State care has been used as a colonising tool to sever mokopuna Māori from their whakapapa and to undermine Māori culture and the sovereignty of tangata whenua in Aotearoa. The culture and standard practice of these institutions, which is to steal our mokopuna, subject them to abuse and disregard their whakapapa. Residential facilities were criminal training grounds, teens were recruited into gangs from care homes, and foster children forced to steal to survive. Studies have shown that one in three children placed in residential care by the state ended up in prison later in life. Under Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the Crown has no legal right to remove mokopuna from their whānau, hapū and iwi and put them in state care. The right to care for, love, and grow mokopuna Māori must be reclaimed for whānau Māori to see significant change in the health and wellbeing of mokopuna Māori.   LINK TO FULL POLICY HERE

Te Reo Māori “Tōku reo, tōku ohooho. Tōku reo, tōku māpihi maurea. Tōku reo, tōku whakakai marihi” Executive Summary The Māori Language Act in 1987 declared Te Reo Māori as an official language in this country. The only other official language in Aotearoa is Sign Language. Estimates report that approximately 20% of the Māori population and 3% of people living in Aotearoa can speak Te Reo Māori. The proportion of Māori able to hold an everyday conversation in the Māori language decreased by 3.7% between 1996 and 2013. The UNESCO Languages Atlas classes Te Reo Māori as a vulnerable language. This is a problem and it is unacceptable. As a result of this dire classifaction, the Māori Party legislated the Te Ture o Te Reo Māori Act 2016 but, there is much more work to be done. To date, there has been marginal resource injected into the revitalisation and protection of Te Reo Māori in comparison to the English language and little has been done to affect enduring systemic change. The Māori Party attributes the lack of systemic influence in policy to the crown’s reluctance to acknowledge Te Reo Māori as equal to the English language. The Māori Party asserts under Article 3 of Te Tiriti o Waitangi where we are promised the same rights as English citizens, that Te Reo Māori me ōna tikanga katoa be treated and valued exactly the same as the English language - Mana ōrite. The Māori Party will; • Change New Zealand’s name to Aotearoa by 2026. • Replace all Pākeha place names, cities and towns to their original Māori ingoa by 2026. • Invest $50m into the establishment of a Māori Standards Authority; an independent statutory entity whose role will be to audit all public service departments against cultural competency standards, including the monitoring and auditing of language plans. • Establish Te Marama o te Reo Māori. • Double Te Mātāwai funding ($28m) • Remunerate Primary and Secondary school’s and kaiako based on their competency of Te Reo Māori. • Ensure that Te Reo Māori and Māori History are core curriculum subjects up to Year 10 at Secondary Schools. • Invest $40m for Early childhood to Secondary School kaiako to develop their reo. • Require all Primary Schools to incorporate Te Reo Māori into 25% of their curriculum by 2026 and 50% by 2030. • Invest $20m into the development of Te Reo Māori resources. • Require all state funded broadcasters (workforce) across all mediums to have a basic fluency level of Te Reo Māori. LINK TO FULL POLICY HERE

