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OC220900 
 
26 October 2022 
 
John Luke 
[FYI request #20803 email] 
 
Dear Mr Luke 
 
Thank you for your request of 10 October 2022, where you requested the following 
information from the Ministry of Transport: 
 
I noted from the report, 
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Page 14, Your ministry has appointed 3 Māori and 1 pacific member to its boards. 
can you please provide the name of the person and the position for appointments 
regards to the above? 

In response to your request, I can advise that the information contained in this report was 
provided to the Ministry for Women as part of a wider stocktake of gender and ethnic 
diversity on public sector boards as at 31 December 2021. The ethnicity information 
provided is what each appointee self identifies as. Board members can identify with more 
than one ethnicity, as with all surveys like the Census for example. 
All the ethnicities a member identifies with are included in the stocktake data, so most of the 
ethnicity by agency and ethnicity by portfolio results will add up to over 100% when the 
individual ethnicities are added up. 
The names and boards of each of the members as requested is presented in the table 
below.  
Name 
Board 
Identified Ethnicities 
Danny Tuato’o  Maritime New Zealand 
NZ Māori (Ngapuhi, Ngāti Whātua) 
NZ European 
Samoan 
Fijian 
 

 
 
 
 
Carlton Bidois 
Oil Pollution Advisory Committee 
NZ Māori (Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāi 
Te Rangi) 
Ngarimu Blair 
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport 
NZ Māori (Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei) 
Agency 
 
This response completes your request for official information. You have the right to approach 
the Office of the Ombudsman should you have concerns about my response. You can also 
call them on 0800 802 602 should you wish to discuss the response, and a complaint can be 
lodged through the online form found here: https://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/get-help-
public/make-complaint-members-public. 
 
 
Yours sincerely 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sarah Polaschek 
Manager, Governance 
Ministry of Transport