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'Maori have duty to fund their own,' says Fran O'Sullivan in the Saturday Herald- this story will be updated as the week goes by. Editors comments in brackets below.

(Is Fran O’Sullivan just rabbiting on in the right wing corner or does she represent a deeper undercurrent of feeling? Is Fran foreshadowing the way Treasury thinks and might act? She works off a stock of iwi bashing questions and rounds up the usual suspects but the mere fact that her article is given serious space in the New Zealand Herald shows that it has some editorial significance or support)

‘Mute response to Minister’s call for iwi to support abused kids grates, given growing level of tribal wealth’, says Fran’s sub heading.

(O’Sullivan sets out the distinction between iwi and state in her opening paragraph. And then there is the inversion not emphasized by Fran O’Sullivan; Paula Bennett is, like Winston Peters, a Maori advocate for the state. A Maori Minister of the Crown is berating leaders of Maori tribes, some Maori wear the iwi hat and some like Bennett and Peters in his day wear the state hat.)

The Maori aristocracy has turned a deaf ear to Paula Bennett’s plea to them to stump up some of their own cash so abused kids could be placed in iwi rather than state care.

(In her next paragraph she takes iwi leaders to task for being tardy or indolent.)

True to form, the tribal leaders haven’t bothered themselves sufficiently to make a collective response to Bennett. (Although her office says she is going to explain her proposals further at the invitation of some individual iwi.)

(Then it is a matter of establishing that the iwi owe the government money. Are Treaty Settlements ‘found money’ or are there strings attached?)

The young Cabinet minister went up in my estimation with her blunt message to the iwi leaders’ group to ‘put your hands in your own pockets’ to help find families who could take on children from their own iwi’ because the government doesn’t have the money for it now quite frankly’.

(Next the Key government is accused of being craven and the claim by Maori for the foreshore and seabed as corrupt.)

After months of the Key government’s craven behavior towards all things which Maori are corruptly claiming as theirs- like the prized and mineral- rich foreshore and seabed which we all own as Kiwis- it was refreshing to see a Cabinet minister give the tribal chiefs a rev-up.

(Then it is the Maori professor as space cadet. This calls into question the scholarship of Treaty claims and the general sociology and anthropology of race relations. The idea is that these academics live in a one dimensional world and this is usually hard anyway but in a small society like New Zealand it is very difficult).

Ngati Kahu Chairwoman Professor Margaret Mutu- one of the more disturbingly remote leaders- said Bennett’s suggestion that iwi provide funding and resources was ridiculous.
‘We can’t. We don’t have them. It’s a state responsibility. We know how bad it is. We know the helplessness and hopelessness of it, and that we are the only ones who can save ourselves. But we also need resources and the support of the state to do that.’

(The notion of ‘disturbingly remote’runs into the idea of psychological problems touching on pathology as Fran O’Sullivan accuses Mutu showing ‘learned helplessness’ and suggests that she is elitist. The underlying idea in the elitist suggestion is that Treaty Settlement money goes into education which promotes an the children of an elite but does nothing for people at risk.)

This display of ‘learned helplessness’ from a university professor is deeply worrying. Or does Mutu cling to an outdated belief that only tribal elites- like herself- are capable of bettering themselves?

(Then O’Sullivan sets out the idea of a game, a double game where Maori tribal leaders are trying to gaet a priveliged position as far as the ownership of assets now vested in the state are concerned while they have their own assets through Treaty of Waitangi settlements. They are, Fran O’Suillivan seems to be suggesting, playing poor when it comes to state assets while in fact Maori are collectively rich.)

I very much doubt it. Mutu is one of eight tribal chairs who are very much focused on playing a double game to get ownership of a considerable lump of those assets that are either owned by the Crown on behalf of all New Zealanders- such as the foreshore and seabed-or are tucked up in state owned enterprises. Or have yet to roll off the Government’s drawing boards.

( Fran O’Sullivan is suggesting that Maori are building their way into the state.)

It is indeed true that child-abuse deaths for Maori were on a par with the rest of New Zealand in the mid 1980s. It is also true that Maori jobs vanished out of this economy as the 1980s Labour government demolished the railways, post office and forestry departments of that era.

