led him<br />
to become <strong>on</strong>e of the country’s most high ranking Mäori public<br />
servants.<br />
The first step came in 1982 when he oversaw Department of Labour<br />
(DoL) work schemes <strong>on</strong> the East Coast, Poverty Bay and Hawke’s<br />
Bay regi<strong>on</strong>s before working as a Group Employment Liais<strong>on</strong> Scheme<br />
(GELS) field officer in the mid 1980s.<br />
From there he moved into the corporate office of DoL and<br />
management positi<strong>on</strong>s with GELS. In 1988 he was appointed director<br />
of the department’s Mäori Perspective Unit and later managed the<br />
Community Employment Development Unit which merged with<br />
SCOPE and GELS in 1992 to become the Community Employment<br />
Group (CEG) with Parekura as its General Manager.<br />
He was at the cutting edge of world-leading community<br />
development initiative’s during <strong>his</strong> time as CEG’s General Manager.<br />
As well as <strong>his</strong> work as a public servant, he is a former chairpers<strong>on</strong><br />
of Ngati Porou, <strong>Te</strong> Kohanga Reo Trust Training Board, is a former<br />
Mäori warden, former chairpers<strong>on</strong> of Hatea Rangi Mäori Council<br />
Executive and former Member of the Youth Advisory Board /<br />
New Zealand Lotteries Board and a member of several Mäori<br />
organisati<strong>on</strong>s.<br />
Parekura is a keen supporter of the East Coast rugby team and was<br />
himself a representative of the East Coast team in <strong>his</strong> early rugby<br />
days. He also enjoyed participating in many other sports in particular<br />
boxing. His interests include gardening, travelling and listening to<br />
Jazz and Blues.<br />
Rutene has been involved with Mangatu Block for nearly 56 years<br />
and the New Zealand Mäori Council for nearly 30 years.<br />
H<strong>on</strong> Shane J<strong>on</strong>es<br />
Shane J<strong>on</strong>es received <strong>his</strong> BA degree in politics and Mäori studies<br />
from Auckland and Victoria Universities in New Zealand, and MA<br />
(Prelim) in political philosophy from the University of Western<br />
Australia. Subsequently he completed an MPA at the John F Kennedy<br />
School of Government, Harvard University, as a recipient of the<br />
Harkness Fellowship.<br />
From 1988 to 1990 Shane J<strong>on</strong>es set up the Mäori Policy Unit at the<br />
new Ministry for the Envir<strong>on</strong>ment. On <strong>his</strong> return from the US in<br />
1992 he resumed work there as a key advisor for the Mäori Fisheries<br />
settlement (Sealord Deal). In 1993 he was appointed to the Treaty<br />
of Waitangi Fisheries Commissi<strong>on</strong> (<strong>Te</strong> Ohu Kaimoana). He became<br />
Chair of the Mäori business development organisati<strong>on</strong> the Poutama<br />
Trust in 1997.<br />
In 2000 Mr J<strong>on</strong>es took over from <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> Tipene O’Regan as chair of the<br />
Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commissi<strong>on</strong> and Sealord Products. His<br />
task as Chair was to get approximately 70 tribes to agree <strong>on</strong> how to<br />
divide up the fisheries assets, value $1 billi<strong>on</strong>. T<strong>his</strong> was completed in<br />
2004 when the distributi<strong>on</strong> legislati<strong>on</strong> was passed. He resigned from<br />
the chairmanship in February 2007.<br />
Mr J<strong>on</strong>es entered Parliament in 2005 as a member of the Labour<br />
government. He was promoted to Cabinet in November 2007 and is<br />
Minister for Building and C<strong>on</strong>structi<strong>on</strong>, And Associate Minister of<br />
Immigrati<strong>on</strong>, Trade, and Treaty of Waitangi Negotiati<strong>on</strong>s<br />
H<strong>on</strong> Shane J<strong>on</strong>es<br />
Mr J<strong>on</strong>es comes from the Far North of New Zealand. His tribal<br />
links are to <strong>Te</strong> Aupouri, Ngai Takoto, and he also has Welsh and<br />
Dalmatian heritage. He is married to Ngareta and they have seven<br />
children, ranging in age from eleven to 29.<br />
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Russell Kemp<br />
Dr Ngatata Love<br />
Russell was born to Henry Kemp and Dawn (nee Walker) at Paparoa,<br />
North Auckland <strong>on</strong> 5 November 1946.<br />
He attended Parekura Mäori School in Kaiwaka and then St Stephens<br />
School for boys in Bombay, Auckland. Russell married Barbara<br />
(nee Phillips) in 1966. They have five children – four boys and a<br />
girl. He joined <strong>his</strong> fathers shearing gang then. In 1970 he became<br />
involved with <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong> the Otamatea Mäori committee and<br />
Marae committee. He also became a trustee of the Paparoa Maternity<br />
Hospital out of which they operated the a Workskills Programme.<br />
Russell also worked with <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g> in the Mäori District Council,<br />
the New Zealand Mäori Council, Taitokerau Trust Board, Nga Uri o<br />
Hau and Ngati Whatua. He played Rugby for North Auckland and<br />
North Auckland Mäori 1975/76 and coached North Auckland Mäori<br />
1985-1990 and North Auckland in 1990. A philosophy of<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Graham</str<strong>on</strong>g>’s that Russell shares is: “the str<strong>on</strong>g should support the<br />
less able”.<br />
Dr Ngatata Love<br />
Professor Ngatata Love is Mana Whenua Professor for <strong>Te</strong> Whare<br />
Wänanga o Awanuiärangi ki P<strong>on</strong>eke campus and Professor of<br />
Business development at the Victoria University of Wellingt<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Professor Love was the first Mäori to gain a PhD in Aotearoa, and is<br />
Emeritus Professor and a Member of Massey University Council.<br />
He has blended leadership roles in the private, public, academic,<br />
Mäori and indigenous sectors, worked extensively <strong>on</strong> Mäori land<br />
matters and Waitangi Tribunal cases. Professor Love was appointed<br />
