Salient Māori News Items for the Week to 23 February 2018 New Zealander of the Year Awards were held last night; two Māori were honoured: Kim Workman (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, Rangitāne), Senior New Zealander of the Year, for public advocacy, policy and research focused on justice sector reforms [E
Day: February 23, 2018
Parliamentary Items of Note On Wednesday the Minister for Education, Chris Hipkins, announced an overhaul of the education system, commencing with a three-year work plan for change. One of the ten main components is a continuous focus on raising Māori learner achievements. The associated Cabinet paper indicates: “there has been
The Office of Treaty Settlements has released its Progress Report for the six-month period 1 July 2017 to 31 December 2017. This report usefully tracks the progress of all Treaty settlements in a simple tabular format, although redress amounts have been excluded (presumably as the Office does not want anyone
The Ministry of Health has released data sets on new cancer registrations rates for 2015. In regard to Māori, the Ministry finds: 2,443 Māori were registered with cancer within the year; the Māori cancer registration rate was 420 cases per 100,000, about 30% higher than the rate for non-Māori; We
Quarterly Labour Market Scorecard – December 2017 Last Wednesday the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment released their Labour Market Scorecard for the quarter ending 31 December 2018. This is a one-page summary on labour market indicators. We have already published most of this data from primary sources, see Pānui 3/2018
Household Living Cost December 2017 Quarter Released Last Thursday Statistics New Zealand published the household living cost price index, for the one-year period to December 2017. This data set is designed to show the effect of price increases on different households. The data shows that households overall experienced inflation cost
Child Poverty Reduction Bill – Submissions Open On Tuesday last week the Child Poverty Reduction Billwas read a first time in Parliament, and referred on to the Social Services and Community Select Committee. This means public submissions on the Bill are now open and in our view many – if not