 Since then it has increasingly become common practice for various institutions to celebrate Matariki in a range of ways and over the period of a week or month anywhere from early June to late August.With the wider recognition, there have been proposals to make Matariki an official holiday in New Zealand—in particular former Māori Party MP Rahui Katene's private member's bill "Te Ra o Matariki Bill/Matariki Day Bill", drawn from the ballot in June 2009.The Bill would have fixed the date of a public holiday using the new moon in June; however, this was later changed to the new moon of the heliacal rising of Matariki when the bill was drawn a month later and set down for introduction into Parliament.