Kaupapa inquiries
Kaupapa (thematic) inquiries are not specific to any district. They deal with nationally significant issues affecting Māori as a whole.
A memorandum concerning the kaupapa inquiry programme was issued in April 2015 by the Waitangi Tribunal’s chairperson, Chief Judge Wilson Isaac. A second memorandum updating and refining the kaupapa process was issued in March 2019 and updated in 2021. The kaupapa inquiries topics and order in which they are scheduled for inquiry are:
- Military veterans
- Health services and outcomes
- Takutai moana
- Mana wāhine
- Housing policy and services
- Justice system
- Constitution, self-government, and the electoral system
- Education services and outcomes
- Social services and social development
- Economic development
- Identity and culture
- Natural resources and environmental management
- Citizenship rights and equality
Read the 2015 memorandum about the kaupapa inquiry programme [PDF, 476 KB]
Read the 2019 memorandum about the kaupapa inquiry programme [PDF, 887 KB]
