Te Whānau o Waipareira report released

Report released by the Waitangi Tribunal.

The Waipareira Trust claimed it had been discriminated against by the Community Funding Agency, a unit of the Department of Social Welfare, in funding and policy because it was not an iwi organisation. The Tribunal found that ‘…it did not think Waipareira represented all Māori groups in West Auckland’ but found that the Trust represented ‘a significant Māori community based predominantly in West Auckland’ and made itself ‘fully accountable to West Auckland Māori’. Determining rangatiratanga to be a broad and adaptable concept, and not strictly kin-based, the Tribunal also found that Waipareira exercised its own distinct rangatiratanga in the delivery of social services.^[i]