by the government as a Law Commissi<strong>on</strong>er with the New Zealand<br />
Law Commissi<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Professor Love is currently a Director of a number of companies<br />
which include New Zealand Post, Metlifecare Palmerst<strong>on</strong> North and<br />
Village at the Park. Dr Love is also the Chairman of several Mäori<br />
organisati<strong>on</strong>s including the Wellingt<strong>on</strong> <strong>Te</strong>nths Trust, Palmerst<strong>on</strong><br />
North Mäori Reserve, Port Nichols<strong>on</strong> Block Claims <strong>Te</strong>am and <strong>Te</strong><br />
Tatau o <strong>Te</strong> Po Marae.<br />
Tribal affiliati<strong>on</strong>s: <strong>Te</strong> Atiawa, Taranaki, Ngäti Ruanui,<br />
Ngäruahinerangi, Ngäti Tama, Ngäti Mutunga, Ngäti <strong>Te</strong> Whiti and<br />
Tawhirikura.<br />
Apirana Tuahae Mahuika<br />
Founding member and Chairman of <strong>Te</strong> Runanga o Ngati Porou since<br />
its incepti<strong>on</strong> -1985.<br />
Apirana was born and raised at Whakawhitira and attended <strong>Te</strong><br />
Aute College and Auckland University, graduating with a BA. He<br />
was awarded the Elizabeth II postgraduate scholarship and went to<br />
Sydney University to gain my MA. He has degrees in anthropology,<br />
sociology and educati<strong>on</strong>, a Diploma in Theology and is an ordained<br />
Anglican clergyman. In 1990 he received the Commemorative Medal<br />
and was awarded an H<strong>on</strong>orary Doctorate of Philosophy by Waikato<br />
University in 2001 and received the prestigious Heritage Award<br />
from the NZ Historic Places Trust for commitment and devoti<strong>on</strong><br />
to preservati<strong>on</strong> and protecti<strong>on</strong> of <strong>his</strong>toric places in 2005. He serves<br />
<strong>on</strong> many Boards and is a recognised leader of Ngati Porou, locally,<br />
regi<strong>on</strong>ally, nati<strong>on</strong>ally and internati<strong>on</strong>ally.<br />
Apirana Mahuika<br />
Ngatata is also a former Chief Executive of <strong>Te</strong> <strong>Puni</strong> Kökiri and chairs<br />
the Wellingt<strong>on</strong> <strong>Te</strong>nths Trust Board. He is also the Deputy Chairman<br />
of the Hui Taumata Trust.<br />
Professor Love’s areas of interest and research are: entrepreneurship<br />
and small business, Mäori business development, tourism<br />
development, nati<strong>on</strong>al and internati<strong>on</strong>al strategies, organisati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
structures for indigenous development, and judicature structures,<br />
community needs, and c<strong>on</strong>stituti<strong>on</strong>al reform.<br />
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Raiha Lady Mahuta<br />
Mavis Mullins<br />
Raiha, Lady Mahuta<br />
Paul Morgan<br />
Raiha hails from Ngati Manu in the north, the small community of<br />
Karetu. She attended Karetu Mäori School, Queen Victoria Mäori<br />
Girls School and completed her qualificati<strong>on</strong> in physiotherapy at the<br />
University of Otago in 1964.<br />
She married into Waikato in the early 1963 to Robert <strong>Te</strong> Kotahi<br />
Mahuta. Settled and raised her three children at Waahi Paa in<br />
Huntly. Since that time she has been singly committed to the affairs<br />
of Waikato and provided support to her husband <strong>on</strong> fisheries and<br />
raupatu settlements.<br />
She co-ordinated the Mana – Macess programme for the Tainui<br />
Maaori Trust Board in the late 1980’s early 1990’s and was the<br />
General Manager of the Waikato Raupatu Lands Trust in the 1990’s.<br />
Her most recent roll has been the mandated co-negotiator of the<br />
Waikato River Claim and achieved settlement of that claim <strong>on</strong> the<br />
22nd August 2008.<br />
She is a member of the <strong>Te</strong> Arataura, the executive body of<br />
<strong>Te</strong> Kauhanganui (the tribes governance body) as the representative<br />
of the Head of the Kaahui Ariki.<br />
Paul Morgan<br />
Paul Morgan, who is of Ngäti Rärua and <strong>Te</strong> Mahurehure descent,<br />
has been a Board member of Wakatu Inc since 1986 and became<br />
Chairman in 2001, after 12 years as Deputy Chairman. He is full-time<br />
executive Deputy Chairman of the Federati<strong>on</strong> of Mäori Authorities<br />
(FOMA) based in Wellingt<strong>on</strong>. He has held a number of commercial<br />
directorships over many years, is Chairman of the Ngäti Rärua<br />
Ätiawa Iwi Trust, and is a Land Trustee of <strong>Te</strong> Äwhina Marae. He has<br />
been a member of various government-appointed advisory groups<br />
and industry initiatives over the years. Declarati<strong>on</strong> of financial<br />
interest: Director of Paul Morgan Associates 2006 Ltd, Executive<br />
Director FOMANA Capital Ltd, Trustee of <strong>Te</strong> Poa Karoro Whänau<br />
Trust, Trustee of the PTPK & BC Morgan Family Trust and Trustee of<br />
the Riwai Morgan Whänau Trust.<br />
Ki te taha o toku whaea ara ko Josephine Hinekura Whanarere tera<br />
Ko Ruapehu te maunga<br />
Ko Wanganui te awa<br />
Ko Ngapaerangi te hapu<br />
Ko Kaiwhaiki te marae<br />
Ko Ati Haunui a Paparangi te iwi<br />
Tihei mauriora<br />
Ki te taha o toku papa ara ko Punga Barclay Paewai tera<br />
Ko Ruahine te maunga<br />
Ko Manawatu te awa<br />
KO RANGIWHAAEWA TE TANGATA<br />
Ko Ngati Pakapaka te hapu<br />
Ko Kaitoki te marae<br />
Ko Kurahaupo te waka<br />
Ko Rangitane te iwi<br />
Tihei mauriora<br />
No reira, ko Mavis Mullins toku ingoa<br />
<strong>Te</strong>na koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa<br />
Mavis is a Director, with her husband Koro, of Paewai Mullins<br />
Shearing. They have a portfolio of business interests with the core<br />
activity centring <strong>on</strong> the wool industry and business management.<br />
T<strong>his</strong> fourth generati<strong>on</strong> sheep shearing family business is based in<br />
Dannevirke, and employs 40 people full time with t<strong>his</strong> expanding up<br />
to 100 for a four m<strong>on</strong>th seas<strong>on</strong>al period.<br />
