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Our publications share updates from the Māori Trustee and Te Tumu Paeroa, providing details on our mahi, our performance, and our ongoing commitment to whenua Māori.
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Previous pānui
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Previous Annual Reports
Each year the Māori Trustee presents our Annual Report to the Minister for Māori Development who tables the report in the House.
Māori Trustee Submissions
The Māori Trustee is the largest administrator of whenua Māori across Aotearoa. As trustee or agent for approximately 77,000 hectares of Māori freehold land on behalf of more than 106,000 individual Māori landowners, Te Tumu Paeroa is uniquely positioned to provide feedback and insights on proposed changes to environmental policies and regulations impacting whenua Māori.
Recent submissions made by the Māori Trustee on proposed local and national policy and legislation changes are available below.
If there are submissions from previous years you would like to see, please email [email protected].
2026
The Māori Trustee's submissions on:
2025
The Māori Trustee's submissions on:
- Resource Management Reform | Draft National Direction Packages
2024
The Māori Trustee's submissions on:
- Second Emissions Reduction Plan 2026-2030 [PDF, 794 KB]
- The Proposed Order in Council (OIC) Hawke's Bay Rural Recovery Work [PDF, 871 KB]
- The Resource Management (Freshwater and Other Matters) Amendment Bill [PDF, 415 KB]
- The Resource Management (Consenting and Other System Changes) Amendment Bill [PDF, 423 KB]
- The Fast Track Approvals Bill [PDF, 789 KB]
2023
The Māori Trustee's submissions on:
- Northland Regional Council's Draft Freshwater Plan [PDF, 560 KB]
- Proposed Order in Council for Hawke's Bay Flood Works [PDF, 407 KB]
- Gisborne District Council Draft Forestry Conditions [PDF, 405 KB]
- Proposed Wairarapa Combined District Plan [PDF, 1.2 MB]
- Bay of Plenty Regional Council's Draft Rotorua Geothermal System Management Plan [PDF, 355 KB]
- Proposed National Policy Statement on Natural Hazard Decision-making [PDF, 563 KB]
- Exploring a biodiversity credit system for Aotearoa [PDF, 1.3 MB]
- Inquiry into Community-led Retreat and Adaptation Funding [PDF, 645 KB]
- Deferral of ETS obligations for animals-farmer activities [PDF, 465 KB]
- Review of the NZ ETS and a redesigned NZ ETS Permanent Forest Category [PDF, 404 KB]
- Draft Advice on the Second Emissions Reduction Plan (2026 - 2030) [PDF, 410 KB]
- Severe Weather Response Order in Council Tranche 3 [PDF, 431 KB]
- Strengthening national direction on renewable electricity generation and electricity transmission [PDF, 437 KB]
- Matamata-Piako District Council's Draft Plan Change 54: Papakāinga [PDF, 414 KB]
- Improving Market Governance of the NZ Emissions Trading Scheme [PDF, 368 KB]
- Developing an exception from the low slope for low intensity farming [PDF, 845 KB]
- Our future resource management system - Developing the next stages [PDF, 410 KB]
- Forestry in the ETS: Second set of proposed recovery fees and charges [PDF, 428 KB]
- The Spatial Planning Bill [PDF, 570 KB]
- The Natural and Built Environment Bill [PDF, 2 MB]