Exclusive: Te Reo Marama and Maori smoking — Troughing 101

by Whaleoil on November 3, 2009 · 72 comments

This is a Whale Oil Beef Hooked Exclu­sive series and will be run­ning for the next few days. The rea­son I can’t run this story in one post is sim­ply because it is too big. I have obtained under the OIA a large box of papers about one organ­i­sa­tion pur­port­ing to be at the fore­front of stop­ping Maori smok­ing. The only prob­lem is that the organ­i­sa­tion isn’t. It isn’t in the fore­front of any­thing other than the self pro­mo­tion of its prin­ci­pal Shane Kawe­nata Brad­brook and is spend­ing up large on the tax­payer with lit­tle observ­able results.

On top of that WOBH has obtained an 88 page audit report (the full report and extracts will be pub­lished in sub­se­quent posts) of the per­for­mance of Te Reo Marama which damn­ing to say the least. Despite this the pre­vi­ous gov­ern­ment kept on fund­ing Te Reo Marama and its egre­gious trough­ing from the pub­lic purse for an addi­tional two years.

This post serves as a pref­ace if you will to the com­ing posts on Te Reo Marama and the huge wastage of pub­lic monies that have sim­ply been used to enrich the life of Shane Kawe­nata Brad­brook. One other thing should be noted, when­ever Shane Kawe­nata Brad­brook or Te Reo Marama comes under the micro­scope Shane Kawe­nata Brad­brook resorts to threats and intim­i­da­tion, this blog­ger is used to such threats and will not be stopped from telling this story. Shane Kawe­nata Brad­brook also likes to say that he is mates with Pita Sharples and Tar­i­ana Turi and so “can’t be touched”. Well we will see about that shall we?

Just by way of exam­ple Te Reo Marama was estab­lished to com­bat Maori Smok­ing yet some­how Shane Kawe­nata Brad­brook saw fit to expend some $77,000 on inter­na­tional travel in the space of just three years. These fig­ures are obtained from the OIA doc­u­ments. Not only that over the past nine years under Labour Shane Kawe­nata Brad­brook has vis­ited Chicago, USA in June 2000, Helsinki, Fin­land in August 2003, Hawaii, USA in Novem­ber 2005, New York in April 2006, Wash­ing­ton DC in July 2006, Cairns, Aus­tralia in Novem­ber 2006, Bangkok, Thai­land in July 2007, Hawai again in Oct 2007, Broome, Aus­tralia in Nov 2007, Hawaii again!!! in May 2008, and Mel­bourne and Tuvalu in the same month, Dur­ban South Africa in Nov 2008, Mum­bai, India in March 2009, Perth, Aus­tralia in May 2009 and finally Dar­win just recently in Octo­ber 2009.

He has been quite the gad-about going to all those amaz­ing places all in the name of stop­ping Maori smok­ing. All paid for by the tax­payer. Not only that Shane Kawe­nata Brad­brook claims all sorts of posi­tions that there is no evi­dence to sug­gest he even holds such as being on the Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee of the World Con­fer­ence on Tobacco or Health. Even a Google search can­not find any evi­dence of such a claim.

Clearly Shane Kawe­nata Brad­brook thinks trav­el­ling to New York, Helsinki, India and other exotic places  must come before the good of the peo­ple. Speak­ing of the peo­ple let’s look at some of the sta­tis­tics that Shane Kawe­nata Brad­brook is sup­posed to be try­ing to affect.