Mavis has an MBA from Massey University. She holds directorships<br />
/trusteeships with a range of government and private business<br />
bodies including Landcorp, Farming New Zealand, Poutama<br />
Trust, <strong>Te</strong> Huarahi Tika Mäori Spectrum Charitable Trust, Massey<br />
University Council, Atihau Whanganui Inc and Aohanga Inc.<br />
Special recogniti<strong>on</strong>s have included -<br />
• 2008 Winner Safeguard NZ Health & Safety Overall Award<br />
(Paeai Mullins Shearing)<br />
• 2005 Mäori Sports Administrator of the Year for Shearing &<br />
Woolhandling<br />
• 2002 Queens birthday MNZM services to the wool industry<br />
• 1995 Mäori Business Woman of the Year<br />
• 1994 Runners Up in the Nati<strong>on</strong>al Business Quality Awards<br />
(Paewai Mullins Shearing)<br />
Mavis Mullins<br />
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Jim Nicholls<br />
Bentham Ohia<br />
Jim Nicholls<br />
Jim has been involved for many years in teaching, training and<br />
educati<strong>on</strong>. Born to Iehu Nicholls (Ngäti Maru, Ngäti Whanaunga)<br />
and Heke-ite-rangi Tuhakaraina (Ngäti Haua) in 1940.<br />
Jim went to Thames South, <strong>Te</strong> Aroha District High School,<br />
St Stephens School, Auckland University, and Auckland<br />
<strong>Te</strong>achers College.<br />
He was involved in the establishment of the Hauraki Mäori District<br />
Council in 1983. He is Deputy Chair of the New Zealand Mäori<br />
Council, Chair of Kaunihera Kaumatua o Hauraki, and member<br />
of Mataiwhetu Marae Committee and Marae trustees, the <strong>Te</strong>rtiary<br />
Educati<strong>on</strong> Commissi<strong>on</strong> Mäori Reference Group, and <strong>Te</strong> Putahi<br />
Paoho, Electoral College for Mäori Spectrum.<br />
Bentham Ohia<br />
Pouhere (chief executive) <strong>Te</strong> Wänanga o Aotearoa<br />
Of Ngai <strong>Te</strong> Rangi, Ngati Pukenga, Ngati Ranginui, <strong>Te</strong> Ati Awa, Ngati<br />
Rarua descent.<br />
Married to Kate, (Ngati Hine, Ngati Wai) and father to Tuakoi (12)<br />
Tahuaroa (9)<br />
Educati<strong>on</strong>:<br />
Educated at Waikawa Bay School (Pict<strong>on</strong>) Banks Avenue School<br />
(Christchurch), and Shirley Intermediate (Christchurch) and <strong>Te</strong> Aute<br />
College where was appointed head boy in 1989.<br />
He has BA Otago University, Dip <strong>Te</strong>ch (Waikato University), and an<br />
MBA (Waikato University)<br />
Employment History<br />
Bentham has been employed in a senior management positi<strong>on</strong> within<br />
<strong>Te</strong> Wänanga o Aotearoa for the past 14 years. Prior to t<strong>his</strong> <strong>his</strong> work<br />
<strong>his</strong>tory included tutoring in <strong>Te</strong> Reo Mäori at Otago University, and<br />
teaching at Huntly’s Rakaumanga School while completing <strong>his</strong><br />
<strong>Te</strong>aching diploma.<br />
Bentham was appointed campus manager of the <strong>Te</strong> Awamutu<br />
Campus in 1995. His role grew to include wider nati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
resp<strong>on</strong>sibilities as the instituti<strong>on</strong> c<strong>on</strong>tinued to grow.<br />
In 2005 Mr Ohia was appointed acting chief executive of <strong>Te</strong> Wänanga<br />
o Aotearoa following the resignati<strong>on</strong> of then Tumuaki R<strong>on</strong>go<br />
Wetere. He was appointment as chief executive in May 2006, and in<br />
December 2007, <strong>Te</strong> Mana Whakahaere (TWOA council) unanimously<br />
supported <strong>his</strong> appointment for a further five year term.<br />
At 37 Mr Ohia is the youngest CEO or Vice Chancellor in the New<br />
Zealand tertiary educati<strong>on</strong> sector.<br />
Other resp<strong>on</strong>sibilities:<br />
Chair of the WIPCE 2005 c<strong>on</strong>ference – World Indigenous Peoples<br />
C<strong>on</strong>ference in Educati<strong>on</strong> in Hamilt<strong>on</strong> last year<br />
President of AMO - Advancement of Mäori Opportunity/ Mäori<br />
Leadership Programme (2002 – present)<br />
Board Member of AIO – Americans for Indian Opportunity based in<br />
Indian Country USA (2003 – present)<br />
Board Member WINHEC – World Indigenous Nati<strong>on</strong>s Higher<br />
Educati<strong>on</strong> C<strong>on</strong>sortium<br />
Board Member of <strong>Te</strong> Tauihu o nga Wananga (The Wananga<br />
Associati<strong>on</strong>) 1994 – present and is also currently the Executive of t<strong>his</strong><br />
organisati<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Associate Director of Wakatu Incorporati<strong>on</strong> (2005)<br />
Haami Piripi<br />
Haami Piripi (<strong>Te</strong> Rarawa) is Chief Executive of <strong>Te</strong> Runanga o <strong>Te</strong><br />
Rarawa. He returned home to <strong>his</strong> iwi and t<strong>his</strong> role following seven<br />
years as Chief Executive of <strong>Te</strong> Taura Whiri i te reo Mäori. A principal<br />
achievement of <strong>his</strong> time at <strong>Te</strong> Taura Whiri included the publicati<strong>on</strong><br />
of the world’s first m<strong>on</strong>olingual Mäori dicti<strong>on</strong>ary.<br />
As Manager, Culture Perspectives at Department Of Correcti<strong>on</strong>s, he<br />
oversaw the establishment of specific operati<strong>on</strong>al initiatives within<br />
Pris<strong>on</strong>s and probati<strong>on</strong>, also known as Mäori Focus Units.<br />
He also managed and co-ordinated 13 regi<strong>on</strong>al <strong>Te</strong> <strong>Puni</strong> Kökiri offices<br />
when Nati<strong>on</strong>al Branch Manager, Regi<strong>on</strong>al Offices. Prior to t<strong>his</strong> role,<br />
he was Policy Manager, Mäori Assets Development, also at<br />
<strong>Te</strong> <strong>Puni</strong> Kökiri.<br />
Haami has held other positi<strong>on</strong>s reporting to Ministers of the<br />
Crown, including Treaty Issues Unit Manager at Department Of<br />
C<strong>on</strong>servati<strong>on</strong> and Senior Advisor to the Department of Justice’s<br />
Treaty Of Waitangi Policy Unit.<br />
In additi<strong>on</strong>, Haami has held directorships at <strong>Te</strong> Mähurehure<br />
