Maori party - Fisheries policy document

1. JOBS
Including regional
development, expand trade
training, apprenticeships
LIVING
WAGE
Health
Emphasis on health and
addressing poverty
HOUSING
18+ per hour Warrant of fitness
EDUCATION ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
Free after school care
Developing potential
ENVIRONMENT Te TIRITI
Water is a taonga
Protecting and promoting
treaty rights. Make te reo Māori
compulsory

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Māori Party Kaupapa Here -
Policy Direction for Election
2014
Whānau Ora - creating opportunities
for whānau to determine their own
pathways
Whānau Ora is an holistic approach that lays the foundations for the
kaupapa of the Māori Party. In 2005 we launched the Whānau Ora
approach so that whānau and families could be empowered to take
back control of their own lives and make decisions for themselves.
Whānau Ora is making a difference in the lives of our whānau and
families.
The Whānau Ora approach requires agencies to work together in
an holistic way enabling familes to make life changing choices and
ensuring access to any support and services needed to make those
changes.
Our Co-leader, Tariana Turia, was appointed Minister for Whānau
Ora and funding was managed through Te Puni K ōkiri. The agency
worked with Whānau Ora providers and collectives to establish
networks with a range of health and social service organisations
and government agencies.
Now three Whānau Ora Commissioning Agencies will manage the
distribution of funding to providers and collectives. The Māori Party
views Whānau Ora as a key priority for government.
The future
Whānau Ora is about self-determination and independence. It is
about our health - our homes and communities - our schools and
the prospect of jobs - all thosell-being.
The future of our families lise in our own hands - that’s Whānau Ora

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WHāNAU ORA
Building whānau capability through the three commissioning agencies, Te
Pou Matakana, Pasifika Futures and Te Putahitanga o te Wai Pounamu.
■ Support development of marae based health clinics and youth wellbeing
centres
■ Continue to fund Te Ao Auahatanga Māori Health Innovation Fund by focusing
on outcomes
■ Invest in Pasifika Health Provider Development and Pacific Health innovation
■ Increasing understanding and support of health literacy through research;
resources and programmes for health professionals and the public
■ Free Baby Box for all new borns (a gift from the government containing
bodysuits, a sleeping bag, outdoor gear, bathing products for the baby,
nappies, bedding and a small mattress)
■ Establish the Whānau Ora Partnership Group - bringing together iwi and
stakeholder Ministers to advance Whānau Ora outcomes
■ Increase opportunities for Whānau Ora Commissioning in a broader range of
work across government agencies
■ Commitment to evaluate, monitor and review development within Whānau
Ora
■ Negotiate increased support and investment to ensure Whānau Ora remains
a key government priority
■ We will advocate for, and engage with whānau living in Australia to look at
ways in which they can be supported to achieve their aspirations
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HEALTH

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Arouse the hunger
in WHāNAU To Learn
Education has to be driven by whānau aspirations and will engage whānau to
shape their own learning – learning is meaningful and relevant.
■ Increase the quality of and access to universal early childhood education,
increasing from free 20 hours to 30 hours
■ Pilot increased investment in Computers in Homes, Reading Together, iPads
in Schools
■ Integrate Kickstart Breakfasts fully into the school system, and introduce Food
for Thought in all decile 1-4 schools
■ Establish ten experiential learning pilots in Māori medium and general
education schools, to grow entrepreneurial skills
■ Increase adult literacy programmes to include community-based whānau
literacy programmes which address the literacy needs of adult caregivers
while providing them opportunity to support child learning
■ Free after-school care for children at primary school level up to 10 hours per
week
■ Māori histories will be a compulsory component of the curriculum, designed
and delivered jointly with mana whenua
■ Make te reo compulsorily available in all schools and fees-free in the adult and
community education sector
■ Introduce civics education as a compulsory area of learning, including the
importance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi
■ Matauranga Māori to be one of the National Science Challenge priorities.
■ Create learning hubs that target whānau engagement in learning and
stimulate whānau members’ curiosity and knowledge acquisition
■ Help whānau to create their own teaching and learning models
■ Implement ‘first language first’ policy in literacy instruction and learning
for Pasefika students; a bilingualism –biliteracy position where skills and
knowledge can later be transferred to English
■ Increase the wānanga cap from three to five, and support them with
standalone legislation which requires mana whenua and Māori stakeholders
to be part of the review and monitoring processes.
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The Māori Party will introduce a Joint Venture with Foodstuffs and
the Heart Council to promote discussion around food sovereignty,
focusing on the difference between purchase and consuming of
food on the ‘outside aisles’ (nutritious kai), rather than the inner aisles
(kai which is heavily processed or ridden with preservatives).
Education

