On Wednesday the parliamentary committee stage of the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Bill was completed, and the bill reported back with minor amendments. (Refer to Pānui edition 7/2012 for details on Māori views regarding this matter.) The Climate Change Response (Emissions Trading and Other Matters) Amendment
Day: August 27, 2012
Last week we advised that the Government had released its first ‘progress report’ on its Business Growth Agenda (BGA), which related to exporting. We noted three of the six goals had references to actions involving Māori. This Tuesday the next BGA report was released, and is focused on innovation (i.e.
On Thursday the Ministry of Social Development released its annual research report on standards of living in New Zealand. This is entitled Household incomes in New Zealand: Trends in indicators of inequality and hardship 1982 to 2011. Using data from Statistics New Zealand and the Ministry, the report presents a
On Wednesday the Government released a report entitled, Delivering better public services: supporting vulnerable children. As the name suggests, this document seeks to demonstrate how the Better Public Service Goals align with policy changes to better protect and care for vulnerable children.[1] (For details on the Better Public Service Goals
On Monday, the Education Review Office announced that it would no longer publish school decile information. This is in response to media discussion of greater social stratification in the school system (‘white flight’), and the suggestion that the information was being ‘misused’. We have outlined this matter previously, noting that
Last week we informed you that the Office of the Controller and Auditor-General had established a Māori reference group for the purpose of advising on audits relating to Māori education (refer Pānui 28/2012). We have now completed our review of the ‘context’ framework developed to guide this work programme.[1] The