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Archives – March 2018 – April 2015

Iwi Chairs Forum Pānui – March 2018 Monday, March 5th, 2018 Iwi Chairs Forum Pānui – March 2018 » Iwi Chairs Forum Pānui – February 2017 Friday, March 17th, 2017 Iwi Chairs Forum Pānui – February 2017 » Iwi Chairs Forum Pānui – December 2016 Friday, March 17th, 2017 Iwi Chairs Forum Pānui – December […]

Freshwater Iwi Leaders Group welcomes changes to the RMA

March 25, 2017 The Freshwater and Natural Resources Iwi Leaders Groups supports the gains that the Maori Party has achieved to amend the Resource Management Act this week. Selwyn Parata, Chair of the Natural Resources Iwi Leaders group says “The Maori Party has negotiated significant concessions on the Resource Management Act that on balance we […]

Clean Water doc an improvement; long way to go

“The Government’s Clean Water document, released today, is an improvement of previous iterations but doesn’t go far enough for the Freshwater Iwi Leaders Group”, says Iwi Leader Rahui Papa. The Clean Water document released by Minister Smith today in Auckland outlines an improvement from ‘wadeable to swimmable’ water standards, improvements in the National Policy Statement […]

Monitoring Mechanism tables 2nd report to UN EMRIP

Iwi Māori have taken the government to task about their lack of implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Members of the Monitoring Mechanism, an independent working group of the National Iwi Chairs Forum recently tabled their second report[1] with the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, […]

Freshwater ILG welcomes RMA Amendment Bill intro

Press Release – Freshwater Iwi Leaders Group The Freshwater Iwi Leaders Group (ILG) today welcomes the introduction of the Resource Legislation Amendment Bill.Freshwater Iwi Leaders Group welcomes introduction of Resource Legislation Amendment Bill The Freshwater Iwi Leaders Group (ILG) today welcomes the introduction of the Resource Legislation Amendment Bill. “The introduction of the Bill is […]

ILG & LGNZ sign MoU on collaboration

Iwi Leaders and Local Government New Zealand sign Memorandum of Understanding Today, the Freshwater Iwi Leaders Group, on behalf of the Iwi Chairs Forum, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) to support and encourage strong relationships and collaboration between councils and iwi. Freshwater Iwi Leaders Group chair, Tā Tumu Te […]

Speech to the Iwi Chairs Forum (Education Minister)

Speech to the Iwi Chairs Forum Five years ago New Zealanders overwhelmingly voted National into Government. The National-led Government immediately set about implementing its plans, and we have made steady progress to help deliver more jobs and higher incomes for New Zealanders. We were also determined to focus on education; which we felt had been […]