Maori party - Fisheries policy document

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LIVING WAGE

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EDUCATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

ENVIRONMENT Te TIRITI

Including regional development, expand trade training, apprenticeships

Emphasis on health and addressing poverty

18+ per hour Warrant of fitness

Free after school careDeveloping potential

Water is a taongaProtecting 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 futureWhānau 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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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

WHāNAU ORABuilding whānau capability through the three commissioning agencies, Te Pou Matakana, Pasifika Futures and Te Putahitanga o te Wai Pounamu.

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HEALTH

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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).

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.

Arouse the hunger in WHāNAU To LearnEducation has to be driven by whānau aspirations and will engage whānau to shape their own learning – learning is meaningful and relevant.

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Education

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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

Grow a learning culture in WHāNAURedirect investment into feeding a habit of lifelong learning that nurtures and enhances natural talent and staircases students into higher levels of study.

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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.

Facilitate employment and business development outcomesWhānau 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.

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Jobs

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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)

Higher living standards for allAotearoa - 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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EconomicDevelopment

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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.

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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Economic Development

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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 ■AT A REGIONAL /LOCAL LEVEL

Protecting precious resources for the futureWhānau 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.

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Environment

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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.


Generation zero -reduce the footprintWhānau 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.

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Environment

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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


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

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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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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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

TreatyThe 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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thinking different about transportOpportunities 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 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 ■AT A REGIONAL /LOCAL LEVEL

Whānau doing well

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The creation of hubs centred on whānau potential, has the potential to canvas almost anything.

Health

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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

Enabling good livesWhānau caring for whānauMany whānau have members with disabilities or who need active 24 hour care of some kind.

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Ko te reo Māori te matapihi ki te Ao MāoriKnowing the Māori language is to know the Māori world

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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


Mana whenua, mana Whānau

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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.

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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 ■

State sector Excellence:Whānau-Focused ToolsWhānau 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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A Criminal Justice System that works with whanau to solve promblemsWhānau 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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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

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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Justice for all: whānau-centred problem solving, equal treatment for allWhānau need to develop plans for ensuring their members are never faced with going to prison.

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Vision StatementA strong, independent Māori voice with influence in the New Zealand Parliament

What We DoWe protect Māori rights and promote Māori interests, for the advancement of the nation.

HowBy being a stabilising political influence that advocates for the interests and wellbeing of Māori and the nation.

Our Strategic GoalsProtect 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].

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Promote Māori InterestsWhānau 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 DriversWhānau 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

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