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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 >>
Declaration good for Maori, good for the nation
Tuesday, 20 April 2010, 9:26 am | The Maori Party
The Maori Party has welcomed the Government’s decision to adopt the United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. More >>
Young Orator Heads To Youth Parliament
Monday, 19 April 2010, 3:57 pm | The Maori Party
People say that Turei-Hamiora Ormsby of Ngati Porou and Upokorehe is an “extraordinary orator” and that’s a talent he will undoubtedly be putting to use in this year’s Youth Parliament. More >>
Harawira Backs Ngati Whatua On Crest Energy Plan
Wednesday, 14 April 2010, 11:30 am | The Maori Party
Hone Harawira is irate that power companies, partly owned by foreigners, can get rights to the foreshore and seabed without having to jump over the same hurdles as tangata whenua. More >>
Winnie In Wonderland Needs To Wake Up
Wednesday, 14 April 2010, 10:40 am | The Maori Party
The Maori Party says the Alice in Wonderland-inspired speech delivered tonight by Winston Peters is a sign that he has lost the plot. “His speech is very unoriginal – he used the same theme in a Parliamentary speech he gave in 2008,” More >>
Maori Party applauds Govt for being bold
Thursday, 8 April 2010, 12:50 pm | The Maori Party
The Maori Party says the Government must be commended for its bold decision to embrace whanau ora – one of the party’s most significant social policies. More >>
Maori Party mourns passing of learned Rotorua son
Tuesday, 6 April 2010, 10:54 am | The Maori Party
The Maori Party is mourning the death of Rotorua historian and author Don Stafford. More >>
Rahui Katene - Unit Titles Bill
Thursday, 1 April 2010, 5:22 pm | The Maori Party
The purpose of this Unit Titles Bill is principally to update the law, to provide for the range, complexity and size of today’s developments, including large-scale projects. More >>
Regulatory Improvement Bill
Thursday, 1 April 2010, 4:03 pm | The Maori Party
Whenever the House has to consider an omnibus bill, such as this one, we must be careful to ensure that vital issues are not overlooked in any one component part, but in this Bill, the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Amendment (HSNO) Act ... More >>
Hone Harawira: Dairy Industry Restructuring Bill
Thursday, 1 April 2010, 3:54 pm | The Maori Party
This Bill to allow milk to be allocated through an auction process sounds technical, but it also allows us to acknowledge the opportunity for Maori in the primary sector. More >>
Rahui Katene: Canterbury Regional Council Bill
Thursday, 1 April 2010, 10:11 am | The Maori Party
The interesting issue for us as the Maori Party, is how can Government overturn the democratic process in one region – by dismissing the Commissioners of Environment Canterbury; while in another region – Tamaki Makaurau – they are passionately ... More >>
Rahui Katene: Immigration Amendment Bill
Thursday, 1 April 2010, 9:55 am | The Maori Party
It made for fascinating timing to receive the findings of the 98th session of the Human Rights Committee in New York, just as this Bill was being primed for introduction. More >>
Repeal one step closer to a reality
Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 2:13 pm | The Maori Party
Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia says the repeal of the Foreshore and Seabed Act is one step closer to a reality. More >>
Canterbury Regional Council Bill
Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 11:04 am | The Maori Party
Kia ora tatou katoa e te Whare. Whenever this House goes into urgency – and it has been happening a lot lately – we sacrifice the principle of democracy. It is not the democracy defined as being the “control of a group by the majority of its ... More >>
Future Focus Benefit Reforms Bill
Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 9:44 am | The Maori Party
The struggle for tino rangatiratanga is a long and hard road, whose early beginnings were paved by warriors who fought and died to hold their lands, by statesmen who sought a peaceful path but got trampled underfoot by colonial invaders, by small ... More >>
Television New Zealand Amendment Bill
Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 9:41 am | The Maori Party
What would happen now, should a charter be abolished? What will happen should Television New Zealand decide that it no longer wants to broadcast programmes that reflect anything to do with Māoridom and the language, or increase the content of what it is doing ... More >>
Securities Trustees and Statutory Supervisors Bill
Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 9:39 am | The Maori Party
I am not an expert in matters relating to finance, but I do know what I see and hear. In the Commerce Committee last year, just a few months ago, I witnessed with my own eyes the hurt in those who came before that committee to express their pain because ... More >>
