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Pākehā right to rule (Nairn, Pega, McCreanor,
Rankine & Barnes, 2006). Even if Māori reject
those stereotypes, the repeated negative depictions
of Māori in the media cause many to hold a collective
breath whenever a crime is reported because of
the “worry amongst Māori that high profile [bad]
news stories would be about a Māori person”
(Smith et al, 2021, p. 10).
Human rights
recommendations
The following secondary recommendations for
actioning could be further explored and developed
within the NAPAR. See Appendix One for the full list.
The government consider the following actions:
Māori Trustee
recommendations
• Give full effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Reo
Māori text) throughout the Human Rights Act
1993. This includes all institutional arrangements
for the Commission.
The following secondary recommendations could be
further explored and developed within the National
Action Plan Against Racism (NAPAR). See Appendix
One for the full list.
• Include via preambulatory paragraphs
definitions of racism, institutional racism,
and white supremacy within the Act.
The Ministry of Justice and the Minister of Māori
Development, in the short term, consider directing
the Māori Trustee to take the following actions:
• Update its records of owners and trustees in a
timely manner.
• With local government, conduct comprehensive
surveys and assessments of the state of all Māori
land blocks under its trusteeship, including the
infrastructure to service the land blocks and the
state of the structures on the land.
• Provide market valuations on all Māori land
blocks in its trusteeship.
• Develop situation reports and assessments and
share these with the owners.
• Add a primary function of the Commission
to promote and protect the Indigenous and
human rights of tangata whenua under
Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.