46% of Maori are reg­u­lar smok­ers com­pared to 21% of non-Maori
The median age of Maori smok­ing ini­ti­a­tion is 11.6 years
Maori of all age groups have higher smok­ing rates than non-Maori
Maori smok­ing preva­lence is 50% in low socio-economic areas com­pared to 26% in high socio-economic areas
Maori women have the high­est smok­ing preva­lence of any eth­nic group at 49%
The smok­ing rate of Maori females aged 25–29 is almost 4x that of non-Maori females in this age group
73% of Maori smok­ers use Roll your own
50% of Maori youth have smok­ing moth­ers and 48% smok­ing fathers

But wait there’s more…

Mor­tal­ity rate for can­cers over­all for Maori was 77% higher than that for non-Maori dur­ing the years 2000–2004
Lung can­cer is respon­si­ble for over 31% of Maori can­cer deaths com­pared with 17% for non-Maori can­cer deaths
Car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease (heart dis­ease and stroke) death rates were 2.3x higher for Maori dur­ing 2000–2004.

Source: data from the New Zealand tobacco use sur­vey as listed in the Min­istry of Health Report on Maori smok­ing for the Maori Affairs Select Com­mit­tee 12 June 2009.

It is clear as the nose on my face that mil­lions of dol­lars of tax­pay­ers money are being wasted on organ­i­sa­tions like Te Reo Marama and the likes of bla­tant fraud­sters like  Shane Kawe­nata Brad­brook. This blog over the next few days will expose just how waste­ful that spend­ing is and has become with a par­tic­u­lar focus on Te Reo Marama.

Tomor­row: Trough­ing 102 – How to keep your fund­ing despite a damn­ing audit report.

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Naylor November 3, 2009 at 9:51 am

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What the hell. So this fella has been cruis­ing around the world on the tax­payer while these Maori smok­ing sta­tis­tics con­tinue in NZ.

Would be very inter­ested to see what Pita Sharples and Tar­i­ana Turia and even Health Min­is­ter Tony Ryall have to say about this!

Mediatruth November 3, 2009 at 10:01 am

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Mag­nif­i­cent work.

DLMMackie November 2, 2009 at 9:03 pm

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WOW, so despite a damn­ing audit report this guy con­tin­ued to received hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars from the tax­payer. Where to I get some of that $$$$$$$$$$$$$$?

Allan November 2, 2009 at 9:19 pm

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Just love your work Whale Oil, keep it up and show up all of these troughers who waste so much of our hard earned tax payer dollars.

DLMMackie November 2, 2009 at 9:38 pm

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Well done Whale. You seem to be the only one that actu­ally realises that it’s our money they’re wast­ing (or in this case trav­el­ling around the world enjoy­ing them­selves) Shame on the Min­istry (assum­ing it is the Min­istry of Health) for allow­ing this to happen.

Hillary November 2, 2009 at 10:28 pm

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Te Reo Marama sounds like a com­plete rort. If there is a audit report that is scathing of the organ­i­sa­tion, the how on earth did the Min­istry allow fund­ing to be con­tin­ued for another cou­ple of years? The SFO should be called in if this is as bad as it looks.

And what about the gov­er­nance of this organ­i­sa­tion te Reo Marama. Who are the ‘Direc­tors’ of this out­fit? They need to be outed and named to ensure that they are held accountable.

Ben November 2, 2009 at 10:52 pm

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This sounds like a beat up. Shane Kawe­nata Brad­brook just received a medal for all his tobacco con­trol efforts and has the sup­port of other local pub­lic health groups, includ­ing ASH and the Smoke­free Coalition.

Chiefsfan73 November 3, 2009 at 7:08 am

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Hav­ing sucked back the tax­payer cash for years, these lobby groups have prob­a­bly only achieved a tiny amount more than this guy. Is Kawe­nata maori for leech?

DONKEY November 2, 2009 at 10:57 pm

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just another f**king wanker rort­ing the pub­lic of NZ and worse his own peo­ple who dieing by the day – this guy needs to be stopped imme­di­at­ley – when is all the tax payer funded BS going to stop – some­one can roll for this. last time i looked most of the issues with maori start and end here in this coun­try so why would you need to cruise the world???????? most of them are here for god sake!!!!!!!!!

