Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau / The Tamaki Iwi Collective has committed to a project of circa $120 million to build 282 social or affordable houses in Weymouth. The project will include open market sales, subsidised social rental housing, and rent-to-buy and shared-equity houses, which will be orientated
Day: February 11, 2014
The Minister of Māori Affairs, Dr Pita Sharples, has announced consultation dates and locations relating to a new Māori language strategy. The Minister has indicated the new strategy will focus on language learning in the home, and also proposes new governance arrangements for Māori language sector entities (Pānui 45/2013 refers).
Last Thursday the third reading of the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Bill was completed in parliament, and then became law last Friday, upon receiving Royal Assent from the Governor-General. This change creates a single Arts Council; with Te Waka Toi, the Māori Arts Board of the Creative
The Associate Minister of Justice, Chester Borrows, has put out a media release seeking applications for projects to support the Youth Crime Action Plan. Pānui 39/2013 details this plan, which focuses on greater community engagement to reduce youth offending. The funding, $400,000 in total for this round, is available for
Statistics New Zealand has released research on non-participation in electoral voting. They found 20 percent of people had not voted in the 2011 General Election, and Māori represented 26 percent of this grouping. This is disproportionately high. Common reasons for people not voting included not being enrolled, forgetting to do
On Wednesday Statistics New Zealand released the Household Labour Force Survey results for the quarter to the end of December 2013. The survey shows a slight decrease in national unemployment from 6.2 percent to 6.0 percent. However for Māori the unemployment rate increased from 12.2 percent to 12.8 percent. That