• The Traditional Owners of this Country are welcome to participate at any event and any discussion and we welcome your support.
• Maori Women who are focused on solutions should definitely join this group. 
• Maori Women who want to re-discover or re-connect with their identity as Maori should join. 
• Maori Women who want to participate in a movement of learning in action should join. 
• Maori Women who want to participate in discussions and actions that impact our generations should join. 
• Maori Women who want to connect with other Maori Women and be inspired should join. 
• Maori Women who want to fulfill their best potential should join. 
• Maori Women who want to see their children have access to the best of all that Maoridom has to offer, you should join.

It was triggered by Sylvia Reihana currently doing her PhD in Maori ways of knowing at UWS.

Meeting with her for the first time was like looking in a believing mirror, a sister who thinks like me, feels things like me and talked with me about our experiences living here in Australia.  I enjoyed it so much we had to meet again for yum cha and brainstorming and it makes a difference when someone understands you, agrees with you and encourages you.  Sylvia could see us moving like a wave.

That meeting triggered a mix of passion and anger from within me, passion for the arts and crafts of our culture and a desire for all that Maoridom has to offer.  The anger was a fighting spirit that I am not going to sit back and do nothing about it.  That's it!  I'm going to make this happen and from deep within me came this name "Te Whare Pukenga", I'd never heard of it before but I just knew that is what it was called.

He Pukenga Wai, He Pukenga Tangata ~ A flood of water, a flood of people

So, I went and saw Awhina Waapu at Te Kete Kahurangi in Campbelltown and the same thing happened and naturally we talked about solutions and what we can do about some of the problems we uniquely face as Maori.  Once again over kai and kapu ti we could understand one anothers unique issues as Maori Women, agree on possible solutions and encourage one another, it happened quickly and easily.

Also, talking to Donna Kingi up the Central Coast was the same reaction she could see a picture of weaving.  Bringing strands of each wahine together, bonding and creating a mat of knowledge.

What do you see? and Let's just do it!