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Housing Minister on another planet – Mana offers alternative

Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 11:01 am | Mana Party

Housing Minister Phil Heatley is cementing in hardship for struggling families says Mana housing spokesperson Sue Bradford. More >>

Housing Minister On Another Planet - Mana's Alternative

Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 10:03 am | Mana Party

Housing Minister Phil Heatley is cementing in hardship for struggling families says Mana housing spokesperson Sue Bradford. More >>

MANA says Sensible Sentencing Trust stopped being sensible

Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 3:09 pm | Mana Party

MANA justice spokesperson Annette Sykes says the Sensible Sentencing Trust’s latest comments claiming the system is fair to Maori shows how out of touch the Sensible Sentencing Trust has become in the law and order debate. More >>

MANA: Gov delusional on how credit downgrade impact the poor

Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 2:12 pm | Mana Party

MANA Party Economic spokesperson, John Minto says last week’s credit downgrade will have an impact on the poor well beyond what the Government pretends. "Last week the Prime Minister was boasting about how well he had handled the economy, by Friday ... More >>

MANA says Government should come clean on big oil meetings

Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 1:42 pm | Mana Party

MANA environmental spokesperson Angeline Greensill says the Government must come clean over their meetings this week with American and Chinese oil companies. Mrs Greensill says from the beginning MANA supported Te Whanau o Apanui and Ngati Porou ... More >>

MANA Says NZ Sick Of National & Labour Squabbling Over Crime

Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 10:23 am | Mana Party

MANA justice spokesperson Annette Sykes believes New Zealanders want a real debate over our appalling imprisonment rates now the crime statistics have reportedly dropped to their lowest in 25 years. More >>

'Don't worry, be happy' is not an economic policy

Monday, 3 October 2011, 12:56 pm | Mana Party

Mana Economic Justice spokesperson John Minto says last week's credit downgrade highlights the Prime Minister's vacant aspiration for New Zealand. "On Tuesday last week John Key was braying like a donkey over how wonderful the economy was under his leadership ... More >>

Independent Police Conduct Authority not Independent - Mana

Monday, 3 October 2011, 11:41 am | Mana Party

MANA Justice spokesperson Annette Sykes says the Independent Conduct Authority does not need to be scrapped as called for by Maori Affairs minister Pita Sharples – it just needs to be made “independent” which it is not. More >>

Mana Party Accuses Govt Of Lying Over Afghanistan

Friday, 30 September 2011, 10:08 am | Mana Party

MANA's foreign affairs spokesperson, John Minto, says the Prime Minister John Key owes New Zealanders an apology for claiming the SAS role in Afghanistan is "mentoring" when in reality it is a full combat role. More >>

MANA to reverse ACT's brutal VSM attack on Tertiary Students

Thursday, 29 September 2011, 10:03 am | Mana Party

MANA education spokesperson John Minto says if MANA MPs are see that ACT led vicious attack on them is reversed with a repeal of legislation which makes student association membership voluntary. More >>

Mana calls for withdrawal from Afghanistan after NZ death

Thursday, 29 September 2011, 10:01 am | Mana Party

MANA’s thoughts are with the whanau of Lance Corporal Leon Smith who has died fighting in Afghanistan but MANA also demands New Zealand troop withdrawal from this foreign war said MANA Foreign Affairs spokesperson John Minto. More >>

Annette Sykes to contest Waiariki Electorate for MANA

Thursday, 29 September 2011, 10:00 am | Mana Party

Prominent criminal and civil rights lawyer and social justice campaigner, Annette Sykes, was endorsed at a Waiariki Electorate hui last Thursday by the Electorate and confirmed by MANA’s national executive as the candidate for the Waiariki electorate. More >>

Mana Accuses Govt of Gross Hypocricy Over Mokomoko Pardon

Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 10:48 pm | Mana Party

MANA spokesperson Annette Sykes says while government moves to restore the mana of Whakatohea Maori Chief Mokomoko wrongly accused of murder and put to the gallows in 1871 are welcome given the twenty five year struggle of the Mokomoko Whanau to ... More >>

Legislation for a Police State

Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 5:00 pm | Mana Party

"When the NZ Herald calls government's new spying bill the act of a police state then we should all be very concerned" said MANA leader and Tai Tokerau MP Hone Harawira, "and when they want to sneak their Video Camera Surveillance (Temporary ... More >>

MANA Repulsed At Govt Abuse of Students

Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 4:58 pm | Mana Party

MANA education spokesperson John Minto says the government should listen to University Students, not bully and threaten them. More >>

Mana Accuses Govt of Hypocricy Over Mokomoko Pardon

Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 4:49 pm | Mana Party

MANA spokesperson Annette Sykes says while government moves to restore the mana of Whakatohea Maori Chief Mokomoko wrongly accused of murder and put to the gallows in 1871 are welcome, the action at this time wreaks of hypocricy. More >>

MANA Opposes Food Bill

Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 2:39 pm | Mana Party

MANA candidate for the Te Ikaroa Rawhiti electorate Tawhai Mc Clutchie says under the guise of improving food safety the government is claiming from Maori ownership of food and the means for producing it seed. More >>

MANA Supports Auckland Uni Students

Monday, 26 September 2011, 5:11 pm | Mana Party

MANA Leader Hone Harawira says the actions of Auckland University Students who have barricaded themselves in a management studies building are understandable. Mr Harawira says government moves to make student membership voluntary will destroy students ... More >>

Mana Says It's Time For A New Economic Direction

Monday, 26 September 2011, 10:36 am | Mana Party

"When the IMF says the global economy is broken then it's time we fixed it" said MANA leader Hone Harawira. More >>

New Zealand troops should withdraw from “insane” war

Monday, 26 September 2011, 10:06 am | Mana Party

MANA’s foreign affairs spokesperson John Minto says the view of prominent Pakistani politician and former cricket captain Imran Khan that New Zealand is involved in an “insane” war in Afghanistan should prompt an urgent reappraisal by our government ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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