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The first Newtown People’s Market and Boot Sale was such a success last year that organisers have decided to run it each month on the last Saturday, 11am to 3pm at St Anne’s Church Hall, Emmett Street, Newtown.

‘The gains for Māori in the last 30 years have been significant. However, it is worth remembering that every gain has been achieved only through struggle and with courage.

None of this will change until it is accepted that happiness comes not from having more and more, but from being more. This brings us back to old-fashioned things like self-sacrifice instead of self-gratification at every opportunity.

He said Māori chiefs were encouraged to declare independence by the British Resident from 1833, James Busby, who drew from new understandings of sovereignty, and the rights and obligations of citizens, outlined in Emmerich de Vattel’s work The Law of Nations. This explained that a nation might seek the protection of a more powerful State without loss of sovereignty.

The church response to the bushfires calls to mind the 50th anniversary in January of the announcement of Vatican II which asked the church to realise its presence in the world. This was a life-changing moment for the church in Pope John XXIII’s wish to throw open the windows and let the outside world in.

God of creation, bring comfort and reassurance to those who must now rebuild their lives, and welcome into your eternal embrace the victims of this horrific tragedy.