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• One-way Cook Islands travel to resume

  02 April 2022
  Quarantine-free travel into New Zealand from the Cook Islands will resume on January 21, 2021, enabling access to essential services such as health.
  Prime Minister of New Zealand Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern says following confirmation of the Cook Islands’ COVID free status, and the implementation of stric…
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• Pacific Building Affordable Homes Fund

  19 March 2026
  Building Affordable Homes Fund…
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• Encouraging diversity on New Zealand boards

  02 April 2022
  Diversity on New Zealand boards is paramount, and the Pacific community have much to offer.
  As part of the Ministry for Pacific Peoples (MPP) vision to see Pacific people thrive in New Zealand, it is encouraging the many natural leaders within the Pacific communities, to put their hand up for govern…
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• Viewing governance up close and personal

  02 April 2022
  Director of Engineering Consultancy Collective Success and innovative thinker Sina Cotter Tait says Pacific people bring a different and valuable lens to the governance table. 
  Pacific people view governance through a lens which is sensitive to under-served communities, because it is personal, and i…
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• Quarantine travel to New Zealand from Niue

  02 April 2022
  The Prime Minister of New Zealand Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern and the Premier of Niue Hon Dalton Tagelagi have announced passengers from Niue can resume quarantine-free travel into New Zealand on March 24 NZT (March 23 Niue time).
  Prime Minister Ardern says Niue has no reported cases of COVID-19 and its s…
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• Pacific and female, leading the way in governance

  02 April 2022
  Caren Rangi (ONZM) has been appointed as the new Chair the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa - Creative New Zealand’s governing body - for a three-year term.
  She is the first Pacific Chair and third woman to hold this role in the Council’s 55-year history.
  Minister for Arts, Culture and Herit…
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• Dawn Raids promise delivered

  21 March 2023
  (Picture caption: Deputy Prime Minister Hon Carmel Sepuloni congratulates some of He Manawa Tītī Scholarship recipients.) A cohort of 28 emerging Pacific leaders has been warmly welcomed to New Zealand for the He Manawa Tītī Scholarship Programme.The cohort will participate in a bespoke leadership t…
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• Cook Islands language central to cultural identity

  01 April 2022
  The Cook Islands High Commissioner to New Zealand, Her Excellency Elizabeth Wright-Koteka is a firm believer that knowing the language of the country you claim heritage to, is central to your identity. 
  She also sees huge value in the upcoming Ministry for Pacific Peoples (MPP) annual Cook Islands L…
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• Hikoi to promote mental health awareness

  01 April 2022
  Next month, 41-year-old Corey Lum will replicate Dame Whina Cooper’s infamous 1975 hikoi, walking and cycling from Te Hapua to Parliament in Wellington, stopping in over 25 locations and travelling over 1406km. 
  While Dame Whina marched for Māori Land Rights and equality over 40 years ago, Corey, wh…
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• Interns work to empower Pacific peoples in the Public Sector  

  04 March 2024
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