Candidates for Te Tumu Arataki – Māori Vice President 2009
Three candidates are standing for the position of TEU tumu arataki, Māori vice-president, the last vice-presidential vacancy in this electoral round. Pania Melbourne, Cheri Waititi, and Ngaroma Williams have all confirmed their candidacies. This page contains information each of the candidates has supplied about themselves.
Voting will open on 20 April and all TEU members registered as Māori on the membership database will be eligible to vote.
The ballot will then close on 1 May.
However, TEU returning officer Sharn Riggs is advising voters to get their votes in the post by 24 April so that they arrive in plenty of time and do not risk getting lost over Anzac weekend.This is a postal ballot and all votes must be returned to the TEU returning officer by 5pm on 1 May 2009. Your voting pack includes a freepost return envelope in which to place your ballot paper and return to the returning officer before the ballot closes. If you lose your papers please contact the returning officer, Sharn Riggs at TEU
http://scr.im/sharnriggs or 0800 278 348.
Pania Melbourne
Tukuna atu te hunga wairua ki te poho o Hine-nui-te-pÅ, e kore rawa rātou e warewaretia. E te rā whiti, whiti, whiti mai, purea te whatumanawa e te haumanu. Tātou te hunga kiko ki a tātou, tihÄ“ mauri ora.
No Ngāi TÅ«hoe a Pania. He pÅ«kenga nÅ Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato. I uru ia ki te Å«niana o AUS i te tÄ«matatanga o tāna mahi whakaako i Waikato ka whakatÅ«hia hai māngai Māori mo Te Kahurangi Whāiti. Kua riro i a ia te tÅ«ranga Māori mÅ Waikato, hai māngai Māori hoki i runga i Te Kāhui Māreikura.
Ko tāna rongomaiwhiti, ka pau tana werawera ki te akiaki i te Kaunihera Matua o te Te Ū (TEU) ki te aro nui mai ki ngā take maha e tāmi nei i ngā kaimahi Māori o Te Ū. Me haere ngātahi a Te Toi Ahurangi me te Kaunihera Matua o Te Ū, me whakapai ake, me whai mana hoki te kirimana tāwharau kaimahi i ngā wāhi katoa. Mā te whakakotahi i ngā whakaaro o ngā mata maha o tÅ tātou Å«niana e ea ai tÄ“nei wawata. Ko tānā he whakahau i te Te Ū ki te manaaki kaimahi kia whai mana ai ia i roto i tÅna iti me tÅna rahi.
Pania is a lecturer in the School of Māori and Pacific Development at Waikato University. She has been an active union member since becoming a lecturer in 2002 and soon after became Māori academic branch representative on Te Kahurangi Whāiti (AUS Māori committee). This year she was elected as Te Toi Ahurangi representative on the women’s committee.
Pania is passionate about and committed to advancing TEU’s understanding of the professional, cultural, economic and political issues facing all Māori members. She seeks equity and strong support for Te Toi Ahurangi from the TEU council, further improvement of employee working conditions, strengthening of collective agreements, frequent localised interaction with and input from all branches. She advocates that TEU must function strategically with vision and secure a reputation with members and external agencies as a committed and solutions-based union.
