Raumati|Summer 2009 | 45

SEARCH FOR CALM WATERS

Labour's knee-jerk Foreshore and Seabed Act resulted in a 20,000-strong protest hīkoi to the steps of Parliament. It led to Ngāi Tahu, as a Treaty Tribes coalition representative, taking the issue to the United Nations. It also led to the forming of the Māori Party, which brokered its confidence-in-supply agreement with the National Government based on a review of the Act. The review is complete and now the National Government has said it will repeal it so government, coastal hapū, and iwi leaders seek a better way forward. [More...]

THROUGH THE TREES

World leaders gathered at Copenhagen to set new targets regarding emissions to counter the massive amount of carbon dioxide emitted into our atmosphere. In New Zealand, iwi including Ngāi Tahu have had an interesting role in shaping the finer details of the nation's second attempt at an Emissions Trading Scheme. [More...]


MEETING TŪTOKO.

MEETING TŪTOKO

Winds, sun, rain, snow – it's all there to greet whānau from Te Rūnanga o Makaawhio as they journey to picturesque yet changeable Whakatipu Waitai (Martins Bay). It's a place rich in resources and significant for Ngāi Tahu descendants of Tūtoko and Hinepare. [More...]

ULVA'S ISLAND

Bird enthusiast, environmentalist and natural historian, Ulva Goodwillie is at home on Ulva Island. [More...]

ARM STRONG

Cyclist Rob Martin is off to complete another New York Marathon – just another goal to cross off on his to do list. [More...]

COUNTRY EXPEDITION

Dene Cole talks about his trek from the Cape to the Bluff. [More...]


Yike.

HAVE YIKE, WILL TRAVEL

Beep. Beep. The Yike Bike is coming. Ngāi Tahu's Grant Ryan and company are surprising the world with Kiwi can-do and a modern-day Penny Farthing. [More...]

From The CEO, Anake Goodall

Climate change is not only inevitable, it is already here with an urgency that demands honest and earnest responsibility be taken for the last two centuries of human activity so that future generations do not inherit environmental collapse. [More...]

From The Editor, Faumuinā F.M. Tafuna'i

2009 was tough. People have lost jobs, homes and sometimes their way. The global recession began to pull the mat from under our feet, causing us to shift and to bind to each other for comfort. [More...]