Naylor November 2, 2009 at 11:03 pm

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Oh here we go. Ben you seem to have missed the point that by the looks of it, and on the basis of the doc­u­ments Whale has, that this guy Shane Kawe­nata Brad­brook has been rort­ing the sys­tem for many many years – with very very lit­tle to show he’s actu­ally meet­ing his objectives.

It would not be too far fetched to assume that the likes of ASH and the Smoke­free Coali­tion and oth­ers have been on the pigs back for many many years as well. Lets hope that this Gov­ern­ment actu­ally brings some account­abil­ity to what has been Labour’s secret fund­ing to spe­cial inter­est groups.

The_Grizz November 2, 2009 at 11:32 pm

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Labour have been employ­ing behind the scenes racial dis­crim­i­na­tion by stealth over the last 9 or 10 years. They wanted to be seen to be deal­ing with Maori smok­ing, but secretly wanted more Maori to take up smok­ing and die early. This reduces their pop­u­la­tion and takes them away from the vot­ing cohort. (Weaken’s the influ­ence of the Maori Party). Fur­ther­more it is more cost ben­e­fi­cial. Think of the old age pen­sions and aged care costs that they save. Real­ity is it far out­weighs the costs of smok­ing related illnesses.

To be seen to be doing some­thing, they fund this Brad­book guy under the guise of some con­struc­tive anti-smoking group, only to allow, even want, him to waste it on ardu­ous point­less for­eign travel.

Wha­le­oil, by expos­ing this trougher and the racist regime of his fund­ing you are revers­ing the hid­den under­belly of racial dis­crim­i­na­tion cre­ated by, or at least pro­pogated by, the last labour gov­ern­ment designed to keep Maori weak, depen­dent and immature.

peterwn November 2, 2009 at 11:47 pm

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Some years ago, a researcher could not even get $5,000 towards a study on gout in Maori men (no laugh­ing mat­ter despite all the gout jokes) while at the same time Peter Davis got about $50,000 (from mem­ory) to do a his­tor­i­cal sur­vey of health board changes (IMO the main pur­pose of the study was to pro­vide bul­lets for Labour to fire at National). Golly, what Bradbook’s out­fit got would have funded dozens of such ill­ness projects.

Chiefsfan73 November 3, 2009 at 7:10 am

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utterly amaz­ing. Labour have always equalled rot and cor­rup­tion it seems

Guest November 3, 2009 at 1:08 am

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Great work Whale. but onto more impor­tant mat­ters– how did you do in the Targa?

Chiefsfan73 November 3, 2009 at 1:46 am

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We all know the qual­ity of the Whales work. What I can’t wait to see is how medi­atart spins this.

coge November 3, 2009 at 2:06 am

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Smok­ing causes sta­tis­tics. These ones aren’y pretty. If the stats are not improv­ing a fresh approach is needed. Also the tax­payer deserves a thor­ough expla­na­tion. Don’t expect we will get one though.

Anonymous November 3, 2009 at 2:17 am

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Another ques­tion to be answer is does the guy actu­ally smoke?

You wouldn’t put it past the cheeky prick to be tak­ing all this money to assist Maori stop­ping smok­ing when he’s a puffer himself.

ben November 3, 2009 at 2:58 am

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Nay­lor, you may like to note that all groups that receive tax payer fund­ing through var­i­ous gov­ern­ment min­istries have to pre­pare reports on what they have achieved. There is account­abil­ity as they are signed off by min­istry officials.

Whaleoil November 3, 2009 at 3:07 am

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Thank you bben for lead­ing into to tomor­rows excit­ing install­ment of what we get for the mil­lions paid to Te Reo Marama and the qual­ity of the repos­rts along with the audit of the like. And I am so glad you raised the medal and the other anti-smoking troughers as I have more than enough OIA doc­u­ments to expose the whole lot of them on a daily basis for the next three weeks. Good of you to high­light that.

Well done. Wait fopr tomor­rows install­ment, it’ll be inter­est­ing reading.

