Treaty Items Waitangi Tribunal – Health Services Inquiry Report Released The Waitangi Tribunal has released part one (circa 170 pages) of its kaupapa inquiry into Māori health inequalities (WAI 2575). The Tribunal finds the Crown has committed Treaty of Waitangi breaches, because the current health system does not proactively
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Local Government Bill (Pānui 12/2019) Ngāi Tahu and the Canterbury Regional Council Earlier this month, Parliament voted down, at its first reading, a bill which proposed making permanent two seats for Ngāi Tahu representatives on the Canterbury Regional Council (known as Environment Canterbury / ECan). The bill had been
Land Protest Pānui 12/2019 Ihumātao Lands In Tamaki the matter attracting attention this month is the proposed development of Ihumātao lands. The latest action is that a petition signed by over 20,000 people was delivered to Auckland mayor, Phil Goff, last week, which seeks council protection of the land.
Budget 2019 Pānui 18/2019 The Government released its 2019/2020 Budget – i.e. the formal spending plan for 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020, plus its indicative spending planning for the following three years (to 30 June 2023). We advise there are a lot of initiatives within this
Child Poverty Pānui 17/2019 Targets to Reduce Child Poverty Announced The Prime Minister, Jacinda Arden, confirmed the Government’s first sets of targets to reduce child poverty (as set out in the footnote below[1]). This policy area is of major significance to Māori, as our research indicates up to 33%
Purpose This quarterly review provides a summary of significant Māori focused social, economic and Treaty policy developments for the period 1 April to 28 June 2019. Within the quarter we reviewed forty-two Māori social sector matters, seven Māori economic sector matters, ten Treaty-related matters, and ten general Parliamentary items. We
The third review we undertook this week related to an interim report from a justice sector advisory group, Te Uepū Hāpai i te Ora – the Safe and Effective Justice Advisory Group. This group’s task is to advise the Justice Minister, Andrew Little, of change options for the criminal justice
The second item reviewed was the Te Māngai Pāho (TMP) statement of performance expectations 2019/2020 (i.e. its plan for the year ahead). On first read this plan is as dry as other Government entity planning documents, and in some respects largely repetitive of its past planning – but now inclusive
Second, the Waitangi Tribunal has also now announced that it will hold a district inquiry into historical grievances of Whakatōhea. This follows voting from iwi members last year requesting that an inquiry goes ahead – but whilst their settlement work with the Crown also continues. The dilemma for Whakatōhea iwi
On the Treaty settlement front, four items of note have arisen. First, last week the Waitangi Tribunal released the next edition of its district inquiry into the Te Rohe Pōtae (King Country) claims. This is part three of its work into these 277 claims, and contains six chapters, neatly packaged
Last week Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, and the Minister of Fisheries, Stuart Nash, announced that commercial fishing vessels using nets which are at risk of encountering the rare Māui dolphin will be required to operate with on-board cameras. This covers the marine areas along the West Coast of the North
On Thursday the third reading of the Oranga Tamariki Legislation Bill was completed. Once passed into law (after Royal Assent from the Governor-General) this law will expand the youth justice jurisdiction to include 17-year-olds. This will likely assist in reducing the number of Māori (and other) youth appearing in adult
The Mōkai Pātea Waitangi Claims Trust is seeking a mandate to settle their claims, and consultation hui for that are in train for iwi members; and Rangitihi is in the process of setting up its Post-Settlement Governance Entity (PSGE), to look after its settlement when it lands, and iwi consultation
The new statistics on Māori business from Stats NZ shows positive growth in the Māori economy. Entities which are listed as Māori tax authorities – i.e. typically iwi post-settlement governance entities, Māori land / ahuwhenua entities, along with Te Ohu Kaimoana – hauled in a combined pre-tax surplus of $700
Title: Supporting Young People on Remand to Live Successfully in the Community Publisher & Date: Office of the Children’s Commissioner: May 2019 Type of Document: Monitoring report Length, style: 10 paged report, plain English. Recommended readership: Social sector analysts Content summary: This overview report is a summary of an unpublished