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The strange world of the Maori Stop Smoking Industry

by Whaleoil on September 25, 2009

Today I received via the tipline an anonymous mail. This is what it contained.

To: nztan@globalink.org
Subject: [NZTAN ] Awesome Stuff

I just want to mihi out to Te Reo Marama and Hone Harawira for spearheading the opportunity for the tobacco companies to appear before a select committee.  ”To bring them out from the shadows” as Hone put it.  Getting
them lined up like ducks is a milestone.

If there was ever a question over the effectiveness and leadership of Te Reo Marama in Maori tobacco control, it should end here.

TRM should be acknowldged towards contributing towards making this happen, (although you would never hear it from them.)

Dispite[sic] being the first (and only) SF/AK organisation to have their funding abruptly cut, TRM still relentlessly  forges ahead advocating, advising MP’s, responding to media and continues to fight the good fight.

Ka mau te wehi! awesome stuff

Steve Kenny  (Tipene)
Health Advisor – Maori – Pasifika
Regional Public Health
Tel(DDI): 04 570 9144  ext:9144
Mobile: 021 02952482
Email stephen.kenny@huttvalleydhb.govt.nz

For those of you who don’t know NZTAN is the New Zealand Tobacco Control Action Network, which are a bunch of militant and well funded anti-smoking health nazis. When I say well funded I mean very well funded particularly in the area of Maori stop smoking funding and in particular a nasty little group called Te Reo Marama.

Te Reo Marama is a small outfit run by Shane Kawenata Bradbrook. This guy would appear from documents that arrived in the post today to be a serial maori trougher. One example of many which I will have to outline in a series of posts so huge is the amount of information that has arrived courtesy of an OIA is the $77,000 spent on overseas travel in one calendar year…..on Maori Health!….Overseas travel….something isn’t right.

The word has it an the email above confirms that there are serious questions being raised about Te Reo Marama andits funding arrangments from MinHealth that it has had its funding cut off pending an investigation.

From the email above and also from comments on my previous blog post about Maori and smoking it seems that Shane Kawenata Bradbrook has a nasty little network of similar maori troughers deeply embeded in DHB’s and MinHealth who seem to want to protect him.

Is it just a coincidence that the very week that Te Reo Marama has its funding arrangements under the microscope Hone Harawira comes out punching and this email turns up on the NZTAN mail-lists? Surely its just coincidence or is Shane Kawenata Bradbrook still running (in a nice new green MG convertible like this one) around skiting to all who will listen that he “can’t be touched because he has the Maori Party in his back pocket”. A quick call to Pita and Tari should be able to confirm or deny that tomorrow.

And why is Steve (Tipene) Kenny, Health Advisor – Maori – Pasifika  Regional Public Health a the Hutt Valley DHB lobbying so hard in support of Shane Kawenata Bradbrook and Te Reo Marama? Is it because Steve (Tipene) Kenny knows of a little bit of double dipping going on?

From the documents I have received so far this may well be the tip of the iceberg. There is more to come on this story I can promise you. I just have to scan about 500 documents.

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  • Naylor

    Seems a bit suspicious doesn't it. I'm sure all the kaumatua are quietly shaking their heads in disgust at this.

    So the MOH is investigating this??? They should otherwise the perception is that they are running a secret campaign of funding activist groups who don't support the National Government's policy objectives.

    Now ol Tony Ryall wouldn't be impressed with this!

  • Adolf Fiinkensein

    "There's no man as cunnng as the Maori when it comes to getting money……"

    Old Nga Puhi proverb.

  • Sinner

    Heh. wel there's one "civil servant" (trougher) that should unemployed (bludger) by the end of the day!

    Time to call the DHBs, MoH and minister and ask for this guys head.

  • Joe Descartes

    That 'new' MG ceased production in 2005 and current listings on Trademe have the 1996(ish) model for as much as $5000. He's obviously making lots of money out of this.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/Whaleoil Whaleoil

      Oh he is making a LOT of money as documents will soon reveal.

      The fact that he spends unwisely on frivolities will also be revealed.

  • The Gantt Guy

    Clearly programs targetted at mowree smokers are a raging success aren't they? The only demographic in which smoking rates are increasing is…?

    What a rort the stop smoking industry is. All you need to stop smoking is the ability to read and $4 in your back pocket. Search amazon.com for Allen Carr. There are plenty of titles, but the three most relevant are The Only Way To Stop Smoking Permanently, The Easy Way To Stop Smoking and Allen Carr's Easy Way For Women To Stop Smoking. Of course there isn't one titled The Easy Way For Brown People To Stop Smoking and, AFAIK there is no mowree translation so the whole thing is inherently racist, but I am living proof that the method works (at least for WASPS). Nobody needs a hand-out to stop smoking.

  • DavidW

    Adolf, please complete the saying, I think it goes something like:
    " …… and nowt so stupid at spending it"

  • DLMMackie

    This guy sounds like a crook. In actual fact this whole thing smells dodgy and corrupt. So, we have this guy getting paid by the Ministry of Health to "advise MPs" as well as travel overseas? Can they do this?

    The most serious allegation is the one about "he can't be touched because he has the Maori Party in his back pocket" Are there payments being made between this guy and Hone? What do Maori call this… is it some form of "Koha".

  • Cactus Kate

    $77k on travel to promote Maori health. His own clearly. Got to go see the one bro in London and the many rellys in Surfers and tell them to stop smoking. What a joke!

    Trougher alright and the worst kind as he's taking money from what actually is a good cause.

    I'm picturing Maori at a hui right now on Maori Health, dodging out behind the Marae for a quick fag.

  • mowreee1

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