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Speech: Katene - Consequential Rate Alignment, Tax
Friday, 27 November 2009, 10:14 am | The Maori Party
I want to take a very brief call to raise three points of particular interest to the Maori Party in this Taxation legislation. The first is that the Bill defines forestry business to include Permanent Forest Sink Initiative activities so that ... More >>
Speech: Flavell - Biosecurity Amendment Bill
Friday, 27 November 2009, 10:13 am | The Maori Party
This Bill makes a number of amendments to the Bio-security Act 1993 to increase penalties for passengers who fail to comply with bio-security measures. Bio-security is an important issue in Aotearoa. The Maori Party is keen to bring to this debate the ... More >>
Labour’s attack on iwi is an attack on whanau
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 5:02 pm | The Maori Party
The Maori Party says whanau and iwi can’t be divided and the Labour Opposition’s attempt to attack iwi is an attack on thousands of whanau. “Without whanau there is no iwi and it is low of the Labour Party to hit out at iwi especially when those ... More >>
Labour's dangerous politics
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 4:59 pm | The Maori Party
The Labour Party is seriously confused and this is evident in the contrasting statements it is making to Maori and mainstream media. “Labour is telling Maori media that we got peanuts for Maori in the emissions trading scheme. Yet, at the same time it ... More >>
Flavell praises Maori dux
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 4:57 pm | The Maori Party
Maori Party education spokesperson Te Ururoa Flavell has commended Kataraina Faiers and Jamaika Anderson for being awarded the 2009 dux at St Joseph's Maori Girls College. “It makes me so proud to see our rangatahi achieving in education and I take my ... More >>
Speech: Katene - Use of Court Cells Amendment Bill
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 4:46 pm | The Maori Party
The basic proposal in this Bill is that the Department of Corrections will have access to court cells to house over-flow prisoners by the first half of 2010, when they may be needed. Once the Bill is passed today the Ministry of Justice and Department ... More >>
Poroporoaki: Jane Marsden
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 4:05 pm | The Maori Party
E te whäea, tupuna, kuia rangatira, moe mai ra, moe mai ra i to moenga roa. Haere ki to hoa rangatira ki a Maori e tatari mai ra ki a koe. Ka nui te aroha ki o tamariki, mokopuna, rätou ko nga hunaonga, ara te whänau nui tonu kua whakarerea nei e tangi ... More >>
No place for Labour Party’s race division tactics
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 3:06 pm | The Maori Party
The Maori Party is calling on the public not to fall into the scaremongering trap that Labour Party leader Phil Goff has tried to set in his version of another racially divisive Orewa type speech made in Palmerston North today. “Mr Goff is doing his ... More >>
Flavell calls on Hide to recycle
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 9:45 am | The Maori Party
Local Government Minister Rodney Hide might be against recycling the waste in his own office, but that should not stop him from pressuring local authorities to clean up their act, Maori Party MP for Waiariki and local government spokesperson Te Ururoa ... More >>
Speech: Katene - ETS Third Reading
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 9:40 am | The Maori Party
Mr Speaker yesterday when I spoke on the second reading of the Bill I remarked what a joy it has been to work with the National Party throughout these negotiations. The Maori Party has been impressed throughout the negotiations by the clear vision ... More >>
Speech: Flavell - ETS Treaty Clause
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 9:37 am | The Maori Party
I rise to talk to the Maori Party’s supplementary order paper, to amend supplementary order paper number 89. I do so on behalf of my colleague, Rahui Katene, who did much of the work on our behalf. Sir it is with a huge amount of pride that this Bill, ... More >>
Maori Party - 'Our word is our bond'
Wednesday, 25 November 2009, 11:49 am | The Maori Party
The National Executive of the Maori Party has confirmed that no meeting has been organised or authorised of the National Council to discuss the decision of the Maori Party to support the Emissions Trading Scheme. Te Orohi Paul, Co-vice President, ... More >>
Death of Flight Sergeant Andrew Forster
Wednesday, 25 November 2009, 10:03 am | The Maori Party
The Maori Party stands to convey our respects to the bereaved family and community at the loss of Flight Sergeant Andrew Forster. More >>
Te Tai Tonga MP dissapointed with school closure
Wednesday, 25 November 2009, 9:46 am | The Maori Party
Rahui Katene, Maori Party MP for Te Tai Tonga, today expressed her disappointment with the decision of Minister of Education Anne Tolley to close Aorangi Primary School in Christchurch. More >>
Speech: Katene - Moderated Emissions Trading
Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 5:25 pm | The Maori Party
May I say it is a joy to work with a party which is not tied down in Hide-bound ideas. In speaking to the announcement made yesterday of the proposals to reduce emissions in order to meet the Kyoto Protocol, Ngai Tahu kaiwhakahaere Mark Solomon made a ... More >>
Waiariki MP congratulates new 2009 Australian idol
Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 9:42 am | The Maori Party
Waiariki MP Te Ururoa Flavell was delighted to hear the news of Ngai Te Rangi 18 year old, Stan Walker, winning the Australian Idol competition on Sunday night. "While we won't get the see the show until this Friday night, the news has already spread ... More >>
Column by Hone Harawira - Ae Marika!
Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 9:21 am | The Maori Party
Tai Tokerau is the best place in the world to live, and the Tai Tokerau electorate has got the wildest bunch of voters in the country, and if you’d been up at Aniwaniwa the other week you would’ve seen just how wild they can get when somebody from ... More >>
Maori Party deal to benefit all
Monday, 23 November 2009, 4:24 pm | The Maori Party
New Zealand's role in global warming and its financial commitments are set to be lowered as a result of the afforestation provision the Maori Party has negotiated with the Government. More >>
Poroporoaki: Hawea Vercoe
Monday, 23 November 2009, 10:24 am | The Maori Party
The Maori Party has expressed their profound shock at hearing of the death of prominent school principal and local body politician Hawea Vercoe. “Hawea was a young man with enormous energy for life who had achieved a significant profile across Aotearoa ... More >>
Katene: Iwi Maori Kaumatua Service Provider Hui
Friday, 20 November 2009, 3:03 pm | The Maori Party
It was interesting to relive the experience of the hikoi for Te Takutaimoana; the opposition to the Foreshore and Seabed Bill; and to consider all of that context. More >>
