The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) has published Housing Register Data for the quarter to 30 June 2020. This data provides a summary of applicants seeking social housing assistance. Regarding Māori the report shows that circa 9,160 tangata Māori (49.5% of those registered) are in need of a house and
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Today Chief Coroner, Judge Deborah Marshall, released the annual provisional suicide statistics for the year ending 30 June 2020. Overall there were 654 suicides, including 157 tangata Māori – we advise that this is 12 less tangata Māori than in 2019. Of Māori suicides,71 percent (112) were male. The Māori
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E26 14 August 2020: Treaty Matters
Last Friday the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations, Andrew Little announced that Waikato – Tainui and Ngāi Tahu will recieve the following relativity payments of $2.7 million and $2.6 million.
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has released a further discussion paper on resolving matters relating to the Plant Variety Act 1987. (Subscribers may recall this matter is linked with WAI 2522, with the Tribunal preparing a specific report as to whether the Crown was upholding Te Tiriti o
Last Thursday the Māori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Amendment Bill was introduced in Parliament. If passed into law this bill will give Te Ohu Kai Moana (‘TOKM’) a discretionary power to allocate and transfer aquaculture settlement assets to iwi; when need to break deadlocks arising from allocation disputes between iwi
Waitangi Tribunal Policy Released Last month the Waitangi Tribunal released its first report (of two) of the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011 (‘MCA/TM’). This is WAI 2660, which responds to 92 claims made about this article of legislation (collectively the claims cover the entire Aotearoa coastline, and
The second item reviewed is the report back from an independent panel on the Resource Management Act (‘RMA’); New Directions for Resource Management in New Zealand. This is a complex area of legislation, and the panel needed 500 or so pages to get through it all, but that aside the
Pānui Review Summary “Papatūānuku (Earth Mother), Ranginui (Sky father) and their offspring are in serious trouble, and we urgently need to do a better job at looking after them. The state of nature is a legacy that we leave for future generations.” (Department of Conversation, 2020.) This week’s Pānui focuses
Last we have also reviewed work from Te Puni Kōkiri on Māori unemployment trends. This work also shows a predicted rise in Māori unemployment; up to 20%. (However, rather oddly the prediction is for June 2020, despite the report being released in early August.) While clearly the prediction is a
Māori Employment and Unemployment Our second area of consideration this week has been in relation to Māori employment and unemployment. This is important as Māori socio-economic wellbeing is utterly dependant on wage and salary earnings – i.e. if a Māori economy is to be conceptualised then it is income from
Oranga Tamariki – Report on Māori Outcomes Subscribers will recall that last week we advised the Waitangi Tribunal was sitting and hearing claims regarding the performance of Oranga Tamariki (WAI 2915). As the two prior quotes show – which were written 35 years apart – there remains deep concerns about
The 52nd session of Parliament was concluded on Thursday. So no more new laws or policies will be introduced until after the election on September 19th. Accordingly, to conclude this Pānui, we’ve chosen to attached an extract from the Valedictory Speech of Paula Bennett; an outgoing member of the National
The Education and Training Act 2020 For people in the education sector the new Education and Training Act 2020 is a big deal, as it replaces and consolidates older legislation in this sector, such as the Education Act 1989 and the Education Act 1964.[1] However for all subscribers interested in
This week the New Zealand Police published a report entitled Police Statistics on Homicide Victims in New Zealand 2007 – 2017: Summary of Statistics about Victims of Murder, Manslaughter, and Infanticide. The report showed from 2007 to the end of 2017, 236 Māori were victims of homicide, which was 32%
Title: Whano – Towards Futures That Work: How Māori Can Lead Aotearoa Forward Publisher & Date: Tokona te Raki / The Māori Futures’ Collective (led by Ngāi Tahu), Waikato Tainui and BERL: July 2020 Type of Document: Research report Length, style: 31 pages, plain English, graphics, and tables Recommended