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Grow a learning
culture in WHāNAU
Redirect investment into feeding a habit of lifelong learning that
nurtures and enhances natural talent and staircases students into
higher levels of study.
Continue to support whānau to find their confidence again and encourage them
to acquire skills and knowledge that can be used to their economic, social and
cultural advantage. Expect a platform of tertiary excellence that is learner-centric
and whānau driven.
Lift the cap on ■ the number of students taking level one to four programmes in
ITPs that create sustainable employment opportunities for whanau
■ Ensure ITPs develop key performance indicators that reflect the need to
prepare graduates for and deliver sustainable employment outcomes
■ Amend the Education Act to reflect a definition of education that promotes
and is consistent with the principles of lifelong learning
■ Increase information Systems and Digital technology pathways to build a
capable Māori IT workforce
■ Invest in the High Tech Youth Network (Computer Clubhouse)
■ Develop a pilot to test the accessibility and effectiveness of the High Tech
Youth Network as a vehicle for whānau to create technological capability
■ Develop a 4 year zero fee scholarship to University to target the “First in
Whānau to attend University” programme
■ Repayments for student loans starting at 4% ($40,000); 6% ($50,000) and 8%
(for $60,000 and over)
■ Write off student loans for students who work in a job equivalent to their
qualification for more than five years
■ Repeal the Education Freedom of Association Amendment Act
■ Support the implementation of Te Kaupapa Whaioranga – a blueprint for
tertiary education
■ Free public transport for students
■ Support a review into the funding system in the tertiary sector to better
prioritise the educational potential of students
■ Encourage local authorities to establish Community Learning Hubs
■ Partner with ITPs to recruit Māori students for IT-focused programes
■ We support a youth voice at local, regional, national and international levels
and will support events created by rangatahi for rangatahi to profile Māori
representation and political literacy
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Education

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Facilitate employment
and business
development outcomes
Whānau aspire to be economically self-sustaining and self-reliant, so creating a
range of opportunities to realise those aspirations is a critical step. However, being
employed by someone else does not have to be the only destination.
Expand Māori and Pacific ■ Trades Training placements from 6000 to 9000 per
year; Expand apprenticeships and job skills and invest in further learning, to
ensure people continue to move up
■ Permanently make available 2.5million per year for 250 Māori cadetships for
unemployed Māori.
■ Invest in sustainable partnerships with iwi for the provision of trade training
and opportunities for pathway into employment
■ Invest in partnerships between government, iwi and sectors to provide 1 year
cadetships for Māori and Pasifika recruits
■ Facilitate the development of Māori and Whānau business coop hubs
■ Develop an accreditation system and campaign for “living wage” employers
(like Buy Kiwi Made, Buy Local)
■ Develop a policy to: (1) attract Māori ex-patriates back to Aotearoa-New
Zealand; and/or (2) engage Māori ex-patriates in growing the Māori
economy
■ Establish a Māori Monetary Fund with $100m seeding capital in partnership
with NZVIF
■ Expand the Māori Innovation Fund from 2million to 5million per year and
create a co-partnership board with Callaghan Innovation
■ Work closely with the Minister for Business, Innovation and Employment to
advance Māori business growth to ensure it delivers on Māori aspirations
■ Create an annual Ministerial Summit on the Māori Economic Strategy “He kai
kei āku ringa”
■ Establish a working party to calculate tax credits for people who make regular
contributions to our economy through volunteering, unpaid, or community
work
■ Incentivise research and development investment and capability in regions/
local areas and relevant to regional and local priorities
■ Pilot a programme of investment in whānau mentors and coaches to help
whānau create sustainable business opportunities.
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Jobs