Chiefsfan73 November 3, 2009 at 7:13 am

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What a tosser Ben. Under the labour admin­is­tra­tion for sure, these offi­cials were paid to approve any­thing that met the fhur­ers plan. Any offi­cial who saw one of these reports and said it was shite, would prob­a­bly have been pub­licly beheaded. Bet­ter to sign it off as all good noth­ing to see here and con­tinue to live off the tax­payer funded six fig­ure salary.

You are a muppet

Naylor November 3, 2009 at 3:18 am

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whoa, pull back on those horses there benji. Your con­spir­acy the­ory doesn’t wash. The issue is that this guy has rorted the sys­tem to his own per­sonal advan­tage while those he is claim­ing to assist haven’t seen any benefit.

I’m sure all the Maoris in Chicago, Helsinki, Hawaii, New York, Wash­ing­ton, Cairns, Bangkok, Hawaii (again), Broome, Hawaii (again), Mel­bourne, Tuvalu, Dur­ban, Perth, Mum­bai and Dar­win have ben­e­fited from the arrival of Shane Kawe­nata Bradbrook.

Glad you men­tioned the reports because by the sounds of it Whale has these com­pre­hen­sive and detailed reports about these trips. Can’t wait to see them.

demigod1 November 17, 2009 at 10:59 pm

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you are so far from the truth you stu­pid bitch…….whale oil has jack shit….nadda!!!! He is a fat shit stir­ring prick who should get a real job the fucker……..this guys gets off on dumb arses like you’s who lis­ten to his bullshit!!!!!get a fucken life stu­pid ‘MOTHA FUCKA’S’………..

Chris C November 3, 2009 at 3:34 am

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Do you know what hap­pened in these loca­tions on those par­tic­u­lar dates? I can tell you that a few of them were inter­na­tional con­fer­ences on tobacco and health.

And although your stat­pile is nice, you don’t men­tion that Maori smok­ing rates have dropped 10% in three years, 70% of Maori have tried to quit smok­ing, that Maori are more likely to get advice on how to stop…

…lots of good fig­ures in those reports that you don’t men­tion, and good argu­ments to say that the money spent is work­ing well. Of course, we only have your word that the audit report is damn­ing, and you’ve already demon­strated you’re will­ing to cherry-pick from reports to sub­stan­ti­ate your argument…

…so post the report instead of try­ing to tease the audi­ence like you’re wait­ing for a fuck­ing com­mer­cial break. By the way, we should make sure that Fidelity and Winz know how much good hard work and research you’re doing while you’re try­ing to bludge off them.

Naylor November 3, 2009 at 5:57 am

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Typ­i­cal response from another trougher… no doubt you’re in don­key deep with fund­ing from the gov­ern­ment and all wor­ried that it might be cut off. Go and get a real job wanker.

Scanner November 3, 2009 at 3:37 am

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Whoops that’s another one that slipped past the keeper, keep up the great work Cam, it looks like no one else wants to take on the job.
Can’t wait for the next grip­ping episode.

Anonymous November 3, 2009 at 4:18 am

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Chris C

And Whale has your IP address with that com­ment. I’m sure he would love to expose to your employer that you are spend­ing com­pany time on the internet.

That’s of course if you actu­ally have a job and aren’t another pro-Maori smok­ing bludger.

Why does this guy have to attend these con­fer­ences on behalf of Maori if they are indeed con­fer­ences? It’s plainly ridicu­lous. If 70% of Maori have tried to quit smok­ing then clearly they aren’t very bloody good at it. Every­one I know who smokes has “tried” to quit.

Whaleoil November 3, 2009 at 4:37 am

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It can’t be that hard to stop smok­ing I know peo­ple who have done it hun­dreds of times

Chris C November 3, 2009 at 4:59 am

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I’m self employed. I reported myself to me, and I called myself into my office and gave me a real dress­ing down. But I’m very valu­able to my oper­a­tions, so I’ve got a hold over myself.

