The Department of Maori Affairs was replaced by the Iwi Transition Agency (Te Tira Ahu Iwi), headed by Wira Gardiner. Also established a new policy-focused ministry: Manatū Māori or Ministry of Māori Affairs, which began operations in July 1989.[i]
Tasked with managing government programmes previously administered by the Department of Māori Affairs, while making preparations to transfer them to mainstream government agencies as soon as feasible.
Footnotes
[i] go to main content Danny Keenan, ‘The Treaty is Always Speaking?’, in Margaret Tennant and Bronwyn Dalley, eds., Past Judgement, Social Policy in New Zealand History, Otago University Press, Dunedin, 2004, p. 207.; Wai 2417, p. 162.