December 19, 2013
Hui tracks path out of poverty
Massey University is planning a major hui next year to mark the 30 years since the Hui Taumata.
One of the organisers of Te Pae Roa 2040, Malcolm Mulholland, says it will also look forward to where Maori want to be at the bicentenary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
He says Maoridom seems to need such an event every 10 years to set its own priorities for development.
Since the rangatira of te ao Maori gathered at parliament in 1984 soon after the election of the Lange Labour Government, there have been a range of developments including Maori Television and radio and investment in iwi through treaty settlements.
"I think the number one memory that some of those people involved in the 1984 Hui Taumata have is that our people were poor. They keep saying ‘We were pohara in 1984.’ Nowadays our iwi are a lot more rich and that in term gives us the opportunity to do a lot more things and probably have a lot more say in society in general," Mr Mulholland says.
Te Pae Roa 2040: Hui Taumata 30 Years On and 30 Years Ahead will be held at Massey University’s Albany campus in September 2014.
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