Your threats are noth­ing to me, “Anony­mous”, but I’m sure that Cameron would love to set a prece­dent by using infor­ma­tion gained about his vis­i­tors for rea­sons of revenge because he’s been slighted in the comments.

But I doubt he’s as petty or cow­ardly as you.

Spanishbride November 3, 2009 at 5:28 am

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petty and cowardly???

who said this?
“By the way, we should make sure that Fidelity and Winz know how much good hard work and research you’re doing while you’re try­ing to bludge off them.”

Pot ket­tle black Chris off

Spanishbride November 3, 2009 at 5:29 am

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And also while my blood is up. Own­ing a tip line where info is dropped in your lap. if that con­sti­tutes’ hard work’ where can I sign up please?

Spanishbride November 3, 2009 at 5:24 am

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So Chris are you the rea­son why I had a nice chat 30 min­utes ago with a very nice Police­man?
Yet another com­plaint about this Blog.
Things are never bor­ing when you are mar­ried to the cre­ator of WO

Cactus Kate November 3, 2009 at 6:39 am

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Good stuff Span­ish Bride. Keep up the good work!

Chiefsfan73 November 3, 2009 at 7:16 am

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here here

Chris C November 3, 2009 at 10:57 pm

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Oh, nice. I got that email.

Wast­ing police time.

I’m sure my lawyer will be very inter­ested in this.

petal November 3, 2009 at 4:53 am

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Cam, this is the sort of stuff you’re good at. Focus on this more, and on the name call­ing and silly ever repeat­ing pun­nery (“plug­head”, “silent t”, etc) less. IMHO, of course.

billhicks November 3, 2009 at 5:32 am

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Once again a……. OUR PEOPLE….. mooldy with a eng­lish name shane brad­brook http://www.4crests.com/bradbrook-coat-of-arms.htm... is tring to save HIS peo­ple by rip­ping them off.What was he doing so many times in hawaii…For a man who tries to stop smok­ing his pass­port is cer­tainly smoking.On his face­book he has a nice pic­ture of india out­side the taj mahal………………

Prof Simon Chapman November 3, 2009 at 5:52 am

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The sub-text of this gut­less, anony­mous “rev­e­la­tion” is pre­sum­ably that Maori health work­ers should stick to pub­lic trans­port, work locally, never inter­na­tion­ally, and should “know their place” and not try and play the inter­na­tional advo­cacy stage. Shane has spent years pub­li­cis­ing the very prob­lems you describe. Tobacco con­trol has to work inter­na­tion­ally to effect glob­alised strat­egy agaist the tobacco transna­tion­als who profit from the health prob­lems you list. You don’t do that effec­tively by just work­ing locally.
He has a huge rep­u­ta­tion inter­na­tion­ally. This is the very worst of small-mindedness. Per­haps you should ask the head of NZ BAT to show his travel bills over the same period, and how much of that was a tax deduc­tion, and so a slug on the NZ tax­payer. What a nasty, undis­guised piece of racism.

Carrot Top November 3, 2009 at 6:28 am

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How is it “gut­less” and “anony­mous” when he is one of a minor­ity of blog­gers who make their real name read­ily avail­able? Wha­le­oil even posted a google earth image of his house. As for the rest of your post, it is clearly just poorly-disguised racism against Wha­le­oil, purely because he was born in Fiji. This blog is no place for racism and I sug­gest you take your dis­gust­ing views where they belong – the BNP would seem a good fit.

Inventory2 November 3, 2009 at 6:53 am

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Prof Chap­man – why don’t we wait to see what the Audit Office had to say about Te Reo Marama before we shoot the mes­sen­ger? And from what Cam is say­ing (you must be the only per­son who doesn’t know WhaleOil’s iden­tity to be accus­ing him of a “gut­less, anony­mous” attack), we won’t have to wait long.

petal November 3, 2009 at 6:53 pm

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You pull the Racism card on your first reply? Where are the facts Professori?

