On Monday the Electoral Commission published enrolment and voting numbers for the 2020 General Election. Overall, circa, 2,894,500 people voted in the 2020 General Election (83% of the total enrolled), of which 390,310 were of Māori descent (73% of the total of Māori enrolled). The Māori voting number increased by
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This week Cure Kids published its inaugural annual report entitled State of Child Health in Aotearoa New Zealand. This report has focussed on the following three areas of health: dental, respiratory, and skin infections as markers of child health. Key findings within this report included: Disproportionate rates of dental decay
NCEA Outcomes for 2019 NCEA outcomes for 2019 were released on the Education Counts website in September. Statistics have not changed much from previous years; we note: circa 7,500 school leavers (12% of the total 61,000 leavers) left without achieving NCEA Level 1 – circa 3,400 of this grouping (44%)
This week we also reviewed an evaluation of a Te Reo and Tikanga Māori training programme trial, run by the Ministry of Education. The external evaluation was generally positive, in that the training was found to improve teacher competencies in this area, and gave teachers more confidence to incorporate Te
Appointments and Awards On Tuesday, Shane Reti was promoted to the role of Deputy Leader of the National Party. Dr Reti is also the National Party spokesperson for Health, and spokesperson for Children. Last week the 2020 Research Honours Aotearoa Awards were held at Government House. Successful award recipients included:
Te Kupenga Data Statistics New Zealand has released further data from Te Kupenga, the Māori Social Survey. (The is a post-census survey of 8,500 tangata Māori). While there is no clear report (just a series of webpages), and much of the data has already been released earlier, the survey is
This week we have commenced reviews of iwi annual reports. (By way of background, many iwi have an end of financial year balance date of 30 June, with their annual general meetings (‘AGMs’) are held in November/ December.) The reports we have reviewed this week are for two large iwi
Title: Oranga Marae Programme Evaluation Publisher & Date: Te Puni Kōkiri (TPK): November 2020 Type of Document: Infographic Length, style: 2 pages, plain English with graphics Recommended readership: Subscribers with an interest in Marae restoration Content summary This two page infographic presents key information and findings from the Oranga Marae
We reviewed the adult crime statistics. This dataset is also not pleasant reading. It shows in the year to 30 June, 23,000 Māori were convicted of a crime. That is about 4% of Māori adults, and represents 44% of all people convicted – miles away from proportionality according to population
We have reviewed the latest Household Labour Force Data released from Statistics New Zealand on Wednesday. This data shows Māori unemployment has risen to 8.8% (34,200 tangata), and the labour force underutilisation rate is 19.4% (81,000 tangata). In this survey underutilisation figures include the unemployed and also people who have
Last Saturday the Labour Party and Green Party entered into a cooperation agreement. The agreement is that while Labour governs mostly alone, the Green Party will support the Labour Government in key Parliamentary processes – i.e. confidence and supply votes, in exchange for their two co-leaders, James Shaw and Marama
Appointments and Awards On Monday Dr Cherryl Waerea-i-Te-Rangi Smith received the Health Research Council’s Te Tohu Rapuora Medal for outstanding Māori health leadership, excellence, and contribution. On Tuesday Annie Aranui, Dr Nicholas Jones and Keti Tipene received the New Zealand Public Service Medal. The New Zealand Public Service Medal is awarded
The preliminary result for the cannabis referendum is that 53.1% of voters did not support this proposed Bill. The result is not binding on Parliament. Final results will be announced on 6 November. The preliminary result for the End of Life Bill is 65.2% of voters support this Bill. Final
Title: Children With Offending Behaviour: Supporting Children, 10-13 Year Olds, Who Seriously Offend And Are Referred Under S14(1) e of the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989. Publisher & Date: Office of the Children’s Commissioner (OCC): August 2020 Type of Document: Evaluative Report Length, style 36 pages, plain English Recommended readership:
The third item we reviewed is a report from the ‘Independent Children’s Monitor’ (‘the Monitor’) regarding the care of children in state care, for the second half of 2019. (By way of background, this is a new entity, essentially established to check on Oranga Tamariki and its contracted care providers.