1. Smart Talk The Future of Work…for Maori
Mihimihi, pleasure to present to you all today, follow in great foodsteps….
Riri Ellis – General Manager,
Tukairangi Investments Ltd
9 May 2017

2. Our Region

3. Maori Economic Landscape in the Bay of Connections (BOC)
Total Maori asset base is 8.6B in the BOC
Maori contribute 11% to the total GDP in BOC
29% of the Maori collective asset base in NZ is in the BOC
77,800 Maori live in the BOC
27,316 Maori are employed
44% of the Maori population is under 15 years of age
Maori earn $116 per week less than non-Maori in BOC
Government contribute 24% to Maori household incomes
Approximately 685,000 hectares of Maori land (31% of the region)

4. Maori Economic Landscape in the Bay of Connections (BOC)
Maori are significant players in:
Forestry
Fishing
Energy
Tourism, and
Educational sectors
Maori are also prevalent in the agricultural and horticultural sector

5. He Mauri Ohooho Goal Successful Maori people Thriving Maori business
Jobs, educational attainment, increase in disposable income
Thriving Maori business
Networks, investment opportunities & increase exports
Collectives leading economic growth
Investment opportunities and increased productivity of Maori assets

6. 6. Education and Skill Development
Two key actions
Improving rangatahi educational success
Workforce development

7. The Future Maori Economy
Production focused (21%)
productivity improvements in all sectors
Export focused (22%)
increase in export volumes and sales due to innovation of sales/marketing of goods and services from Maori economy

9. Some Pressures High value associated with being in work
Costs of living and social anxiety
Low waged work for youth
Transition of youth to work
Retention of elderly in work
Changing industry needs, seasonal nature
High skills (entry into employment)
Immigration
Immigrants
Student visas – work as students
Working holiday visas – work while on holiday

10. What the region might do
Regions develop a growth target which refers to skills and people needed
An impending decline in labour supply and increase in the age of the labour supply, with an increase in numbers of Maori youth
Collaboration and team work essential:
Industry talk to work brokers, tertiary providers
Tertiary providers need to talk with colleges
Government agencies need to modify their approaches
People need to articulate their needs
Maori businesses, trusts and incorporations need to be willing to participate as well

11. What Maori need to know
How to acknowledge the needs of the region and industry, whilst also working towards the mobilising of an asset and people that has not always been visible
The pending visibility associated with the growing expectations from the emergence of the Maori economy narrative
Matching exercise - needs of the organisation as well as the needs of the whanau, hapu and iwi

12. Location of Maori in Growth Figures
Work in progress
Some deeper fundamental analysis needed
Its about mobilising the asset (land, water, people)
Maori statistics help draw a picture, but don’t answer the questions (large number of youth)
Investment in education of our people is extensive
Cultural platform now being enriched
Trades & health sector engaged
Technical skills (science, maths etc) requires mobilising

13. Some observations $9b+ asset base that could be better utilised
Highest youth population in the region that need to be mobilised (match with retiring workforce?)
Skill-set training, alignment and accountability needed
Its not enough to recruit students, and offer them no employment pathways
The rhetoric – innovation, science, maths graduates - but where are the jobs
Deliberate placement of higher skilled roles, and pastoral assignments needed
Alignment with overarching drivers for the Maori economy is essential