(Fran O’Sullivan seems to not want to overstate things here. In fact there is something of a ‘negative sovereignty’ happening where Maori are in the majority in prisons and elsewhere in the justice system.)

But the Treaty of Waitangi settlements have also ensured a considerable shift of cash and assets into tribal hands since that time.

A couple of weeks ago I listened as the head of Ngai Tahu’s property company told a bunch of fascinated infrastructure investors how the South Island tribe had grown its portfolio from $2 million to $450 million since 1994.

Tony Sewell (a Pakeha) presented on Ngai Tahu’s behalf because its chairman Mark Solomon, pulled out at the last minute.

The basic gist was that Maori were- contrary to myth-making-relatively rich at the collective level. Maori equity could be as much as $25 billion although much of it was passive investments tied up in trusts.

Ngai Tahu was itself focused on building an inter-generational portfolio. Their perspective was a 50 to 200 year horizon.. But the aim was to have $1billion under management within a relatively short space of time.

Maori were a pivotal part of ‘New Zealand Inc’- major shareholders in dairy giant Fonterra, pastoral farming and the fishing industry and about to be in the preferred position when this government gets around to selling the deals on public-private partnerships.

‘Collective capitalism is the future, it is our past, it will deliver our potential and now is the hour’ was the mantra on the forum’s website when it hosted yet another gabfest on how Maori can become major infrastructure investors in New Zealand.

Don’t get me wrong here.

(Fran O’Sullivan goes on to talk about or at least hint at entrenchment. This is when Maori have automatic first cut at something as a given or entrenched right.)

I am not against Maori having a slice of the pie. What I don’t like is the notion which is increasingly prevalent in government departments that Maori should be in some sort of preferred position because the assets- whether new infrastructure or a slice of an existing Government asset- will always remain in New Zealand ownership and be held for the longer term.

The message Maori are making to the smart money is this; pony up with us if you want a slice of the Government pie. At a superficial level- the same level which persuaded the Cabinet that our foreshore and seabed should be confiscated by statute and tucked into nebulous public domain-this is attractive.
It enables ministers to free up some cash for other purposes knowing that they have some inbuilt cheerleaders in the form of Maori who will clearly be in accord with any move that is in their commercial interest.

The play with long and short or immediate term is a significant part of this analysis.
In her last paragraph Fran O’Sullivan seems to be querying the very leadership of the tribal leaders group. The accusation seems to be that these leaders are not acting responsibly with regard to their own communities. If Maori are as rich or richer collectively speaking than others in the population of New Zealand then action by them to help people in their own communities ought to be forthcoming)
It’s obvious that Maori are playing a very long term inter-generational game. But it is time Solomon, Mutu et al took their eyes off the asset grab and exerted some leadership in the interests of the current Maori generation.

SO THERE READERS- WHAT DO YOU THINK OF FRAN'S COMMENTS?


Papers on Social Work 4th Edition by Peter Cleave has been released by Campus Press, There is a discussion of Whanau Ora the New Zealand government's strategy for social work announced in April-May 2010. There is a revisiting of the theme of restorative justice. All this and the classic, prize winning essays on social work education and value systems that have made Papers on Social Work one of the best selling books in the Campus Press set, internationally and locally.


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About the author.
It is said that Peter Cleave has more books in New Zealand Libraries than any other author. Beginning as a collaborator on The Oxford Picture Dictionary of Maori in 1979 there has been a consistent pattern of a book published, an article in a referred journal and then a radio commentary repeated over a long period. With this pattern of published work have come the prizes; the First Class Masterate from Auckland University and a Commonwealth scholarship to the University of Oxford, the Phillip Bagby Scholarship and Rhodes Foundation funds while doing the Oxford Doctorate, the chair of the college common room and on from these to taking the prizes for best paper at conferences like the International Federation of Social Workers in Montreal in 2000.

Peter Cleave is without peer at the meeting place of language, culture and criticism, locally and internationally and this is seen in the sale of his books to libraries in New Zealand and Australia and around the world.

