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The new chair of Te Aupouri hopes to get the five far north iwi working more closely together.
Technology entrepreneur Rhonda Kite takes over the Te Kao-based rūnanga at a time it is still struggling to recover from the collapse of the Aupouri Māori Trust Board and build up its settlement assets.
It’s also hampered by size, a legacy of the crown’s strategy of breaking up the coalition that brought the Muriwhenua Claims so it could settle with individual iwi.
Ms Kite says the COVID-19 pandemic has given Te Hiku o Te Ika a different perspective on its needs.
"You know there’s five of us up there and we have all been battling for many years on our own and I see the opportunity for us to in many ways come together and be stronger as a united front instead of being out there in our own corners," Ms Kite says.
Rhonda Kite says at the end of her three-year term she wants to see a system for economic development and intergenerational wealth for Aupouri.
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