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Whānau Build – A Housing Crisis Solved
Thursday, 24 September 2020, 6:28 pm | The Maori Party
Māori Party Co-Leader John Tamihere has announced a total solution for New Zealand Housing in an eight step programme Ensure that 50% of all Social Housing units be made available to indigenous people first. 2000 houses over the next two years built ... More >>
Māori Party Announce Māori Controlled Health Funding And Whānau Controlled Health Service Spend Card
Monday, 21 September 2020, 9:35 am | The Maori Party
A fully funded independent Māori Health Funding Authority, all Māori having their own Whānau Health Card and Māori being screened for Cancer 10 years earlier than non-Māori are all part of the Māori Party Health Policy. Māori Party Co-Leader ... More >>
Māori Party Announce Policy To Transform Education System
Wednesday, 16 September 2020, 10:15 am | The Maori Party
The Māori Party has today announced their education and training policy, which will transform the way tamariki Māori are educated in Aotearoa through resourcing and valuing kaupapa Māori education, overhauling the mainstream Pākehā system, ... More >>
Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori: Māori Party Announce Te Reo Māori Policy
Monday, 14 September 2020, 10:03 am | The Maori Party
In time for Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, Māori Party Candidate for Waiariki, Rawiri Waititi has today announced the party’s policy for Te Reo Māori. Among a comprehensive list of undertakings, the policy sets out to ensure New Zealand’s name is changed ... More >>
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer Welcomes Greens Adopting Māori Party Agriculture Policies
Saturday, 12 September 2020, 2:47 pm | The Maori Party
Māori Party Co-leader and Te Tai Hauāuru candidate Debbie Ngarewa-Packer has today welcomed the announcement of the Green Party’s agriculture policy, which adopts two key components of the climate action plan she announced on behalf of the Māori ... More >>
Māori Party Launches Its Mokopuna Māori Policy
Saturday, 12 September 2020, 2:23 pm | The Maori Party
Māori Party candidate for Te Taitokerau, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, has today announced the parties Mokopuna Māori Policy at an event in Whangarei. “We are at a tipping point and the time has come for us take back our rights as tangata whenua” says ... More >>
Māori Party Co-leader Announces Policy To Lift Incomes, Reduce Poverty
Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 11:04 am | The Maori Party
Māori Party Co-leader and Te Tai Hauāuru candidate Debbie Ngarewa-Packer has today announced her party’s incomes policy, which addresses Aotearoa’s low-wage economy by lifting the minimum wage to $25 per hour and guaranteeing Māori pay equity, and ... More >>
Māori Voices Matter TVNZ
Tuesday, 8 September 2020, 10:22 am | The Maori Party
John Tamihere is pleased TVNZ has come to its senses and included the Māori Party into the multi-party political leaders’ debate. The state owned broadcaster had initially left the Māori Party out of the scheduled September 9 –which has been ... More >>
Māori Party: Racism In Education, Second Pandemic In Aotearoa
Wednesday, 2 September 2020, 12:23 pm | The Maori Party
Māori Party candidate for Te Tai Tonga, Tākuta Ferris & Waiariki candidate, Rawiri Waititi believe institutional racism within the education system is holding this nation back. “This week has highlighted the second pandemic taking hold of ... More >>
Māori Party List Fit For Purpose For A COVID-informed Landscape
Friday, 28 August 2020, 6:29 am | The Maori Party
The fresh look of indigenous ingenuity and intergenerational insight features highly in the Māori Party’s list announced today by President Che Wilson. “As the nation pivots from social need to economic recovery, we need leadership that is agile, energetic ... More >>
Māori Party Declare 2020 A Covid Education Amnesty Year
Tuesday, 25 August 2020, 4:45 pm | The Maori Party
Māori Party Co-Leader John Tamihere says Years 10 11, 12 and Year 13 students must all be given pass marks to NCEA. He said 2020 has been so severely disrupted that all Kiwi children facing NCEA exams must be assured of their right to graduate to ... More >>
Māori Party Backing Parents, Teachers Concerns With Level 3 Education Rules
Monday, 17 August 2020, 11:47 pm | The Maori Party
Māori Party Co-leader and Te Tai Hauāuru candidate Debbie Ngarewa-Packer is shocked with the Ministry of Education’s decision today to allow senior students to return to high schools in Tāmaki Makaurau while the city is still in lockdown at Level ... More >>
Jacinda’s Decision Is ‘the Right Thing To Do.’
Monday, 17 August 2020, 12:15 pm | The Maori Party
The Māori Party says the Prime Ministers decision to delay the election is the right and honourable thing to do. Māori Party Co-Leader John Tamihere said Jacinda Ardern was right to postpone the election by four weeks. He said the Māori Party ... More >>
Māori Must Move To Level 4
Friday, 14 August 2020, 12:22 pm | The Maori Party
Māori must move to Level 4 Lockdown and the borders must be closed for the next 14 days - even to overseas whānau wanting to return home – to ensure proper border control. That’s the call from the Māori Party who are calling on Māori to unite ... More >>
Jacinda Must Be Up Front With Covid Information
Wednesday, 12 August 2020, 10:47 am | The Maori Party
We have a caretaker government in the middle of an election campaign. Māori Party Co-Leader John Tamihere is calling on Jacinda Ardern to be up front and honest about the latest Covid community outbreak so we can all be part of the team. Level 3 lockdown ... More >>
Māori Party Saddened by the Passing of Judge Heta Hingston
Monday, 10 August 2020, 9:57 am | The Maori Party
E te rangatira, e te tohunga, e te Tiati, haere, haere, haere atu ra. Haere ki o tupuna, no ratou nga taonga i tuku iho ki a koe, hei whangai mai ki a matou. More >>
“Celebrating World Indigenous Day The Māori Way”
Friday, 7 August 2020, 1:23 pm | The Maori Party
The Māori Party is celebrating World Indigenous Day the Māori way, surrounded by friends and whānau at a Meet-the-Candidates at the Third Place Café in Rotorua this weekend. To mark World Indigenous Day, the Māori Party wants to remind Aotearoa ... More >>
Brown Voices Matter - But Not To TVNZ
Tuesday, 4 August 2020, 9:56 pm | The Maori Party
The Board of Television New Zealand and its senior management determined last week that the Māori Party would not be able to participate in any of the political debates being broadcast on the state-owned TV channel. Māori Party Co Leader John Tamihere ... More >>
Māori Party Urges Govt To Proceed With Caution On Scrapping RMA
Thursday, 30 July 2020, 10:18 am | The Maori Party
The Māori Party is urging the Government to proceed with caution in response to Minister David Parker committing to support a new report’s proposals to scrap the RMA and replace it with two new pieces of legislation. “We agree that the RMA needs ... More >>
Māori Party Co-leader Announces Policy Plan For Bold Action On Climate Change
Sunday, 19 July 2020, 8:09 am | The Maori Party
Māori Party Co-leader and Te Tai Hauāuru candidate Debbie Ngarewa-Packer has today announced her party’s climate change policy plan, that will restore the environment, create jobs and reduce costs by transitioning Aotearoa’s economy towards renewable ... More >>
