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Strong result in MBIE Vision Mātauranga Capability Fund
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The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has awarded three Massey University research projects nearly $750,000 from the Te Pūnaha Hihiko: Vision Mātauranga Capability Fund.
The fund aims to strengthen capability, capacity, skills and networks between Māori and the science and innovation system, and increase understanding of how research can contribute to the aspirations of Māori organisations and deliver benefit for New Zealand.
Of the 16 grants, Massey University is leading three research projects, and partnering on another.
Massey University Vice-Chancellor Professor Jan Thomas says “the result is a fantastic reflection on Massey’s focus on Mātauranga Māori and our efforts to be a Tiriti-led institution.
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New Zealand will this week mark its national day, commemorating the 181st anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Dominic O Sullivan from Charles Sturt University says the document explains why contemporary relationships between Indigenous peoples and the state look very different in New Zealand and Australia.
On the 6th of February, 1840, representatives of the British crown and 540 Māori rangatira signed the treaty, in a bid to align the Māori people and the new British colonists.
The agreement is seen by many as New Zealand s founding document.
The Treaty of Waitangi, or Tiriti o Waitangi, was signed in 1840 by representatives of the British Crown and Maori chiefs from the North Island of New Zealand.