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Ridiculous tax status for Māori housing provider
Wednesday, 23 September 2015, 12:22 pm | The Maori Party
The Māori Party supports the call for a law change, if required, to ensure a Māori social housing provider doesn’t lose its charitable tax status. More >>
Advancing the interests of Māori land owners
Friday, 18 September 2015, 8:23 am | The Maori Party
The current Ture Whenua Māori reform will give Māori land owners greater rangatiratanga (authority) over their own land. More >>
Continuing the hīkoi forty years on
Monday, 14 September 2015, 8:44 am | The Maori Party
Forty years ago a courageous group led by the late Dame Whina Cooper started the Māori Land March to Parliament. While the continuing alienation of Māori land was the rallying call, it was the catalyst for greater recognition of Te Tiriti o Waitangi ... More >>
Māori Party welcomes the passing of two Treaty Settlements
Wednesday, 9 September 2015, 3:58 pm | The Maori Party
The Māori Party congratulates four Te Hiku iwi (Ngāti Kurī, Te Aupōuri, Ngāi Takoto and Te Rarawa) as well as Te Kawerau ā Maki for enshrining their Treaty of Waitangi settlements in law. Both the Te Hiku Claims Settlement Bill and Te Kawerau ... More >>
Government right to come to party over iwi housing agreement
Friday, 4 September 2015, 5:00 pm | The Maori Party
The Māori Party is happy that its challenge to the Government to honour RFRs has paid off with the announcement yesterday of an Auckland iwi housing agreement. More >>
Why Māori need an independent political voice in Parliament
Wednesday, 2 September 2015, 1:54 pm | The Maori Party
The Māori Party says the Labour Leader’s response to two of its Māori MPs attending a charter school fundraiser is one of the many reasons why it’s so important for Māori to have an independent political voice. More >>
Staff need stronger Māori cultural capability
Thursday, 27 August 2015, 5:01 pm | The Maori Party
Māori Party Co-leader, Marama Fox, has today asked questions of the Social Development Minister in the wake of the Children’s Commissioner’s report, State of Care, 2015. More >>
Minister announces investigation
Thursday, 27 August 2015, 1:16 pm | The Maori Party
Māori Development Māori Te Ururoa Flavell announced today that he will direct a ministerial investigation into the affairs of Aupōuri Māori Trust Board, under section 33 of the Māori Trust Boards Act 1955. More >>
Māori Technology Scholarship to change lives
Thursday, 27 August 2015, 11:27 am | The Maori Party
Māori Development Minister, Te Ururoa Flavell, welcomes a new initiative to encourage more Māori into the Information Technology sector today. More >>
Māori Party congratulates Hon Dr Sir Pita Sharples
Wednesday, 26 August 2015, 2:49 pm | The Maori Party
The Māori Party congratulates one of its founding Co-leader’s Hon Sir Pita Sharples, who received his Knighthood at Government House in Auckland today. Sir Pita was appointed a Knight Companion in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services as a ... More >>
POROPOROAKI: Putiputi O’Brien QSMa
Wednesday, 19 August 2015, 4:18 pm | The Maori Party
The Māori Party grieves with whānau across Aotearoa for a champion of health, a leader of learning, Aunty Putiputi O'Brien. More >>
List of high risk industries anticipated
Wednesday, 19 August 2015, 2:43 pm | The Maori Party
The Māori Party welcomes the greater transparency over which workers will automatically have a health and safety representative regardless of their company’s size. More >>
Poroporoaki: Stuart Panapa QSM
Wednesday, 19 August 2015, 2:00 pm | The Maori Party
Māori Party Co-leader, Marama Fox, has expressed her sadness at the passing of Stuart Panapa, QSM, of Ruahapia Marae. More >>
Contractor wage bill passes first reading
Thursday, 13 August 2015, 1:11 pm | The Maori Party
Māori Party Co-leader Marama Fox says the party’s support for the Minimum Wage (Contract Remuneration) Amendment Bill last night is consistent with the Māori Party’s policy on raising the minimum wage More >>
Māori Party welcomes greater iwi input into local councils
Thursday, 13 August 2015, 9:28 am | The Maori Party
The Māori Party is pleased to see that iwi in the Taranaki and Hawkes Bay regions will have greater input in to their local regional councils. More >>
Restoring the mana of Ngāruahine and Ngāti Hineuru
Thursday, 13 August 2015, 9:04 am | The Maori Party
Māori Party Co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell says today is a hugely significant day for the tribal members of Ngāruahine and Ngāti Hineuru. More >>
Encouraging Māori to have their say on family violence laws
Wednesday, 5 August 2015, 9:58 pm | The Maori Party
The Māori Party urges whānau, hapū, iwi and Māori to have their say on the wide-ranging review of family violence laws. More >>
Minister intends to introduce Māori Land Bill into the House
Tuesday, 4 August 2015, 7:51 am | The Maori Party
The Māori Development Minister, Hon Te Ururoa Flavell, intends to allow for more time to develop the Ture Whenua Māori Bill within an expanded work programme, which is aimed at fully realising the utilisation of Māori land. More >>
Māori Party calling for te reo Māori on New Zealand coins
Saturday, 1 August 2015, 11:50 am | The Maori Party
The Māori Party is calling for any new distribution of New Zealand coins to have both Māori and English on them. More >>
The Māori Party stands firmly opposed to the TPPA
Thursday, 30 July 2015, 11:08 am | The Maori Party
The Māori Party stands firmly opposed to the TPPA Mounting concerns about the impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement on tangata whenua are shared by the Māori Party Co-leaders Marama Fox and Te Ururoa Flavell, as final negotiations continue ... More >>
