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• Pacific leadership highlighted throughout challenging year

  02 April 2022
  The 2021 New Year’s Honours List highlights again the outstanding contribution made by Pacific people across Aotearoa.
  Minister for Pacific Peoples Hon Aupito William Sio says it acknowledges the work of 13 Pacific leaders, representing several sectors including health, education, community, sports,…
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• Mama Pam’s life of public service recognised

  01 April 2022
  Pasimaca Osment or Mama Pam as she was widely known, has been awarded a Lifetime Award posthumously at the 2019 Spirit of Service Awards at Te Papa, in Wellington.  
  A prominent Fijian public servant, Pasimaca recently passed away from cancer, but her family attended the September 12 awards, which r…
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• New title recognises scope of service to Pacific Aotearoa

  02 April 2022
  Over the past three years, Laulu Mac Leauanae has evolved from leading from behind, to a leader who is at the forefront of Pacific affairs and is pushing boundaries to create a prosperous Pacific Aotearoa.
  The Ministry for Pacific Peoples Chief Executive (CE) says he has accepted he must lead from t…
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• Measles cases notified in Auckland

  02 April 2022
  Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) is asking people who may have been exposed to measles in three public locations to be alert to symptoms. 
  The service has been notified of two separate cases of measles which are not linked, an infant and a young adult. 
  The adult was at Matakana Marke…
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• Reconnecting New Zealanders to the world

  08 April 2022
  Prime Minister Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern has announced the Government’s framework for re-opening borders and moving to an individualised risk-based model for quarantine-free travel at a forum on Reconnecting New Zealanders to the world in Wellington.
  The Government will use the second half of 2021 to pr…
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• Corporate Publications

  19 January 2023
  A selection of Ministry for Pacific Peoples' reporting and planning documents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Briefings to the Incoming…
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• Strengthening Māori-Crown relations at MPP

  15 July 2022
  (Picture caption: On February 21, 2021, Te Taura Whiri i Te Reo Māori held a mihi whakatau to acknowledge the establishment of the Pacific Languages Unit in their Whanganui-ā-Tara office with a kai hakaari hangi. The Ministy is working hard to build respectful partnerships with Māori mana whenua iwi…
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• Leo Moana o Aotearoa – the Pacific Languages of Aotearoa Survey

  29 May 2025
  Leo Moana o Aotearoa – the Pacific Languages of Aotearoa Survey – was the first of its kind, investigating the use of and attitudes to Pacific languages in Aotearoa.…
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• Tackling Pacific worker exploitation

  01 April 2022
  Worker exploitation and human trafficking for Pacific workers in New Zealand were among issues tackled at a fono, hosted by the New Zealand Human Rights Commission and the Ministry for Pacific Peoples (MPP). 
  The Preventing Pacific Worker Exploitation in New Zealand fono was staged in response to th…
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• Ministry welcomes new Secretary for Pacific Peoples on board

  06 February 2023
  The Ministry for Pacific Peoples (MPP) has welcomed Gerardine Clifford-Lidstone on-board its vaka as the new Secretary for Pacific Peoples and Chief Executive.   A pan-Pacific gathering was held on Wednesday (February 1) to officially acknowledge Gerardine in the role she accepted following the depa…
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