Management Services, Company Director – Ambler Plumbing, and<br />
Wharo Development. He has also acted as negotiator for <strong>Te</strong> Rarawa<br />
and is trustee for marae, urupa and trusts.<br />
Haami Piripi<br />
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Kara Puketapu<br />
Turoa Royal<br />
Kara Puketapu<br />
Ihakara Porutu Puketapu, better known as Kara Puketapu, has been<br />
described as “the man within government who drove the change in<br />
policy that lead to the establishment of köhanga reo”.<br />
He is credited with the establishment of the Tu Tangata programme,<br />
and founding member of New Zealand’s first Köhanga Reo, Pukeatua,<br />
opened in 1982.<br />
From 1977 to 1983 he served as New Zealand’s first Mäori Secretary<br />
for Mäori Affairs. In 1981, Kara played a significant role in ensuring<br />
wide Mäori involvement in the planning and staging of <strong>Te</strong> Mäori. T<strong>his</strong><br />
internati<strong>on</strong>al exhibiti<strong>on</strong> redefined Mäori artifacts as ta<strong>on</strong>ga, with farreaching<br />
c<strong>on</strong>sequences for the display and public understanding of<br />
Mäori traditi<strong>on</strong>al art and practices.<br />
As Harkness Fellow of the Comm<strong>on</strong> Wealth Fund, New York,<br />
he undertook advanced study and a research programme in<br />
Administrati<strong>on</strong>. T<strong>his</strong> included a year of field work with Pueblo<br />
Indians in New Mexico.<br />
He is a former All Black, but also a noted Mäori public servant,<br />
businessman and alumnus. Kara Puketapu received an h<strong>on</strong>orary<br />
Doctor of Laws degree from Victoria University of Wellingt<strong>on</strong>, 2002.<br />
MA Auck, MEdAdmin, NE, DipTchg<br />
Turoa was born in 1935 in Kaiawa to Turoa King Haunui Tukumana<br />
Royal and Meri Tamehana. He attended Kaiawa Primary, Wellesley<br />
College, and went <strong>on</strong>to Auckland University and teachers training<br />
college before embarking <strong>on</strong> a l<strong>on</strong>g and distinguished career in<br />
educati<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Turoa is the Executive Chairpers<strong>on</strong> of <strong>Te</strong> Tau Ihu o nga Wananga.<br />
He is affiliated to Ngäti Raukawa ki te T<strong>on</strong>ga, Tama <strong>Te</strong> Ra Hauraki<br />
and Ngäti Wharara. He is the current Chair of <strong>Te</strong> Mana Whakahaere<br />
o <strong>Te</strong> Wänanga-o-Raukawa in Otaki. Since 2002 Turoa has been the<br />
Chairpers<strong>on</strong> of the World Indigenous Nati<strong>on</strong>s Higher Educati<strong>on</strong><br />
C<strong>on</strong>sortium.<br />
Turoa has been an Inspector of Schools, Principal of Wellingt<strong>on</strong> High<br />
School and before joining Wänanga in the 80’s, CEO of Whitireia<br />
Polytechnic in Wellingt<strong>on</strong>. His academic qualificati<strong>on</strong>s include a<br />
Master of Arts from Auckland University and a Masters in Educati<strong>on</strong><br />
Administrative from Australia. He is now pursuing <strong>his</strong> PhD at<br />
Victoria University of Wellingt<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Dr Turoa Royal<br />
In September 2008, the Tu Tangata Wellingt<strong>on</strong> Sec<strong>on</strong>dary Schools<br />
Polynesian Festival celebrated its 30th anniversary. Kara saw the<br />
festivals as a way of showcasing the enormous skills and talents of<br />
Mäori and Pacific young people - he recognised the opportunity t<strong>his</strong><br />
provided for management and leadership experience and increasing<br />
levels of achievement for our young peoples.<br />
Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith<br />
(Ngäti Awa, Ngäti Porou) is currently the Pro Vice-Chancellor Mäori<br />
at the University of Waikato. She has a professi<strong>on</strong>al background in<br />
Mäori and indigenous educati<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Toko Renata<br />
He is currently, Chief Executive of <strong>Te</strong> Runanganui O Taranaki<br />
Whanui Ki <strong>Te</strong> Upoko O <strong>Te</strong> Ika A Maui Inc.<br />
Toko Renata<br />
Toko Renata <strong>Te</strong> Taniwha (Ngäti Whanaunga-Ngäti Pukenga)<br />
Toko is a highly regarded kaumatua and the acknowledged<br />
spokesman for Ngäti Maru and the Hauraki Tribes.<br />
He was born to Toko Renata <strong>Te</strong> Taniwha (Tuatahi) (Hauraki) and<br />
Mariana (nee) Mikaere <strong>on</strong> 3 October 1931. Toko went to Manaia<br />
School but left at 13 years old to work the family farm where he<br />
remained until he went to work <strong>on</strong> the dams at Whakamaru. He<br />
married P<strong>on</strong>ga-rauhine Brown in1953 and in 1959 he returned to<br />
Manaia to take care of <strong>his</strong> elderly parents. For nearly 30 years he was<br />
c<strong>on</strong>tracted to the Ministry of Works.<br />
In 1990 he was awarded a Commemorati<strong>on</strong> Medal and in 1998 the NZ<br />
Order of Merit for Services to the Community. He returned <strong>his</strong> medals<br />
to the Crown as <strong>his</strong> pers<strong>on</strong>al protest to Foreshore Seabed Legislati<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Professor Smith has been a teacher in primary and sec<strong>on</strong>dary schools<br />
(1974 to 1985) and has taught at the University of Auckland from<br />
1989 to 2007 in a number of different positi<strong>on</strong>s including: Senior<br />
Lecturer Educati<strong>on</strong> and Director of the Internati<strong>on</strong>al Research<br />
Institute for Mäori and Indigenous Educati<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Until recently she was the co-Director of Ngä Pae o te Märamatanga,<br />
hosted by the University of Auckland, <strong>on</strong>e of seven Centres of<br />
Research Excellence established by the Government in 2002.<br />
Her research interests are wide-ranging and collaborative and<br />
include Marsden-funded research <strong>on</strong> the Native Schools system and<br />
<strong>on</strong> New Zealand youth. She is known internati<strong>on</strong>ally for her work <strong>on</strong><br />
