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<p style="text-align:center">&ldquo;&hellip;the fundamental barrier to fully enacting genuine power-sharing relationships with Ma&#772;ori is state commitment and&nbsp;<span style="color:rgb(145, 56, 41)">willingness to embody, in practical terms, the call for tino rangatiratanga.</span>&rdquo;</p>

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<p>A recently published paper from Whakauae Research revisits the key change messages of the seminal report&nbsp;<em>Puao-Te-Ata-Tu; Realising the Promise of a New Day</em>&nbsp;(M&#257;ori Perspective Advisory Committee, 1988).&nbsp;<em>Puao-Te-Ata-Tu&nbsp;</em>was released more than three decades ago by the Ministerial Advisory Committee on a M&#257;ori Perspective for the Department of Social Welfare. The report recognised that the social issues facing Ma&#772;ori resulted from failing systems of state provision underpinned by a broader context of colonisation, racism and structural inequity. The newly published paper entitled&nbsp;<em>Beyond Puao-Te-Ata-Tu; Realising the Promise of a New Day</em>&nbsp;summarises the ongoing cacophony of calls for change made, over the past thirty years, to urgently address institutional racism. Among the calls are those resulting from government-initiated reviews and inquiries focused on issues of critical importance for Aotearoa New Zealand that have, without exception, identified profoundly failing state sector systems particularly for M&#257;ori. The urgent need for bold transformational change is a key message of this new publication.</p>

<p>The media have focused on the need for &ldquo;a really brave and courageous act on the part of the Crown ... to authentically engage with Maori&rdquo; if we are to realise the changes required, in its coverage of the report,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/124165243/nz-had-the-answer-to-inequities-for-mori-30-years-ago-but-hasnt-acted-report" target="_blank">published here</a>.</p>

<p>In common with&nbsp;<em>Puao-Te-Ata-Tu</em>, the newly published paper concludes that those in positions of power and influence need to work actively to eliminate the institutional racism pervading our state institutions. It credits&nbsp;<em>Puao-Te-Ata-Tu</em>&nbsp;with providing us with the blueprint for how we begin to restructure our country in the wake of COVID-19.</p>

<p><em>Beyond Puao-Te-Ata-Tu: realising the promise of a new day is the sixth Te Arotahi</em>&nbsp;paper to be published by Ng&#257; Pae o te M&#257;ramatanga, New Zealand&rsquo;s M&#257;ori Centre of Research Excellence. Amohia Boulton (Nga&#772;ti Ranginui, Ngai te Rangi, Nga&#772;ti Pukenga; Whakauae Research), Michelle Levy (Waikato-Tainui, Nga&#772;ti Mahuta; independent researcher) and Lynley Cvitanovic (Nga&#772;ti Pa&#772;keha&#772;; Whakauae Research) write that our positive wha&#772;nau, hapu&#772;, iwi and Ma&#772;ori community responses to COVID-19 brought to life what is possible for M&#257;ori reflecting what&nbsp;<em>Puao-Te-Ata-Tu</em>&nbsp;so clearly articulated. Those responses demonstrate the vast potential that lies within Ma&#772;ori communities, when adequately resourced, to &nbsp;successfully meet the challenges of modern life.</p>

<p>The paper makes six key recommendations:</p>

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	<li>Engrained, systemic institutional racism is immediately and actively addressed.</li>
	<li>Constitutional and legislative provision is made for the devolution of power, decision-making and resources in policy, planning and service delivery for M&#257;ori.</li>
	<li>A coordinated, and cross-party state commitment is made to the complete implementation of a transformative agenda for M&#257;ori. Such an agenda will necessarily include high-trust, transformative, long-term investment as the new norm.</li>
	<li>A coordinated cross-party approach is taken to fully support the transformative potential of Wh&#257;nau Ora and those M&#257;ori organisations, agencies, entities and providers operationalising wh&#257;nau-ora and wh&#257;nau centred philosophies, principles and approaches.</li>
	<li>The system-wide changes necessary for transformational change (including a genuine whole-of-systems approach, dismantling of departmental silos and a funding for outcomes) are prioritised and implemented.</li>
	<li>An equity lens is actively demonstrated in all aspects of state legislation, policymaking and implementation.</li>
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<p><em>Beyond Puao-Te-Ata-Tu: realising the promise of a new day</em>&nbsp;(2020) can be accessed by&nbsp;<a href="http://www.maramatanga.co.nz/te-arotahi-06" target="_blank">following this link</a>.</p>
