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General Items: Parliamentary and Related Matters The Māori Affairs Select Committee has reported back on the current Māori Purposes Bill. With that, late last month

General Items Te Wānanga o Aotearoa (TWoA) is consulting internally on a proposed staff restructuring which if implemented would result in a net loss of

General Items: Salient Māori News Items to 22 August 2025 Recently there has media coverage about a decision by the Ministry / Minister of Education

On Wednesday the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, Shane Jones, announced incoming changes to fisheries legislation. A key change is shifting to a five-year quota

Homelessness Report Last week the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development released a report on homelessness. This is called the second  homeless insights report –

Salient Māori News Items to 25 July 2025        Whānau Ora Funding Review Earlier this month Te Puni Kōkiri released the Terms of Reference of an

Parliamentary and Related Matters Takutai Tarsh Kemp, Te Pāti Māori member of Parliament for Tāmaki Makaurau died yesterday. Parliamentary debate was thus suspended and flags

Research Snippets: The 2024 stocktake of gender and ethnic diversity on public sector boards and committees has been released (this is an annual report). It

Last month the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment announced the 2025 recipients of the Vision Mātauranga Capability Funding. The 16 successful bids, collectively totalling

Other News and Parliamentary Matters The Parliamentary Privileges Committee has recommended that Parliament vote to suspend Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi (Te Pāti Māori co-leaders)