Skip to main content

Story: Biculturalism

Royal Commission on Social Policy, 1988

Image
Royal Commission on Social Policy, 1988

Sandra Young of the Royal Commission on Social Policy holds the commission's five-volume 1987 report, released the following year. The report was one of the most important expressions of the bicultural vision adopted by the public sector. Some sections were published in both English and te reo Māori, along with the commission's Māori-language title, Te Kōmihana a te Karauna mō ngā Āhuatanga-ā-Iwi.

Using this item

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1988/1938

by Martin Hunter

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

All images & media in this story

How to cite this page

Janine Hayward, Biculturalism – Biculturalism in the state sector, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/32143/royal-commission-on-social-policy-1988 (accessed 14 June 2026).

Story by Janine Hayward, published 14 March 2012, reviewed and revised 10 January 2023 with assistance from Janine Hayward.