Māori & Pasifika at Aurecon Australia

Our commitment is to create sustainable and meaningful relationships with, and Māori and Pasifika in New Zealand. 

Aurecon’s commitment to te ao Māori and to Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Aurecon is committed to te ao Māori (Māori world view) and to Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Treaty of Waitangi). Our commitment is to building Māori cultural capability and developing enduring partnerships with mana whenua and Māori communities in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Māori values are part of Aotearoa New Zealand’s national identity – how we see ourselves and how the world views us. Te Tiriti is the foundation under which all of us work.

He Rautaki Māori strategy

In He Rautaki Māori, Aurecon outlines how we intend to bring Māori values to life within our business and in our interactions with Māori and the community. The strategy brings to life our anamata (vision) of how we as individuals, and as an organisation, can work together to achieve a contemporary and authentic response to te ao Māori and Te Tiriti o Waitangi in our business.

He Rautaki Māori is an evolving and transformative journey to build our cultural capabilities and create meaningful relationships with Māori. Our Mārori strategy brings together some of the culturally responsive work that already exists within the business and helps us build this capability further.

View and download our He Rautaki Māori strategy. 

Bringing He Rautaki Māori to life

Our initiatives include:

• The appointment of Aurecon’s first Pou Ārahi Māori Leader to drive significant progress in strengthening and maintaining Te Tiriti o Waitangi based partnerships with mana whenua and Māori
• Driving improved capability across Aurecon that increases understanding of mātauranga Māori, tikanga, protocols and strengthened relationship management with Māori
• Motivating, coaching, enabling and supporting decision-makers, senior leaders, and employees to increase their:
  • Te ao Māori skills and knowledge
  • Confidence and ability to correctly apply Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Māori responsiveness to their work
  • Ability to deliver on outcomes for Māori
• Strengthening and growing Aurecon’s Māori Cadetship Programme. Aurecon established individual Memorandums of Understanding with Ngai Tahu in the South Island, Waikato-Tainui in the Central North Island and Ngāti Whātua in Auckland. Aurecon co-designed initiatives with these iwi to improve work and life outcomes for Māori. The cadetship programme provides full time employment, paid study time, and funding to cover a qualification, alongside professional support and a relationship commitment between Aurecon, the cadet, and the iwi.
• Partnering with TupuToa since 2019 to bring more Māori and Pasifika interns and graduates into the business. The TupuToa internship programme is a pathway that provides professional opportunities for Māori and Pacific tertiary students into corporate, government and community organisations.
• Partnering with Māori immersion secondary school, Te Wharekura o Mauao. Te Wharekura o Mauao is a tikanga Māori education provider based in Tauranga, which offers year seven to thirteen Mauao tauira (students) a solid foundation to achieve their academic, sporting and cultural potential while immersed in tikanga and te reo Māori. Aurecon’s emerging professionals from the Tauranga office, help the students with their maths and science and introduce them to the work of engineering, and the school students assist our young professionals by teaching them tikanga principles.

Ehara taku toa I te toa takitahi, ēngari he toa takitini. 

Success is not the work of one, but that of many.