Gerrit November 3, 2009 at 5:58 am

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Won­der how long it would be before the “racist” car was played. And from a prof as well !

Chiefsfan73 November 3, 2009 at 7:19 am

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Pro­fes­sor of what, I’m lead to ask. Mon­key Spank­ing at Vic­to­ria Uni­ver­si­ties Cul­tural stud­ies department

Gerrit November 3, 2009 at 5:58 am

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card not car, duh.

hillary November 3, 2009 at 6:01 am

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Typ­i­cal… it’s taken half a day for the sup­port­ers of this trougher to come to his defence. How pathetic. He is so far in the shit its not funny. Caught red handed. Whale is the only one pre­pared to take on these troughers and good luck to him.

This guy and his board should be inves­ti­gated by the SFO and the Audi­tor Gen­eral. Per­haps those peo­ple who have signed off his con­tracts should front up and apol­o­gise to the new zealand pub­lic for throw­ing away tax­pay­ers hard earned money. The Direc­tor Gen­eral of the MOH’s pub­lic health direc­torate should resign.

Auditing Firms India November 3, 2009 at 7:01 am

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Nice Arti­cle. You have good data­base of facts and records to prove your point.

Buggerlugs November 3, 2009 at 7:07 am

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Oh dear. Simon has now stuck his head above the para­pet. Hope he’s got his hel­met on…

Buggerlugs November 3, 2009 at 7:10 am

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oh my good god..hope its not tax dol­lars pay­ing for this…
“Te Reo Mārama has been col­lect­ing var­i­ous Māori related items from sites such as TradeMe over the past 2–3 years. It has been amaz­ing to see what actu­ally comes up for trade on these sites.
They range from 1920-30s cig­a­rette cards to highly ornate carved cig­a­rette boxes. Obvi­ously there is a link with the use of tobacco and the pro­duc­tion of para­phena­lia that goes with nor­mal­is­ing the prac­tise of tobacco use and addic­tion. Here are just some of the items that have been col­lected to date”

hillary November 3, 2009 at 7:20 pm

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he’s prob­a­bly paid for them with our bloody hard earned tax payer dol­lars. He has no shame what so ever and deserves inves­ti­gat­ing by the MOH (oh but they’re the peo­ple who con­tin­ued to give him $$$$$ despite a damn­ing audit report)!

Buggerlugs November 3, 2009 at 7:14 am

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and judg­ing by simon’s research, he’s a trougher too…http://www.medfac.usyd.edu.au/people/academics/pr...
$1.3m for News research? Piss off.

Naylor November 3, 2009 at 8:21 pm

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to the good pro­fes­sor chap­man; you are defend­ing a guy that has been in the trough for so long that he doesn’t know whether its day or night. You have obvi­ously tan­goed with him in one of the exotic loca­tions around the world on a jun­ket as well. Won­der how your tax­payer funds would look like?

As usual you attack the per­son who is try­ing to bring account­abil­ity to the bla­tant waste of tax payer money. Shame on you. Go hide in a uni­ver­sity with your other self pro­claimed “researchers”. Tosser

Chiefsfan73 November 3, 2009 at 7:38 am

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Smok­ing may cause lung can­cer. Brad­brook is a can­cer in the pocket of every tax­payer. He must be removed immediately.

Tauhei Notts November 3, 2009 at 7:44 am

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I would be grate­ful if any blog­ger could give us the name of the insti­tu­tion of ter­tiary edu­ca­tion where that Pro­fes­sor Simon Chap­man is employed.
As an employer, that infor­ma­tion will be valu­able to me as I will never ever want to pay wages to any­body edu­cated by a dork like him.
Grad­u­ates from an insti­tu­tion that employs peo­ple like Simon Chap­man will com­pain that there are no jobs avail­able. Those grad­u­ates would be wise to con­sider the sort of idiocy that they have been sub­jected to in their stud­ies.
Then, and only then, I will be able to tell them;
“Don’t tell me your hard luck sto­ries. I have enough of my own.“
Chapman’s grad­u­ates will get employed if they are lucky enough to score a bludgers’ job suck­ing off the tax­pay­ers’ tit. No tax­payer could employ such poorly edu­cated so and soes and make a quid out of it.