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Higher living
standards for all
Aotearoa - New Zealand’s economic growth is critical to Māori living standards and vice
versa, and although there is a habitual reliance on getting jobs created by others.
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Lift Individual ■ and collective living standards by incentivising employers to
introduce a living wage of $18 plus per hour CPI adjustments
■ Targets will be set and incentives established to increase the numbers of
Maori achieving at higher qualifications levels
■ Establish a review of how Government data can be accessed by iwi
organisations in order for them to target their assistance to members
■ Maintain the Ministerial Committee on Poverty and prioritise a review on
progress of the Expert Advisory Group on Solutions to Child Poverty in the
first 100 days of the new Government
■ Expand the micro-financing model with the banking sector with Credit Unions
sand community groups to provide modest low-interest and zero-interest
loans
■ a National Nutrition Strategy should inform all food policy, including nutrition
in schools, consumer affairs and freshwater management.
■ Continue to invest in rheumatic fever prevention, including research on
a vaccine, public awareness campaigns and maitain momentum with the
Healthy Homes initiative
■ Prioritise oral health including instigating an annual oral health check for low
income families
■ Maintain key work programme for the Ministerial Committee on Poverty to
ensure cross-government focus to bring a greater focus to, and improve co-ordination
of, government activity aimed at alleviating the effects of poverty
■ Bariatric (weight reduction ) surgery to address obesity, heart disease
and diabetes and investigate introduction of a tax on sugar-sweetened
beverages
■ Extend the Pathways to Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025 Innovation Fund to fund
projects to help reach the Government’s goal of being smokefree by 2025
■ Complete the introduction of plain packaging legislation and proceed with
introducing a health promotion campaign to prevent smoking in cars with
children
■ Continue with alcohol taxation, minimum pricing and advertising restrictions
to address the harms of alcohol use
■ Set a price for carbon and recycle carbon penalty revenue into active and
public transport, healthy kai and improved nutrition
■ Develop a pilot that identifies what knowledge, advice, support and skills are
needed to make an incentivised programme successful
■ Resource community groups to proactively address homelessness and the
needs of people who are most vulnerable
■ Support financial literacy and budgeting capability programmes designed
specifically for families, children and young people
■ Invest in He Punanga Haumaru (prevention of bullying); and Te Rā o Waka
Hourua (Māori and Pasifika suicide prevention)
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Economic
Development

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Champion the Māori
sector and its business
growth potential
The Māori economy has been estimated to be worth $40 billion currently.
Amongst other things, that economy is made up of the full spectrum of
economic activity extending from corporate businesses on the one hand, to
individual land trusts and incorporations in various states of commerciality and
social and cultural not-for-profit enterprises on the other.
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There is still a high reliance on land-based activities but with large chunks of land
undeveloped or fallow and upon which innovative yet sustainable commercial
enterprises could be developed.
Whānau could potentially become the force that explores the commercial/
business initiatives that could be created.
Focus on how to support the ■ Māori sector to achieve the best return from its
$40 billion asset base
■ Focus the priorities of “He Kai Kei Aku Ringa – Māori economic development”
on whānau enterprise and whānau business development as well as the Māori
corporate sector
■ Seek a commitment from the Government to co-invest with the Māori sector
to explore whānau-led business growth
■ Create a network of champions for the Māori economy to find opportunities
to maximise collaboration, scale and commercial development
■ Establish a new statutory entity-Māori Innovation agency – invest in and
implement the Māori Economic Strategy (He Kai kei aku ringa)
■ Provide for a programme that enables whānau to develop initiatives on their
lands that could become whānau businesses if they wish
■ Support existing whānau enterprises, invest in growing entrepreneurial
opportunity and build capability for whānau to develop business skills
■ Pilot a super hub that brings together different interests to facilitate and
support business development and business growth.
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Economic
Development

