tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066565209820908484.post4470227009207097229..comments2014-11-28T17:21:07.359+13:00Comments on By Microwave: Praise where praise is dueKarla Akuhatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06691353618790530076noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066565209820908484.post-22662089449266147222012-08-05T07:55:07.056+12:002012-08-05T07:55:07.056+12:00Kia ora for your comments, Simon, you have raised ...Kia ora for your comments, Simon, you have raised some very interesting points. However while I find your message very interesting it also leaves me feeling incredibly sad. I acknowledge that very Maori land owners will be in a position where they can provide the documentation needed to secure any part of this funding. But hopefully this will be ongoing and as Maori learn to work together through lands' trusts and whanau trusts perhaps one day in the idyllic future our children and their children will be able to see the benefits of such investment. However that you raise well-connected Maori consultants and orgranisations will be but a few to get rich from this initiative deeply saddens me. I know that this happens. It is like the old adage that only one group gets rich in a legal process and that is the lawyers. Maori consultants and things like this, or at least those who do not produce something rather they help "facilitate", really get to me. I once heard described as "just another snout at the trough". Disgusting, sorry. But I get what you are saying and hopefully you get my rambling. Mauri ora.Karla Akuhatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06691353618790530076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066565209820908484.post-67438845812294170182012-08-05T06:49:27.613+12:002012-08-05T06:49:27.613+12:00Kia ora Karla,
Ae, I heard of MPI's fund, thou...Kia ora Karla,<br />Ae, I heard of MPI's fund, though working at Lincoln University we're probably more in the agribusiness loop than most.<br />Couple of things. First, $1 million isn't a lot for research purposes and will probably be split up into projects from 20 to 100k.<br />Second, applicants have 4 weeks to get the paperwork in, which means aims,approach and relationships etc must be nine tenths sorted. Very few land owners will be in this position.<br /><br />Maori will be providing free labour somewhere along the way . Okay, that's supporting the kaupapa etc but sustainable means covering the economic, environmental, social and cultural aspects of development. I'm sure the money will be divided up and announced with bells and whistles: it will likely go to the 'usual suspects', AgResearch, LandCare, NIWA, Plant and Food, and those private Maori consultants well-connected and fresh out of government officialdom. (I have friends in this position, and hope they score the putea!). <br /><br />On a tangent, I find RNZ increasingly intellectually bereft. While i do still tune in, I'm disappointed by how often I hear someone bemoaning the state of the world, laughing at random research they pull from the internet, and the disconcerting approach of allowing ignorance to masquerade as balance.SJ Lamberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com