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Māori Party asked to come clean about te reo Māori situation
Thursday, 3 April 2014, 3:06 pm | Mana Party
It is rumoured the government is planning to disestablish Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, the Māori Language Commission, and Te Māngai Pāho, the Māori Broadcasting Funding Agency, and instead bring all responsibility and funding for te reo Māori ... More >>
No prestige In Trying To Hide Poverty
Saturday, 29 March 2014, 10:30 am | Mana Party
“When so-called iwi leaders condemn teachers for daring to highlight the massive failings of the New Zealand education system for Maori children in case the Minister of Education might be embarrassed, then they show themselves up as a sad and pathetic ... More >>
A New Broom Needed to Sweep the Pathway for Kohanga
Wednesday, 19 March 2014, 3:26 pm | Mana Party
“Two years ago the Waitangi Tribunal found that successive governments had breached the Treaty of Waitangi by systemically failing to fund and support Kōhanga Reo’s Māori language strategy, and called on government to apologise for its failings ... More >>
Mana Meets With Kim Dotcom
Wednesday, 19 March 2014, 1:32 pm | Mana Party
“Last year I was invited to meet with Kim Dotcom, but I declined because I didn’t want to get swamped by the Labour, Greens and NZ First pilgrimages to the mansion,” said Hone Harawira, MANA Leader and MP for Te Tai Tokerau. More >>
Why Can’t Key Make a Smart Decision And Just Feed the Kids?
Wednesday, 12 March 2014, 5:15 pm | Mana Party
“Kids have a knack of saying things plain and simple” said Hone Harawira, MANA Leader and Tai Tokerau MP, following the lunch he hosted at Parliament today for 50 students from Naenae College who help run the school’s KickStart breakfast club. More >>
Hungry Kids Can’t Eat a Flag
Tuesday, 11 March 2014, 3:03 pm | Mana Party
“Treasury tells us there are 285,000 kids living in poverty, the Ministry of Health tells us that 100,000 of them are going to school hungry every day … and the Prime Minister tells us he wants to change the flag!” More >>
More Than Just a Loss of Funding
Tuesday, 11 March 2014, 12:41 pm | Mana Party
Hone Harawira, MANA Leader and Member of Parliament for Tai Tokerau Tuesday 11 March 2014 “I have just received a letter written by a woman I hold in the highest regard, a woman of intellectual and academic integrity who is a passionate believer in Māori ... More >>
MANA set to contest all Maori seats and more
Tuesday, 11 March 2014, 9:13 am | Mana Party
“MANA will stand candidates in all seven Maori electorates and potentially in some general seats as well”, said Hone Harawira, MANA Leader and MP for Te Tai Tokerau following the Prime Minister’s announcement this afternoon that the general ... More >>
Killing Off The Researchers Won't Make Problems Disappear
Monday, 10 March 2014, 1:37 pm | Mana Party
“Unbelievable” was the reaction of MANA Leader and MP for Te Tai Tokerau, Hone Harawira, upon hearing the news that government had decided to cut funding to the Māori research body, Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga. “At a time when Māori are under ... More >>
Harawira: Speech to Community Coalition for Food in Schools
Wednesday, 5 March 2014, 1:21 pm | Mana Party
I would like to extend a big welcome to all members of the Community Coalition for Food in Schools; to acknowledge everyone’s involvement in the campaign to promote the kaupapa of food in schools, and to build support for MANA’s Feed the Kids Bill; ... More >>
Harawira: Financial Review Debate
Wednesday, 5 March 2014, 10:59 am | Mana Party
The first point I want to make about funding for affordable housing, is how woefully inadequate the Social Housing Fund allocation actually was, particularly when you consider the staggeringly high need, and secondly how little of that woefully inadequate ... More >>
Plain Packaging Or Window Dressing?
Tuesday, 11 February 2014, 12:20 pm | Mana Party
Hone Harawira, MANA Leader and MP for Te Tai Tokerau “I will always support any anti-tobacco legislation” said Hone Harawira, MANA Leader and MP for Te Tai Tokerau “but insisting on tobacco being sold in plain packets while allowing Big Tobacco ... More >>
Hone Harawira: Response to Prime Minister's Speech
Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 6:26 pm | Mana Party
It seems the PM may have missed the fact that while he was up in Hawaii playing golf and his MPs were sizing up more investment properties to buy for the biggest untaxed capital gains they could get, most Kiwi families were going backwards. More >>
Appeal for Cyclone Ian victims in Tonga
Thursday, 16 January 2014, 8:58 am | Mana Party
Appeal for Cyclone Ian victims in Tonga’s Ha’apai Island group Mana is supporting a big effort to send help to the victims of Cyclone Ian in Tonga. We are collecting non-perishable foods (eg bags of flour, rice and canned foods), fishing nets, bush ... More >>
ACC needs to front up or hunger striker will die
Thursday, 12 December 2013, 7:33 pm | Mana Party
MANA President says ACC needs to front up or hunger striker will die MANA President Annette Sykes is urging ACC to enter into fair and just arbitration with hunger striker Mike Dixon-McIver immediately so the strike can end and Mr Dixon-McIver can start ... More >>
Harawira to Attend Tangi of Nelson Mandela
Tuesday, 10 December 2013, 11:24 am | Mana Party
Tuesday 10 December, 2013 Despite his exclusion from the official delegation, Hone Harawira, MANA Leader and MP for Te Tai Tokerau will today depart for South Africa to attend the tangi of Nelson Mandela. “I'm going there to pay my respects on behalf ... More >>
Free Nelson Mandela Free - Hone Harawira, MANA Leader
Friday, 6 December 2013, 12:07 pm | Mana Party
Nelson Mandela was an icon to all who have struggled against oppression, whose light banished forever the darkness of apartheid, whose warmth overcame the bitterness of his enemies, and whose majesty touched the hearts of all people of colour. More >>
National Gets Hammered Over Education
Wednesday, 4 December 2013, 3:16 pm | Mana Party
“National’s education policies have just taken a hammering in an international assessment which has heavily downgraded NZ student’s achievements in maths, science and reading,” said MANA leader and Tai Tokerau MP Hone Harawira. More >>
MANA congratulates anti-motorway campaign
Tuesday, 3 December 2013, 4:47 pm | Mana Party
MANA is pleased Auckland Transport and the New Zealand Transport Agency have finally acknowledged what the rest of New Zealand has known for a long time - that Mangere, Otahuhu and Otara residents have been treated with contempt as Auckland Council transport ... More >>
TPPA Secrecy – What it Really Means For Our Nation
Tuesday, 3 December 2013, 9:25 am | Mana Party
The secrecy around the Trans- Pacific Partnership Agreement talks is on the agenda at this week’s media conference to be attended by MANA Leader and MP for Te Tai Tokerau, Hone Harawira. More >>
