Hapai Te Hauora Tapui - Position Statement on Tobacco
05/12/2011
Hapai Te Hauora Tapui Ltd's (Hapai) mission is to lead hauora innovation through whanaungatanga therefore advancing Maori well-being through leadership. The Hapai kaupapa Maori programme Tihei Mauri Ora has a focus on Reducing tobacco use - Smokefree, and is disseminated through the whanau whanui relationship that further delivers the organisation response that sustains the Hapai objectives and commitment to erase smoking and smoking related harm to Maori whanau, hapu and iwi by 2025.
'Public Policy on Gambling should not be for sale'
13/06/2011
John Key is setting up people with gambing addictions, and their families and communities, to foot the bill for the new Auckland Convention Centre, ...
13/06/2011
"Every day we see major downstream effects from problem gambling embedded in our communities - family break-ups, workplace problems, increased pressure on ...
'Country needs International Conference Centre, Key says'
13/06/2011
New Zealand needs an international convention centre to create jobs and boost the economy, Prime Minister John Key said today, rejecting criticism of an agreement which could see changes to gambling laws. Mr Key yesterday announced plans for the ...
13/06/2011
The govenment is promising that the public will have its say on any changes to gambling regulations
13/06/2011
An increase in the number of gambling tables and machines to soak up millions from gamblers - many of whom cannot afford to be frittering away their cash - is almost indisputably bad. Why must these two things be linked? ...
'SkyCity seeks expanded gambling for convention centre deal'
13/06/2011
The government may ease gambling restrictions on SkyCity entertainment group if the casino operator agrees to foot the bill for a $350 million international convention centre ...
'Key gambles people for profit'
13/06/2011
Manukau City adopted a sinking lid policy on pokie machines in 2004 because of the significant social harm problem gambling causes for families and the ...
'Key defends SkyCity deal'
13/06/2011
Prime Minister John Key is defending a deal with SkyCity in which the company will foot the $350 million bill for a new international convention centre in exchange for the government considering gambling law changes ...
'SkyCity defends Govt dealings'
13/06/2011
The Government and the casino company will sit down and work out some changes to gambling laws after the company annouced it will build and pay for a $350 million convention centre in Auckland by 2015. SkyCity Chief Executive Nigel Morrison says it ...
'Brown defends support of SkyCity convention centre'
13/06/2011
Auckland mayor is defending his support of SkyCity's convention centre, despite backing a sinking lid policy when it came to pokie machines ...
13/06/2011
The Greens claim that gambling addicts will effectively pay for an international convention centre, proposed for Auckland. The Government is negotiating with SkyCity to build the $350 million complex, which is hoped to create 800 new jobs and add $90 ...
'Value of International Convention Centre jeopardised'
12/06/2011
“Every day we see major downstream effects from problem gambling embedded in ... "$465 million was lost in New Zealand casinos during 2009 - $465 miillion ...
'Auckland 350m talk of the town'
13/06/2011
"An international-sized convention centre is essential for New Zealand to ... the Government consider alterations to gambling legislation and regulations. ...
'John Key defends negotiations with SkyCity'
13/06/2011
''It says everything's up for sale in New Zealand and it you've got enough money you can dictate the laws and regulations.'' Maori Party MP Te Ururoa ...
13/06/2011
The Government is promising that the public will have its say on any changes to gambling regulations. Skycity and the Government are to sit down and work out some changes to gambling laws after the company announced it will ...
13/06/2011
The Government is being accused of putting New Zealand's laws up for sale after it agreed to review gambling legislation in return for SkyCity building a $350 million convention centre in central Auckland. Prime Minister John Key said yesterday that ...
13/06/2011
A new multi-million dollar convention centre in Auckland will provide a welcome boost to the local economy, but a hand-in-hand proposal to increase the ...
13/06/2011
Sky City is gonna pay for and build a $350m convention centre to international Standards, and in return, the government will look at adjusting ...
'Govt gambles with convention centre
13/06/2011
However, in agreeing to pay the full construction cost of the centre - estimated at $350 million - SkyCity has asked the Government to consider some alterations to gambling regulations and legislation. Development Minister David Carter joined Key, ...
13/06/2011
SkyCity is to fund the building of a $350 million international convention centre in central Auckland, and in return the Government will consider changes to gambling rules and laws. Prime Minister John Key and Economic Development Minister David Carter ...
08/06/2011
Problem gambling is a social and health issue in New Zealand that causes ... Māori and Pacific people are approximately four times more likely to be problem ...
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'Support for Maori Party Gambling Reduction Bill'
04/06/2010
'Waiariki MP takes a poke at Pokies'
03/06/2010
‘Community disappointment at pokie policy outcome in Auckland City’
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Media coverage
Radio NZ Waatea News, Thursday 25 February
A Maori lawyer says Maori should think about ways to get rid of gambling machines from their communities.
Moana Jackson addressed an international problem gambling conference in Auckland on Wednesday on the indigenous responses to gambling.
He says gambling has long been a part of Maori life, but were often community activities such as housie or poker schools where the benefits flowed back to the marae or hapu.
Mr Jackson told Waatea News that's changed with modern offerings like Lotto and poker machines.
He said gambling "became industrialised' and was marketed as "a glamorous activity" - like smoking used to be. Now, he said, gambling needs to be broken down as well.
Mr Jackson said pokies are disproportionately in poor and Maori areas, but the profits are taken out of those areas.
A Maori public health expert says a Whanau Ora or whole of family health approach is ideal for tackling problem gambling.
Lorna Dyall from Te Kupenga Hauora Maori at Auckland University's school of population health is taking part in an international gambling conference in Auckland this week.
She says like any other addiction, gambling will destroy a whanau because the addicted person focuses only on their need.
She told Waatea News that any person with an addiction affects everyone else in their whanau.
Dr Dyall says gambling has long been a part of Maori life, but it's become much more visible because of the number of gaming machines in poor communities.
Comprehensive coverage screened on the first day.
Interview with Professor Robert Williams.
Sunrise, TV3, Thursday 25 February
Professor Robert Williams talks about online gambling.
Phil Ryan from the Responsible Gaming Networks, Melbourne, talks about player tracking and pre-commitment systems.