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  D.R.I.P. – Like Water on A Stone - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  If water keeps dripping it eventually changes the shape of a stone. Thus the D.R.I.P (Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People) will help change our country. It took 22 years of hard work and tough negotiation to achieve this milestone and good on the Maori Party if they managed to speed up the National [...] read more
  April 27, 2010 11:19 am - 48 Comments
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  Privatisation in education legislation - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  The word opposition doesn’t always describe Labour’s voting patterns. In fact, Labour have voted with National almost exactly as often as the Maori Party, even though Labour is the official opposition, and the Maori Party is actually part of the Government! [For the political junkies, Labour have voted with National 12 times at first readings, [...] read more
  March 19, 2010 2:46 pm - 18 Comments
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  Goff delivers wedge to split the left - by Metiria Turei

  
  
  
  For all the indignation at the response to his speech , what did Goff expect whanau and hapu would hear in it? He starts with a criticism of Hone, he attacks the Maori Party, he promotes unjust treaty settlements and he defends the discriminatory foreshore legislation. And all delivered to a predominately Pakeha audience. How [...] read more
  December 1, 2009 10:14 am - 50 Comments
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  Fancy that. Kiwis hate National’s ETS - by frog

  
  
  
  It was no surprise to me to find this morning a new ShapeNZ poll shows Kiwis overwhelmingly reject National’s proposed changes to the ETS. Eighty-two percent of National voters believe emitters should pay for any emissions in excess of New Zealand’s agreed limit under the Kyoto treaty, not taxpayers. Among Maori Party voters this rises to ninety-one percent. read more
  November 2, 2009 9:18 am - 12 Comments
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  Gutting ACC: What a shambles! - by frog

  
  
  
  I’m planning to do a series of frogblog posts on National’s plans to gut ACC, highlighting the devastating impact of each of them on people who have been injured and their families. But before I even got to post the first one, ACC Minister Nick Smith has revealed how badly National has politically managed their [...] read more
  October 15, 2009 5:52 pm - 28 Comments
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  The ETS, power prices and income compensation - by Jeanette Fitzsimons

  
  
  
  The Maori Party seems to be having difficulty getting the National Party to agree to raising the core benefit to compensate for higher electricity and transport fuel prices under the ETS. read more
  September 16, 2009 12:35 pm - 16 Comments
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  Foreign Affairs is a million shades of grey - by frog

  
  
  
  I was wading through the agreement establishing the ASEAN-Australia New Zealand Free Trade Area a few weeks ago – a little light reading for a Frog. Looks like New Zealand will be doing business with Burma (or Myanmar as the military dictators refer to Burma). Green MP Dr Kennedy Graham spoke about this in the [...] read more
  May 6, 2009 2:58 pm - 8 Comments
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  Labour MIA at the Maori representation hui - by Metiria Turei

  
  
  
  The hui at Orakei Marae today was excellent. Ngati Whaatua put out the call for Maori in Tamaki Makaurau to gather to consider what should be done next to oppose the government’s rejection of guaranteed Maori seats on the new Auckland unitary council. They have decided to hold a hikoi on 25 May, the 31st [...] read more
  April 15, 2009 4:01 pm - 246 Comments
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  The biggest Maori urban population shut out from their own city - by Metiria Turei

  
  
  
  National’s decision to ditch the Maori seats on the Auckland super city is another means to remove Maori from the barest minimum of decision-making in the biggest Maori city in the country. Catherine has blogged on the general issue before but the issues are even more acute in Auckland. According the 2006 census, nearly 25% [...] read more
  April 7, 2009 6:03 pm - 59 Comments
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  Declaration of Indigenous Rights Down Under - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  On Tuesday I got to ask my first proper Question in the House. Unsurprisingly Hone Harawira asked more or less the same question. Will the Government follow the lead of Australia and change their position to support the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People? The Prime Minister did a good imitation of saying [...] read more
  April 2, 2009 7:00 am - 106 Comments
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  Hone stands up for his people. - by Metiria Turei

  
  
