New Zealand Reserve Bank reports $69 billion of assets in Māori economy
A report released by the New Zealand Reserve Bank in January revealed that Māori businesses and non-profit organisations owned almost $NZ69 billion ($US50.2 billion) in assets as of 2018. The report, produced by economic consultancy BERL, said most of the assets of the “Māori economy” were in the private sector.
Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr said the report, entitled Te Ōhanga Māori, was written before the COVID-19 pandemic but gave a snapshot of the Māori economy just before the outbreak.
Maori businesswoman Traci Houpapa speaking at the Reserve Bank launch of the report (Screenshot, Youtube)
Thanks to those concerning occurrences at the Pullman – along with other more recent circumstances – our news for the next few weeks is likely to be once again dominated by the term “Border Failure”.
That is understandable – the recent circumstances via which first the South African strain and then the UK variant made their way out of containment deserve serious scrutiny. However, there’s another dimension to failures in our border policy. One which also mandates public attention and concern. Not least because that which underlies the latter also may very likely be actively contributing to the former.
It’s a story about dangerously unaccountable MoBIE managers or other MIF factotums seemingly making up laws on the spot, and men who would dearly like to enforce them People’s Republic of China style. It’s a story about ordinary New Zealanders not breaking any laws – including, lest there be any doubt, the ones put in place to protect us from Covid-19 – and yet b
The heart of the scrap
At the heart of the scrap was a claim by Foundation chief executive Shaun Robinson that he was told by an irate Health Ministry Acting Director-General (Mental Health and Addictions) Toni Gutschlag that the Foundation wasnât allowed criticise the Government because the charity received government funding. This was Robinsonâs understanding of what was said and as such guaranteed to be a red rag to a bull even if the bull managed to ensure that its horns were constrained.
Gutschlag counter-claims that her comments were misunderstood. The health sector is riddled with intelligent people frequently talking past each other often due to the stresses they work under so I find it plausible that Gutschlag may believe she never attempted to gag.
MINISTRY OF HEALTH
A group of vaccinators gave and received the first Covid-19 vaccinations in New Zealand on Friday, January 19.
On February 28 last year New Zealand registered its first case of Covid-19 and our lives were never the same again. People
Stuff spoke to in those earliest days reflect on the year since, and we ask: What next? By Virginia Fallon. May Moncur knew what was coming, but nobody would listen. When her flight from Hong Kong landed in New Zealand, the Auckland employment advocate says it was like entering a different world where the virus she’d seen overseas didn’t exist. Her waiting husband was bemused by the N95 mask she’d worn the entire flight, and told her to take it off.