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He Puapua report to strengthen Māori rights.
Former Indigenous Rights Commissioner Karen Johansen, of Gisborne, Rongowhakaata, advocated for the human rights of tangata whenua between 2008 and 2017.
Photo: LDR / Alice Angeloni
The He Puapua report outlines policy options to give effect to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), which New Zealand committed to under the previous National government.
Earlier this month Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson laid out the government s next steps to meeting the declaration, with no allowance for a new Indigenous Rights Commissioner.
Aotearoa s only Indigenous Rights Commissioner Karen Johansen wants the role reinstated as part of the government s implementation of UNDRIP.
Kiwis were never told about it at the time and it was never campaigned on by Labour, Collins said on Sunday. The
He Puapua report contains recommendations for fundamental changes to our legal, constitutional, and democratic governance arrangements. Changes like separate health and justice systems, separate RMA rules, and separate electoral arrangements. These proposals must be taken to an election so all Kiwis can have their say. While they claim publicly it s not their policy, the Labour Government has already started to implement large parts of
He Puapua like Māori Wards and a Māori Health Authority, without the wide-ranging public debate that these changes deserve.