Title: Te Whare Ohaoha – Waikato Māori Regional Action Plan Refresh Publisher & Date: Waikato Tainui and Waikato Regional Council, June 2019 Type of Report: Strategy and twelve-month action plan Length, style 36 pages, plain English (good use of graphs). Recommended readership: Māori in Waikato/Tainui interested in regional planning. Content
Day: July 19, 2019
The Ministry of Health has now released provisional annual suicide figures for 2016. Their information shows there were 553 confirmed suicides. This included 135 Māori suicides, of which two-thirds were Māori males. The Māori suicide rate was then, in 2016, 20.3 per 100,000 tangata. This is much higher than other
Te Puni Kōkiri has uploaded onto its website Cabinet papers around Te Ture Whenua Māori. The main paper, from November 2018, talks about introducing a Te Ture Whenua Māori Amendment Bill in the first half of 2019. This has not happened yet, but the ideas for the Bill are set
The Tribunal report on the status of the health sector has already received a lot of attention in Māori media in the weeks since its release. In essence, it finds there are major disparities with Māori experiencing poorer health outcomes than other people across the board – and that over