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Tobacco Products Amendment Bill – Second Reading
Thursday, 29 April 2010, 10:43 am | The Maori Party
Mr Speaker, when Minister Turia began this debate under extraordinary urgency, she said that “there are only a few matters before this House that one could stand, with hand on heart, and declare this was a life and death debate”. More >>
Tobacco Products Amendment Bill
Thursday, 29 April 2010, 10:07 am | The Maori Party
In the 2008 campaign, there was one line in the Maori Party policy statement that established a precedent for this Bill today. More >>
Tobacco Products Amendment Bill
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 5:01 pm | The Maori Party
Mr Speaker, I move, that the Excise and Excise-Equivalent Duties Table (Tobacco Products) Amendment Bill be now read a first time. More >>
Aroha for people prompts tobacco increase
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 4:58 pm | The Maori Party
The Maori Party says it is their love for their people that has motivated them to push for a major increase in tobacco prices, announced in the House today. More >>
Maori Party challenges Labour to support declarati
Tuesday, 27 April 2010, 4:22 pm | The Maori Party
Maori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell says the Labour Party might be able to save some face among Maori if it declares its support for the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. More >>
Royal NZ Air Force personnel
Tuesday, 27 April 2010, 3:46 pm | The Maori Party
Every year, on the 25th April, New Zealanders gather and listen to the words of a poem, written in 1914, For the Fallen. More >>
Urgent action needed to protect Maori women
Tuesday, 27 April 2010, 1:31 pm | The Maori Party
The Maori Party is calling on the Government to take urgent action to keep Maori women safe because they are more likely than any other group in Aotearoa to suffer from other people’s drinking. More >>
Maori Party pays tribute to fallen soldiers
Monday, 26 April 2010, 12:58 pm | The Maori Party
The Maori Party expresses its sincere condolences to the families and colleagues of the three Air Force pilots and crew who were killed yesterday in the ANZAC Day helicopter crash. More >>
Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill
Friday, 23 April 2010, 9:51 am | The Maori Party
There’s something about the three strikes approach which this Government can’t seem to get enough of. In this Bill the three strikes rule is applied to deter illegal file sharing. More >>
Rahui Katene: referendum on the electoral system
Thursday, 22 April 2010, 4:39 pm | The Maori Party
Mr Speaker, I chose to begin my contribution on the Electoral Referendum Bill by acknowledging the impact of many individuals and the whanau, hapu and iwi to which they belong. More >>
Katene’s GST off healthy food bill gets pulled
Thursday, 22 April 2010, 4:29 pm | The Maori Party
Maori Party MP Rahui Katene is absolutely stoked that her bill to remove GST on healthy food has been pulled from the ballot today. And she has a word of advice for those who say such an initiative would be too difficult to implement. More >>
The effective participation of indigenous peoples
Thursday, 22 April 2010, 10:50 am | The Maori Party
I am pleased to be here sharing with colleagues across the globe in the Inter-Parliamentary Union today. Thank you for the invitation. More >>
Rahui Katene: Head of State Referenda Bill
Thursday, 22 April 2010, 10:03 am | The Maori Party
If the Standing Orders were able to be relaxed just for this one night I would have had the perfect t-shirt to wear to this debate. More >>
Rahui Katene: Minimum Wage Bill
Thursday, 22 April 2010, 9:55 am | The Maori Party
The Maori Party has had a longstanding concern about the specific issue of youth unemployment. More >>
Harawira: Workers’ Secret ballot for strikes
Thursday, 22 April 2010, 9:49 am | The Maori Party
The Maori Party supports the right of workers to be treated fairly and with dignity, and their right to a safe and healthy workplace, and we’re keen to hear what workers think about this Bill for unions to hold a secret ballot before undertaking strike ... More >>
Tariff (Malaysia Free Trade Agreement) Amendment
Wednesday, 21 April 2010, 5:22 pm | The Maori Party
A few years ago a group of Malaysian organisations came to Aotearoa to “learn how the Maori people of New Zealand have brought their culture back from the brink of extinction”. More >>
Harawira - Disqualification of convicted prisoners
Wednesday, 21 April 2010, 5:21 pm | The Maori Party
Mr Speaker - if an election was held today, some 3200 sentenced prisoners, those with a release date between now and 5 March 2011, would be able to take up their democratic right to a vote; and there are another 1800 prisoners on remand who are ... More >>
The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People
Wednesday, 21 April 2010, 4:56 pm | The Maori Party
Mr Speaker - it was with a sense of enduring shame that when the rest of the world was signing up to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, the Labour government of the time, without consultation with their own Maori caucus or ... More >>
Rahui Katene: Declaration Speech
Tuesday, 20 April 2010, 3:08 pm | The Maori Party
This morning in our early dawn, over in New York more than two thousand indigenous peoples rose to their feet to give a rousing ovation to the historic decision of the NZ to support the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. More >>
Notice Of Motion On Polish Plane Crash
Tuesday, 20 April 2010, 2:31 pm | The Maori Party
The Maori Party stands to share in the collective sorrow of this House as we pay our respects for the people of Poland in their own homeland, and the many who have come to call Aotearoa home. More >>
