What we are discussing. is whether or not in working more closely with iwi organisations and whānau who know these families well and the children well, whether or not we can do a better job at prevention, Ardern said.
Davis highlighted comments made at the Iwi Chairs Forum in Porirua on Friday that when Kāwanatanga and Tino rangatiratanga work together in partnership you ll see great things happening .
Collins suggested the Government was abdicating its responsibilities to protect all children by handing power to an independent Māori Transition Authority. Does she believe it is acceptable for the Government to remove itself from the protection of all children, regardless of ethnicity, when a New Zealand child is killed by its own family every five weeks?
Whakatāne District Council to reconsider Māori wards at May meeting
10 May, 2021 03:55 AM
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Whakatāne mayor Judy Turner. Photo / Alan Gibson
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Whakatāne District Council elected members will decide on whether or not to establish Māori wards at a council meeting next week.
The opportunity to again consider the establishment of Māori wards comes following the Local Electoral Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies Amendment Bill which was passed at Parliament in February this year.
The recent changes to the Local Electoral Act removed any options for establishing Māori wards other than the council resolving to have Māori wards.
Māori Party co-leaders Rawiri Waititi Debbie Ngarewa-Packer.
Photo: RNZ / Dom Thomas
The National Party has been piling on the pressure, saying the [https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/441575/government-plans-may-lead-to-maori-systems-for-education-justice-collins the government is creating a separatist system, and the Authority is just one of many ways they re giving more governing power to Māori.
They vehemently oppose the Authority s joint-decision making powers, which allow it to veto the sign-off of policy put forward by the wider national body, Health NZ.
Minister of Health Andrew Little said that might extend the policy-making and decision-making out by a small margin but it won t stop reaching agreement.
Auckland iwi Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei are exhibiting a united front against cross-claims about policy settlements by the Crown.
About 300 Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei iwi members marched from Ōrākei Marae to the Auckland High Court on 9 February, 2021.
Photo: RNZ / Te Aorewa Rolleston
This is in response to overlapping treaty redresses which have left some iwi battling against one another.
Before sunrise this morning, about 300 Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei iwi members departed Ōrākei Marae on a 7km hīkoi to the Auckland High Court.
Iwi members marched along Tamaki Drive along the Auckland waterfront, waving flags, chanting haka and singing waiata.