On Wednesday the Māori Purposes Bill 2015 was introduced in parliament. This bill amends the Māori Purposes Act 1991, which governs the Wi Pere Trust and the Māori Trust Boards. The main purposes of the bill are to (a) improve the governance arrangements for the Wi Pere trust; (b) enable
Day: July 24, 2015
On Tuesday the Ngāruahine Claims Settlement Bill was introduced to parliament. The settlement includes financial and commercial redress valued at $67.5 million.
Yesterday the Government entered into three separate commercial aquaculture agreements with three respective Iwi Aquaculture Organisations. (Iwi Aquaculture Organisations are clusters of iwi authorities with proven aquaculture interests within a region, i.e. multiple iwi are represented within each organisation.) The three agreements relate to Auckland, Tasman and Marlborough. The agreements
Last week a Waitangi Tribunal claim and an application for an urgent hearing was lodged by eight members of the New Zealand Māori Council, WAI 2532.[1] The claim is against the Government’s ongoing role in seeking to negotiate a Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) with eleven other countries. The claim alleges
Last Friday the Ministry of Social Development released the Benefit Factsheets for the quarter to 30 June 2015. We have undertaken an analysis of the various factsheets and have consolidated Māori-specific data into the table that follows. In total, at the end of the quarter 285,349 New Zealanders (and their
Yesterday the Minister of Education, Hekia Parata, announced the release of new data on the achievement of school students in 2014. Data released relates to both National Standards (primary schooling), and National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) outcomes (secondary schooling). National Standard Data National Standards are used to assess the