All posts for the month April, 2012
April 27, 2012    Economic, Rōpu Māori, Social

Māori news stories for the week ending 27 April 2012

 Georgina te Heuheu has been appointed to the board of Māori Television, and will become Chair from the 1st of May. We advise some people might consider this somewhat hypocritical, given as a parliamentarian Mrs te Heuheu voted against establishing this television service. Mark Solomon has been appointed to the board of Pure Advantage. Pure [...]

Māori news stories for the week ending 13 April 2012: omnibus excerpt

  Sir Peter Tapsell passed away last week, aged 82.  Sir Peter Tapsell was the first Māori Speaker of the House and served as Internal Affairs Minister, Arts Minister, Police Minister and Defence Minister. Mr Tom Roa has been named the new chairperson for Waikato-Tainui executive. From 1 July, Sir Henry van der Heyden will [...]

News and Emerging Matters Briefing – to 30 March 2012

This paper provides a summary of emerging matter of interest relating to Māori policy development, for the week 30 March 2012.  General matters On Tuesday, the first reading of the Social Security (Youth Support and Work Focus) Amendment Bill was held in parliament.  The Bill has been referred to the Social Services Committee, and a [...]

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