20 Jul 1985 Jahr - Ministerial Advisory Committee to advise on a Māori Perspective for the Department of Social Welfare - created

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A Ministerial Advisory Committee was established (under Section 13 of the Department of Social Welfare Act 1971) in response to the following:
• a November 1984 report from a group of social workers in Auckland who had formed a Women’s Anti-Racism Action Group accused the Department of Social Welfare (DSW) of practicing institutional racism in that the framework of the Department (staffing, training, legislation and policies) reflected a relentlessly Pakeha view of society which systematically discriminated against staff and clients who are Māori or Pacific people; and
• a 1985, report by DSW’s newly established Māori Advisory Unit that affirmed the presence of these same signs of institutional racism.
The terms of reference for the Committee were as follows:
“The task of the Māori Perspective Advisory Committee is to advise the Minister of Social Welfare on the most appropriate means to achieve the goal of an approach which would meet the needs of Māori in policy, planning and service delivery in the Department of Social Welfare.”
The Committee was chaired by John Te Rangi-Aniwaniwa Rangihau, (a Tuhoe elder and senior public servant) and its members were:
• Mrs Emarina Manuel;
• Ms Donna Marie Tai Tokerau Hall;
• Mr Hori Brennan;
• Mr Peter Wilson Boag, Deputy Chairman State Services Commission;
• Dr Tamati Muturangi Reedy, Secretary of Māori Affairs represented by Mr Neville McClutchie Baker; and
• Mr John Waldron Grant, Director-General Social Welfare.
The Committee adopted an oral submission process, touring the country and holding meetings in Marae and community venues. The Department was variously described as “an institution of social control” with “white males at the top and middle” and an organisation with “nurtures dependence and self-hatred rather than independence and self-love”.
The Committee released its report in July 1986

Source: https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/about-msd/history/social-assistance-chronology-programme-history.html

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