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Protecting
precious resources
for the future
Whānau have a particular place in mobilising people to fulfil their responsibility
as kaitiaki. This more personalised “on the ground” whānau approach will ensure:
a legacy of environmental sustainability is created for the natural resources of
Aotearoa-New Zealand; and the pataka kai of whānau are protected.
Support Te Mana o te Wai ■ as a key over-arching objective in the National Policy
Statement on Freshwater management
■ Introduce legislation that freshwater is a taonga, including explicit targets on
human health and swimmable freshwater
■ Redirect Department of Conservation resources to enable whānau, hapu and
iwi to assume kaitiakitanga responsibilities (whether in a post settlement
phase or not)
■ Direct consideration of oil and mineral exploration permits only if there is
evidence of recent, robust consultation with mana whenua and in keeping
with mana whenua views
■ Provide for tax breaks for renewable energy research institutions/businesses
■ advocate to keep the management of recreational fishing outside the QMS.
All fisheries information collected by the Crown to be released into the public
domain.
■ Find more sustainable ways to enhance biodiversity within the marine area in
order to address the potential extinction of the Maui dolphin
■ Consider discussions that will involve a transition from set netting and trawling
to more selective sustainable fishing methods
■ Create more enviroschools/kura taiao
■ Provide support to whānau to reclaim their pātaka kai
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Environment

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Generation zero -
reduce the footprint
Whānau live with escalating energy costs, a problem that could impede business
development and its ongoing costs. So they need to contain costs as well as develop
sustainable business ideas.
An area of increasing importance for the future is the development of alternative
energy sources with kaupapa Māori research solutions. Some whānau have a
competitive advantage with their access to raw materials for such initiatives, a
development that could help them to contain costs as well create a product that
could be marketable locally.
Work with Callaghan Innovation ■ to find innovative ways to support the
development of alternative fuels from raw materials found on whānau-owned
lands in selected areas
■ Redirect some investment in favour of a programme of grants to fund
Generation Zero mentors at a whānau level, supporting whānau to develop
alternative energy sources and create whānau enterprises from that
development
■ Champion a new approach to bring in solar panels for all government
agencies, departments, local government offices, hospitals, schools
■ Subsidies for solar heating and expansion of energy hubs for rural
communities.
■ Reduce the Footprint – Support a substantive proposal that will see the
planting of 100,000 hectares of new forests over the 10 years
■ Develop a trial with Māori Centre of Research Excellence and the Ministry for
Business, Innovation and Employment to test the viability of a locally-focused
alternative fuels development
■ Establish whānau-friendly cities; encouraging young people to have a voice
in the design and planning of their cities, starting with greenspaces in urban
centres.
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Environment

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He Whare Ahuru He
Oranga Tangata
Whānau need to live in safe, sound and affordable housing and be equipped
with the skills and knowledge to maintain a warm and healthy home.
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Develop ■ policy to support low income whānau to capitalise their family
support allowance as a deposit to become homeowners, while also accessing
accommodation supplement to maintain quality living standards
■ Establish a Māori Partnership Group within the Independent Transactions
Unit to facilitate the transfer of state housing assets to hapu and iwi
■ Ensure emergency housing is a discrete work programme of the Māori
Housing Unit in the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment
■ Increase the number of insulated, dry, safe and warm homes annually
■ Make the Warrant of fitness scheme to be compulsory for all rental properties
within three years
■ Support sustainable housing schemes on Māori land
■ Increase the number of qualified Māori in housing construction and grow the
Māori housing sector
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■ Hold relevant Ministers accountable for the prevention of and responses to
family violence
■ Introduce the Prevention of and Protection from Family Violence Act targeting
the prevention of and agency responsiveness to family violence
■ Reform ACC to prioritise support for those most in need from counselling
support
■ Introduce a direct resourcing pathway that expands E Tu Whānau and the
Pasifika Proud campaigns
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Whānau as the catalyst to
prevent family violence
It is estimated that family violence costs New Zealand $8 billion per
year. The social and cultural costs are even greater.
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Housing

