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“At a time when “TV is tabloid and channels are ghettoising current affairs”, Māori Television will be covering and challenging New Zealand stories with Māori perspectives in a new, prime-time current affairs show ironically dubbed – NATIVE AFFAIRS.
Covering subjects such as suicide and educational achievement amongst Māori boys, the team is dishing up four field-based video segments a week and one studio-based interview or panel.." www.maoritelevision.com; 11/06/2007
Julian Wilcox (Ngāpuhi, Te Māhurehure, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) - Kaikawe Kōrero.
A look at Government’s 2020 plan for Treaty settlements. What will it take to correct historical injustices fully and finally? It appears the answer is as challenging as the question. Dr Patu Hōhepa ties things back to The Declaration of Indigenous Peoples before the United Nations. One commentator believes it is a ploy to get Māori rights off the political agenda. The Office of Treaty Settlements has also been accused of splitting iwi interests and setting iwi against iwi.
Annabelle Lee-Harris (Ngāi Tahu, Te Tai Poutini) - Kairipoata.
Dr Patu Hōhepa (Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu, Te Māhurehure) - Kaikōrero.
Mark Burton - Minister of Treaty Settlement Negotiations.
Annette Sykes (Te Arawa) - Constitutional Lawyer.
Jane Kelsey - Professor of Law.
Georgina Te Heuheu (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tūhoe) - National MP.
A land development to pay off a major debt fro a failed forestry venture has torn apart a Tūwharetoa hapū. Ngāti Rauhoto o Te Urunga uri and film maker Carey Carter is documenting the dispute and excerpts are provided to contextualise the fallout. The land in dispute is Otūparae Point on the northern shores of Lake Taupō. The site was registered as an historical site of significance in 1977. The Symphony Development Group claim to not know aout the waahi tapu status of the land.
Taiha Molyneux (Ngāi Tūhboe, Ngāti Kahungunu) - Kairipoata.
Moira Bramley (Ngāti Rauhoto) - Land Owner.
Joe Pene - Hiruharama Pōnui Trustee.
Andrew Kusabs - Hiruharama Pōnui Trustees.
Perry Fletcher - Taupō Historian.
Dan Hakaria - Symphony Group Development Manager.
John Harrison - Land Purchaser.
Te Ururoa Flavell’s private members bill The Public Works (Offer Back of and Compensation for Acquired Land) Amendment Bill. The Public Works Act is the single most worse legislation that alienated Māori land. Bastion Point Takaparawha, Raglan Golf Course, Paraparaumu Airport, pockets of land around Whakatāne and many other tracts of land were taken under this and other legislation.
Kirsty Armstrong (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou) - Kairipoata.
Te Ururoa Flavell (Te Arawa, Ngāpuhi) - Māori Party MP.
Hōhepa Mason (Ngāti Awa) - Kaumatua.
Māori economic development entrepreneurial skill are being recognised on the international stage. Māori are rated the third most entrepreneurial people in the world with 17% attempting to set up in business, from tourism, seafood production, forestry to clothing design. There is a belief that now is the time to unlock the economic potential of Māori owned land.
Marissa Balle (Te Arawa, Ngāti Kahu) - Kairipoata.
Shaan Stevens (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Kahungunu) - Financial Advisor.
Paul Morgan (Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka a Maui, Taranaki) - CEO FOMA.
Environmental sustainability. Keep it clean. Actor Anatonio Maioha is leading by example in creating sustainable lifestyles. Raglan is New Zealand’s first zero waste community.
Semiramis Holland (Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Maniapoto) - Kairiopata.
Anatonio Maioha (Ngāpuhi) - Tangata o te Whenua.
Lindsay Gow - Spokesperson, Ministry for the Environment.
Ruiha Manuel (Ngāpuhi) - Environmental Forum Participant.