At the same time Peter Cleave, a former captain of the Manurewa High School First Fifteen in South Auckland, works on community radio and touches base with working people. He left school to work on the MV Tofua, a Banana Boat and began to learn about the Pacific, something he is still doing.

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Campus Press is the biggest academic press outside the universities in New Zealand. It was established in 1992 and for the last twelve years has been based in Palmerston North. Campus Press mostly supplies libraries.

Papers on Social Work, 4th Edition follows other releases in 2010 like Takutai: the Foreshore and Seabed, New Zealand’s most topical book with implications for US, European and other coastlines. ISBN 978-1-877229-46-6 See the attachment for the cover.



Takutai, the foreshore and seabed by Peter Cleave gives an historical background and then an analysis of the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed Act and the 2009 Ministerial Review. There is a wide range of examples of co-governance and co-management by iwi and councils of the foreshore and seabed from around Aotearoa/New Zealand. International case studies are also given. The Conclusion sets the scene for the Repeal of the Act and the introduction of new legislation in 2010.

What the critics had to say about the advance article;

one of the most well-conceived discussions of the present state of the Act that exists in print anywhere. …an extremely useful contribution not only to academic discourse, but to issues affecting the national life of the country.

Professor Paul Moon

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Full Review of Peter Cleave’s Ten Volume Set

By Paul Moon

July 2009

The very nature of academic publishing is that it serves a niche market, and in a country as small as New Zealand, that niche can be so narrow that some books probably never see the light of day because they are simply uneconomic to produce. So when a ten-volume set of books is released, written by Professor Peter Cleave – one of New Zealand’s respected academics – attention is bound to be aroused by the scale of the venture, and by the promise of a substantial body of content.

The work’s opening volume comprises a collection of articles, some of which are new, and some of which are revised versions of existing articles that Cleave has written or presented. The relevancy of the work is underscored by the first paper, which contains suggested options for dealing with the vexed issue of the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004. The Government has indicated that it will reach some conclusions on this matter within the next two months, but regardless of what is decided, it will be interesting to see the extent to which Cleave’s recommendations are reflected in Government policy, and for academics to debate some of the themes raised long after any settlement has been made at a political level. This article stands out as being the most detailed in this volume, and certainly one of the most well-conceived discussions of the present state of the Act that exists in print anywhere. For this piece alone, the first volume in this collection makes an extremely useful contribution not only to academic discourse, but to issues affecting the national life of the country.

Other articles in this volume focus on issues surrounding Maori language – its survival, its transition from an oral to a written language, and its re-emergence as an oral and written language. To this is added a highly original and possibly even provocative piece on conceptual interpretations of pa; a reflection on issues associated with the 1981 Springbok rugby tour to New Zealand, and concludes with a series of brief but brilliant articles which tackle a variety of culturally-charged concepts, and which, among much else, challenge the reader’s understanding of meanings associated with them.

From a collection of articles, Cleave then provides in the second volume of this collection a book. Starting points? A discussion of contemporary Maori society and culture, is primarily about New Zealand historiography, into which is injected a broad range of arguments and perspectives relating to issues such as culture, identity, tradition and modernity, and the media. One of the great strengths of this volume is the extent to which Cleave is able to draw on international material and examples to illuminate his arguments, without the reader ever getting the sense that he is being overwhelmed by comparative examples from other countries. It is a difficult balance to establish, but when handled as masterfully as in Starting Points? The benefits are immediately apparent. The theme of literacy raised in the first volume reappears briefly in this one, but in a substantially different context, with a strong connection with the way in which history works in cultures that had/have strong oral components. In the central sections of this volume is a series of analyses of the works of other writers, in which Cleave adopts the format of quoting passages from articles, and then providing a commentary on them. This is an approach to criticism that is too seldom utilised. In the case of this volume, it has enabled Cleave to deconstruct and then reconstruct ideas and themes, using these sources as interchangeable building blocks – able to be assembled in a variety of forms according to the writer’s perspectives.