DLMMackie November 3, 2009 at 7:22 pm

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Uni­ver­sity of Syd­ney. sigh why was that not expected…

Razork November 3, 2009 at 8:18 am

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http://www.medfac.usyd.edu.au/people/academics/pr...

Murray M November 3, 2009 at 9:18 am

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A mes­sage to all do good­ers, do good with your own money, keep your fuck­ing greedy fin­gers off mine.

Sam November 3, 2009 at 9:53 am

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like your work WOBH

Hurf Durf November 3, 2009 at 10:44 am

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Yoohoo! Medi­at­wat! Where are you? Tell me this is a vic­tory for Sue Bwad­ford or some­thing. Come on!

Fox November 4, 2009 at 12:17 am

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Prof Chap­man is right. Sub­ject­ing a Maori offi­cial to the same level of scrutiny as is applied to evil Pake­has like Rod­ney Hide, is bla­tent racism.

Shame on you WOBH.

Anonymous November 4, 2009 at 8:12 am

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At least Mr Hide is pro­duc­ing some­thing from his work. For the cost of his salary we are get­ting a Supercity restruc­ture and mil­lions saved to the pub­lic purse.

Mr Shane Kawe­nata Brad­brook is trough­ing Rodney’s entire salary and mroe per year and what is the return on that?

USNew November 3, 2009 at 1:11 pm

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How on earth did the Min­istry allow fund­ing to be con­tin­ued for another cou­ple of years? The SFO should be called in if this is as bad as it looks.
And what about the gov­er­nance of this organ­i­sa­tion te Reo Marama. Who are the ‘Direc­tors’ of this out­fit? They need to be outed and named to ensure that they are held accountabl

Inventory2 November 3, 2009 at 5:46 pm

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“Simon Chap­man is Pro­fes­sor in Pub­lic Health. He is a soci­ol­o­gist with a PhD on the semi­otics of cig­a­rette adver­tis­ing, author of 11 books and major gov­ern­ment reports and 192 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Pro­fes­sor Chapman’s main research inter­ests are in tobacco con­trol, media dis­courses on health and ill­ness, and risk com­mu­ni­ca­tion. He teaches annual courses in Pub­lic Health Advo­cacy and Tobacco Con­trol in the Uni­ver­sity of Sydney’s Mas­ter of Pub­lic Health program.”

OK – so Prof Simon Chap­man is a neu­tral com­men­ta­tor – yeah right!

hillary November 3, 2009 at 7:26 pm

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Typ­i­cal. If any­one dares dis­agree with their way of think­ing they are auto­mat­i­cally seen as in the pocket of that evil tobacco indus­try. No doubt he thinks that man didn’t land on the moon and 911 was actu­ally done by Rums­field and George W Bush in order to launch a war on Iraq and our Mus­lim broth­ers. Their think­ing is so 1990s.

Inventory2 November 3, 2009 at 5:52 pm

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From Webster’s Online:

“Semi­otics
Noun

1. A philo­soph­i­cal the­ory of the func­tions of signs and symbols.

Source: Word­Net 1.7.1 Copy­right © 2001 by Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity. All rights reserved.”

I won­der if Prof Simon Chap­man is merely an advo­cate for stop­ping smok­ing, or an anti-smoking zealot. I sus­pect the lat­ter. Doubt­less he is keen to pre­serve the rep­u­ta­tion of one of his fel­low zealots.

As for me, I can’t hardly wait for the “gut­less, anony­mous” Cam Slater to release the next install­ment in this fas­ci­nat­ing saga, which more than any­thing, is a win­dow into the way the for­mer gov­ern­ment dished out your money and mine to any­one with a “cause” that fit­ted Labour’s social engi­neer­ing agenda.