research methodology and <strong>on</strong> Mäori and indigenous educati<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Professor Tuhiwai-Smith has served <strong>on</strong> a number of nati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
advisory committees including the <strong>Te</strong>rtiary Educati<strong>on</strong> Advisory<br />
Committee and the Mäori <strong>Te</strong>rtiary Reference Group for the Ministry<br />
of Educati<strong>on</strong>. She is also a member of the Council for <strong>Te</strong> Whare<br />
Wänanga o Awanuiärangi.<br />
Prof Linda Smith<br />
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Dr John Tamahori<br />
The Most Reverend Brown Turei<br />
Dr John Tamahori<br />
Dr John Tamahori is of Ngäti Porou and Ngäti Whakaue descent<br />
and has been <strong>on</strong> the staff of <strong>Te</strong> <strong>Puni</strong> <strong>Kokiri</strong> since its formati<strong>on</strong>. John<br />
is the ministry’s chief advisor and has spent <strong>his</strong> government career<br />
in policy, more particularly in Treaty Settlements. He is a third<br />
generati<strong>on</strong> priest in the Anglican Church and is Archdeac<strong>on</strong> of<br />
Porirua. He is a graduate of Christ’s College, Cambridge.<br />
Iritana Tawhiwhirangi<br />
MBE CNZM, Associate Professor Aotearoa Wananga<br />
Iritana’s life l<strong>on</strong>g commitment to educati<strong>on</strong> and especially the<br />
revitalisati<strong>on</strong> of te reo Mäori through the kohanga reo movement is<br />
well-known and widely respected.<br />
Bishop William Brown Turei was born in 1924 in Opotiki, to the<br />
Waititi whanau, and he became a whangai to the Turei whanau<br />
in Cape Runaway, <strong>on</strong> the East Cape. He was named after the Rev<br />
Brown Turei, a Hahi Mihinare priest <strong>on</strong> the East Coast.<br />
He spent <strong>his</strong> primary school years at Rangitukia and Cape Runaway,<br />
and he then moved <strong>on</strong>, for four years, to <strong>Te</strong> Aute College. He was<br />
earmarked for the priesthood from <strong>his</strong> young days, and spent a short<br />
stint at College House, in Christchurch.<br />
But these were the war years, and as a 19-year-old Brown Turei<br />
enlisted with C Company of the 28 Mäori Battali<strong>on</strong>.<br />
After the war, he returned to St John’s College, in Auckland, and he<br />
was ordained a priest in 1950.<br />
Most Rev Brown Turei<br />
Iritana Tawhiwhirangi<br />
Iritana, who is of Ngäti Porou, Ngäti Kahungunu, Ngapuhi,<br />
Canadian and English descent, was recognised earlier t<strong>his</strong> year as <strong>Te</strong><br />
Tohu Tiketike a <strong>Te</strong> Waka Toi – <strong>Te</strong> Waka Toi’s premiere award which<br />
acknowledges the work of individuals who are exemplary in their<br />
chosen field of artistic endeavour. Past recipients have included <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
Howard Morris<strong>on</strong>, Diggeress <strong>Te</strong> Kanawa, Cliff Whiting and the late<br />
D<strong>on</strong> Selwyn. She will receive the award later t<strong>his</strong> year. It is the latest<br />
in a string of h<strong>on</strong>ours including an H<strong>on</strong>orary Doctorate of Literature<br />
from the University of Victoria, and the Compani<strong>on</strong> of New Zealand<br />
Order of Merit.<br />
He has served the Anglican Church widely, in parishes and Mäori<br />
pastorates in Tauranga, Whangara, <strong>Te</strong> Puke, Whakatane, Manutuke,<br />
Christchurch and Waipatu.<br />
He was chosen as Archdeac<strong>on</strong> of Tairawhiti in 1982, and has had a<br />
l<strong>on</strong>g associati<strong>on</strong> with Hukarere Mäori Girls’ College. He became the<br />
chaplain there in 1984, and was also chaplain, for four years, of the<br />
Napier Pris<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Bishop Brown’s electi<strong>on</strong> as <strong>Te</strong> Pihopa ki <strong>Te</strong> Tai Rawhiti, in 1992,<br />
followed the reforms of the Anglican church here in 1990.<br />
Iritana began teaching <strong>on</strong> the East Coast in 1948. She went <strong>on</strong> to join<br />
the Department of Mäori Affairs in Ruatoria as a Welfare Officer. Her<br />
involvement in early childhood educati<strong>on</strong> began during t<strong>his</strong> period.<br />
Over the next 60 years, Iritana’s commitment to educati<strong>on</strong>, te reo and<br />
Mäoridom in general, has seen her rise to the positi<strong>on</strong> of Assistant<br />
Secretary of Mäori Affairs in 1986, Chief Executive of the Kohanga<br />
Reo Nati<strong>on</strong>al Trust from 1993 after her retirement from the public<br />
service until 2003. She has served <strong>on</strong> numerous government and<br />
official working parties including <strong>Te</strong> <strong>Puni</strong> Kökiri Mäori Wardens.<br />
He was elected to succeed Whakahuihui Vercoe as Pihopa o<br />
Aotearoa, at a hui at Turangawaewae. Most Rev. Vercoe is now<br />
<strong>on</strong>e of three Archbishops of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New<br />
Zealand and Polynesia.<br />
Bishop Brown is married to Mihi (nee King) and they had 3 children,<br />
and 6 mokopuna.<br />
She is a <strong>Te</strong> Taura Whiri Commissi<strong>on</strong>er, Deputy Chair of the Mäori<br />
Educati<strong>on</strong> Trust, and member of <strong>Te</strong> Putahi Paho Mäori TV Electoral<br />
College, Mäori Spectrum Trust Electoral College, NZCER Electoral<br />
College, and <strong>Te</strong> Whare Tapere Performing Arts. She is a life member<br />
of the Mäori Women’s Welfare League and New Zealand Mäori Golf<br />
Ladies President.<br />
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Piripi Walker<br />
Piripi Walker<br />
Hapu (Father’s side – Ngati Kikopiri, Iwi, Ngati Raukawa te Au ki te<br />
T<strong>on</strong>ga, Walker family Plimmert<strong>on</strong>. Mother’s side, Nash and Metcalfe<br />
families, Manawatü)<br />
Married to Heather, with four children, two still living at home.<br />