Executive Summary   Currently, Toi Māori in all its forms; music, visual art, film and television, broadcasting and performing arts to name a few is valued so lowly in comparison to other non-indigenous art forms in this country, yet the promotion of Aotearoa is predominantly marketed by the works produced by our Māori creatives. Access to funding and resource across the board in the Culture and Arts sector is inequitable for Māori. An example of these disparities can be seen in the funding of Te Matatini, who receive $1.9m compared with the Royal NZ Ballet receiving $5.4m and the NZ Symphony Orchestra receiving $16.3m. Toi Māori is our ahurea Māori. It is not just a tourism strategy or a simple “art” strategy. Toi Māori is our total wellbeing strategy; our mental health strategy, our physical health strategy, our Reo Māori strategy, our Educational strategy, our whakapapa strategy, our tourism strategy, our community development strategy and our cultural defense strategy and must be recognised as such. For too long the crown has feasted off our cultural intellectual property and have used it as a means to selfishly ignite international relationships and tourism interests without any consideration for the development of our culture here at home and the positive impact it has on our wellbeing. We intend to begin the process of reclaiming our cultural intellectual property and taking full control of the way our culture is projected nationally and internationally. Māori Party will: Allocate $19m to Te Matatini Allocate $10m to Community, Hapū and Iwi development of Kapahaka and its accompanying art forms. Establish an independent Toi Māori entity worth $57m dedicated to the protection and projection of all Toi Māori. This entity will be funded directly by the government and will be based on a commissioning model. Make the new Toi Māori entity a Statutory Body on the Lottery Grants Board by 2023 that receives equal funding to Creative NZ. Establish a research fund worth $10m for the purpose of producing an evidence base for how Toi Māori contributes to oranga Māori, with the intention of Toi Māori being funded across all sectors equitably by 2023. LINK TO FULL POLICY HERE

Ka whawhai tonu mātou, ake, ake, ake! Executive Summary There is a new generation of Tangata Whenua and Tangata Tiriti who recognisethat being forced to work within the system does not suit our struggle for manamotuhake. It is time to dismantle this system so we can rebuild one that worksfor everybody. The only way this nation can work is when Māori assert our rights to self-management, self-determination, and self-governance over all our domains. Our vision is for constitutional transformation that rebalances the scales ofpower in Aotearoa. That restores the tino rangatiratanga of Tangata Whenua,and truly embodies that was envisaged by our tupuna in 1840.We don’t just talk about Land Back, we will force the Crown to return our land.Te Tiriti o Waitangi is the foundation of a living, evolving relationship betweentangata whenua and the Crown. The tino rangatiratanga of Tangata Whenua isinalienable. Te Pāti Māori will:* Establish a Māori Parliament* Implement all Matike Mai recommendations for constitutionaltransformation* Remove the British Royal Family as Head of State* Recognise Aotearoa as the country’s official name* Return the foreshore and seabed to mana whenua* Return all central and local government land to mana whenua* Return all conservation land to mana whenua* Introduce a first right of refusal policy for mana whenua on all privateland* End all land sales to foreign interests to be replaced by leaseholdestates only* End perpetual leases* End the fiscal envelope* Insert relativity clauses into all Te Tiriti settlements retrospectively* Make Waitangi Tribunal recommendations binding on the Crown, andimplement all unaddressed WAI claim recommendations* Abolish “full and final” and “large natural groupings” settlement policiesEntrench the Māori electorates * Legislate for all local and regional councils to have both Māori wardsand mana whenua representation* Establish a Parliamentary Commissioner for Te Tiriti o Waitangi toprovide oversight of the Crown’s annual performance and complyingwith Te Tiriti. LINK TO FULL POLICY HERE 

Whānau Build “Ko te whare e tū ana ki te pārae he kai nā te ahi, ko te whare e tū ana ki te pātūwatawata koina te tohu o te rangatira” Executive Summary Our Rights All whānau have a right to a constant, warm, leak-free secure home. All tāmariki have a right to a warm, safe home with the same health, welfare and support systems wrapped around them that non-Māori take for granted. Our Injustices New Zealanders all know there is a housing crisis, even non-Maori live in cars, garages and under hedges. However, it is only when non-Māori also suffer in a housing crisis that the Government then decide to do something. A Māori voice and position has never been heard, we suffer in silence as second-class citizens in our own land. We are an afterthought, not a forethought. The Maori Party will; 1. Build 2000 houses on our ancestral lands and we will do this in the next two years. 2. Ensure fifty percent of all new social housing allocated to Māori to give our Whānau and tamariki a fair go in education, health and welfare. 3. Stop all sales of freehold land to offshore foreign interests. 4. Place a 2% tax on the capital value of a vacant or empty house if they remain unoccupied for 3 months or longer in any one year. 5. The Overseas Investment Act must apply to all residential housing purchases as many of these ghost/vacant houses are owned by foreign interests. 6. Add a Capital Gains Tax on all property set at 2% of the appreciation per annum – other than on the whānau home. 7. Ensures the Government re-enter the housing market to develop and build state housing stock. LINK TO FULL POLICY HERE 

