Hei Oranga mō Tātou | Pānui kōanga 2023

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E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā maunga whakahīhī o te motu, tēnā koutou.

E ngā ringa raupā, ngā ringa tango parahia, ngā kawenga o ngā kaupapa ora mō tātou, tēnā koutou, tēna koutou, e mihi ana ki a koutou.

On behalf of the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse team, welcome to this first “Hei Oranga mō Tātou” pānui. This is a new pānui, focused on work and information we think will be particularly useful for kaimahi Māori and will be released in addition to our regular monthly NZFVC pānui. We expect to send Hei Oranga mō Tātou quarterly.

Please subscribe and forward to others who will find these pānui useful.

It’s fitting that this pānui goes out in kōanga. Takurua is a time of wānanga me te noho puku, spending time together reflecting on the past and planning for the future. Kōanga is a time for putting that thinking into action in the world—when we break the ground, clear the weeds, plant the seeds and shoots. This pānui is part of that.

For the last couple of years, the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse has been reflecting on who we are and how we work. We have been growing and developing strategies that better represent the future we are working towards, where we are contributing to tino rangatiratanga and eliminating family and sexual violence.

Structurally, we are now supported by an Academic Co-Director Māori and an Academic Co-Director Tauiwi. We are also supported by our Māori Advisory Group and our Tauiwi Advisory Group. A new position of Māori Research Lead focuses on promoting mātauranga Māori.

“Hei Oranga mō Tātou” is also the name of our new strategy, which we'll share with you over the next few months. The strategy has been developed to guide us in supporting and promoting mātauranga and mahi Māori. This is an ongoing journey for the Clearinghouse and we will continue to grow and evolve along the way.

We also want to find out from you what we should be doing, how we can support and promote your mahi.

Kōanga tangata tahi—in this pānui, you are hearing a lot from and about us. Ko te tūmanaako ia, ngahuru puta noa. We hope to connect with you all, so future pānui will focus on your mahi and pātai. 

Tēnā koa, me he pātai, he tohu, he whakaaro rānei, īmēra mai. What would you like us to cover in these pānui? What would you like the Clearinghouse to be doing? Whose work do you want to hear about? What questions are you grappling with?

We’d love to hear from you.

You can contact our Māori Research Lead, Kim, at: kim.mcbreen@auckland.ac.nz.

Ko wai te rōpū Māori?

Dr Terry Dobbs (Ngāpuhi; Te Rarawa), Academic Co-Director Māori

Dr Charlotte Moore (Rangitāne o Wairau), Kaiwhakahaere

Dr Kim McBreen (Waitaha; Kāti Māmoe; Ngāi Tahu), Māori Research Lead 

Decolonizing family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand

by Roguski, Michael. In: The Routledge international handbook on decolonizing justice / edited by Chris Cunneen, Antje Deckert, Amanda Porter, Juan Tauri, and Robert Webb.

Routledge, 2023

Korihi te manu: Stories of whāngai and adoption

by Te Wānanga o Raukawa, Te Tākupu, 2022

Ora: Healing ourselves - indigenous knowledge, healing and wellbeing

by Pihama, Leonie [editor] | Smith, Linda Tuhiwai, Huia, 2023

Poipoia ngā tamariki: Māori proverbial sayings related to nurturing children

by Pihama, Leonie | Greenall, Hineitimoana | Cameron-Raumati, Ngaropi | Smith, Linda Tuhiwai | Dickson, Papahuia | Beverland, Marjorie | Cameron, Awhina, Tu Tama Wahine o Taranaki, 2022

Poipoia te kākano, kia puawai: resilience and resistance in the lives of Māori adoptees

by Blake, Denise | Ahuriri-Driscoll, Annabel | McBreen, Kim | Mikaere, Ani

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, First published online, 5 February 2023

DOI: 10.1177/11771801221148505

Tiakina te pā harakeke: Ancestral knowledge and tamariki wellbeing

by Lee-Morgan, Jenny [Editor] | Pihama, Leonie, Huia, 2022

Te awhi warrior

by Cherrington, Lisa | Rona, Sarika | Cameron, Amy [Illustrator], Te Tihi, 2022

You can also visit our Te Reo Māori Quick Topic Search.

A mana tāne echo of hope: dispelling the illusion of whānau violence - Taitokerau Tāne Māori speak out

by Ruwhiu, Leland | Amokura Family Violence Prevention Consortium

Amokura Family Violence Prevention Consortium, 2009

He Mokopuna He Tupuna: investigating Māori views of childrearing amongst iwi in Taranaki

by Cameron, Ngaropi | Pihama, Leonie | Leatherby, Rawinia | Cameron, Awhina. Tu Tama Wāhine o Taranaki Inc, 2013

Māori women caught in the contradictions of a colonised reality

by Mikaere, Ani.

Waikato Law Review, 1994

‘Sitting in the fire’, an indigenous approach to masculinity and male violence: Māori men working with Māori men

by Mataira, Peter

Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2008

The Māori and the criminal justice system: a new perspective: He Whaipaanga Hou

by Jackson, Moana

National Institute of Justice, 1987

Traditional Māori parenting: an historical review of literature of traditional Māori child rearing practices in pre-European times

by Jenkins, Kuni | Harte, Helen M

Te Kahui Mana Ririki, 2011

Transforming whānau violence: a conceptual framework: an updated version of the report from the former Second Māori Taskforce on Whānau Violence

by Kruger, Tamati. | Pitman, Mereana | Grennell, Di | McDonald, Tahuaroa | Mariu, Dennis | Pomare, Alva | New Zealand. Second Maori Taskforce on Whanau Violence

Te Puni Kokiri, 2004