Graduated in 1981 with a BA (h<strong>on</strong>s) first class, in Mäori Studies from<br />
Victoria University. a sec<strong>on</strong>d language learner of Mäori; has been<br />
able to speak Mäori since the age of twenty-two; from 1982 to 1988<br />
full time Mäori language radio producer at Radio New Zealand<br />
(c<strong>on</strong>tinuing educati<strong>on</strong> unit). From 1983 - 86 and during the nineteen<br />
eighties established six short term independent experimental Mäori<br />
radio stati<strong>on</strong>s in Wellingt<strong>on</strong> and the Horowhenua, known as <strong>Te</strong> Reo<br />
o P<strong>on</strong>eke, (1983-1986) and <strong>Te</strong> Reo o Raukawa (1985-1986).<br />
Founder/manager of the permanent Wellingt<strong>on</strong> Mäori language<br />
radio stati<strong>on</strong> <strong>Te</strong> Upoko o <strong>Te</strong> Ika, a positi<strong>on</strong> held fulltime from 1987<br />
to late 1991. He also held the positi<strong>on</strong> of morning talk show host,<br />
and news editor. <strong>Te</strong> Upoko celebrated twenty <strong>on</strong>e years <strong>on</strong> air in<br />
April 2008.<br />
Representative of <strong>Te</strong> Tauihu o Nga Wananga, the Wananga Nati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
Associati<strong>on</strong>; <strong>on</strong> the Electoral College for the Mäori <strong>Te</strong>levisi<strong>on</strong><br />
Channel’s Board. That group also represents the Mäori Treaty<br />
partner in oversight of the channel.<br />
Also represents the Wananga associati<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> the Huarahi Tika<br />
Spectrum Trust Electoral College, which he chairs. That Trust<br />
manages the Mäori interest in a block of 2 Gigahertz radio spectrum,<br />
awarded to Mäori after the Waitangi Tribunal hearings into the<br />
allocati<strong>on</strong> of radio frequencies in 1999.<br />
Bishop Muru Walters<br />
Walters is from my <strong>Te</strong> Rarawa father, and Ihaka is from my<br />
<strong>Te</strong> Aupouri mother. When their ancestors aband<strong>on</strong>ed some of<br />
their traditi<strong>on</strong>al ways, they transformed themselves to live aroha<br />
in their lives as new people and communities. T<strong>his</strong> was a major<br />
transformati<strong>on</strong> of heart, mind and soul and a new future goal for<br />
survival.<br />
From 1983-1992 held the positi<strong>on</strong> of secretary of Nga<br />
Kaiwhakapumau i Reo (Inc). In t<strong>his</strong> capacity, and after resignati<strong>on</strong><br />
as secretary, as a member of Nga Kaiwhakapumau was involved in<br />
the preparati<strong>on</strong> of claims <strong>on</strong> the Crown’s resp<strong>on</strong>sibilities to Mäori<br />
language and culture, to the courts and the Waitangi Tribunal, i.e<br />
over the twenty year period from 1983 to the passage of the Mäori<br />
<strong>Te</strong>levisi<strong>on</strong> Service Act in 2003.<br />
From 1996, was a member and writer of papers for the Crown<br />
Mäori Joint Working Group <strong>on</strong> Mäori Broadcasting, as member of<br />
negotiating team for Mäori <strong>on</strong> Mäori broadcasting claims.<br />
From November 1991 to December 1996 held the full-time positi<strong>on</strong> of<br />
Director of Language Studies at <strong>Te</strong> Wänanga o Raukawa, a tertiary<br />
instituti<strong>on</strong> based in Otaki, which is operated by the three iwi Ngati<br />
Raukawa ki te T<strong>on</strong>ga, Ngati Toarangatira and <strong>Te</strong> Atiawa, resp<strong>on</strong>sible<br />
for teaching the language courses, (daily and marae-based immersi<strong>on</strong><br />
for 80 adults at a time), the Wananga’s language work, and<br />
c<strong>on</strong>tinuing research into the language. Since August 1994 a Raukawa<br />
Trustees rep <strong>on</strong> <strong>Te</strong> Upoko o <strong>Te</strong> Ika Radio’s Trust Board, has held the<br />
positi<strong>on</strong> of Secretary of the Trust from September 1994 to the present<br />
time. Since 1997 has been self employed as a writer, translator, editor,<br />
and radio producer (Tokomäpuna Mäori Language Services).<br />
Those of foreign blood, like Walters, Larkins, <str<strong>on</strong>g>Latimer</str<strong>on</strong>g>, J<strong>on</strong>es, Flavell,<br />
Subritzky, C<strong>on</strong>rad, Clark, Berghan, McPhers<strong>on</strong>, Yates, Petricevich,<br />
and many more were given a turangawaewae.<br />
T<strong>his</strong> generosity and hospitality was quickly absorbed into blended<br />
families with whakapapa and tangata whenua status. They moved<br />
from blaming Col<strong>on</strong>ialism, the Pakeha and the Crown, to live aroha<br />
in an active assimilated and participatory role. I am a product of t<strong>his</strong><br />
assimilati<strong>on</strong> and participatory experience.<br />
I was an assimilated rugby player and participated fully in t<strong>his</strong> sport,<br />
approved by the Crown. I am an assimilated artist practiti<strong>on</strong>er and<br />
participate fully in a life of creativity, approved by the Crown. I am<br />
an assimilated Bishop of the Anglican Church, participating fully in<br />
its missi<strong>on</strong> of justice, approved by the Crown.<br />
I am privileged to be invited to share in h<strong>on</strong>ouring my whanaunga<br />
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H<strong>on</strong> Koro Wetere CBE<br />
Julian Wilcox<br />
H<strong>on</strong> Koro Wetere<br />
John Whitehead<br />
The H<strong>on</strong> Koro Wetere became an MP in 1969 representing the<br />
Western Mäori electorate after the retirement of Iriaka Matiu Ratana.<br />
His 27 year parliamentary career included holding the portfolio of<br />
Minister of Mäori Affairs, Lands and Forests and Valuati<strong>on</strong>.<br />
He actively supported the re-establishment of programmes in Mäori<br />
Language in schools, preschools and broadcasting. He was a str<strong>on</strong>g<br />
supporter of Matiu Rata in lobbying for the establishment of the<br />
Waitangi Tribunal.<br />
He joined the Tainui Group Holdings Board in 2002. He is a director<br />
