The Crown Forestry Rental Trust has released its accounts to 31 March 2015. These detail that the Trust had income of circa $12 million for the year, against expenses of $18.4 million – meaning it made a loss of $6.4 million. (A loss is expected as it is in
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On Tuesday the first reading of the Māori Purposes Bill 2015 was completed in parliament and referred to the Māori Affairs Select Committee. This bill amends the Māori Purposes Act 1991, which governs the Wi Pere Trust and Māori Trust Boards. The main purposes of the bill are to (a)
This week the Māori Education Trust reported to the Māori Affairs Select Committee on its operations. The session was closed and official documents are unavailable. However the meeting was likely to concern the financial and educational performance of the Trust, given: the 2013 financial accounts were not delivered to Audit
On Tuesday the Productivity Commission released a report entitled, More Effective Social Services.[1] (Note this is a final report, prepared after consideration of submissions received on an earlier draft which was released in May. We reviewed the draft report in Pānui 14/2015.) This colossal 364-page report is a study of
Last Friday the Waitangi Tribunal released its report on The Ngāpuhi Mandate Inquiry.[1] This report assesses whether the Crown has breached the Treaty of Waitangi by recognising the mandate of Tūhoronuku Independent Mandate Authority (Tūhoronuku) to settle all of the historic Treaty of Waitangi claims of Ngāpuhi. The report responds
Last Saturday Taranaki iwi signed a Deed of Settlement with the Crown. The settlement includes a financial redress of $70 million, along with the vesting of 29 sites of cultural significance. This includes a joint vesting of Ngā Motu/Sugar Loaf Islands with Te Ātiawa. Taranaki Iwi also have deferred the
On Wednesday the Te Ātiawa Claims Settlement Bill was introduced in Parliament. The settlement includes financial and commercial redress of $87 million. The settlement also provides for the joint vesting of Ngā Motu/Sugar Loaf Islands in Te Ātiawa and Taranaki iwi. Other cultural redress includes a cultural fund, and the
On Tuesday the third reading of the Te Kawerau ā Maki Claims Settlement Bill was completed in Parliament. (Te Kawerau ā Maki has customary interests that extend from the Tāmaki isthmus, north through West Auckland and lands around the upper Waitematā Harbour and North shore into south Kaipara and Mahurangi.)
On Tuesday the committee stage of the Te Hiku Claims Settlement Bill was completed in Parliament. The bill, which provides for Treaty of Waitangi settlements with four iwi in the Far North Te Hiku Forum, was then split into respective iwi settlement bills, which were read for a third time
This week the Ministry of Education released a factsheet entitled, Māori Tertiary Education Students in 2014. We advise the ‘factsheet’ is actually 10-pages of densely packed statistical data, in a small font, and easily contains more information than some research reports we review. Below we have listed some of key
Last Thursday the Minister of Energy and Resources, Simon Bridges, announced the commencement of the consultation process for awarding ‘block 2016’ oil and gas exploration permits. The consultation process includes seeking the views of iwi groups where a proposed ‘block’ is within their rohe, and/or up to 100 km offshore.
Subscribers will recall that in May we reviewed a report on the Whānau Ora initiative prepared by the Controller and Auditor-General, Lyn Provost. This report highlighted significant problems within the administration of Whānau Ora by Te Puni Kōkiri (but not the concept of Whānau Ora). Administration concerns included that, “the
Dr Hauata Palmer, Derek Lardelli and Bill Wilson QC have been appointed as members to the Waitangi Tribunal. Te Taura Whiri – The Māori Language Commission have extended the closing date for Mā Te Reo funding grant applications to Monday 14 September. These grants are administered by Te Reo
Dr Aroha Harris has been appointed as a Guardian Kaitiaki of the Alexander Turnbull Library for a three-year term. Last week Ngāti Paoa advised that the Crown’s decision to offer the iwi some commercial properties in central Auckland had prompted Ngāti Whātua o Ōrakei to take legal action against the
Last week the Minister of Education, Hekia Parata, wrote to all kōhanga reo (463 centres) advising them of her position in relation to governance matters concerning the Kōhanga Reo National Trust Board (the Trust Board). This is an unusual action, which she states is necessary in order to respond to