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WOE F U L FUNDING New rules in the latest draft National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity can’t be implemented without a comprehensive and well-resourced financial support package, say Federated Farmers. Chris Allen says the policy’s chances of success are undermined by woeful funding. In the 2022 Budget only $20 million of the $150m needed over the next four years was allocated. Allen was a member of the cross-sector Biodiversity Collaborative Group that made recommendations to the government.
PASIFIKA SCRIBE Wellington writer Tamara Tulitua has been appointed the 2022 Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence at Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters. Tamara traces her lineage through the villages of Lefaga on her mother’s side, and Sapapāli’i, Vailima, and Tanugamanono on her father’s side. She intends to use the residency to work on a collection mixing prose and poetry to explore the experiences of tama’ita’i Samoa (Samoan women) in diasporic settings.
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Ngāti Toa has requested that Calliope Park in Cannons Creek be renamed, as the name is culturally offensive to mana whenua. In the 1920s Te Rauparaha, Ngāti Toa’s paramount chief, was arrested and held captive without charge on board the HMS Calliope (a 26-gun frigate) for over 18 months. The former Calliope Crescent has already been renamed Matahourua Crescent, after the twin-hulled waka Kupe was sailing when he discovered Aotearoa.
Three up-and-coming Māori businesses have been selected as recipients of grants from the Kāpiti Coast District Council and Te Whakaminenga o Kāpiti’s 2021/22 Māori Economic Development Fund. Two of the grants will go to health and wellness organisations: Hā Pai Wellness, a holistic health collective, and Te Rongoā Rerehua, a developer of rongoā Māori products. The third grant will go towards the building of Te Hāhi, an art residence and workspace at Hori Gallery Ltd – Te Whare Toi o Hori in Ōtaki.
Juno Gin Distillery tour
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Black Sands Pizzeria, Ōakura