of <strong>Te</strong> Ohu Kai Moana and trustee of Tuh<strong>on</strong>o Tautoko Mäori<br />
Trust, the Mäori Affiliati<strong>on</strong> Service, as well as Chair of Lotteries<br />
Marae Heritage Committee. He has held various governance roles<br />
throughout <strong>his</strong> career and has a l<strong>on</strong>g record of community service.<br />
He was Interim Chair of <strong>Te</strong> Kaumaarua (now <strong>Te</strong> Arataura) and<br />
<strong>Te</strong> Kauhanganui, and more recently a member of the executive of<br />
Tainui’s tribal governing body, <strong>Te</strong> Kauhanganui, and former director<br />
of the Waikato Raupatu Trustee Company Ltd.<br />
Earlier t<strong>his</strong> year, he received the lifetime achievement award – <strong>Te</strong><br />
Tohu Whakamaharatanga ki <strong>Te</strong> Arikinui <strong>Te</strong> Atairangikaahu at the<br />
6th Annual <strong>Te</strong> Amorangi Nati<strong>on</strong>al Mäori Academic Excellence<br />
Awards.<br />
John Whitehead<br />
John Whitehead has been Secretary to the Treasury since April 2003.<br />
In t<strong>his</strong> role, he is Chief Executive of <strong>on</strong>e of the key central agencies<br />
of the New Zealand Government, and operates as its chief ec<strong>on</strong>omic<br />
and financial advisor.<br />
John has spent most of <strong>his</strong> 30-plus years in the public service at the<br />
Treasury. Joining in 1982, he has held various senior positi<strong>on</strong>s in Tax<br />
Policy, Ec<strong>on</strong>omics, Macro Ec<strong>on</strong>omics and Medium-<strong>Te</strong>rm Strategy.<br />
Before being appointed Secretary, John was a Deputy Secretary,<br />
managing Treasury’s Regulatory and Tax Policy Branch.<br />
Before joining the Treasury, John worked in the Christchurch Office<br />
of the Statistics Department, and was a Parliamentary Research<br />
Officer from 1977 to 1982.<br />
(Ngäpuhi, Ngäti Tüwharetoa, <strong>Te</strong> Arawa) is <strong>on</strong>e of Mäori <strong>Te</strong>levisi<strong>on</strong>’s<br />
most familiar faces as presenter of the channel’s weekly current<br />
affairs show, Native Affairs.<br />
Julian first entered broadcasting as a student at <strong>Te</strong> Aute College,<br />
announcing for Hawke’s Bay iwi radio stati<strong>on</strong> <strong>Te</strong> Reo Irirangi o Ngäti<br />
Kahungunu, and has provided news and political commentary from<br />
Wellingt<strong>on</strong> for TVNZ’s Mäori news programme <strong>Te</strong> Karere and sports<br />
commentary <strong>on</strong> Auckland’s Radio Waatea.<br />
Julian has also presented daily news programme <strong>Te</strong> Käea for Mäori<br />
<strong>Te</strong>levisi<strong>on</strong> and other series’ and specials including ANZAC Day,<br />
Waitangi Day, award-winning sports show Ngä Hau Tipua, reo<br />
Mäori debating series Taupatupatu and live links for the channel’s<br />
launch day and first birthday celebrati<strong>on</strong>s.<br />
Justice Joe Williams LLB (VUW), LLM (H<strong>on</strong>s)<br />
(British Columbia).<br />
Tribal affiliati<strong>on</strong>s – Ngäti Pukenga and <strong>Te</strong> Arawa (Waitaha, Tapuika).<br />
Justice Williams was appointed a Judge of the High Court <strong>on</strong> 10<br />
September 2008. He graduated from Victoria University with an LLB<br />
in 1986 and from the University of British Columbia, Canada, with an<br />
LLM (H<strong>on</strong>s) in 1988. He then joined, and later became a partner, of<br />
the law firm Kensingt<strong>on</strong> Swan.<br />
After practising as a partner of Walters Williams & Co between<br />
1994 and 1999, Justice Williams was appointed Chief Judge, Mäori<br />
Land Court in December 1999. Shortly thereafter he was appointed<br />
as Deputy Chairpers<strong>on</strong> of the Waitangi Tribunal and appointed the<br />
Chairpers<strong>on</strong> of the Waitangi Tribunal in 2004.<br />
Justice Williams is a former Vice President of the Mäori Law Society<br />
and a former President of <strong>Te</strong> Runanga Roia o Tamaki Makaurau, the<br />
Auckland Mäori Lawyers Associati<strong>on</strong>. His tribal affiliati<strong>on</strong>s are Ngati<br />
Pukenga and <strong>Te</strong> Arawa (Waitaha, Tapuika).<br />
Julian Wilcox<br />
Justice Williams<br />
Between 1985 and 1988, John was sec<strong>on</strong>ded from the Treasury to<br />
the positi<strong>on</strong> of Ec<strong>on</strong>omic Adviser in the Prime Minister’s Office, and<br />
spent four years between 1988 and 1992 as a Counsellor (Ec<strong>on</strong>omic)<br />
at the New Zealand High Commissi<strong>on</strong> in L<strong>on</strong>d<strong>on</strong>.<br />
John has a BSc with H<strong>on</strong>ours in Mathematics and a MComm with<br />
H<strong>on</strong>ours in Ec<strong>on</strong>omics.<br />
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Whatarangi Winiata<br />
Pre-recorded Speakers<br />
Sue Wood<br />
(Professor Emeritus, Victoria University of Wellingt<strong>on</strong>)<br />
Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Marutuahu.<br />
Whatarangi Winiata has been a champi<strong>on</strong> of Maori selfdeterminati<strong>on</strong><br />
for most of <strong>his</strong> life.<br />
In 1957 he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from Victoria<br />
University, and followed that with an MBA and PhD completed at<br />
the University of Michigan.<br />
Whatarangi served as Tumuaki for <strong>Te</strong> Wananga-o-Raukawa from<br />
1994-2007. His advocacy for Maori political representati<strong>on</strong> was<br />
translated into a bi-cultural model of c<strong>on</strong>stituti<strong>on</strong>al reform, adopted<br />
by the Anglican Church of New Zealand in its administrative<br />
arrangements. Whatarangi has been appointed to many boards and<br />
organizati<strong>on</strong>s and has been instrumental in progressing a number of<br />
key Treaty of Waitangi claims against the New Zealand Government<br />
including the Fisheries Claim, Radio Spectrum, Broadcasting and<br />
others. Whatarangi c<strong>on</strong>tinues to progress aspirati<strong>on</strong>s of Maori<br />
