Māori Purposes Bill – First Reading: week ending 18 September 2015 (edition 33)
On Tuesday the first reading of the Māori Purposes Bill 2015 was completed in parliament and referred to the Māori Affairs Select Committee. This bill
On Tuesday the first reading of the Māori Purposes Bill 2015 was completed in parliament and referred to the Māori Affairs Select Committee. This bill
This week the Māori Education Trust reported to the Māori Affairs Select Committee on its operations. The session was closed and official documents are unavailable.
On Tuesday the Productivity Commission released a report entitled, More Effective Social Services.[1] (Note this is a final report, prepared after consideration of submissions received
Last Friday the Waitangi Tribunal released its report on The Ngāpuhi Mandate Inquiry.[1] This report assesses whether the Crown has breached the Treaty of Waitangi
Last Saturday Taranaki iwi signed a Deed of Settlement with the Crown. The settlement includes a financial redress of $70 million, along with the vesting
On Wednesday the Te Ātiawa Claims Settlement Bill was introduced in Parliament. The settlement includes financial and commercial redress of $87 million. The settlement also
On Tuesday the third reading of the Te Kawerau ā Maki Claims Settlement Bill was completed in Parliament. (Te Kawerau ā Maki has customary interests
On Tuesday the committee stage of the Te Hiku Claims Settlement Bill was completed in Parliament. The bill, which provides for Treaty of Waitangi settlements
This week the Ministry of Education released a factsheet entitled, Māori Tertiary Education Students in 2014. We advise the ‘factsheet’ is actually 10-pages of densely
Subscribers will recall that in May we reviewed a report on the Whānau Ora initiative prepared by the Controller and Auditor-General, Lyn Provost. This report