  
  Hone Harawira, in his regular column, Ae Marika talked about going to court with the two young men charged with assaulting John Key at Waitangi this year. Both Labour and the Maori Party co-leaders have responded badly, the first with too much hysteria to be taken seriously and the second in an attempt to distance [...] read more
  March 17, 2009 5:28 pm - 52 Comments
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  Our people need protection from private power too - by Metiria Turei

  
  
  
  Tariana Turia is reported in yesterdays Wanganui Chronicle talking about the difference that Maori management could bring to prisons and the nearly 50% of prisoners who are Maori. I agree that Maori must be more involved. Where that has happened there have been real successes. I agree with her when she says: “Our people continue [...] read more
  March 17, 2009 9:52 am - 13 Comments
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  Hope that the Foreshore Act will be repealed is real - by Metiria Turei

  
  
  
  I was at the announcement of the terms of reference of the Foreshore review yesterday. It was rather hard in some respects, seeing many people there who were such a major part of the campaign against the law and remembering what an awful campaign of hatred it was. I heard the Maori Party clearly state [...] read more
  March 5, 2009 10:37 am - 45 Comments
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  Collective responsibility the heart of Maori National deal - by frog

  
  
  
  The most interesting part of the Maori Party’s agreement with National (pdf) is the clause on collective responsibility: The Maori Party agree to be bound by collective responsibility in relation to their Ministerial portfolios and their Associate Minister responsibilities. When the Maori Party Ministers speak about issues within their portfolios and Associate Minister responsibilities, they [...] read more
  November 17, 2008 1:53 pm - 10 Comments
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  Speed Hui - by frog

  
  
  
  From what I could tell from the radio yesterday evening and this morning the Maori Party are engaged in series of 40 ‘speed hui’, each about one hour long, where Maori electorate voters are get to hear the broad parameters of the deal that the Maori Party has struck with National, but not the specifics.  [...] read more
  November 13, 2008 9:31 am - 8 Comments
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  Strategic voting in Maori electorates - by frog

  
  
  
  It was quite amusing to hear Tarinana Turia criticising Maori electorate voters for failing to split their vote in Hauraki Waikato and Ikaroa Rawhiti: We were very disappointed to think that in Ikaroa Rawhiti and in the Hauraki Waikato the people there couldn’t see beyond the immediate.  They could have voted the other way and [...] read more
  November 11, 2008 9:04 am - 7 Comments
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  A few quotes - by frog

  
  
  
  John Ansell here on Frogblog referring to Jeanette’s ranking as one of NZ’s hottest politicians: ‘Not hot, but maybe globally warm.’ Nine year old Aotea Parata who stars with Aila Morgan-Guthrie on the Green Party billboard of the tyre swing talking about whether he’ll be voting Maori Party or Green Party (or something different):  ’Just [...] read more
  November 3, 2008 10:07 am - 24 Comments
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  Maori voters have a choice - by frog

  
  
  
  The Manawatu Standard’s editorial yesterday states: Say what you like about the Greens, but you can’t question their integrity. The party diligently assessed Labour and National against 12 criteria before pronouncing it shared more common ground with Labour. And there’s no way they’ll go back on their word. And then draws an interesting contrast: The [...] read more
  October 22, 2008 11:55 am - 35 Comments
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  Overhangs and tactical voting - by frog

  
  
  
  Kiwiblog raised an issue that I must admit I hadn’t considered when I wrote last week about why Maori Party voters who are leaning towards the Maori party should consider voting tactically with their party vote.   David Farrar suggests: But what the Greens are calling for, is for Maori roll voters to vote in such [...] read more
  June 9, 2008 8:47 am - 50 Comments
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  The Maori Party’s tactical conundrum - by frog

  
  
  
  I thought Audrey Young’s comment about ‘strained‘ relations between the Maori Party and the Greens was an odd one yesterday. I’m sure the Maori Party never believed that it would have an uncontested run at collecting Maori people’s party votes. Or that it believes that it has any ownership over those votes. The Greens know [...] read more
  June 7, 2008 7:01 am - 24 Comments