On Wednesday the Te Ātiawa Claims Settlement Bill was read for a third time in Parliament. The settlement includes financial and commercial redress of $87 million. The settlement also provides for the joint vesting of Ngā Motu/Sugar Loaf Islands in Te Ātiawa and Taranaki iwi. Other cultural redress includes
Author: Seattle Ropiha
On Wednesday the third reading of the Ngāruahine Claims Settlement Bill was completed in Parliament. This settlement currently includes financial and commercial redress valued at $67.5 million. There are also provisions for cultural redress, including cultural properties. The bill will now be passed into law upon receiving Royal Assent.
On Saturday the Crown and iwi and hapū of Te Wairoa (under their entity, Te Tira Whakaemi o Te Wairoa), entered into a Deed to settle all historic Treaty of Waitangi claims. The grouping will receive financial and commercial redress totalling $100 million (inclusive of forestry lands and the
Last Friday the Māori Affairs Select Committee reported back to Parliament on the Te Ture Whenua Māori Bill. This bill, if passed into law, will repeal and replace the current law relating to Māori land (Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993). The purposes of the new bill are to;
Appointments and Awards Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou) and Dr Thomas Roa (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato Tainui) have been appointed to the Waitangi Tribunal. Dr Aroha Harris, Basil Morrison, Dr Robyn Anderson and Dr Ann Parsonson have been reappointed to the Tribunal for three year terms. Sir Tamati
The Māori Affairs Select Committee is now hearing submissions pertaining to the New Plymouth District Council (Waitara Lands) Bill. If passed into law this bill will create new provisions for the sale and ownership of Waitara ‘endowment land’ – circa 164 hectares presently held in six special administrative categories
On Tuesday the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment released a two page Māori in the Labour Market Factsheet, for the quarter to 30 September 2016. The factsheet largely reproduces Māori employment / unemployment data from Statistics New Zealand’s Household Labour Force Survey, although it is more succinct and
Last week the Auckland Council Independent Māori Statutory Board released, The Māori Report for Tāmaki Makaurau 2016. This document is essentially a report back on indicators relating to a plan it produced in 2012. Pānui 31/2012 outlines that document. By way of background, the original plan had five key
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Amendment Bill passed its third reading in Parliament on Tuesday (Pānui 40/2016 refers). The Bill will now be passed into law upon receiving Royal Assent. Last week the Government released a consultation document on the fisheries sector. While it has no specific Māori focused content
Last month the Ministry for the Environment provided an update on stage two of the current review of New Zealand’s Emission Trading Scheme (the ETS). Submissions prepared from interested parties, including from the Iwi Leadership Group (Climate Change Subcommittee) and the CNI Iwi Holdings cluster have also been released
At the end of last month the Ministry for the Environment released a report on New Zealand’s marine environment. Such reporting is now required under the Environmental Report Act (2015).[1] The report raises significant marine concerns. It notes that globally high concentrations of greenhouse gases are increasing ocean temperatures,
This week we have reviewed the financial reporting information from three more iwi entities – Waikato/Tainui, Ngāi Tūhoe, and the Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust (Taranaki Whānui ki Poneke). As previously advised, the tables provide summary financial information of group results, i.e. inclusive of all subsidiaries such as fisheries,
Last week the Labour Party released a report called The Future of Work. This 78 page document is a type of pre-election manifesto statement as to how it believes it can improve tertiary education and employment opportunities, if elected to govern next year. Overall the report has a focus
The Ministry of Health has released a new statistical report on cancer rates. In regards to Māori, using 2013 data, the Ministry finds: 2,220 Māori were registered with cancer within the year; the Māori cancer registration rate was 336 cases per 100,000 – 27% higher than the rate for
The Environment Court has found in favour of Ngāti Ruanui and the lobby group Kiwis Against Seabed Mining, in ruling that the company Trans-Tasman Resources must provide complete copies of its renewed application to the Environmental Protection Authority to undertake seabed mining off the Taranaki Coast. By way of