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Across the motu, the Māori response package has supported hard-to-reach and vulnerable whānau during the COVID-19 pandemic including those who live in remote areas, kaumātua and the homeless. 

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Hon Nanaia Mahuta
  • Hon Peeni Henare
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti
  • Māori Development
  • Tourism
  • Whānau Ora

Associate Health and Whānau Ora Minister Peeni Henare has today announced the Government’s plan to support Māori communities and businesses in the face of COVID-19.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Hon Nanaia Mahuta
  • Hon Peeni Henare
  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti
  • Employment
  • Health
  • Māori Development

The Lake Ōkaro lakebed has transferred to Te Arawa Lakes Trust, Minister for Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti Kelvin Davis announced today. Kelvin Davis joined Te Arawa at Te Papaiōuru Marae in Rotorua to celebrate the reinstatement of Te Arawa Lakes Trust as a key decision maker over the bed of Lake Ōkaro – a role they have not held for over 100 years.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti

Minister for Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti Kelvin Davis today joined Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, the Cooper whānau, Waipuna Marae and the Panguru community to unveil a commemorative statue of the late Dame Whina Cooper.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti

Minister for Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti Kelvin Davis today welcomed the return of the Parihaka community to Parliament to witness the third reading of Te Pire Haeata ki Parihaka / the Parihaka Reconciliation Bill.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti

New Zealanders in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa / Poverty Bay will witness Māori, Pākehā and Pacific voyaging traditions come together today as the Tuia 250 Voyage flotilla assembles for the first time, Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti Minister Kelvin Davis says.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti

New Zealand’s Pacific and Māori voyaging heritage is acknowledged and celebrated today as waka of the Tuia 250 voyage flotilla arrive in Tūranga / Gisborne.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Prime Minister
  • Arts, Culture and Heritage
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti

Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti Minister Kelvin Davis will be part of the welcome of the Tuia 250 waka flotilla on Saturday at Haika o Tainui beach. The welcome is part of Tuia ki Whangaparāoa, a programme of events celebrating 1000 years of voyaging heritage and where iwi will share the stories of first encounters with Pākehā.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti

Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti Minister Kelvin Davis has today welcomed the launch of a portal that will record Treaty of Waitangi settlement commitments for Crown and iwi commitment holders to access.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti

“Kara Puketapu began to call iwi representatives to Wellington: Tribal leaders, old and young, men and women, from each of the ten districts of Māoridom … We got into what I call organic policies—policies that actually came up from the people … Out of all that dynamic was born Te Kōhanga Reo.“

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti
  • Education

Kōhanga reo are set to get a boost with new funding support that will significantly lift wages, allow volunteers to be paid, update ICT capacity, and fund a stock take and repairs of their buildings, Associate Education Minister Kelvin Davis announced today.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti
  • Education

The Government joins the country in expressing our great sadness at the passing of Ta Hekenukumai Busby, said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti Minister Kelvin Davis today.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Prime Minister
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti

Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti Minister Kelvin Davis and Māori Development Minister Nanaia Mahuta will join an estimated 5,000 New Zealanders living in Australia at Sydney’s Waitangi Festival on Saturday.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Hon Nanaia Mahuta
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti
  • Māori Development

Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti Minister Kelvin Davis has welcomed the launch of the Office for Māori Crown Relations – Te Arawhiti at Parliament tonight.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti

Tiwhatiwha te Pō!

Kakarauru te Pō!

I au i te Pō kerekere, i au i te Pō tangotango ka rapua kei hea koe e ngaro nei e! 

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Hon Nanaia Mahuta
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti
  • Māori Development

The Government plan announced today to improve freshwater quality acknowledges that water quality cannot be addressed without a concurrent and substantive discussion with Māori, Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti Minister Kelvin Davis said.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti

I’m honoured to be here as the first Minister for Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti

Cabinet has approved the final scope of the Māori Crown portfolio and agreed to establish an agency to oversee Government’s work with Māori in a post-settlement era, announced Crown/ Māori Relations Minister Kelvin Davis today.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti

Ka tanuku te maunga o Rakaumangamanga!

Ka ueue te whenua ka tangi te motu whanui mou e Kingi kua riro atu nei!

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Prime Minister
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti

“This year’s Budget delivers for Māori,” Māori Ministers Kelvin Davis, Nanaia Mahuta, Peeni Henare, Meka Whaitiri and Willie Jackson said today. 

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Hon Nanaia Mahuta
  • Hon Peeni Henare
  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Hon Meka Whaitiri
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti
  • Employment
  • Māori Development
  • Whānau Ora

The first reading of bill recording the history and legacy of Parihaka is an important step in righting past wrongs, Crown Māori/Relations Minster Kelvin Davis says.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti

Crown/Māori Relations Minister Kelvin Davis will be holding hui across the country as part of rejuvenating the relationship between the Government and Māori.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti

The inaugural national commemoration of the New Zealand Wars has been held in the Bay of Islands, attended by Crown/Māori Relations Minister Kelvin Davis, Associate Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Carmel Sepuloni and Associate Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Arts, Culture and Heritage
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti
  • Māori Development

Crown/Māori Relations Minister Kelvin Davis joined representatives of Waikato-Tainui today to celebrate the completion of both the Rangiriri Section of the Waikato Expressway and the Battle of Rangiriri commemoration site.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti