Parliament is scheduled to open next Tuesday, allowing the incoming Labour-led Government to commence its legislative programme. Accordingly, the Labour Party has released a list of priority items for its first 100 days in office. This aligns with the agreements they have entered into with NZ First and the
Author: Seattle Ropiha
This week the Te Puni Kōkiri Annual Report to 30 June 2017 was released. The purpose of this report is to outline the quality of services delivered, and to explain the organisation’s financial performance in the last year. By way of background, Te Puni Kōkiri received circa $66 million
On Wednesday Statistics New Zealand released the Household Labour Force Survey results for the quarter to the end of September 2017. The survey shows that national unemployment has fallen to 4.6%, which is the lowest rate since 2008. For Māori the unemployment rate decreased as well, to 9.9%, (from
Benefit Fact Sheets – September 2017 Data Released The Ministry of Social Development released Benefit Fact Sheets for the quarter to 30 September 2017. In total, at the end of the quarter, 277,220 New Zealanders (and their households) were welfare reliant.[1] This included circa 99,350 Māori, plus their whānau households. This
Our assessment of the policy and ministerial announcements is threefold; (i) matters relating to social well-being policies, (ii) matters relating to Māori-focused legislative issues, and (iii) Ministerial roles. Assessment of Social Well-Being Matters Our first assessment is that, as expected with a centre-left coalition Government, the overall emphasis of
In addition to the policy agreements, NZ First has four Ministers inside Cabinet, including Winston Peters who is Deputy Prime Minister. The Green Party also has Ministerial roles, although outside of Cabinet.[1] Key Ministerial appointments of note for Māori policy are: Jacinda Arden – Minister responsible for Child Poverty Reduction;
In addition to the above, the Labour Party has a confidence and supply agreement with the Green Party. This agreement has twenty policy statements, three of which we consider will be of particular significance to Māori, as outlined below. Fair Society · ‘Overhaul the welfare system, ensure access to
Coalition Government Agreement – Initial policies of significance to Māori Regional Economic Development and Primary Industries · ‘A $1 billion regional development fund’, ‘including planting 100 million trees per year’; o significant as this will be inclusive of Māori land, and because one-third of planation forests in New Zealand are
Subscribers will be aware that last Thursday New Zealand First (‘NZ First’) announced that they would form a coalition Government with the Labour Party. Following on from that, on Tuesday this week the Coalition Agreement between these two parties was signed and released, along with a ‘Confidence and Supply Agreement’
Whakaki 2N Incorporation in Iwitea has received a $40,000 grant from the Ministry for Primary Industries to find the best sustainable use for its 466 hectares adjacent to Lake Whakaki. Auckland University is undertaking a survey of Māori adults on financial attitudes. The focus is to better understand Māori
In Pānui 29/2017 we wrote about Public Achievement Information Data released by the Ministry of Education. There was an error in our article – in that we incorrectly stated the Ministry had not released data relating to hours of early childhood education consumed by tamariki Māori. In fact that information
The Ministry of Education has released an excel worksheet summarising Māori participation in tertiary education in 2016. The worksheet is in addition to the agency’s wider commentary report on tertiary education, entitled ‘Profile and Trends 2016’ which has also been partially released (3 of 6 volumes were released last month).[1]
Statistics New Zealand has released a new iwi statistical standard, ready for use for the 2018 Census. The standard is the way in which an iwi grouping can be recognised within all official data sets. In essence, the past iwi standards were developed in 1994, in the context of Treaty
Prior to the election the Ministry of Social Development released a new Statement of Intent (which is its medium-term plan). In the past we have been highly critical of this agency for simply ignoring Māori within all planning documents – despite Māori being major users of services from this agency.
Statistics New Zealand has released new data on jobless households. This data will be of high interest to subscribers working on socio-economic issues, as unemployment is generally only considered at an individual level. However, as the Department correctly notes, the impacts of joblessness on individuals can be mitigated by the