This week a Māori charitable trust in Kaitaia, He Korowai Trust, indicated they would need to delay selling houses to nine whānau approved for their Whare Ora home ownership programme, due to possible tax implications. By way of background, this Trust has developed a housing scheme for low-income whānau with
Day: September 26, 2015
This week Motu published an economic policy paper on Māori economic beliefs and values. (Motu is a non-profit independent research entity, i.e. a self-described ‘think tank’.) The research is entitled Indigenous Belief in a Just World: NZ Māori and Other Ethnicities Compared. For this research Motu aggregated data from three
Jamie Tuuta has been reappointed to the board of Tourism New Zealand. Herewini Te Koha has been appointed Chief Executive of Te Rūnanganui o Ngāti Porou (commencing in October). On Tuesday the Minister for Māori Development, Te Ururoa Flavell, announced that he has appointed Grant Taylor from Ernst and Young to conduct an
The Ministry of Education has commenced publishing data on tertiary education in 2014. Previously this Ministry published a voluminous annual report on this sector entitled, Profiles and Trends; which has now effectively been separated into six more succinct reports, the first two of which have been released.[1] Report one in
Yesterday the Minister of Social Development, Anne Tolley, released an interim report on the Child, Youth and Family service (CYF) – which is a business unit within the Ministry of Social Development. The report was prepared by an independent ‘expert panel’, and is entitled, Modernising Child, Youth and Family, Interim