Billion dollar Budget for Māori 20 May 2021 15:45 PM
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Grant Robertson s fourth Budget has delivered more than $1 billion in new spending for Maori.
The big ticket item is $380 million to deliver about 1,000 new homes for Māori including papakāinga housing, repairs to about 700 Māori-owned homes and expanding support services.
There s just over $240 million for Māori health initiatives, including setting up the new Māori Health Authority, and $150 million to support Māori boarding schools and lift kōhanga reo teachers pay.
There s $42 million to build a sustainable Māori media sector and invest in programme content, $15 million for Māori tourism which has been badly hit by the Covid pandemic, and a similar sum for the implementation of the Māori language strategy.
Government invests in the wellbeing of whānau Māori
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Government invests in the wellbeing of whānau Māori
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