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Treaty
The government has an ongoing responsibility/obligation to Māori
under Article Three of the Treaty of Waitangi. It also has a responsibility
to ensure Treaty settlements are being implemented by government
agencies properly.
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Establish a regime for ■ quarterly reports to Iwi Chairs and an annual report
to Parliament from the Post Settlement Commitments Unit on progress with
implementing Treaty settlements
■ Establish a Parliamentary Commissioner for the Treaty
■ Ensure the government responds constructively and in a timely fashion to
recommendations from the Waitangi Tribunal, including WAI 262
■ Introduce the Oaths and Declarations (Upholding the Treaty of Waitangi)
Amendment Bill to enable anyone taking any oath the option of stating that
they will uphold the Treaty of Waitangi
■ Review the Office of Treaty Settlements and the Post Settlement Commitments
Unit to ensure they are meeting expectations of iwi and the Crown
■ Establish a new convention by which every cabinet paper, regulatory
statement and bill must include a Treaty clause
■ Independent enquiry including an examination conducted by the United
Nations Special Rapporteur into NZ’s Climate Change policy that is
discriminatory in respect of the rights of Māori
■ Hold local government to account over treaty relationships with hapū and
representation of mana whenua
■ Initiate a public communications campaign in conjunction with stakeholders
on pooling transportation resources
■ Support the revival of regional rail links
■ Work towards free public transport for children up to 18 years; Community
Service card holders and tertiary students
■ Provide seed funding for whānau and communities to partner with local
authorities/NZTA/transport providers to create innovative solutions
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thinking different about
transport
Opportunities to develop collaborative solutions to transport issues have to be
created. Whānau experience difficulties with transportation costs (whether private
or public transport) so a range of solutions need to be found, including, for example,
community/neighbourhood responses
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Te Tiriti

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Whānau doing well
The creation of hubs centred on whānau potential, has the potential to
canvas almost anything.
Whānau who are doing well are able to facilitate the acquisition of te reo Māori,
me ona tikanga Māori and the knowledge that supports both. They are also
able to assume responsibility for nurturing good parents, strong leaders, and
successful business owners, entrepreneurs, innovators and so on.
Whānau doing well are whānau who support initiative, creativity and forward
thinking. Whānau doing well are also models for making changes where change
needs to occur.
■ Establish a fund to invest in small scale whānau innovation
■ Develop a campaign to encourage whānau to participate in Kiwisaver
■ Free dental care for all students and Community Service card holders
■ Revisit GST coming off healthy foods defining healthy foods as “fruits and
vegetables”, applicable only to supermarkets and wholesalers
■ support families to grow their own gardens and harvest other natural foods
such as maara kai; kai o te awa; kai moana.
■ Provide free healthcare for children and young people up to the age of 18
(Funded by the future Investment Funds)
■ Increase the numbers of Māori speakers, particularly in conjunction with a
campaign to revitalise reo spoken on marae
■ Establish Whānau Centres of Excellence to promote and support the
development of healthy whānau
■ develop a Code of Practice for the supermarket industry, backed up by an
independent arbiter; as well as greater regulation of marketing food to
children
■ Invest in enabling disabled people and their whānau, more choices, control
and flexibility over supports and funding in their everyday lives
■ Investigate a co-management model for Māori statutory representatives on
DHBs to increase their influence. New DHB representatives to be appointed
by Minister responsible for Māori Health
■ Establish a health workforce project for pay parity to retain Māori nurses in
iwi providers
■ We will review the work conditions, pay and training opportunities for those
working in the aged care, disability and home care sector
■ Review the Health Act to ensure implementation of rongoa Māori
■ Reviewing the appeal processs for ethics committee decisions, established
out of the recommendations made from the Cervical Screening Inquiry 2001
■ Introduce a pilot to establish Whānau Ora nursing roles
■ Develop a whānau aged care pilot
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Health

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Enabling good lives
Whānau caring for whānau
Many whānau have members with disabilities or who need active 24 hour care
of some kind.
Whānau need to know government supports them to care for their own. However,
there are several anomalies in the sector that need to be resolved so whānau
members can remain close to their familiar surroundings with the people with
whom they have strong and loving relationships, and whānau can provide a high
standard of care.
■ Repeal the sections of the NZ Public Health and Disability Amendment
Act which limit the circumstances in which family members can be paid as
caregivers
■ Extend the Enabling Good Lives approach nationwide, with associated
investment in Thinking Differently, Individualised Funding and Supported
Living
■ Ensure baseline funding is provided for the Independent Monitors of the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability
■ Provide targeted funding to the Convention Coalition Monitoring Group
■ Develop the policy interventions that will ensure agencies and families are
able to respond appropriately to abuse and violence directed at disabled
persons
■ Develop a work plan and roll it out nationally to address barriers to accessibility
particularly with respect to buildings, transport, education and housing
■ Increased support for development of Puna Reo at early childhood
■ Set measurable targets on the number of fluent speakers of reo over the next
decade
■ Establish a Reo centre of Excellence for teachers and researchers; alongside a
Māori teacher education leadership college
■ Research the establishment of Maori language learning communities and
promote whānau language learning programmes
■ Create incentives for whānau language learning initaitives eg fees free reo
programme for whanau
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Ko te reo Māori te
matapihi ki te Ao Māori
Knowing the Māori language is to know the Māori world
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Mana whenua, mana Whānau
Many whānau face hurdles in figuring out what to do with lands of which they
are owners and then funding projects (whether commercially focused or not)
accordingly.
All whānau have the chance to benefit from their relationship with defined blocks
of land, but there is particular benefit for those who remained in rural on or near
their land. However, whānau resources tend to be scarce and access to skills,
knowledge, advice and information is easily disrupted.
Ensure the Review of Te Ture ■ Whenua Māori retains the Māori Land Court as a
critical helping agency for whānau planning
■ Government agencies (MBIE, MPI) and Crown Research Institutes (Landcare,
NIWA etc) actively collaborate to help whānau find sustainable and profitable
land use solutions
■ Exemption of Māori land ratings on Māori land
■ Create pathways for Maori land owners to be world leaders in sustainable,
profitable, socially responsible and culturally grounded land development
■ Develop a programme that enables whānau initiatives on their lands that
could become whānau businesses
■ Partner with local authorities to pilot a ratings amnesty for Māori that wipes
historical rating debt, but subject to the submission of a land development
plan for the relevant land blocks
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State sector Excellence:
Whānau-Focused Tools
Whānau expect the state sector to work as well for them as it does for others so they
do provide the best litmus test for the impact (both positive and negative) generated
by government agencies that carry a wide range of statutory obligations.
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Whānau expect the state sector to work as well for them as it does for others so
they do provide the best litmus test for the impact (both positive and negative)
generated by government agencies that carry a wide range of statutory
obligations.
A number of things play a formative role in determining whether and how
well engagement with whānau takes place. Amongst other things, cultural
competency, strategic intent, tailored solutions and targeted results are tools
that all state sector agencies could weave together to create ways of ensuring
their outcomes are positive for whānau as well as the agencies themselves.
Government Chief Executives ■ will be required to report six monthly to the Iwi
Leaders’ forum and Parliament specifically on what positive outcomes have
been achieved with whānau
■ Introduce a treaty clause in all c
■ Cultural competency will be an employment standard integrated into the HR
systems of the state sector
■ Initiate engagement with and a process of reporting to iwi/hapu/whanau
leaders locally
There are important triggers for helping whānau to facilitate and sustain positive
change internally. However, to make those triggers work requires a review into
the entire justice system aligned with te ao Māori, tikanga Māori, mātauranga
Māori.
■ Emphasise a community justice approach to criminal justice and re-direct
investment to support that approach
■ Review funding of Community Law Centres to enable community legal
services are sustainable and improve access to legal information, expertise
and knowledge; and extend to a further six regions
■ Repeal the three strikes legislation
■ Review the systematic racial prejudice that limits our justice system
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A Criminal Justice System
that works with whanau
to solve promblems
Whānau who engage with the justice system are faced with numerous challenges in
terms of how they are treated in that engagement.
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A family justice system
with whānau at the centre
Whānau will find the new family justice system challenging will face
real difficulty as the system implements its process for the care, and
protection of Māori children.
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Introduce Whānau ■ Facilitators to ensure whānau are: informed of all the
information and all their choices; and provided with the chance to discuss
their choices and the consequences (legal and non-legal) of those choices in
the family court system
■ Ensure Whānau Facilitators work closely with the Whānau Ora Commissioning
Agencies
■ Create Whānau Facilitation capacity at local level with iwi/hapu
However, if incarceration occurs, whānau also need to be an integral part of
finding solutions to ensure their whānau members do not become recidivists.
On their release, their chances of reintegrating positively into their whānau and
communities are enhanced if they had the opportunity to acquire skills and
knowledge while in prison.
■ Support whānau-focused alcohol and drug, addiction and recovery and
restoration programmes and services including in prisons.
■ Initiate Computers in Cells to assist with literacy and numeracy
■ Repeal the Electoral (Disqualification of Sentenced Prisoners) Amendment
Bill
■ Establish an Anti-corruption commission to conduct investigations, absorbing
the investigative functions of the State Services Commission, Serious Fraud
Office, the Judicial Conduct Commissioner and Conduct Panel and the
Parliamentary Privileges Select committee
■ Disestablish the Independent Police Conduct Authority and transfer its
functions to the Anti-Corruption Commission
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Justice for all: whānau-centred
problem solving,
equal treatment for all
Whānau need to develop plans for ensuring their members are never
faced with going to prison.
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Vision Statement
A strong, independent Māori voice with influence in the New Zealand
Parliament
What We Do
We protect Māori rights and promote Māori interests, for the advancement of the
nation.
How
By being a stabilising political influence that advocates for the interests and
wellbeing of Māori and the nation.
Our Strategic Goals
Protect Māori Rights
The Māori Party ■ was born of the dreams and aspirations of tangata whenua to
achieve self-determination for whānau, hapū and iwi within their own land;
to speak with a strong, independent and united voice, and to live according
to kaupapa handed down by our ancestors
■ Its commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi as the founding document of this nation
and to its whakapapa is steadfast
■ The Māori Party grew out of protecting Māori rights under threat by the 2004
Foreshore and Seabed Act of the Labour led government. [This legislation
was repealed on 1 April 2011, by section 5 of the Marine and Coastal Area
(Takutai Moana) Act 2011]
- The Māori voice was stifled
■ Supported the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples which had
been adopted by the UN General Assembly on 13 September 2007. The
Declaration seeks to establish recognition of the rights enjoyed by indigenous
peoples around the world, both collectively and individually. New Zealand was
one of only four countries to vote against the adoption of the Declaration. On
20 April 2010, the Government reversed that position and announced New
Zealand’s support for the Declaration.
- The strong Māori voice needed to be heard
- The strong independent Māori voice needed to influence Parliament
■ Opposed any legislation that threatened or undermined the rights and
interests of Māori. [In the 50th parliament the Māori Party voted against 42
Government bills, including legislation on a proposed ‘starting out wage’; the
government communications security legislation, the state owned assets
legislation (the Mixed Ownership Model); and adjustments to the student
loan scheme].
- The independent voice has to have its say

