The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has released eligibility information for the 2019 He Tupu Ohanga: Commercial Advisor Scheme (CAS). CAS is designed to allow Māori collectives to work with a commercial advisor for up to two years. Government funding of up to $60,000 per collective is offered, on
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We have reviewed this week is a monitoring report on programmes designed to retain Māori medium beginning teachers. The work presents as important because it appears the majority of these teachers (70%) leave after three years or less of teaching. We found this evaluation to be of marginal quality, for
This week the Household Labour Force Survey results for the quarter to 30 June 2019 were released. What has changed since last quarter? – in short, not much. Māori registered as unemployed remain at circa 26,000 tangata; and the Māori unemployment rate at 7.7% (down from 8.2%) is still about
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has published a consultation paper on managing plant variety rights. Usefully the proposal is to now consider Treaty of Waitangi implementations, along with practical steps in legislation, to ensure Māori have a say on plant matters relevant to Māori (consultation closes 9 September); Title: Plant
Te Taura Whiri i Te Reo Māori / The Māori Language Commission’s annual plan – essentially more of the same service, and working in partnership with Te Mātāwai on key items. Title: Statement of Performance Expectation 2019-2020 He Ara Whāia, He Ara Hou Publisher & Date: Te Taura Whiri I
The factsheet on Māori in the labour market from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. This is a useful summary of annual trends (more Māori are working and the unemployment rate is down to 8.7%), but again more specific data is now needed to take the policy work programme
The latest benefit factsheets from the Ministry of Social Development (quarter to end June 2019). The findings continue to highlight high reliance on welfare for around one quarter of Māori. In our view it is now time for this Ministry to improve the analysis of this data, with more information
Biennial New Zealand Social Survey, undertaken by Statistics New Zealand. This is interesting and new data, but again this department lets itself down with poor presentation and reporting. (More specifically no reporting, just a few odd media releases, as they apparently expect people to read the excel sheets and to
On Thursday the third and final reading of the Ngāti Rangi Claims Settlement Bill was successfully completed in Parliament – meaning that settlement will now pass into law upon receiving Royal Assent. The settlement includes $17 million in financial redress, significant areas of the Karioi Forest, and the potential to
This week mainstream and Māori media have been reporting on the land occupation / protest at Ihumātao (see below for further background about this). Essentially as the land development work seeks to progress, so has direct action against it, with hundreds of people going on-site this week to show their
Appointments and Awards Rangimarie Hunia (Ngāti Whātua) has been appointed Chair of Te Ohu Kaimoana (Māori Fisheries Trust). Matanuku Mahuika (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa) has been appointed to the Callaghan Innovation Board. Research Snippets This week Oranga Tamariki published information on the number of tamariki who had experienced some type
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
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