This week the Strategic Intentions (2015-2019) planning document of Te Puni Kōkiri was tabled in parliament. This document describes the agency’s strategic objectives, and how it will assess its performance, for a four-year period, including the current year. [Note prior to 2014 Crown Ministries had to provide a ‘Statement of
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Antony Royal, George Reedy, Vanessa Clark, Ian Taylor and Warren Williams have been appointed to a new Māori ICT Development Fund Advisory Group. Along with three officials, the group will advise on the use of the $30 million fund formally established in Budget 2014. We have previously advised on the
In mid-September we advised that the Waitangi Tribunal was giving consideration as to whether to grant urgency to claims against the proposed new Te Ture Whenua Māori Bill. (Pānui 27/2015 details the main components of this bill.) There are three separate claims, and for hearing purposes these have been consolidated
Last September we advised that the Ministry for Primary Industries (and the Police) had undertaken a raid on Hawkes Bay Seafoods. This company is the inshore fishing quota leasee for Ngāti Kahungunu, and for some other iwi – i.e. a company which catches fishing quota that has been allocated to
This month the Ministry of Health released 2012 data on cancer rates in New Zealand. From a Māori policy perspective, key findings were that: during the year 2,105 Māori were registered with cancer; Māori had a registration rate of 415 per 100,000 people; 26.2% higher than the rate for non-Māori;
Last month Statistics New Zealand published the Subnational Ethnic Population Projections: 2013(base)–2038. These projections indicate the future population via regional council and territorial authority areas. Overall the projections indicate that the Māori proportion of the total New Zealand population will increase from circa 16% to circa 23% by 2038. In
Last week the Ministry of Health released data tables on live births in 2013. From a Māori policy perspective key findings were: 14,917 Māori women gave birth – this represented 25% of all women who gave birth; the Māori birth rate was 95 per 1,000 Māori women of reproductive age
Last month the Minister of Justice, Amy Adams, released a Ministry of Justice factsheet on criminal prosecutions for youth, and a second factsheet on adult convictions and sentencing rates. Youth Prosecutions In relation to youth (aged ten to sixteen years), the factsheet shows a trend of a continuing decline in
Last month the Ministry of Education released the New Zealand Schools Report / Ngā Kura o Aotearoa 2014. This 95-page report provides a comprehensive statistical record of schooling matters for 2014, including numbers of learners, teachers, and schools; along with educational outcomes achieved. Through all sections ethnic group data comparisons
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This week a Māori charitable trust in Kaitaia, He Korowai Trust, indicated they would need to delay selling houses to nine whānau approved for their Whare Ora home ownership programme, due to possible tax implications. By way of background, this Trust has developed a housing scheme for low-income whānau with
This week Motu published an economic policy paper on Māori economic beliefs and values. (Motu is a non-profit independent research entity, i.e. a self-described ‘think tank’.) The research is entitled Indigenous Belief in a Just World: NZ Māori and Other Ethnicities Compared. For this research Motu aggregated data from three
Jamie Tuuta has been reappointed to the board of Tourism New Zealand. Herewini Te Koha has been appointed Chief Executive of Te Rūnanganui o Ngāti Porou (commencing in October). On Tuesday the Minister for Māori Development, Te Ururoa Flavell, announced that he has appointed Grant Taylor from Ernst and Young to conduct an
The Ministry of Education has commenced publishing data on tertiary education in 2014. Previously this Ministry published a voluminous annual report on this sector entitled, Profiles and Trends; which has now effectively been separated into six more succinct reports, the first two of which have been released.[1] Report one in
Yesterday the Minister of Social Development, Anne Tolley, released an interim report on the Child, Youth and Family service (CYF) – which is a business unit within the Ministry of Social Development. The report was prepared by an independent ‘expert panel’, and is entitled, Modernising Child, Youth and Family, Interim