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Council keen to ‘magnify voice and status of mana whenua’ in resource planning

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Gisborne District Council  has invited iwi on to the Tairāwhiti Resource Management Plan Committee, a joint decision-making body “with full powers of council”.

The plans were detailed in briefing notes provided by the council to Cyclone Recovery Minister Grant Robertson “to provide Te Tiriti partnership context” for an upcoming visit to Tairāwhiti.

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Ron Taylor
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7 October 2023
"Gisborne District Council is planning to implement full co-governance and has invited iwi on to a joint decision-making body 'with full powers of council'.”
This seems to me to be a really radical change in how the GDC represents its ratepayers.
We have Maori wards now, which I see have been in place for a year. I would hope changes of this magnitude, to the basic way the council operates, would be implemented in a more open and democratic way. I stand to be educated on these points however.
It is easy to think this is change by stealth. How do other people feel? I understand the percentage of people here claiming Maori ancestry is 54%.

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