Last Saturday Taranaki iwi signed a Deed of Settlement with the Crown. The settlement includes a financial redress of $70 million, along with the vesting of 29 sites of cultural significance. This includes a joint vesting of Ngā Motu/Sugar Loaf Islands with Te Ātiawa. Taranaki Iwi also have deferred the
Day: September 15, 2015
On Wednesday the Te Ātiawa Claims Settlement Bill was introduced in Parliament. The settlement includes financial and commercial redress of $87 million. The settlement also provides for the joint vesting of Ngā Motu/Sugar Loaf Islands in Te Ātiawa and Taranaki iwi. Other cultural redress includes a cultural fund, and the
On Tuesday the third reading of the Te Kawerau ā Maki Claims Settlement Bill was completed in Parliament. (Te Kawerau ā Maki has customary interests that extend from the Tāmaki isthmus, north through West Auckland and lands around the upper Waitematā Harbour and North shore into south Kaipara and Mahurangi.)
On Tuesday the committee stage of the Te Hiku Claims Settlement Bill was completed in Parliament. The bill, which provides for Treaty of Waitangi settlements with four iwi in the Far North Te Hiku Forum, was then split into respective iwi settlement bills, which were read for a third time
This week the Ministry of Education released a factsheet entitled, Māori Tertiary Education Students in 2014. We advise the ‘factsheet’ is actually 10-pages of densely packed statistical data, in a small font, and easily contains more information than some research reports we review. Below we have listed some of key
Last Thursday the Minister of Energy and Resources, Simon Bridges, announced the commencement of the consultation process for awarding ‘block 2016’ oil and gas exploration permits. The consultation process includes seeking the views of iwi groups where a proposed ‘block’ is within their rohe, and/or up to 100 km offshore.
Subscribers will recall that in May we reviewed a report on the Whānau Ora initiative prepared by the Controller and Auditor-General, Lyn Provost. This report highlighted significant problems within the administration of Whānau Ora by Te Puni Kōkiri (but not the concept of Whānau Ora). Administration concerns included that, “the