Following on from Starting Points? is the third edition of one of Cleave’s seminal works: Rangahau pae iti kahurangi: Research in a small world of light and shade. This work, on themes and approaches to research in a broadly Maori context, has become a recommended text book for many tertiary course around the country, and draws heavily on traditional concepts of learning and understanding as part of the basis for one of the frameworks of research. The traditional is not closed off from critique, however, and Cleave’s great strength in this area is his ability to combine an in-depth cultural knowledge with recent scholarship on research, producing insightful and useful conclusions for anyone engaged in this area of study.

Another third edition in this collection is Papers on Social Work. His volume is made up of seven papers dealing with subjects from the more standard ones, such as ethics, to the some unlikely choices, such as the city space and social work, and the thematically-related article on places of inquiry. Yet, whether predictable or otherwise, Cleave brings new insights and challenging perspectives to the reader. Even the most experienced social work practitioner would be bound to have the perceptions of their profession augmented as a result of reading this book and absorbing some of its ideas.

Papers on Social Work is followed by the 244-page volume Papers on Language. Made up of thirteen articles, this work has Cleave again drawing on a useful quantity of international scholarship, and revealing why he is so highly-regarded in the academic community. There are too few writers in this country capable of combining material from so many different disciplines and in a way that produces such a wide variety of perspectives. Again, there is some material here that appears elsewhere, but its precise employment this volume avoids any sense of repetition. A few of the shorter articles in this volume would be suited mainly for teachers of te reo, but otherwise, the tenor of the works as a whole is well-suited to the general academic reader.

The next book in this collection is the 197-page What do we know about the mark on the wall? Images, rules and prior knowledge. As for its subject, Cleave opens with the teasing line: ‘As the author I still have difficulty saying what his book is about’. But rather than answer with a pithy summary, Cleave allows the ideas contained in this work to speak for themselves – no more, no less. Themes about the meaning of ideas, place, and memory compete with topics on historiography, sociolinguistics, and social geography, among many others. This is probably the most challenging book in the collection. Cleave moves, sometimes with great speed, from one topic to another, often leaving just hints of whole new areas of potential exploration. The reader might feel settled with an idea, and then in the next paragraph, Cleave might challenge that idea from several angles, before hauling the topic elsewhere, with a series of careful thematic links. There is no stated topic for this book, and nor ought there to be. It is like a rhapsody, with different motifs surfacing at various points, connected by very little at times, yet, at the conclusion, it all seems to have a link of sorts to the idea of knowledge. This is possibly one of the most satisfying yet challenging works in the collection.

Te Pu Tapere- the impulse to perform, formerly known as Depot Takirua, is the third edition of this work, and focuses mainly on the electronic media. At 204 pages, it is as substantial a work as any of its companion volumes in this collection, and for those studying film and television in New Zealand, it would be indispensible. This most certainly ought to be a prescribed text for all media students. The portrayal of Maori in film and television comes in for close scrutiny here, and Cleave seizes on several deficiencies and stereotypes in the way culture is presented in popular culture. The chapter on Jane Campion’s The Piano is one of the outstanding portions of this book, and as all the other chapters, offers insights that hitherto have not been available to readers interested in these areas of study. Some of the essays in this work date back to the 1990s, but have been revised where appropriate to maintain their currency.

Iwi Station: A Discussion of Print, Radio, Television, and the Internet in Aotearoa/ New Zealand also has a string media focus, as the title suggests. However, in keeping with the general approach of the other volumes in this collection, Cleave has added elements of history, sociology, and anthropology into the mix. And instead of merely being descriptive about the topics he has chosen, Cleave continually probes and questions to elicit deeper meanings behind them. This is most certainly a text that should be compulsory reading for every journalist and person involved in the media in New Zealand. In particular, it lifts the lid on the sorts of conceptual developments in thought that have led to the status the media currently has in New Zealand.

This collection, coming out as a single set, is unique in New Zealand academic writing. But the format and quantity side, the lasting value of these works is in the ideas they express and the changes in perception that they will bring about for the reader. Cleave deserves full praise for the contribution he has made in these works to the intellectual conversation about New Zealandness.

Paul Moon is Professor of History at Te Ara Poutama, the faculty of Maori Development at AUT University.

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