Executive Summary The inconvenient truth is that the health system fails Māori. The evidence for this assertion is outlined in the Health & Disability SystemReview - also known as the Simpson Review (2020). There have been multiple reviews that evidence systemic racism within thehealth services area. This plays out across the whole of government andtherefore the whole of society. The absolute failure of the Government over several decades in regard toensuring Māori achieve an equality of access and then outcome is bestevidenced by the health portfolio. Health as with welfare, education, justice andhousing is a mirror image of the degrading way in which Māori are treated. Tinkering with systems across the whole of government will not achieve anypositive outcome because doing the same thing, gets the same result. As with all our policy releases, we speak our liberated truth in the land of ourancestors. Te Pāti Māori will: Increase funding for Te Aka Whai Ora (Māori Health Authority).25% of all Health funding to be transferred to and administer by the Te Aka Whai Ora. Free Primary Care for Whānau earning less than $60,000. Free Dental Care or Whānau earning less than $60,000. Free delivery of medication to houses for whānau earning less than $60,000. Implement A Māori Health Card - Whānau in control of the health services they need.Issued to all Māori linked to their NHI number and ensures that health funding follows the Māori patient and not a Hospital, a Primary Healthcare Organisation, or a General Practice. Health must be about the patient, and funding must follow that patient’s preferences. We can no longer have our money spent for us on a service that fails us. Invest $1 billion per annum in Health Workforce Development. Accelerate and Protect Mātauranga Māori Models of Health. Establish a comprehensive Kaupapa Māori Mental Health Service. Drop Māori Cancer Screening By 10 years. Increase funding for PHARMAC. Establish a Māori Accident Compensation Authority LINK TO FULL POLICY HERE  

Incomes Policy Executive Summary We have an economy and social security system that is broken, and that have never worked for Māori.  No one should suffer the injustices of poverty, inequality, and a lack of life opportunities. Everyone should enough income to live dignified, and meaningful lives. Lifting whānau out of poverty is impossible if they do not have adequate incomes to survive with an ever-increasing cost of living. The Māori Party will; 1. Immediately raise the minimum wage to $25 per hour and legislate for an annual increase to keep up with cost of living increases 2. Guarantee pay equity for Māori nurses and teachers 3. Double baseline benefit levels 4. Individualise benefits 5. Remove financial penalties, sanctions, and work-test obligations 6. Cancel income support related debt and ensure that additional grants do not need to be paid back in future 7. Raise abatement rates for benefits and student allowances 8. Create a universal student allowance and double student allowance rates 9. Introduce free public transport for students at all levels 10. Write off the living cost component of all student loans and work towards writing off the total student loan for those who work in Aotearoa for a period of five years LINK TO FULL POLICY HERE

