With our upcoming Annual General Meeting and Waiata Wananga on the 21st of August at Kuratini Marae Te Runanga o Ngati Kahungunu want to invite whanau to take this wee survey to give us a sense of what you want the Embassy to focus on in our upcoming year.
Click and paste this link in your browser to take the survey: www.surveymonkey.com/wellingtonkahungunuwhanausurvey
Waiata Wananga and Ahuriri Hui this Saturday at Te Puni Kokiri 10-4pm
Kia ora koutou
Just a reminder to you all that our waiata wananga is on
this saturday at the Nau Mai room Te Puni Kokiri
AT 11AM TO 12.30PM BREAKING FOR KAI AND THE MANA
AHURIRI HUI AND RESUMING AT 2PM UNTIL 4PM.
SINCE RECEIVING MANDATE TO SETTLE THE HISTORICAL CLAIMS OF
THE AHURIRI HAPU IN JANUARY, MANA AHURIRI INCORPORATED HAS
COMMENCED DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE CROWN. MANA AHURIRI
INCORPORATED IS NOW AT THE CRUCIAL STAGE OF DEVELOPING
ASPIRATIONS FOR THE TREATY SETTLEMENT AND WE WELCOME YOU TO
BECOME AN ACTIVE PART IN THIS DEVELOPMENT.
11am to 4pm
7TH AUGUST 2010
NAU MAI ROOM – GROUND FLOOR
TE PUNI KOKIRI
143 LAMBTON QUAY WELLINGTON
Successful Album Launch "Whiti" at Te Papa Marae
On Sunday August 1st, many whanau gathered at Te Papa Marae to hear the soulful fusion of Toni Huata's third album "Whiti". Fresh from international music festivals, Toni Huata appeared onstage at The Marae with some of New-Zealands most recognised Maori, Pacific and European artists and composers such as Taite Cooper, Dr Charles Royal, Alistair Fraser, Lisa Tomlins, Kirsten Te Rito, Insturmentalists - Andy Mauafua, Sefo Savali, Gio Lesa, Ben Wilcox and dancers/choreographers - Princess Te Puea Whioke and Anitta Corlett.
This is Toni’s third album. Taking listeners on a blissful musical journey from haka dance rhythms, acoustic roots, and urban pop grooves to emotional ballads. For Toni, Whiti is an affirmation of life, love, light, and joy!
Whiti is also available digitally online through: Stephen O’Hoy at drm@amplifier.co.nz .. 09 638 5865
www.tonihuata.com
www.myspace.com/tonihuata
Iwi Investment in Infrastructure - Hui 9 & 10th of August - Tapu te Ranga Marae
E te kāhui tipua,
Nei rā te reo o Aoraki maunga e topa atu ana ki a koutou hai mihi. E kore rawa tā Tahu Pōtiki puna whakamihi e mimiti noa. Ko koutou tērā e whakaheke mōtuhi ana kia whai oranga ai te iwi Māori. Kua roa nei koutou e whakaporo riaka ana kia ea ai ngā wawata o ō koutou ake whānau, o ō koutou ake hapū, o ō koutou ake iwi. Ko ngā puapua ki aromea kua tutuki i a koutou. Nō reira, kei te mihi. Eke panuku, eke Tangaroa.
Nā koutou te reo karanga, nā mātou ngā kupu tautoko kia okea ururoatia ngā taunāhua o te iwi Māori. E ai ki te whakataukī a ō tātou nei tūpuna, ki te kotahi te kākaho ka whati, ki te kāpuia te kākaho e kore e whati. Nō reira e aku rangatira, nei rā te karanga o Aoraki maunga ki ngā tōpito katoa o te motu kia karapinepine mai i raro i te whakaaro kotahi. Nō reira e aku manukura, nau mai tauti mai ki raro i tōna poho hai wānanga, hai kōrerorero, hai ara whakamua mō tātou, ā, mō kā uri ā muri ake nei.
Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa
Our traditions are rich with stories of Inter-Iwi commercial collaboration and trade. This wānanga is dedicated to bringing those traditions into the 21st Century, with a particular focus on how Iwi can actively drive and benefit from infrastructure investment and public-private partnerships within a kaupapa Māori framework.
The wānanga aims to bring together Iwi and Māori organisation asset managers and representatives, with technical experts in infrastructure and public private partnerships, to identify the many immediate and coming opportunities for Iwi collaboration in infrastructure investment, and most importantly, to wānanga how we as Iwi Māori can co-invest together in a kaupapa Māori way.
This is a by Iwi for Iwi wānanga.
