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Policy Announcement: More Social Housing For Māori
Friday, 31 March 2023, 11:55 am | The Maori Party
Te Pāti Māori will radically increase the social housing stock and ensure 50 percent of all new social housing is allocated to Māori, who make up 50 percent of the social housing waitlist. As part of this package, $600 million will go toward building 2,000 ... More >>
Te Pāti Māori: Govt Response To Child Poverty Rates ‘Disgraceful’
Tuesday, 28 March 2023, 4:04 pm | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori is taking the Government to task after the Minister for Child Poverty Reduction called child poverty statistics released last week ‘encouraging’, despite there being no change in poverty rates from the previous year. Stats NZ’s child ... More >>
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer Welcomes Seabed Mining Open Letter From Māori, Enviro Groups
Wednesday, 15 March 2023, 10:08 am | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori Co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer is welcoming an open letter from more than 20 marae, hapū, iwi and environmental NGOs and community groups who are calling on Prime Minister Chris Hipkins to support Debbie’s Member’s Bill to ... More >>
Te Kapa Haka O Te Whānau A Apanui To Announce Rawiri Waititi's Candidacy During Finals Performance At Te Matatini
Sunday, 26 February 2023, 5:46 am | The Maori Party
"Te Matatini epitomises everything that our Pāti Maori movement stands for; mana motuhake, being proud to be Maori, believing in ourselves, and what better place to announce than at the most revered festival of Maoridom" said Rawiri Waititi. ... More >>
Cyclone Gabrielle: Te Pāti Māori call for flood relief funding for marae and Māori National Service Defence framework
Saturday, 18 February 2023, 2:14 pm | The Maori Party
Te Pāti Māori are calling on the Government to establish a $100m Māori Taiao Relief Fund , with an immediate focus on rebuilding and cleaning up marae, urupā and papakāinga impacted by environmental disasters. As Aotearoa faces its second ... More >>
Te Pāti Māori Announces Takutai Moana Kemp As Candidate For Tāmaki Makaurau For The 2023 Election
Monday, 6 February 2023, 5:58 pm | The Maori Party
Today, at a Waitangi ki Waititi concert hosted by Te Whānau o Waipareira at Hoani Waititi Marae, West Auckland; Takutai Moana Natasha Kemp was officially announced as Te Pāti Māori Candidate for Tāmaki Makaurau for the 2023 Election. Hailing ... More >>
Mariameno Kapa-Kingi Poised To Take The Tai Tokerau Seat In The 2023 General Election
Sunday, 5 February 2023, 2:24 pm | The Maori Party
Today, Te Pāti Māori officially announced Mariameno Kapa-Kingi as their candidate for the Te Tai Tokerau electorate in this year’s General Election. The announcement was part of the pōwhiri for MPs at Te Whare Rūnanga o Waitangi. “Making the announcement ... More >>
Te Pāti Māori announce military neutrality as new transformative defence policy
Saturday, 4 February 2023, 1:52 pm | The Maori Party
Te Pāti Māori Co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer are announcing a transformative defence and foreign affairs policy which asserts the Mana Māori Motuhake and Tino Rangatiratanga of tangata whenua in Aotearoa at their Party’s More >>
Te Pāti Māori: Govt Must Provide Immediate Relief For Flood Affected Whānau
Tuesday, 31 January 2023, 1:28 pm | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori are calling on Prime Minister Chris Hipkins to announce an equity-focused financial relief fund for whānau who have lost homes and belongings in all flood impacted areas across Aotearoa. “There are thousands of whānau who have been severely ... More >>
Te Pāti Māori Select Debbie Ngarewa-Packer To Win Back Te Tai Hauāuru
Tuesday, 24 January 2023, 11:02 am | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori President John Tamihere is today announcing at the annual Rātana celebrations the selection of Party Co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer (Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāruahine, Ngā Rauru) to win back the Te Tai Hauāuru electorate in the 2023 general ... More >>
Te Pāti Māori: Labours Decision Tells Māori We Aren’t Good Enough
Sunday, 22 January 2023, 9:44 pm | The Maori Party
Te Pāti Māori Co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer wish to congratulate Chris Hipkins and Carmel Sepuloni on their appointments as Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, but are equally disappointed that Tangata Whenua were overlooked ... More >>
Te Pāti Māori Acknowledges Jacinda Ardern's Service And Calls For Tangata Whenua Prime Minister
Thursday, 19 January 2023, 2:32 pm | Te Pati Maori
“Te Pāti Māori wishes to thank the outstanding contribution Jacinda Ardern has made to our country" said Te Pāti Māori Co-Leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer "Jacinda Ardern led our country through its darkest times; she did so with absolute dignity ... More >>
Therapeutic Products Bill Is A Treaty Breach
Tuesday, 13 December 2022, 10:34 am | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori Co-leader and health spokesperson Debbie Ngarewa-Packer is calling on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the Labour Party to withdraw the Therapeutic Products Bill, which brings rongoā Māori into Pākehā law without the active consent ... More >>
Oranga Tamariki Practice Review: Accountability And Action Needed
Thursday, 1 December 2022, 4:01 pm | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori are calling for action after a Practice Review into Oranga Tamariki released today confirmed negligence and a series of failures across six agencies contributed to the death of 5 year-old Malachi Subecz. “This review would not have ... More >>
Rawiri Waititi: Māori Will Not Stand For Delays To Healthy Homes Standards
Thursday, 24 November 2022, 9:49 am | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori Co-leader Rawiri Waititi is announcing that Te Pāti Māori will oppose the Residential Tenancies (Healthy Homes Standards) Amendment Bill that the Government is passing through all stages under urgency this week. “This is a terrible ... More >>
“Dangerous And Reckless Law-making” - Māori Are Being Left Behind As Government Pushes 20 Bills Through Urgency
Wednesday, 23 November 2022, 9:51 am | Te Pati Maori
In an email sent on Tuesday night, Te Pāti Māori MPs were informed that 20 bills will be debated under urgency from Wednesday to midnight Saturday this week. “This is dangerous and reckless law-making” says Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi. ... More >>
Te Pāti Māori To Oppose RMA Reforms At First Reading
Tuesday, 22 November 2022, 1:31 pm | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori Co-leader and environment spokesperson Debbie Ngarewa-Packer is today announcing that Te Pāti Māori will oppose the Natural and Built Environment Bill and the Spatial Planning Bill at their first readings on the basis that they ... More >>
Rawiri Waititi Calls On Labour To Support Member’s Bill To Remove GST From Kai
Friday, 11 November 2022, 11:34 am | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori Co-Leader Rawiri Waititi has submitted his second Member’s Bill, the Goods and Services Tax (Removing GST from Food) Amendment Bill , into the Member’s Ballot. This legislation would amend the Goods and Services Tax Act 1985 to remove ... More >>
Government Votes Against Legislation That Would Advance Māori Electoral Rights
Thursday, 10 November 2022, 10:47 am | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori are calling out the Government for failing to support legislation that would advance Māori rights and move us toward a more Te Tiriti-centric aotearoa, after choosing to vote against Rawiri Waititi’s Member’s Bill to fix Aotearoa’s ... More >>
IronMāori Founder Heather Te Au Skipworth Has Her Eyes Set On The Ikaroa-Rawhiti Seat In The 2023 General Election
Sunday, 6 November 2022, 5:31 am | The Maori Party
Today, Te Pāti Māori officially announced Heather Te Au Skipworth as their candidate for the Ikaroa-Rawhiti electorate in next year’s General Election. Heather Te Au-Skipworth is the founder of the IronMāori Kaupapa that has taken Aotearoa by storm with thousands ... More >>