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Promote Māori Interests
Whānau Ora created ■ a platform from which other whānau-focused initiatives
can be launched, so we will promote and extend Whānau Ora
■ We will uphold and revitalise the expression of te reo me ona tikanga
■ We will advocate for Māori economic development across the public, private
and Māori sectors
■ We will encourage partnerships between Māori and the Crown, private and
community sectors
Focus on whānau as the centre of everything
We are particularly mindful that
■ One in seven people (598,605 or 14.9%) in New Zealand in 2013 are Māori
■ One-third (33.1%) of people of Māori descent were aged under 15 years,
■ The median age of Māori (half are older, half are younger, than this age) was
23.9 years in the 2013 Census compared with 38 years for non-Māori.
Whānau is our single priority, but within that context critical areas of concern are
health, education, housing, environmental prosperity, employment, enterprise,
innovation, business development and economic strategy. We add value to the
debate by focusing on policies that bring real benefits to whānau, Māori and the
nation, but enduring change can only come at the whānau level.
When combined with the values of the Māori Party, whānau as the centre of
everything means:
■ Recognising whānau as the proper foundation for social cohesion, economic
advancement, business success, and cultural leadership and security
■ Focusing on whānau-centred solutions
■ Engaging whānau in collaborative efforts with the public, private and Māori
sectors
■ Ensuring whānau lead the way in creating a legacy of environmental
richness
■ Defending and promoting indigenous representation in local, regional,
national and international decision-making bodies
Strategic Drivers
■ Whānau influencing everything
■ Whānau creating their own prosperity and success
■ Whānau enjoying the benefits of the increasing prosperity and success of
Aotearoa - New Zealand
■ Whānau fulfilling their obligations and responsibilities properly
■ Whānau planning for their future
■ Whānau leading and supporting economic development but without cost to
the environment
■ Whānau celebrating their history, identity and points of difference as New
Zealanders