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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 >>
Te Pāti Māori Call For Resignation Of MFAT CEO Over Te Reo Māori Erasure
Monday, 20 November 2023, 3:29 pm | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori have called for the resignation of the Ministry of Foreign and Trade chief executive Chris Seed following his decision to erase te reo Māori from government communications. While the country still waits for a new government to be formed, ... More >>
Aotearoa Must Cut Ties With War Criminals
Friday, 10 November 2023, 2:13 pm | Te Pati Maori
Israel have agreed to 4 hour pause of violence each day, essentially saying they will still kill Palestinians for 20 hours a day. If President Joe Biden is going to rule out a ceasefire but take credit for negotiating a pause, then he must also ... More >>
Te Pāti Māori Celebrate Most Successful Election Result In History
Friday, 3 November 2023, 1:58 pm | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori are celebrating the most successful election result in the Party’s history following the announcement of the final vote count today. Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and Takutai Moana Kemp will be joining Te Pāti Māori’s caucus alongside fellow ... More >>
Te Pāti Māori Statement On Gaza
Tuesday, 31 October 2023, 2:51 pm | Te Pati Maori
Prime Minister Hipkins has been vocal in condemning HAMAS but silent on the war crimes of Israel as though Palestinian lives matter less. The bombing of hospitals, homes and churches is not self-defence. The use of white phosphorous in densely populated ... More >>
Te Pāti Māori Demand NZ Government Expel Israeli Ambassador If There Is No Immediate Ceasefire, Humanitarian Aid
Wednesday, 18 October 2023, 1:52 pm | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori Co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer are demanding that the New Zealand Government expel the Israeli ambassador if Israel does not immediately implement a ceasefire and open safe humanitarian aid corridors for Gaza. “We condemn ... More >>
