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Three Strikes Targets Those ‘too Brown To Be White’
Monday, 22 April 2024, 4:20 pm | Te Pati Maori
Tākuta Ferris MP Mema Paremata mō Te Tai Tonga Spokesperson for Justice The government's decision to reintroduce Three Strikes is a destructive and ineffective piece of law-making that will only exacerbate an inherently biased and racist criminal justice system, ... More >>
Oranga Tamariki Cuts Commit Tamariki To State Abuse
Wednesday, 17 April 2024, 2:25 pm | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori is disgusted at the confirmation that hundreds are set to lose their jobs at Oranga Tamariki, and the disestablishment of the Treaty Response Unit. “This act of absolute carelessness and out of touch decision making is committing tamariki ... More >>
Te Pāti Māori Celebrates Historic Taranaki Redress
Tuesday, 9 April 2024, 8:35 pm | Te Pati Maori
Today Te Pāti Māori joined Taranaki iwi in celebration as the Taranaki Mounga Collective Redress Bill passed its first reading in Parliament today. More >>
Govt Ambush Māori Representation With Reintroduction Of 5% Referendum
Thursday, 4 April 2024, 3:09 pm | Te Pati Maori
Decision to reintroduce referendums to overturn already established and to stop the establishment of Māori wards is a continued attack on Māori representation. More >>
Te Pāti Māori Calls On Universities To Stand By Marginalised Tauira Placed Under Threat
Thursday, 28 March 2024, 11:17 am | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori’s is calling on tertiary providers to protect the spaces placed under target by an Act Party who is persistently misrepresenting tangata whenua. “What we are seeing from the Act Party is only another attempt to misrepresent ... More >>
Te Pāti Māori Only Party With Transformative Tax Policy To Address Cost-of-living
Tuesday, 26 March 2024, 10:25 am | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori’s tax policy is the transformational solution to poverty that Aotearoa needs. “The Labour leaders speech over the weekend was an admission that Labour chose to do nothing to fix our broken tax system when they had the absolute ... More >>
20-thousand Sign Petition To Remove GST From Food
Wednesday, 20 March 2024, 1:02 pm | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori co-leader and MP for Waiariki, Rawiri Waititi has today presented the parties petition to remove GST from food as his members bill to adopt this change will be read for a first time today. “In late 2022, Te Pāti Māori committed to ... More >>
Waititi Writes To Parties Asking Them To Support Removal Of GST From Food
Monday, 18 March 2024, 2:04 pm | The Maori Party
Te Pāti Māori co-leader and MP for Waiariki, Rawiri Waititi has penned a letter asking MPs to support his members bill to remove GST from all food. The bill is expected to go through its first reading in parliament this Wednesday. “I’m calling on ... More >>
Te Pāti Māori Pledge To Come For Landlords Who Take Up Interest Deductibility
Wednesday, 13 March 2024, 11:06 am | The Maori Party
Te Pāti Māori has a message for landlords who take advantage of interest deductibility handouts - be prepared to pay it back in 2026. “The coalition’s plan to reintroduce interest deductibility will flip the housing market in favour of wealthy investors ... More >>
We Will Never Back Down On Seabed Mining
Wednesday, 13 March 2024, 8:47 am | The Maori Party
After 12 years of fighting to protect our moana we are finding ourselves back at square one and back at court. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is sitting in Hawera to reconsider an application from Trans-Tasman Resources to dig up 50 million ... More >>
Govt Commits Māori To A Premature Death With Axing Of Health Authority, Smokefree Laws
Wednesday, 28 February 2024, 12:16 pm | Te Pati Maori
The government’s attack on Māori health this week is committing tangata-whenua to a premature death, says Te Pāti Māori. “The government have begun their onslaught on Māori health with the abolishment of the Māori Health Authority and smokefree ... More >>
Te Pāti Māori Request Urgent Debate To Stop Dictatorship Government
Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 10:35 am | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori has this morning written to the speaker of the house requesting an urgent debate around the use and abuse of urgency to expedite the progression of its agenda, including the disestablishment of the Māori health authority. “The ... More >>
Members Bill To Remove GST From Kai, Pulled From Ballot
Thursday, 15 February 2024, 1:17 pm | The Maori Party
Te Pāti Māori co-leader and Member for Waiariki, Rawiri Waititi is ecstatic his members bill to remove GST from kai has been drawn from the ballot. “For the last three-years Te Pāti Māori have been calling on the previous and current governments ... More >>
ICJ Verdict A Victory In Fight For Justice For Palestine
Saturday, 27 January 2024, 3:31 pm | The Maori Party
Today’s verdict from International Court of Justice is a significant step in the fight for justice for the Palestine people. South Africa’s case presented the brutality of Israel’s months of continual bombardment which has killed more than 25,000 people ... More >>
Te Tai Tokerau MP Acknowledges Kelvin Davis For 12-years Service
Wednesday, 20 December 2023, 3:40 pm | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori MP for Te Tai Tokerau, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, is this morning acknowleding the announcement of the resignation of Kelvin Davis, and recognises his service to the rohe o Te Tai Tokerau and Aotearoa. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2312/622153a3736d42235451.jpeg" ... More >>
Over-promising Government Under Delivering For Aotearoa
Wednesday, 20 December 2023, 3:31 pm | The Maori Party
Te Pāti Māori is labelling this government as one that has over promised and under delivered as it announces its mini budget of cut backs. “The government have done the public dirty, over-promising and under delivering for those suffering hardship ... More >>
Te Pāti Māori Stands With Workers
Wednesday, 13 December 2023, 11:44 am | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori will be strongly opposing the Fair Pay Agreements Legislation Repeal Bill this Government is trying to pass before Christmas. 30 years ago, the Employment Contracts Act 1991 removed sector-wide bargaining from our industrial relations system. ... More >>
An Oath To Our Mokopuna
Friday, 1 December 2023, 11:01 am | Te Pati Maori
On Tuesday, MPs will be required to pledge an oath of allegiance to ‘ His Majesty King Charles the Third, His heirs and successors’ before they can be officially sworn into Parliament. This is symbolic of the colonial power that Parliament places ... More >>
Māori Will Die To Fund Tax Cuts
Wednesday, 29 November 2023, 12:58 pm | Te Pati Maori
By scrapping Aotearoa’s world-leading smokefree laws, this government is sacrificing Māori lives to fund tax cuts for the wealthy. Not only is this plan revolting, but it doesn’t add up. Treasury has estimated that the reversal of smokefree laws to ... More >>
Luxon’s Government Will Whitewash Aotearoa
Friday, 24 November 2023, 2:30 pm | Te Pati Maori
NZ First has gotten their wish to ‘take our country back’ to the 1800s with a policy program that will white-wash Aotearoa and erase tangata whenua rights. By disestablishing the Māori Health Authority this Government has condemned Māori ... More >>
