New Zealand Māori Council Chairpersonship Determined The Wellington High Court has declared Sir Taihakurei (Edward) Durie the sole chair of the New Zealand Maori Council – potentially ending a dispute over the matter with Mr Maanu Paul. By way of background, in 2012 Maanu Paul and Sir Taihakurei Durie were
Day: August 11, 2017
This week the Ngāti Pūkenga Claims Settlement Bill was read for a third time in Parliament, and will now also pass into law upon receiving Royal Assent. The settlement includes an apology and commercial / financial redress totalling $7 million; the vesting of four sites of cultural significance; $500,000 for
This week the Rangitāne Tū Mai Rā (Wairarapa Tamaki nui-ā-Rua) Claims Settlement Bill was read for a third time in Parliament and will now pass into law upon receiving Royal Assent. The settlement includes commercial and financial redress of $32.5 million. In addition, cultural redress includes the vesting of eight
The Office of Treaty Settlements (OTS) has now released its ‘Progress Report For The Year Ending 30 June 2017’. This report usefully tracks the progress of all Treaty settlements in a simple tabular format, although the redress amounts are unnecessarily and unhelpfully excluded. During the reporting period 30 milestones were
Last week the Statement of Intent (2017-2021) and the Statement of Performance Expectations (2017-18) for Te Taura Whiri i Te Reo Māori (Te Taura Whiri) were tabled in Parliament. (The Statement of Intent sets out its medium term strategy and the Statement of Performance Expectations sets out its annual work
The Māori Affairs Select Committee report back on the New Plymouth District Council (Waitara Lands) Bill has now been publicly released.[1] If passed into law this bill will create new provisions for the sale of Waitara ‘endowment land’ – circa 164 hectares presently held in six administrative categories (e.g. harbour
Yesterday the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) released its decision (made last week) to grant consent for Trans-Tasman Resources Limited (TTRL) to extract and process iron sand within the South Taranaki Bight. [1] The decision goes against opponents Ngāti Ruanui, and Kiwis Against Seabed Mining. We advise it was a split
Subscribers are advised Pānui is a politically impartial briefing, and we seek to provide a critical analysis of policy statements relevant to Māori made by all main parties. In regards to General Election matters the table below summarises reviews to date. You will note that there is no statement assessed
Earlier this week the Mana Movement Party (Mana) announced the release of policies for the General Election. Fourteen policy positions have been announced, and a further ten policies are pending.[1] The core philosophies presenting to us within these statements appear to be twofold – constitutional reform to better reflect the
Last week we advised that for the first time ever all of the larger political parties had a tangata Māori as either leader or deputy leader.[1] As it transpires that situation was short lived, with this week’s resignation of Metiria Turei as Co-leader of the Green Party. However, we note