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A Christchurch-based Māori think tank says the future workforce is Māori, and Aotearoa needs to get ready for that.
Tokona te Raki executive director Eruera Tarena says based on current population trends by 2040 one in five people of working-age Aotearoa will be Māori.
The country needs to acknowledge this and work to ensure Māori are equipped with the skills to be employed and to lead.
He says intergenerational inequities that continue to disadvantage Māori in education means Māori account for just 8.4 percent of well-paid, highly skilled jobs.
Māori unemployment is still more than twice that of Pākehā, and whānau continue to be pigeon-holed into ‘low-skill’, low-paid, physically-demanding jobs.
Dr Tarena says Tokona te Raki has worked with change consultancy Vario to produce Puta-i-Tua, a blueprint for the way ahead.
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