Cheri Waititi
Ko Tuwhakairiora te whare tipuna
Ko Hinemaurea te marae
Ko Te Aotaki te tangata
E noho ana au i raro i te maru o
Patangata te maunga
Ka rere te awa o Wharekahika
Ko Ngati Porou te iwi
Ko Te Whanau-a-Tuwhakairiora te hapu
Ko Horouta te waka
Ko Wharekahika te papakainga
Te taha o toku papa – ko Ngati Porou, Nga Puhi me Koterani (tona koka), ko Tenemaka (tona matua) – ko te whanau Jensen
Te taha o toku koka, ko Ngati Porou – ko te whanau Pokiha (Fox)
Te taha o oku tipuna, ko Ngati Porou (te whanau Tipene no Wharekahika me te whanau Pokiha no Te Araroa), ko Nga Puhi (te whanau Tipene me Haare no Motukaraka me Mangamuka), Koterani (te whanau Harris), Tenemaka (te whanau Jensen no Thise – Jutland – Denmark), Ngati Kahungunu (te whanau Potatau no Heretaunga), me Ngai Tuhoe (te whanau Haare no Maunga Pohatu me Waikaremoana)
Te taha o toku matua whangai, ko Ngati Porou me Te Whanau-a-Apanui (te whanau Waititi (tona papa) no Raukokore me Waihau Bay me Whangaparaoa), ko Ngai Te Rangi (te whanau Hiamoe (tona koka) no Waikari – Matapihi – Tauranga)
Cheri (Panda)Waititi is a lecturer in Arts Education and the Visual Arts in the Arts & Language Education Dept of the School of Education at the University of Waikato over the past 12 years. She is excited to have the opportunity to contribute her leadership in the initial foundation building of the new Tertiary Education Union – Te Hautu Kahurangi o Aotearoa.
She gives credit to her experience and work in the unions as being vehicles to develop her educational leadership skills over the past 30 years beginning in the 1970s to the present day. From Student Union, NZEI (NZ Educational Institute), PPTA (Post Primary Teachers’ Association), ASTE (Association for Staff in Tertiary Education – Te Hau Takitini o Aotearoa – National Executive, Kaiawhina, Finance Committee, ASTE Team who presented submission to select committee for Foreshore & Seabed Bill, Member of Initial Negotiating Team for ASTE for the Collective Agreement, Te Uepu Rep, Branch – Chair and Te Uepu Rep, Waikato University Combined Unions Rep) to the present day in the newly formed TEU (NZ Tertiary Education Union – Te Hautu Kahurangi o Aotearoa) where there is a possibility of being the incoming Vice President (Māori) Te Tumu Arataki as a foundation National Officer. This position gives opportunity to demonstrate her leadership for all Māori and non-Māori members in the union and in Tertiary Educational Institutions – Universities, Polytechnics, Whare Wananga & Wananga, REAP, Private Tertiary Educators etc throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Ngaroma Williams
Ko Tamatekapua te tangata
Ko Te Arawa te waka
Mai i Maketu ki Tongariro, mai i Te Maunu ki Titiraupenga, ki Titi o Kura, ki Te Awa o Te Atua.
E rere ana i ngā mihi ki a koutou katoa
Mauri ora ki a tātou.
Ngaroma Williams (MML, PgDML, BTchLn, Dip T) is well known within the early childhood education sector having been involved as a parent, teacher and lecturer in a diverse range of early childhood settings and teacher education providers. Currently Ngaroma is a regional lecturer for Te Kuratini TÅ«whera, The Open Polytechnic of NZ.
As an avid advocate for bicultural education both Ngaroma’s teaching and research are aimed at supporting and extending all educators’ theoretical knowledge of delivering bicultural curricula within Aotearoa, New Zealand.
As a current doctoral student at the University of Canterbury, Ngaroma foresees a huge component of her doctoral research contributing to the ongoing development and implementation of the objectives of Te Hautū Kahurangi o Aotearoa.
Past and present experiences and opportunities within teacher education have provided Ngaroma with the skills, knowledge, integrity and passion to provide effective Rangatiratanga/ professional leadership.
A key principle that Ngaroma draws upon to enhance Māori membership within this Union is Rangatiratanga. Simply translated ‘Ranga’ to weave, ‘tira’ the group and ‘tanga’ to draw from collective knowledge is the basis that not only develops one’s own ability but develops the ability, knowledge and wisdom of all.
Ngaroma will bring to Te HautÅ« Kahurangi o Aotearoa a sound knowledge base of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. An ongoing professional and personal passion is developing contemporary frameworks of how Aotearoa, New Zealand’s founding document can be easily incorporated and implemented within organisational structures, policies, procedures and practices.
Ngaroma’s skills and innovative abilities provide her with sound strategic capability to support all Māori members in becoming actively engaged with union matters. Communication and relationships underpin sound union practices thus allowing both Māori and Tauiwi to work in partnership.
TÅ« Kotahi
Stand as one
