tariana turia Archive

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  Establishing a Disability Commissioner - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  Before I came to Parliament I thought making change happen was all about passing legislation and getting the numbers in the House. In many ways, that’s true, but sometimes it’s about even stranger twists of politics. Take the example of the member’s bill I placed in the ballot last year to establish a fulltime Disability [...] read more
  October 28, 2010 9:00 am - 4 Comments
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  Government dodges on disease of poverty - by Kevin Hague

  
  
  
  Sometimes the House is frustrating. I succeeded in my bid for a question today, but when we have two primary questions in a day we don’t get any more supplementary questions added to us. My boss had question 2 and mine was 11 and, since the Gallery journalists start drifting off after about 5 questions, [...] read more
  July 29, 2010 9:40 am - 50 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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  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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  There’s no dignity in scrapping the dole - by frog

  
  
  
  We have a international acceptance now of the policy of social welfare for bankers.  The National Party is proposing benefits specifically for people who haven’t already got a benefit.  And then the Maori Party’s Tariana Turia swims in completely the opposite direction and asks for the dole to be scrapped. Confused? The Maori Party’s advocacy [...] read more
  October 16, 2008 9:43 am - 52 Comments
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  “Good police officers are going to get hurt” - by frog

  
  
  
  A good shorthand way to tell if Parliament is voting to remove people’s civil liberties is to look for those bills that the Greens, Act and the Maori Party oppose but Labour, National, United Future and New Zealand First support.  Such is the case with Chester Burrows’ Wanganui District Council (Prohibition of Gang Insignia) Bill. [...] read more
  July 31, 2008 9:34 am - 205 Comments