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Budget 2011 will ensure the Government maintains momentum with its Māori Affairs programmes, which are delivering encouraging results, Māori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples says.

“Within existing baselines, we have found $2 million to support Māori engagement with the constitutional review and $2 million to continue community-driven language revitalisation projects,” Dr Sharples says.

  • Pita Sharples
  • Maori Affairs
  • Budget 2011

Budget 2011 will provide significant capital and operational funding to strengthen delivery of school and community-based Māori language initiatives, Associate Education Minister Pita Sharples says.

It will also help teachers to engage better with Māori students, improve literacy teaching, and support Kura Kaupapa Māori.

Budget 2011 provides new funding for Māori education:

  • Pita Sharples
  • Education
  • Budget 2011

The Government has agreed to a forward work programme on water reform that will involve the Land and Water Forum, iwi and ongoing analysis by officials, Environment Minister Nick Smith, Agriculture Minister David Carter and Maori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples say.

  • Nick Smith
  • David Carter
  • Pita Sharples
  • Agriculture
  • Environment
  • Maori Affairs
  • Budget 2011