E hara toku toa he toa takitahi engari taku toa he toa takitini
Details:
What
Iwi Collaboration in Infrastructure Investment
Where
Tapu Te Ranga Marae, 44 Rhine Street, Island Bay, Wellington
When
9-10 August, 2010
Start
9.30am Powhiri – 9 August, 2010
RSVP
events@ngaitahu.iwi.nz by Thursday 5 August, 2010
Cost
No cost for attendance
Ngā Whāinga
The wānanga is intended to support Iwi to collectively determine how we will co-invest in infrastructure and public-private partnerships (PPPs). The programme format is designed so that Iwi attendees wānanga across the two days how each aspect of the commercial opportunities and arrangements for infrastructure investment and PPPs can be done in a kaupapa Māori way.
Infrastructre investment and PPPs are an important new frontier for Aotearoa New Zealand, and the objectives for this wānanga are to contribute to;
· Iwi Māori securing and realising our competitive edge in infrastructure investment;
· Iwi Māori securing and realising the benefits for our people from the intergenerational nature of infrastructure investment;
· Iwi Māori securing and realising the immense potential of Iwi doing business together and building on our enduring aspirations for kotahitanga.
The wānanga will seek to deliver a number of practical outcomes for each Iwi attendee including;
· Identifying the key infrastructure development and investment opportunities in your rohe and the country as a whole;
· Knowing the process for pulling together a public private partnership, including how to interact with the government and the private sector;
· Identifying the different funding options for infrastructure investment;
· Evaluating the value of infrastructure investment for your Iwi.
The technical content on these outcomes will be provided by subject matter specialists from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The collective outcomes that we hope the wānanga will produce are;
· Identifying the opportunities for inter-Iwi commercial collaboration in infrastructure now and in the future;
· Developing kaupapa Māori models for PPP consortia and commercial collaboration; and
· Discussing how Iwi can work together now to ensure that when the infrastructure waka leaves town, that we are the kaihautū.
We will also produce a record of proceedings from the wānanga that will be available to all Iwi and hapū, covering both the technical content of infrastructure and PPPs, as well as the discussions on a kaupapa Māori approach to infrastructure investment and inter-Iwi collaboration.
Ngā mahi a mua
DAY ONE: Monday 9 August, 2010
9.30 am
Pōwhiri
10.30am
Ko te kaupapa me ngā whāinga o te wānanga nei.
Mark Solomon will speak to the context and objectives for the wānanga, including an overview of the Māori Economic Development Taskforce work and the Iwi Chairs Forum commitment to inter-Iwi commercial collaboration.
10.45am
Me maumahara ngā mahi pai
This discussion will consider the experiences of Iwi and hapū in commercial collaboration over the past 20 years, with information provided on particular examples so that we can broaden our understanding of how kaupapa Māori commercial collaboration is and can occur, while also reaffirming the kaupapa of the wānanga.
11.30am
He mea tino angitu
This section will support discussion on real world infrastructure opportunities in Aotearoa New Zealand and include;
· Identification of infrastructure opportunities around the country, including maps to enable Iwi to identify developments in their rohe; and
· Discussion on the different types of infrastructure, and their respective fit for Iwi.
Richard Forgan, National Director of the National Infrastructure Unit of the Treasury will make a presentation toward the end of this session on the political and market context for infrastructure investment.
1.00pm
Kai
1.45pm
Kia whakaputa
This session will go through the whole life cycle of a PPP project, from pre-RFP events, through the RFP process and the completion and operation of an asset, to support discussion on how Iwi can work in a kaupapa Māori way within the market to collaborate with each other, the Crown and the private sector. Fiona Mules from the National Infrastructure Unit will also speak to the Crown processes and wider PPP market.
3.15pm
Kapu tī
3.30pm
Kei hea te putea
This session will focus on funding infrastructure investments and explore the related issues and risks, with discussion on real-life examples.
4.15pm
He tino tauira
This session will focus on how structures and entities are used in PPPs globally, with particular discussion on real world cases studies that worked and didn’t.
6.00pm
HAKARI
Taupatupatu— In Public Private Partnerships it’s the Ture vs the Tikanga that matters
Day 2: Tuesday 10 August, 2010
9.00am
Ko te kaupapa tōnū
The second day of the event will explore in depth how infrastructure investment can be done in a kaupapa Māori way. The morning wānanga will explore the following issues, supported by technical information and contributions from PricewaterhouseCoopers;
· What roles could and would Iwi hold in PPPs;
· What governance structures could apply to Iwi co-investing together and with the Crown or private sector
10.30am
Kapu ti
10.45am
Ko te kaupapa tōnū
Building on the discussions in the morning session and the technical information discussed on the first day, this session will particularly consider;
· How could co-investment contribute to raising finance;
· What relationships do Iwi need to form amongst ourselves, with the private sector and the Crown to maximise co-investment opportunities;
Toward the end of the session, Brian Roche will speak on the topic of ‘getting the most out of government relations’
12.00pm
Kai
12.45pm
Next Steps
The concluding session for the wānanga is a broad ranging discussion amongst Iwi representatives to identify the next steps that Iwi individually and collectively should take to maximise the immediate and future opportunities from commercial collaboration and infrastructure investment.
2.00pm
Poroporoaki
