Stay updated with breaking news from Crown Relations. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Kelvin Davis has told a select committee the ministry needs to start devolving more power to the regions and to Māori, and ensuring children stay with their whānau where possible.
Kaipara clean up body interim step to wider iwi governance 24 Feb 2021 12:45 PM More Related Stories HASH(0x37b5118) The chair of the Kaipara Moana Remediation Joint Committee says members of Ngāpuhi hapū clamouring for a seat are coming to the wrong place. A group claiming to represent affected hapū of the upper catchment turned up at the committee’s meeting on Monday with a list of demands, saying they needed to be part of the governance for efforts to stop sediment from their areas flowing into the harbour. But Tame Te Rangi says his committee is an interim measure so Ngāti W...
The Feilding courthouse, pictured in 1979, has sat empty since late 2011. However, the bill to bring the building up to code ballooned to more than $1 million. The Government decided to either sell the courthouse or gift it to local iwi, depending on the outcome of the ongoing Ngāti Raukawa iwi confederation Treaty of Waitangi settlement hearings. The Feilding community has floated several ideas to breathe new life into the courthouse building, from a restaurant to a youth space. But nothing can happen until the courthouse is with new owners, who would invest in the strengthening work th...
Andy Jackson/Stuff Tama Blackburn is a DOC ranger, who is involved in the predator free programme known as Taranaki Mounga. (File Photo) There are also more than 100 sites on the maunga which have cultural significance to Māori. The mountain is an ancestor of the eight iwi in the region, and this indivisible connection is one of the elements which will be legally recognised as part of a pending Treaty of Waitangi Settlement. It is now common practice to refer to the mountain as only Taranaki Maunga, with the New Zealand Geographic Board likely to be in catch-up mode to make things officia...