Baby uplift order set aside after marae escape 23 Jul 2021 09:00 AM Photo: Radio Waatea Image Database.
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Glenis Philip-Barbara: Baby uplift order set aside after marae escape.
The Assistant Maori Commissioner for Children, Glenis Philip-Barbara, has endorsed a marae which took in a whanau trying to stop a baby being taken from its mother.
The Assistant Māori Commissioner for Children, Glenis Philip-Barbara, has endorsed a marae which took in a whānau trying to stop a baby from being taken from its mother.
Radio New Zealand is reporting a Family Court judge yesterday set aside an order that the nine-month-old boy be handed over to a distant relative, and there will be further hui to try to resolve the dispute.
Baby uplift order set aside after marae escape
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A protest was held in May in the city against the council s decision.
The local Taiwhenua said current laws were in breach of the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi and the Crown s Treaty obligations to ensure Māori had adequate and proportionate representation at a local government level.
The five claimants are from the local iwi authority Te Taiwhenua o te Whanganui ā Orotū - Tamati Cairns, Shayne Walker, Tania Eden, Matthew Mullany, Alayna Hokianga and Hori Reti. To date, Māori representation and participation in local government has continued to languish well below the proportion of Māori in the population, the claim read.
Marty Sharpe17:32, Jul 14 2021
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Napier’s Pania of the Reef contemplates, perhaps, the prospect of Māori wards on the city council. (File photo)
A decision by Napier City Council not to establish Māori wards for next year s council elections has prompted a claim to the Waitangi Tribunal for an urgent hearing, asserting the Crown has breached Treaty principles. A law change earlier this year meant councils could establish Māori wards without the possibility that a poll signed by at least five percent of ratepayers could overturn a councils decision. Councils had until May 21 to make a decision in time for the 2022 local government elections. Thirty-two councils chose to create Māori wards, joining the three councils that already had them.