Pānui is continuing to review Government Budget documents, particularly in areas where there are targeted Māori funds, to ensure allocations are maintained, and deliverables achieved. However given debate and comments made in Parliament last week on Vote: Māori Development funds we consider it is has become necessary to reiterate our
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Gina Solomon (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kuri), Dr Charlotte Severne (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāi Tūhoe) and Henare Walker have been appointed to the Forestry Ministerial Advisory Group. The Forestry Ministerial Advisory Group will initially focus on supporting Te Uru Rākau (New Zealand Forestry Service) to deliver the One Billion Trees planting programme. Margaret
Yesterday the Ministry for the Environment published the second (and final) report from the ‘Climate Change Adaptation Technical Working Group’.[1] This is a grouping of ten specialists established by the Minister, James Shaw, to provide recommendations on what New Zealand needs to do to adapt to the effects of climate
Last Monday Statistics New Zealand published the household living cost price index, for the quarter to March 2018. This data set is designed to show the effect of price increases on different households. The data shows that households overall experienced inflation cost rises of 0.8% – but for Māori households
Last week The Ministry of Social Development released its public housing quarterly report, to 31 March 2018. (‘Public housing’ is a newish Government phrase, inclusive of ‘state housing’ and community-owned housing: the term replaces ‘social housing’.) We note the report finds that 36% (23,600-odd) public housing tenants are Māori. That
Budget Extracts, Vote: Treaty Negotiations Vote: Treaty Negotiations contains a multi-year appropriation of $1.4 billion, which this Budget now extends out to 2021/22. This is a nominal amount, to settle all historic Treaty of Waitangi claims, and remains unchanged each year despite expenditure against it. This year (2017/18) the Government
18 May 2018 Edition 16/2018 Confidential to: Briefing Subscribers [i] Government Budget 2018 BRIEFING Paper – 18 May 2018 Purpose This brief outlines emerging issues from the Government Budget (released yesterday), relating to Māori economic and social development, and Treaty settlement matters. Key briefing sections are: Vote Māori
The Child Poverty Action Group has released a short report on oral health in children. The report, Too Soon For the Tooth Fairy[1], provides linkages between poor oral health and socio-economic status. Using 2009 data, (which we consider a little dated), the authors note that Māori and Pasifika children are
Last month the New Zealand Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee published their data findings for the period 2012 to 2016.[1] During the period 2,621 children and young people died (aged 28 days to 24 years); with Māori deaths being disproportionally high at 36% (954 tamariki Māori). The report finds
Donna Grant, the former Executive Director of Manaakitanga Aotearoa Trust, appeared in the Rotorua District Court this week on a range of fraud related charges: (‘dishonestly using documents’, ‘obtaining by deception’ ‘creating a forged document’ and ‘using a forged document’). The charges follow a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation that
On Thursday the first reading of Ngā Rohe Moana o Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Porou Bill (No 2)was completed in Parliament and referred to the Māori Select Committee. This bill gives effect to a deed of agreement between the hapū o Ngāti Porou and the Crown in relation to the
Late last month the Productivity Commission, as per its standard modus operandi, published a voluminous draft report, this time on Climate Change, called ‘Low-emissions economy’. This 500 page brick-of-a-book was then warmly welcomed only two days later by the Minister of Māori Affairs, Nanaia Mahuta, who found that it, “identifies
This month five local body councils will each hold a referendum to determine whether they can proceed to establish designated Māori wards. The councils are the Manawatu District Council, the Western Bay of Plenty District Council, the Kaikoura District Council, the Whakatane District Council, and the Palmerston North City Council.
On Monday the Minister of Employment, Willie Jackson, announced that Opōtiki based Te Pou Oranga o Whakatōhea and Whakaatu Whanaunga Trust have separately been awarded funding for youth employment and education projects. Te Pou Oranga o Whakatōhea will receive circa $1 million over three years for a youth work readiness
The Minister for Social Development, Carmel Sepuloni, has announced that the Government is allocating an additional $76.2 million over four years for services that support the reduction of family violence, such as women’s refuges. (By way of background the 2014 Expert Advisory Group on Family Violence reported that 57% of