Post-disaster Iwi demographic changes

The following maps were generated from census data responses to the 'Iwi' census question (in which an individual can name up to five iwi).

Maps show the change in South Island populations of selected Iwi between 2006 and 2013, in Territorial Authority districts.

Note: the scale of the dots representing population sizes vary between maps, so not all maps are visually comparable. Many thanks to Cathy Mountier for the GIS work in producing these.

Ngai Tahu

Ngati Porou

Tainui

Te Arawa

Te Ati Awa (Te Wai Pounamu)

Te Ati Awa (Taranaki)

Tuhoe

Maori economy alerts

Summit for emerging Maori business leaders Radio New Zealand The growing size of the Maori economy and preparation for a post treaty settlement environment are two main reasons for the convention, and the need to ...

Damien Grant: The right is wrong New Zealand Herald It is a cornerstone of a functioning capitalist economy, ... In 1840, the State contracted with Maori. The deal was actually pretty simple, at least in the ...

Unemployment worries Maori Party MSN NZ News The Maori Party's relationship with the government has had a rocky start this ... the government says show the economy is heading in the right direction. Interesting Huffington post, that points out that as 'New Zealand also has the advantage of containing more than one culture, so some people there are accustomed to thinking in terms of alternatives.' That's us, e hoa ma!

Strong Sustainability Huffington Post (Landcare's name in the other official language of the country, Maori, ... depict a New Zealand that is less integrated into the global economy, ...

New Kono brand aims to boost exports for Wakatū Inc Scoop.co.nz The Māori word Kono means food basket and traditionally a kono was used to ... in the key industries that are the lifeblood of our regional economy.

Maori unemployment up...

Latest Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS) shows a slight decline in unemployment for the last quarter of 2011, from 6.6% to 6.3%.


Numbers actually in employment, however, are flatling: 63.9%


There's been a decline in full-time employment, a drop in hours, and  a rise in 15–24 year olds not in employment, education, or training (who get their own acronym: NEET) which increased 0.7 percentage points, to 13.1 percent. (Young guns, 15–19-years, saw a larger increase than old hands, 20–24-years of age, up 1.3 and 0.1 percentage points, respectively). 


But the figures for Maori are worsening: 13.4%, up from 13.1% for the Sept Q, 2011, and NZ Herald reports the countries annual jobs growth as 'broadly positive'. 


Maori poverty remains hidden.    : (

Science of Cities: the future for urban Indigenous communities...

Will Allen (who has an excellent website, 'Learning for Sustainability') flicks on dozens of great snippets including this on a blog by Michale Batty on 'The Science of Cities'. Love the graphics...



I always do a quick search for 'indigenous' on new sites and, shame but no surprises ...

This lack does open up considerable challenges and opportunities for Indigenous research in the area of urbanising indigenous communities. 84% of Maori now live in urban areas - it was only 26% at the end of WW2...

Source: Te Ara

How are we to live? An age old question perhaps, but in Christchurch we are faced with framing a future urban existence not from a blank slate exactly, more like a rubble-state. I'm now a convert to Michael Gunder's thesis in seeing the whole concept and practice of 'planning' as an empty signifier. Let's admit that for all the planners we've produced, fat lot of good it did for the citizens of Otautahi/Christchurch.

I'm only up to chapter four of his and Hillier's 'Planning in Ten Words or Less' but it gives some meaty material for my courses this year as I work in the implications for Maori planning and development.

There is some good stuff coming out of my old workplace, Manaaki Whenua, and Kepa Morgan has published on the Mauri model...

Source: A Tangata Whenua Perspective on Sustainability using the Mauri Model


Readings:  
Urban Maori as ‘New Citizens’: The Quest for Recognition and Resources by Paul Meredith 

The role of Māori values in Low-impact Urban Design and Development (LIUDD) by Garth Harmsworth

 

Aotearoa/New Zealand and income disparity

Christchurch is atwirl at council CEO Tony Marryattt’s recent pay rise of 14.4% adding $68,129 to his salary of $470,400 to $538,529 a year, backdated from July 1 last year. Marryatt's annual salary package has increased 45 per cent during his four years at the council, beginning at $370,825. Nice work if you can get it...

Urbanising Indigenous communities...

Just found this text by Fabiana Del Popolo, Ana Maria Oyarce, Bruno Ribotta, and Rodriguez Jorge (2007). I'm interested in how urban Indigenous communities are subject to new and emerging hazards. Most obviously this interest has come from the recent (and ongoing!) earthquakes in Christchurch but there are ever increasing and interacting forces that subject our communities to ongoing risk, exacerbated by racism and economic marginalisation. While Indigenous ecological knowledge is increasingly acknowledged and accepted in environmental management ( see e.g., Allen, Will, Jamie M. Ataria, J. Marina Apgar, G. Harmsworth, and Louis A. Tremblay. 2009. Kia pono te mahi putaiao - doing science in the right spirit. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 39 (4):239-242). Māori are now largely an urban people, drawn from rural New Zealand in the 1960s primarily as a low-skilled manufacturing and industrial workforce but now diversifying individually and collectively both in Aotearoa/New Zealand and overseas. Cityscapes expose all their citizens to new and emerging hazards to which marginalised groups are more exposed.

Is the Ozzie economy buggered?

Maybe. Our neighbours have had a relatively good time of it lately, dragging wealth from the earth as fast as they can hire people to work the diggers.

But times they are a changin'. Latest housing market data shows the circus is perhaps coming to an end. Just like the rest of west, Ozzie has experienced a property bubble. And as pretty as bubbles are, they always burst.

 Source: http://stocktickle.com/2010/08/05/the-australian-housing-bubble/

It wasn't that long ago that the PM was reassuring the country that Aotearoa/NZ was quite safe from this global economic downturn as we were hitched to the booming economies of Australia and China.

So, what now?

I've added a weblink in the sidebar that takes us to macro-economic data from Oz... http://www.macrobusiness.com. Also, I'm hoping to head over to Oz soon (interviewing whanau refugees, a term that may need amending). Nothing like a few beers in a few urban bars to get they lay of the financial land.. The West Island has been a sanctuary for Maori for many years now. (Hohepa Kereopa has a nice korero about working in the outback, recorded in the Paul Moon's biography). If not there, and the UK and US are tight, can we hope to work in Asia? Not the jobs we've been used, that's for sure!

Source: http://www.traffickingproject.org/2008_04_01_archive.html