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KAUPAPA MÄTUA
Budget 2011 will assist the Government in maintaining
momentum with its Mäori Affairs agenda.
“Within existing baselines, we have found $2 million
to support Mäori engagement with the constitutional
review and $2 million to continue community-driven
language revitalisation projects,” Mäori Affairs
Minister Dr Pita Sharples says.
“The constitutional review is potentially the most
important advance for Mäori in a generation, because
the role of the Treaty of Waitangi is a key part of the
national discussion.
“Once we are agreed on the basis of our partnership,
we can address issues with mutual respect, instead
of feeling challenged. The constitutional review aims
to help our nation unite around a very positive selfimage.
“Our reallocation of funding to community-driven
language projects was foreshadowed in the recent
report ‘Te Reo Mauriora’, in which an independent
panel of experts recommended redirecting resources
to encourage families to speak Mäori at home,” Dr
Sharples says.
BUDGET 2011:
MAINTAINING MOMENTUM
WITH MÄORI AFFAIRS
“In addition to Whänau Ora, new funding in the
Mäori Affairs budget of $250,000 will help settle a
long-standing injustice over perpetually-leased lands
around Taumarunui.
“This compensates the Karanga Te Kere landowners
for not being included in the Mäori Reserved Land
Amendment Act, and associated settlements. This
issue arose from 19th Century legislation that denied
Mäori owners control over their lands in perpetuity,”
Dr Sharples says.
TE PUNI KÖ KIRI | KÖ KIRI | HÖ NGONGOI - HERE-TURI-KÖ K Ä 2011
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