Naylor November 3, 2009 at 7:32 pm

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Bring on round two Whale! You’ve stirred up a real hor­nets nest. What’s the bet that the good peo­ple at the Min­istry of Health are in cri­sis mode try­ing to develop key mes­sages and posi­tions to defend their actions and the ignor­ing of a damn­ing audit report into Shane Kawe­nata Brad­brook and Te Reo Marama. Their spin will be very inter­est­ing. Black is white, night is day…

Mikey November 3, 2009 at 8:55 pm

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This is the real facts of the matter.

This is a NGO with inter­ests sim­i­lar to those in other coun­tries across the globe. they have dif­fer­ing meth­ods and best prac­tices do need to be explored. Which is why Shane Brad­brook is also a mem­ber of the Frame Work Con­ven­tion Alliance.

The Frame­work Con­ven­tion Alliance works to rid this world from the death and dis­ease caused by tobacco. With a mem­ber­ship of more than 350 non-government organ­i­sa­tions from over 100 coun­tries, it is clear that civil soci­ety now occu­pies a posi­tion of strength in the Frame­work Con­ven­tion on Tobacco Con­trol (FCTC) negotiations.

There is in fact a con­fer­ence next year: 14.03.2010 – 21.03.2010, Fourth INB on a Pro­to­col on Illicit Trade in Tobacco Prod­uct, Cen­tre Inter­na­tional de Con­férence, Genève. .. Shane Brad­brook will most likely be attending..

In this con­text this effec­tive press release by the vile and evil national party dirty tricks unit via the dead weight party hack that is whale oil appears to be a right stretch.

Now why would the national party dirty tricks unit need to cre­ate a diver­sion and a very poor one at that?

Naylor November 3, 2009 at 9:06 pm

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Mickey, per­haps you are the mouth­piece for another trougher organ­i­sa­tion as you seem to know a lot about this. Hell, so there are 350 NGOs involved – sounds like a mas­sive indus­try to me. Per­haps this has become a lifestyle for you troughers. Go and get a real job in the real world instead of scab­bing off the taxpayer.

Good to see also that your defend­ing Labour’s rort­ing of the sys­tem by pay­ing all sorts of dodgy NGOs and try­ing to blame the Nats for this. Real­ity check mate, this is cor­rup­tion being exposed. You’ll be the next one up against the wall.

Spanishbride November 4, 2009 at 3:57 am

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A diver­sion? De facts are de facts are de facts are de facts.
No diver­sion, no spin, just $$$$$$ going down the gur­gler.
And for the 1000th time WO does not and has never worked for or ever been paid a cent by the National party.
If he was able to hold down a 9 to 5 job we would not now be in our 3rd month with no income and a legal bat­tle in our future with an Insur­ance com­pany that has ignored the med­ical opin­ions of not one but THREE doctors.

Deborah November 5, 2009 at 1:28 pm

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Mikey’s right, Shane has been an active mem­ber of the inter­na­tional coali­tion the Frame­work Con­ven­tion Alliance work­ing for a strong inter­na­tional treaty to tackle tobacco use. He played a key role in ensur­ing that the needs of indige­nous peo­ples round the world were taken into account in the devel­op­ment of the Treaty and that includes Maoris too.

Whaleoil November 5, 2009 at 5:22 pm

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Oh look a defence from another trougher, this time from ASH. Just wait till I get started on you guys next week.

BRS November 8, 2009 at 7:30 pm

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Inter­est­ing list of inter­na­tional travel Wha­le­oil. You might have missed one though: a trip to Geneva in 2006 I think it might have been. He was over there at the same time as Cos­grove. Met them at the a Wai­t­angi Day func­tion at the NZ Mis­sion. Prob­a­bly some­thing at the WHO. A few $$$ must have gone into that trip as Geneva is not a city to travel to on a backpacker’s budget.

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