This week the Ngāpuhi Treaty Settlement entity, Tūhoronuku, has indicated that mandate negotiations with Ngāti Hine have not reached a satisfactory resolution. (The Crown-appointed negotiator, Tukoroirangi Morgan, was facilitating mediation.) Therefore Tūhoronuku has indicated that it will now request the Crown to formally recognise its mandate, in order to progress
Day: August 20, 2012
On Wednesday the Ministry of Health published information on suicides in 2010. The data (age standardised) shows Māori continue to have the highest suicide rate, 16.0 per 100,000 (104 people); compared to 10.4 per 100,000 for non-Māori. The Māori youth suicide rate was 35.3 per 100,000: more than 2.5 times
On Tuesday Social Development Minister, Paula Bennett, released a Summary of Submissions on the Green Paper for Vulnerable Children. (Note the summary is actually 176 pages analysing emerging themes from submissions, but there is also a separately published 16-page executive summary, and a one-page truncated summary.) In addition, approximately 600
On Wednesday the Government released its first ‘progress report’ on its Business Growth Agenda. The report – which reads like a strategy – is focused on exporting. [By way of background, the Business Growth Agenda is the Government’s plan for improving New Zealand’s economic performance. It has six focus areas,