Whānau Pakari – Sport and Wellbeing Policy Executive Summary He Whānau Pakari e ora ai te tangata – Mai rā anō i te whitinga mai ki Aotearoa kua pakari te tīnana, te hinengaro me te wairua. Me hoki anō tātau kia tū hei whānau pakari, hei whānau ora. The Māori Party acknowledges that exercise has been a big part of who we are, how we came here and how we would traverse the lands of Aotearoa. Māori invented many sports prior to European arrival. Running, Swimming, Fishing, Waka, Hunting, Kī o Rahi, Taiaha/Mau rakau/Te Whare Tū Taua, to name a few - all examples of a tūpuna mindset, an ancestral way of being and acting which we call – Whānau Pakari. The ability to exercise and strive for excellence. Whānau Pakari is part of our Oranga Tangata policy framework. There is much to be taught and learnt from the navigators of our past and how we can use that mātauranga to sail and paddle our way into a future frame by Whānau Pakari. When there is commitment, dedication, and great support around Māori to achieve a high standard in sport, it is guaranteed that Māori will thrive. Our ancestors were not just athletic they were also strategic thinkers with intentions to survive.  This all required, stamina, resilience, endurance, speed, agility, and logic. There is great opportunity to showcase the sporting talent of Māori on the world stage. Nurturing pathways for our mokopuna and tamariki to aspire to and offer pathways into education opportunities. The Māori Party will; 1. Establish and fund a National Māori Sporting body, targeting Māori sporting codes andsports with high Māori participation 2. Establish a $100M Whānau Pakari fund for 3-years to invest into Māori sporting codes a. Funding Māori sporting academies that incorporate Whānau Pakari principlesb. Funding scholarships to ensure that barriers for Māori are eliminated and to allow their potential to shinec. Funding iwi & hapū Pā Wars eventsd. Upskilling volunteers and coaches in sporting codes with high Māori participation 3. Ensure that funds go directly to the regional Māori sporting codes for Māori, by Māori and not via regional sporting bodies 4. Ensure sporting codes with high Māori participation have Māori governing boards, allowing them to individually compete at world cup events as Aotearoa Māori 5. Provide a Māori Sports mentoring programme; delivering tertiary education opportunities & career pathways for life beyond the sporting field LINK TO FULL POLICY HERE

Māori Party education & training policy Executive Summary Mā te huruhuru, ka rere te manu Our education system is continuing to fail far too many Māori students. Kaupapa Māori education is under-resourced, undervalued and remains marginalised in the education system. The Pākehā mainstream education system is broken and institutionally racist, despite the good work of many.  Fundamental change is required to ensure that tamariki and rangatahi Māori can fulfil their potential. The Māori Party vision for education is to ensure that all tamariki are supported to thrive and be themselves and receive high-quality education that sets them on the pathway to achieve their dreams, regardless of where they go to school. No one can realise their aspirations unless they know who they are, where they come from, and are proud of their culture and heritage. Our policy is centred around three pou; resourcing and valuing kaupapa Māori education, overhauling the Pākehā mainstream system and creating pathways for school leavers. The Māori Party will: Resource and value kaupapa Māori education Ensure all Māori medium education is funded equal to its mainstream equivalents through equity-based funding models Establish a $200m fund to drive whānau, hapū and iwi education and training initiatives including the establishment of new hapū-based wānanga Implement the Te Kōhanga Reo settlement claim (WAI 2336) including by significantly increase operational funding for kōhanga, recognising kaiako qualifications, and guaranteeing pay equity. Increase and promote scholarships available for young Māori to train as teachers of Te Aho Matua and for reo Māori speakers to train as teachers   Overhaul the mainstream education system Require a minimum of 25% of the education budget be directed to Māori models of delivery and pastoral care Ensure that te reo Māori and Māori history are core curriculum subjects in primary up to Year 10 at secondary schools Establish an independent Māori Standards Authority to oversee Māori language funding and audit providers to ensure they meet cultural and reo Māori competency standards Fund free digital devices and free internet for all children from Yr4 – Yr13 Remove the power of schools to expel any student younger than the school leaving age of 16 Require that all schools have Māori in their staff senior leadership teams Fund schools to hire additional Māori support staff who are well-paid and centrally funded Establish a Māori-led taskforce with the mandate to transform how Māori students with disabilities and learning differences are taught and supported Ensure that Māori staff are hired, and existing Māori staff paid extra, to lead cultural programmes such as kapa haka, taiaha, raranga and running school-based marae   Create pathways for school leavers Establish a $276m fund to ramp up the work of STEM and STEAM academies, such as the Pūhoro STEM Academy Double the existing Māori and Pacific trade training and cadetships placements per annum Permanently remove fees from apprenticeships LINK TO FULL POLICY HERE