On Tuesday His Excellence Lieutenant General The Right Honourable Sir Jerry Mateparae, delivered the ‘Speech from the Throne’ to open the new parliamentary term. By
Earlier this year the Children’s Commissioner, Dr Russell Wills, established an advisory group to assist him to consider matters relating to child poverty. (The Commissioner
The Budget is based on a Government deficit of $13.5 billion for the year ahead, 2012/13. This is down from the record deficit of $18.4
Last week we advised that the Prime Minister had established ten targets for the public sector to achieve over the next three to five years.
ACT Party – Māori focused matters The ACT Party has nineteen policy statements, and Māori interests are captured almost exclusively in one of these, entitled
Mana Party – Māori focused matters Despite its relative newness, the Mana Party has developed twelve broad policy platforms, all of which take into account
Green Party Māori focused matters This election the Green Party is the only ‘mainstream’ political party to produce clear Māori specific policy. It is noteworthy
This week the National Party has released its new welfare policy. The proposal follows the main recommendation of the Welfare Working Group to simplify welfare
This briefing paper provides a summary of key Māori-focused social, economic and treaty policy developments for the quarter 1 July 2011 to 30 September 2011.
This week the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) published a report entitled Left Further Behind: how policies fail the poorest children in New Zealand. (The
