Earlier this month, the Minister Responsible for Whānau Ora, Tariana Turia, confirmed the third Whānau Ora commissioning agency as Te Pou Matakana. (Pasifika Futures and Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu are the other two Whānau Ora commissioning agencies.) Te Pou Matakana is a new organisation, derived from the cluster of
Day: April 17, 2014
Last weekend Kōhanga Reo whānau members met at Tūrangawaewae Marae to discuss governance and management issues within the Kōhanga Reo National Trust. (The hui was called by King Tuheitia, who is the patron of the National Trust, and was attended by circa 1,000 people.) The issues presenting included alleged financial
On Monday successful applications for the Government’s sustainable fund for 2014/2015 were announced. There were 31 successful applications, including four with a significant Māori focus, as detailed below: · Integrated Management to Improve Productivity and Profitability for Māori agribusiness. “Provide an integrated suite of farm management and benchmarking tools to
Review Panel Report on Te Ture Whenua Māori 1993 On 3 April, the Associate Minister of Māori Affairs, Chris Finlayson, released the final report of the Review Panel on Te Ture Whenua Māori 1993, and announced that the Government would, in light of the panel’s recommendations, introduce legislation to amend