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Maori Party Welcomes South Auckland Health Centre
Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 10:05 am | The Maori Party
Maori Party Co-leaders, Dr Pita Sharples and Hon Tariana Turia, congratulated Counties Manukau DHB, Auckland University, Manukau Institute of Technology and AUT University for their brave step forward in announcing earlier today a new health research centre ... More >>
Poroporoaki: Rei Hamon
Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 9:50 am | The Maori Party
The Maori Party has acknowledged the great loss to Aotearoa, of the Te Aitanga a Mahaki artist, Francis Rei Paul Hamon, CBE. More >>
Maori Party congratulates Pacific Party
Tuesday, 19 August 2008, 10:01 am | The Maori Party
The Maori Party welcomes the New Zealand Pacific Party into the political arena as a new voice for Pacific peoples, following its successful launch on Saturday night. More >>
Maori Party hits H’Town
Tuesday, 19 August 2008, 9:44 am | The Maori Party
Angeline Greensill, Hauraki-Waikato candidate for the Maori Party The Maori Party MPs and candidates are hitting the road this week, in their ongoing commitment to return to the people, kanohi ki te kanohi. More >>
Academic honour rewards lifetime of leadership
Monday, 18 August 2008, 3:47 pm | The Maori Party
The Maori Party congratulates Professor Mason Durie on the recent award of an honorary LlD from his alma mater, Otago University. More >>
Maori Party goes for gold to win 7 Maori seats
Sunday, 17 August 2008, 3:25 pm | The Maori Party
Maori Party goes for gold to win seven Maori seats The Maori Party – SEVEN SEATS More >>
Labour Votes Down Treaty of Waitangi, Again
Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 11:39 am | The Maori Party
“Disappointed, but not surprised,” was the reaction from Hone Harawira, Maori Party Member of Parliament for Te Tai Tokerau, at Labour’s Maori MPs voting down the Treaty clause that the Maori Party had proposed be included in the Policing Bill. More >>
All options on the table, says Harawira
Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 11:36 am | The Maori Party
“When Dover says his mind is boggled at the possibility of the Maori Party working with National,”said Hone Harawira, Maori Party MP for Tai Tokerau, “folks up home just smile and say ‘yeah – don’t take much to boggle our Dover’.” More >>
Maori Party getting on the road – and the roll
Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 9:19 am | The Maori Party
The Maori Party’s road show through the Ikaroa Rawhiti electorate will hit the ‘Central Hawkes Bay today, says Maori Party candidate Derek Fox. More >>
Hone Harawira - Saving The Treaty
Tuesday, 12 August 2008, 2:26 pm | The Maori Party
Readers will know that over the past couple of years, I have been highly critical of the Labour Maori MPs’ lack of support for the Treaty of Waitangi, and the fact that they’d actually voted against the Treaty of Waitangi twice in the last three ... More >>
Hone Harawira: Employment Relations Bill
Friday, 8 August 2008, 9:29 am | The Maori Party
Exactly 100 years ago, miners at Blackball down on the West Coast, were sacked for daring to ask for a thirty minute meal break instead of the fifteen minutes the bosses said they could have, and over the last century, those mining heroes have been joined ... More >>
Hone Harawira: Parliamentary Service Bill
Friday, 8 August 2008, 9:26 am | The Maori Party
Nobody's bothering to speak on this bill I suspect Madam Speaker, because it’s a petty little nothingness on the global stage of free trade agreements, emission trading, drug-fuelled Olympics, smog-filled stadiums, and rising fuel costs, but ... More >>
Tariana Turia: A Framework for Wellness
Friday, 8 August 2008, 9:23 am | The Maori Party
Just last weekend I enjoyed a wonderful event here dining with the stars, our kaumatua and kuia. More >>
“What about Whanau Ora Mr Anderton?"
Thursday, 7 August 2008, 9:47 am | The Maori Party
The Associate Minister of Health seems unable to understand the value of collective approaches to health, which is the fundamental underlying principle of his government’s Maori health policy, according to the Maori Party. More >>
Hone Harawira: Taxation Bill Speech
Thursday, 7 August 2008, 9:45 am | The Maori Party
The current situation of making companies earning up to $200,000 have to file PAYE twice a month, sounds like a plan to keep bureaucrats in work, and bury business enthusiasm, beneath piles of pointless paperwork. More >>
Ae Marika! 5 August 2008
Wednesday, 6 August 2008, 3:53 pm | The Maori Party
Amongst other things I was supposed to do on Saturday, I missed going to a special celebration for a very special kuia. Nina Subritzky turned 100 on Saturday, and I was supposed to deliver a special message to her. I missed the occasion, but I won’t ... More >>
Hone Harawira: Policing Bill
Wednesday, 6 August 2008, 9:48 am | The Maori Party
First of all, Mr Speaker, let me just say that the police can fine me $2,000 and they can fine me right now, but if they’re pounding on my good neighbour, Mr Mangu Awarau, then they can call me, they can yell at me, they can charge me, but I ain’t ... More >>
Te Ururoa Flavell: Aquaculture Legislation Speech
Wednesday, 6 August 2008, 9:47 am | The Maori Party
Mr Speaker I don’t know if you’ve heard of a good Te Arawa gentleman, a gentleman by the name of Arthur Bloch, author of Murphy’s Law, summed up this Bill in one short sentence, “If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually ... More >>
Minister in denial over environmental report
Tuesday, 5 August 2008, 5:56 pm | The Maori Party
Maori Party MP for Te Tai Hauauru, Tariana Turia, described the Environment Minister's answers to her questions in Parliament today as 'another load of the same old rubbish'. More >>
Maori Voices in Parliament Still Strong
Monday, 4 August 2008, 12:30 am | The Maori Party
The importance of Maori representation in Parliament was set out clearly and powerfully in the first-ever speech by a Maori MP, according to the Maori Party. More >>
