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Wellington Mayor Andy Foster voted in favour of the proposal in March, along with 11 out of 14 councillors. (File photo) The changes mean council decisions to establish Māori wards are final, scrapping a previous system that allowed residents to call for a binding poll that could overturn those decisions. A council paper that will be discussed by councillors on Thursday listed several reasons people supported the proposal. They included honouring the government’s commitment to the Treaty of Waitangi, increasing Māori representation on the council, and providing the Māori community with a voice in local decision-making.
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Shelly Bay, on Miramar Peninsula in Wellington, has caused all manner of strife as developers push to turn it into a $500 million development.
Developer Ian Cassels has extended an olive branch said to be worth $10 million in an effort to end the occupation of Shelly Bay and bring Wellington Māori back into his $500m development. Well-placed sources have confirmed that Cassels has offered to build a marae at the spot of the current occupation and that a joint partnership with Wellington iwi Taranaki Whānui Ltd (TWL) is now back on the table. The total deal is said to be worth about $10m to Taranaki Whānui.
Iwi representatives will sit on all committees except the chief executive review committee from July. John Coffey, chairman of the Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust that manages Taranaki Whānui’s treaty settlement package, said iwi and the council shared similar goals. “What you want as a council for the people of Wellington is what we want too,” Coffey told the councillors. “You will not succeed without us, and we will not succeed without you. It’s as simple as that.”
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Helmut Modlik, the new chief executive of Ngati Toa, at the Takapuwahia Marae, Porirua. Ngāti Toa Rangatira chief executive Helmut Modlik said the decision was a historic moment following the failings of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 5:29 am
Waiata, hongi, hugs and kisses followed today’s
Wellington City Council vote to add mana whenua
representation to Council committees later this year, with
representatives both having a vote and being paid.
The
Council voted 11-3 to enable one representative each from
Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika and Ngāti Toa
Rangatira to sit on each Council committee and subcommittee
and have voting rights, from 1 July.
The arrangement
would not extend to the Council’s CEO Performance Review
Committee, the city’s two community boards or District
Licencing Committee.
The recommendation stems from a
Press Release – Wellington City Council Waiata, hongi, hugs and kisses followed todays Wellington City Council vote to add mana whenua representation to Council committees later this year, with representatives both having a vote and being paid. The Council voted 11-3 to enable one representative …
Waiata, hongi, hugs and kisses followed today’s Wellington City Council vote to add mana whenua representation to Council committees later this year, with representatives both having a vote and being paid.
The Council voted 11-3 to enable one representative each from Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika and Ngāti Toa Rangatira to sit on each Council committee and subcommittee and have voting rights, from 1 July.