Dr Charlotte Severne (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāi Tūhoe) has been appointed as the new Māori Trustee. Meka Whaitiri was fired on Thursday as a Minister of the Crown by Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. The decision was made after Prime Minister Ardern received a report into an incident that occurred between Ms
Day: September 21, 2018
We advise that from next week the current Government’s Welfare Advisory Group is commencing a series of sixteen consultation forums on the future of the welfare system. Their goal is to report back to the Government on possible welfare reforms by the end of February 2019; and accordingly, we recommend
Last week the Ministry of Social Development published a report entitled ‘What Happened to People who Left the Benefit System’[1]. The report looked at the outcomes for 133,000 people who stopped receiving a main benefit during an 18-month period to 30 June 2014. The report found Māori represented 34% of
This week the Government announced the establishment of ‘Office for Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti’. This is its most significant Māori policy development since being elected. Te Arawhiti will be a stand-alone business unit within the Ministry of Justice, and will combine the Office of Treaty Settlements, the Marine and