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<p>The Public Service Association&rsquo;s Te Pukenga Here Tikanga Mahi post-Covid-19 webinars are being billed by the PSA as an exclusive series &ldquo;bringing together progressive voices &hellip; &rdquo;&nbsp; and&nbsp; &ldquo;brightest minds&rdquo; from across Aotearoa New Zealand. Dr Amohia Boulton (Whakauae Research for M&#257;ori Health and Development) and Deb Te Kawa (DTK and Associates) together present a webinar, one in the series of ten, that focus on possible futures for our public and community services.</p>

<p>The webinar series launched in April 2020 with youth climate advocate, Sophie Handford&rsquo;s&nbsp; presentation entitled, Reimagining New Zealand&rsquo;s journey to a zero carbon future, and is scheduled to conclude in early September 2020. Webinars to date have explored the impact of Covid-19 in a variety of settings along with potential ways of moving forward post-pandemic. In their webinar, Amohia and Deb highlight that Te Ao M&#257;ori is well positioned to accommodate the best interests of M&#257;ori in the context of a global pandemic that the wider world is poorly positioned to deal with. &lsquo;Raising waka, not just yachts&rsquo; proposes that timely and solid state investment in M&#257;ori institutions, in Wh&#257;nau Ora commissioning agencies and in Iwi is a sure-fire way to minimise the inevitable inequitable post-pandemic outcomes for M&#257;ori.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>Te Pukenga Here Tikanga Mahi / Progressive Thinking: Ten possible futures for public and community services <a href="https://www.psa.org.nz/media/resources/progressivethinking/" target="_blank">can be accessed here</a> where&nbsp; the paper, &lsquo;Raising waka, not just yachts&rsquo; <a href="https://www.psa.org.nz/assets/Uploads/ProgressiveThinking-Dr-Amohia-Deb-Te-Kawa-Raising-Waka-edited.pdf" target="_blank">can be downloaded here</a>.</p>
