Appointments and Awards Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou) and Dr Thomas Roa (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato Tainui) have been appointed to the Waitangi Tribunal. Dr Aroha Harris, Basil Morrison, Dr Robyn Anderson and Dr Ann Parsonson have been reappointed to the Tribunal for three year terms. Sir Tamati
Day: November 25, 2016
The Māori Affairs Select Committee is now hearing submissions pertaining to the New Plymouth District Council (Waitara Lands) Bill. If passed into law this bill will create new provisions for the sale and ownership of Waitara ‘endowment land’ – circa 164 hectares presently held in six special administrative categories
On Tuesday the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment released a two page Māori in the Labour Market Factsheet, for the quarter to 30 September 2016. The factsheet largely reproduces Māori employment / unemployment data from Statistics New Zealand’s Household Labour Force Survey, although it is more succinct and
Last week the Auckland Council Independent Māori Statutory Board released, The Māori Report for Tāmaki Makaurau 2016. This document is essentially a report back on indicators relating to a plan it produced in 2012. Pānui 31/2012 outlines that document. By way of background, the original plan had five key