Ngā Rangahautira
Ko Ngā Rangahautira e ngunguru nei!
Ngā Rangahautira is Te Herenga Waka’s Māori Law Students rōpū based down at the Old Government Buildings. We are focused on supporting Māori tauira through their law degrees and setting them up for success after they graduate. Our support comes in many forms through academic workshops, careers events, whakawhanaungatanga, mentoring and more. We also generally work on encouraging awareness and understanding about Māoridom and Māori issues at the law school.
Ngā Rangahautira was established with the whakaaro of helping tauira ture Māori through the Pākeha law school and out into the world with the knowledge they need to help our people and turn the tides for Māori in the system.
This year’s kōmiti whakahaere (executive team) is 16 people strong, and we have been working hard on a range of different kaupapa that speak to our whainga of uplifting Māori law students.
We have had a successful year with our Māori legal competitions. In May we hosted our annual Kaupapa Māori Moot Competition. Our mooters competed in a mock court trial (like in Suits) focusing on Māori resource management and the EEZ Act. They all held their own in the face of some tough questions from our 5 judges and we are super proud of their hard mahi. In July we hosted our Kaupapa Māori Negotiation Competition, where competitors worked as ‘lawyers’ representing clients working out an agreement about a will, ōhakī and burial. This was a great opportunity for our tauira to navigate how legal instruments like wills work together with tikanga practices in the real world. The winners of both competitions will be representing VUW at the national competitions in August.
The beginning of August saw our exciting Noho Marae weekend. We were lucky enough to be hosted at Te Rau Karamu marae at Massey University. We had an amazing time coming together to observe and practice tikanga Māori, discuss the history and whainga of Ngā Rangahautira and do some kapa haka practice. To end the weekend, we hosted a Kaitahi to give thanks to some of our key supporters. We are always looking to give our tauira opportunities to observe and practice tikanga in real life, like at our whakatau for Māori law student interns at Kāhui Legal and Luke Cunningham Clere.
Looking forward to the end of the year we will be full steam ahead for assessment season with study wā and revisions sessions from our MPI tutors. We will also be preparing our tauira for their summer work with a networking event. To finish the year we will host events to whakanui our graduates and celebrate the hard mahi of the year.
We have a range of different people and kaupapa available to manaaki tauira ture Māori at the law school. We are really grateful to everyone that has been involved this year! Kaua e wareware, there are more exciting things to come!
Ngā Rangahautira
Ko Ngā Rangahautira e ngunguru nei!
Ko Ngā Rangahautira te rōpū tauira ture ki Te Herenga Waka e tū ana i ngā whare kāwanatanga o mua. Ko tā mātou mahi matua, he tautoko i ngā tauria Māori e whai ana i te tohu ture, kātahi ka āwhina i a rātou kia eke tangaroa whai muri i te whakapōtaetanga. He mea tautoko ā mātou tauira e ngā awheawhe wānanga, e ngā kaupapa aramahi, e te whakawhanaungatanga, e te mahi kumanu me ētahi atu mea anō hoki. I te nuinga o te wā, ka whakatairanga mātou i te tūohutanga me te māramatanga mō te ao Māori me ngā raruraru Māori i te kura ture.
I whakatūria a Ngā Rangahautira i rungā anō i te whakaaro, me āwhina ngā tauira ture Māori i roto i te kura ture Pākehā kia puta ki te ao me te mōhio kia āwhina rātou i ō tātou ake tāngata kia huri te tai mō te iwi Māori i roto i te pūnaha ture.
I tū te 16 tāngata mō te kōmiti whakahaere i tēnei tau, ā, kua pukumahi mātou ki ngā kaupapa maha e tautoko ana i tā mātou whāinga ki te whakamana i ngā tauira ture Māori.
Kua angitū anō ā mātou whakataetae ture Māori i tēnei tau. I te Mei, ka whakahaere mātou i te whakataetae ā-tau, koina te Moot mō ngā kaupapa Māori. I tauwhāinga ā mātou Mooters i tētahi whakaharatau o te whakamātau kōti (pērā i te hōtaka ‘suits’) e aro atu ana ki tā te Māori whakahaere rauemi me te ture EEZ. I tū pakari rātou ahakoa te uaua o ngā pātai nā ngā kaiwhakawā tokorima, ā, e tino poho kererū ana mātou ki ā rātou mahi nui. I te Hūrae, ka whakahaere mātou i tā te whakataetae whirwhiri kaupapa Māori. Ko tā mātou mahi matua hei reira e mahi ana ngā kaiwhakataetae ānō nei he rōia e tū ana hei māngai mō ngā kiritaki e whakatau ana i te whakaaetanga mō tētahi wira rānei, mō te ōhāki rānei, mō te tāpuke rānei.
He arawātea pai tēnei mā ngā tauira ki te mōhio ka pēhea ngā taputapu ture pērā i te wira e mahi i te taha o ngā tikanga Māori i te ao. Ka tū ngā whakaihuwaka hei māngai mō VUW ki ngā whakataetae ā-motu hei te Ākuhata.
I te tīmatanga o Ākuhata tū ai te Noho Marae i te mutunga wiki. Nō mātou te waimarie te noho ki Te Rau Karamu, ki te marae o Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa. I mīharo tā mātou whakapiri hei āta tiro, hei kawe atu i ngā tikanga Māori. I wānanga mātou i te hītori me te whāinga o Ngā Rangahautira, ka mutu, ka parakatihi haka.
I te mutunga o te wikini, ka whakahaere kaitahi mātou hei mihi ki ētahi o ā mātou tino kaitautoko. Whakamātau ai mātou kia whai wāhi ā mātou tauira ki te āta tiro ki te kawe atu hoki i ngā tikanga Māori i te ao tūroa, pērā i te whakatau mō ngā tauira ture Māori, e mahi pia ana anō hoki ki Kāhui Legal me Luke Cunningham Clere.
Titiro whakamua ki te mutunga o te tau, ka pukumahi katoa mātou i te kaupeka aromatawai, ka tū ngā wā ako me ngā awheawhe whakahou nā ngā kaituruki MPI. Ka mutu ka takatū mātou i ngā tauira i mua i tā rātou mahi raumati ki tētahi kaupapa whatunga. Hei mahi whakakapi, ka whakahaere kaupapa mātou hei whakanui i ngā kaiwhakapōtae me ā rātou mahi nui i tēnei tau.
Kua wātea ngā momo tāngata maha me ngā kaupapa maha hei manaaki tauira ture Māori i te kura ture. Kātahi anō ngā tāngata pai i whai wā ki ēnei kaupapa i tēnei tau. Kaua e wareware, he maha ngā kaupapa kei te haere tonu mai!
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