political self-determinati<strong>on</strong> as the President of the Maori Party.<br />
Sue Wood<br />
For 17 years Sue has run her own public relati<strong>on</strong>s c<strong>on</strong>sultancy<br />
in Wellingt<strong>on</strong>; specializing in corporate communicati<strong>on</strong>s and<br />
government relati<strong>on</strong>s.<br />
Sue has a background in journalism, teaching and nati<strong>on</strong>al politics.<br />
She gained recogniti<strong>on</strong> when she was elected President of the<br />
Nati<strong>on</strong>al Party in 1982 – the first woman president of a major political<br />
party. She served in that role for four years after serving five years as<br />
vice president.<br />
She maintained her engagement in politics internati<strong>on</strong>ally and has<br />
been active in democracy-building programmes over many years,<br />
serving <strong>on</strong> internati<strong>on</strong>al observer delegati<strong>on</strong>s in the Philippines,<br />
Chile, Pakistan, Romania, South Africa, H<strong>on</strong>g K<strong>on</strong>g and most<br />
recently led the pre-assessment electi<strong>on</strong> delegati<strong>on</strong>s in Madagascar<br />
and Pakistan.<br />
H<strong>on</strong> Justice David Baragwanath<br />
David Baragwanath is a Judge of the Court of Appeal. He was<br />
educated at the Auckland Grammar School, the University of<br />
Auckland and as a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College Oxford.<br />
He was a partner of the Crown Solicitor in Auckland and later a<br />
member of the separate bar, receiving appointment as Queen’s<br />
Counsel. For nearly a decade from 1986 he appeared in the Lands,<br />
Forests and Fisheries cases and other proceedings as leading counsel<br />
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various tribal groups.<br />
Following appointment to the High Court in 1995 he chaired the<br />
New Zealand Law Commissi<strong>on</strong> from 1996-2001. He was appointed<br />
to the Court of Appeal of New Zealand with effect from 2008. He<br />
presides in the Court of Appeal of Samoa.<br />
In 1983 he received a Fulbright Travel Award to the University of<br />
Virginia to study Freedom of Informati<strong>on</strong>. In 2004 he was the Inns of<br />
Court Fellow in L<strong>on</strong>d<strong>on</strong>, researching and lecturing <strong>on</strong> Cross Border<br />
Judicial Co-operati<strong>on</strong>.<br />
His addresses <strong>on</strong> Treaty of Waitangi topics include “Overview: The<br />
Treaty and the Police” (New Zealand Police 2005), “New Zealand<br />
Law and Mäori” in <str<strong>on</strong>g>Reflecti<strong>on</strong>s</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong> the New Zealand Law Commissi<strong>on</strong><br />
ed <str<strong>on</strong>g>Sir</str<strong>on</strong>g> Geoffrey Palmer (LexisNexis 2007), “A Perspective of<br />
Counsel” in The Treaty of Waitangi in law 20 years <strong>on</strong>: a reflecti<strong>on</strong><br />
<strong>on</strong> Aotearoa/New Zealand’s landmark Treaty of Waitangi case ed<br />
Jacinta Ruru (New ealand Law Foundati<strong>on</strong> and University of Otago<br />
2007) and “The Evoluti<strong>on</strong> of Treaty Jurisprudence” (2007) 15 Waikato<br />
Law Review 1.<br />
He was named as recipient of the University of Auckland’s<br />
Distinguished Alumni Award. He is a New Zealand member of the<br />
Permanent Court of Arbitrati<strong>on</strong>.<br />
David Baragwanath<br />
She was a founding board member of the Museum of New Zealand,<br />
<strong>Te</strong> Papa T<strong>on</strong>garewa, has served <strong>on</strong> the Priory Trust Board of St John<br />
for the last eight years and is a board member of the New Zealand<br />
Arts Foundati<strong>on</strong> and New Zealand Affordable Art Trust.<br />
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Rt H<strong>on</strong> Dame Sian Elias, GNZM<br />
CHIEF JUSTICE OF NEW ZEALAND<br />
The Chief Justice of New Zealand is the Administrator of the<br />
Government whenever the Governor-General is overseas or unable<br />
to act.<br />
The Rt H<strong>on</strong> Dame Elias is the 12th Chief Justice of New Zealand and<br />
the first woman to be appointed to that office.<br />
Sp<strong>on</strong>sors of the symposium<br />
New Zealand Maori Council<br />
Rt H<strong>on</strong> Dame Sian Elias, GNZM<br />
She graduated from Auckland University with an LLB H<strong>on</strong>ours<br />
Degree in 1970 and was admitted to the New Zealand Bar the<br />
same year. She graduated from Stanford University in 1972 with a<br />
Master’s Degree in Law. When she returned to New Zealand, Dame<br />
Sian worked first as a solicitor and then as a barrister in Auckland.<br />
In 1984-1989 she was a member of the Law Commissi<strong>on</strong> working<br />
particularly <strong>on</strong> the reform of company law.<br />
In 1988, Dame Sian was appointed a Queen’s Counsel. She appeared<br />
in a number of significant cases, including cases c<strong>on</strong>cerning the<br />
Treaty of Waitangi. She was awarded a Commemorative Medal in<br />
1990 in recogniti<strong>on</strong> of services to the legal professi<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Raukawa District Mäori Council<br />
In 1995, Dame Sian was appointed Judge of the High Court in<br />
Auckland. On 17 May 1999, she was appointed Chief Justice of New<br />
Zealand and was made a Dame Grand Compani<strong>on</strong> of the New<br />
Zealand Order of Merit. The Chief Justice was appointed a Privy<br />
Councillor in 1999. In 2001 she sat <strong>on</strong> the Privy Council, the first<br />
woman to do so.<br />
When in 2003 the Supreme Court Act established a final Court of<br />
Appeal in New Zealand, the Chief Justice became the head of the<br />
new Supreme Court. That court began sitting in July 2004.<br />
When the Governor-General is unable to perform the functi<strong>on</strong>s of<br />
office or is absent from New Zealand, the Chief Justice is authorised<br />
and empowered to perform those functi<strong>on</strong>s as the Administrator of<br />
Government under the Letters Patent.<br />
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