Minister of Māori Affairs
The Minister of Māori Affairs is the Minister of the Government of New Zealand responsible for affairs of the New Zealand indigenous people, the Māori . The current incumbent is Pita Sharples from the Maori Party .
The Minister of Māori Affairs plays a slightly different role than other New Zealand ministers. In addition to the supervision of his Ministry Te Puni Kōkiri , (English: Ministry of Māori Development), he also has competencies in the areas of responsibility of other ministries, insofar as they concern the Māori. For example, the involvement of the minister in the development of guidelines for teaching the language of the Ministry of Education would be expected, although otherwise education policy falls exclusively within the competence of the Ministry of Education.
history
Before the self-government of New Zealand, Māori affairs (particularly the acquisition of Māori lands by the Crown) were the governor-general's affairs .
The office was originally called the Minister of Native Affairs or Native Minister for short . Most of the early incumbents were not Māori, although there was an agreement that Māori should sit in the cabinet (though not necessarily as ministers).
It was not until the eighteenth Minister of the Liberal Party , James Carroll , who took office in 1899, that Māori was. Another important Māori incumbent was Apirana Ngata , also a liberal. Most of the ministers remain pākehā , although they regularly used Māori as advisors. Maui Pomare from the Reform Party and Eruera Tirikatene from the Labor Party are examples of such politicians who played an important role in the ministry without holding office themselves. After Caroll and Ngata, the next incumbent of Moral descent was Matiu Rata (33rd minister, term of office 1972-1975).
Today, the major parties use Māori as spokespersons for Māori matters and, if possible, ministers. The Labor Party had Māori in that role continuously since the 1970s, and the National Party had both Māori and Pākehā. The spokesman for the National Party on Māori Affairs is Georgina Te Heuheu , who took over the post of Associate Minister of Maori Affairs with the fifth government of the National Party in November 2008 .
List of Ministers of Māori Affairs
The table lists the ministers responsible for Māori affairs ( Minister of Native Affairs , Minister of Māori Affairs from December 17, 1947 ). The list lists the incumbents as Māori who are predominantly of Morian descent or who have sufficient cultural background to be considered Māori.
| Surname |
Māori |
Taking office | End of office | Political party | under prime minister |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christopher William Richmond | August 27, 1858 | November 10, 1860 | no | Stafford | |
| 2 | Frederick Weld | November 10, 1860 | July 12, 1861 | no | Stafford | |
| 3 | Walter Mantell | July 12, 1861 | December 18, 1861 | no | Fox | |
| 4th | Dillon Bell | August 6, 1862 | October 30, 1863 | no | Domett | |
| 5 | Fox | October 30, 1863 | November 24, 1864 | no | Whitaker | |
| Mantell, 2nd term | December 16, 1864 | July 27, 1865 | no | Weld | ||
| 6th | James FitzGerald | August 12, 1865 | October 16, 1865 | no | Weld | |
| 7th | Andrew Russell | October 31, 1865 | August 24, 1866 | no | Stafford | |
| 8th | James Crowe Richmond | August 1866 | June 1869 | no | Stafford | |
| 9 | Donald McLean | June 28, 1869 | September 10, 1872 | no | William Fox | |
| Donald McLean, 2nd term | October 11, 1872 | December 7, 1876 | no |
Waterhouse , Fox, Vogel Pollen , Julius Vogel, Atkinson |
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| 10 | Pollen | December 18, 1876 | October 13, 1877 | no | Harry Atkinson | |
| 11 | John Sheehan | October 15, 1877 | October 8, 1879 | no | Gray | |
| 12 | John Bryce | October 8, 1879 | January 21, 1881 | no | Hall | |
| 13 | William Rolleston | February 4, 1881 | October 19, 1881 | no | John Hall | |
| Bryce, 2nd term | October 19, 1881 | August 16, 1884 | no | Hall, Whitaker , Atkinson | ||
| 14th | John Ballance | August 16, 1884 | August 28, 1884 | no | stout | |
| Ballance, 2nd term | September 3, 1884 | October 8, 1887 | no | Robert Stout | ||
| 15th | Edwin Mitchelson | October 11, 1887 | January 24, 1891 | no | Harry Atkinson | |
| Ballance, 3rd term | January 24, 1891 | February 4, 1891 | Liberal | (himself incumbent) | ||
| 16 | Alfred Cadman | February 4, 1891 | June 29, 1893 | Liberal | Ballance, Seddon | |
| 17th | Richard Seddon | September 6, 1893 | December 21, 1899 | Liberal | (himself incumbent) | |
| 18th | James Carroll | Yes | December 21, 1899 | March 28, 1912 | Liberal | Richard Seddon, Hall-Jones , Ward |
| 19th | William MacDonald | March 28, 1912 | July 10, 1912 | Liberal | Mackenzie | |
| 20th | William Herbert Herries | July 10, 1912 | February 7, 1921 | reform | Massey | |
| 21st | Gordon Coates | March 9, 1921 | December 10, 1928 | reform | Massey, Bell, (himself incumbent) | |
| 22nd | Apirana Ngata | Yes | December 10, 1928 | November 1, 1934 | United (Liberal) | Ward, Forbes |
| 23 | Forbes | November 1, 1934 | December 6, 1935 | United (Liberal) | (himself incumbent) | |
| 24 | Michael Joseph Savage | December 6, 1935 | March 27, 1940 | Labor | (himself incumbent) | |
| 25th | Frank Langstone | April 1, 1940 | December 21, 1942 | Labor | Fraser | |
| 26th | Rex Mason | July 7, 1943 | December 19, 1946 | Labor | Fraser | |
| 27 | Fraser | December 19, 1946 | December 13, 1949 | Labor | (himself incumbent) | |
| 28 | Ernest Corbett | December 13, 1949 | September 26, 1957 | National | Holland , Holyoake | |
| 29 | Holyoake | September 26, 1957 | December 12, 1957 | National | (himself incumbent) | |
| 30th | Walter Nash | December 12, 1957 | December 12, 1960 | Labor | (himself incumbent) | |
| 31 | Ralph Hanan | December 12, 1960 | July 24, 1969 | National | Holyoake | |
| 32 | Duncan MacIntyre | 22nd December 1969 | December 8, 1972 | National | Keith Holyoake, Marshall | |
| 33 | Matiu Rata | Yes | December 8, 1972 | December 12th 1975 | Labor | Kirk , Rowling |
| MacIntyre, 2nd term | December 12th 1975 | December 13, 1978 | National | Muldoon | ||
| 34 | Ben couch | Yes | December 13, 1978 | July 26, 1984 | National | Robert Muldoon |
| 35 | Koro more | Yes | July 26, 1984 | November 2, 1990 | Labor | Lange , Palmer , Moore |
| 36 | Winston Peters | Yes | 1990 | 1991 | National | Bolger |
| 37 | Doug Kidd | 1991 | 1993 | National | Jim Bolger | |
| 38 | John Luxton | 1993 | 1996 | National | Jim Bolger | |
| 39 | Tau Henare | Yes | 1996 | 1998 | NZ First | Jim Bolger, Shipley |
| Tau Henare | Yes | 1998 | 1998 | Independent | Shipley | |
| Tau Henare | Yes | 1998 | 1999 | Mauri Pacific | Shipley | |
| 40 | Dover Samuels | Yes | 1999 | 2002 | Labor | Clark |
| 41 | Parekura Horomia | Yes | 2002 | December 19, 2008 | Labor | Clark |
| 42 | Pita Sharples | Yes | December 19, 2008 | Official | Māori | Key |