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Sanctions Soar, Jobs Vanish – National’s Cruelty Exposed
Wednesday, 23 October 2024, 10:15 am | Te Pati Maori
“The traffic light system is a dead end, a road to nowhere, a tool designed to punish whānau for not finding jobs the government itself has destroyed,” says Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. More >>
Police Perpetuate Siege On Ōpōtiki
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 6:20 pm | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori MP for Waiariki, Rawiri Waititi demands that the Police Commissioner immediately convene a meeting with Te Whakatōhea and explain why the police have chosen to activate their state-sponsored terrorism in Ōpōtiki today. More >>
Te Pāti Māori Calls For Action Following Winston Peters’ Racist Remarks
Friday, 18 October 2024, 8:19 pm | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori are urging the Speaker to take immediate action: censure Peters, force a public apology, and make it unequivocally clear that bigotry will not be given a platform in Parliament. More >>
ASA Declares Hobson’s Pledge Advertising Misleading And Socially Irresponsible
Thursday, 17 October 2024, 1:38 pm | Te Pati Maori
The two-page wraparound ad, published in The New Zealand Herald, suggested that nearly the entire coastline of Aotearoa is under threat of being awarded to Māori through customary marine titles, implying that this would lead to widespread restrictions ... More >>
Govt Gambling Safety Of Our Moana
Monday, 7 October 2024, 3:04 pm | The Maori Party
“We are disgusted but not surprised with the government’s decision to fast-track the decimation of our seabed,” said Te Pāti Māori Co-Leader, and MP for Te Tai Hauāuru, Debbie Ngarewa- Packer. More >>
Te Pāti Māori Statement On Israel & Iran
Wednesday, 2 October 2024, 3:34 pm | Te Pati Maori
The New Zealand Government is putting everyone in Aotearoa at risk through their complicity. They must end all talks about joining AUKUS immediately. They must sanction Israel and cut ties with all countries who are committing and aiding war crimes, ... More >>
TPM Issues Warning To Govt: Back Down Or Prepare For The Wrath Of The Million Māori
Thursday, 26 September 2024, 2:36 pm | The Maori Party
"The government are playing with fire, and they must back down. Our people are too invested in our mokopuna and our whenua to let this ethnocide occur right in front of our eyes,” said Waititi. More >>
Crown Minerals Bill Advances Colonisation
Wednesday, 25 September 2024, 5:20 pm | Te Pati Maori
This is textbook colonisation. They have come to our land, they are taking our resources, and they are selling them off to the highest bidder - with no benefit to Māori. More >>
Crown Should Prove Their Rights To Foreshore & Seabed
Wednesday, 25 September 2024, 1:35 pm | Te Pati Maori
"Māori rights to the foreshore pre-exist the Declaration of Independence, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and any law that this House has ever made. That right still exists today,” said Tākuta Ferris. More >>
Tāmaki-Makaurau MP Urges Immediate Support For Families Impacted By Mill Closure
Wednesday, 18 September 2024, 10:49 am | Te Pati Maori
"The mill, operated by OjiFS, employs a high number of Māori and Pacific people. The impact of the loss of jobs will be felt widely. More >>
Government Warned - Increasing Snapper Quota Breaches Fisheries Settlement
Monday, 16 September 2024, 1:38 pm | Te Pati Maori
Since the 1992 settlement, increases in TACC for any species should have been met with the same increases to Māori quota. This government has been continuous in its breach of this settlement and the Treaty,” said the MP for Te Tai Tonga. More >>
Te Tai Tokerau MP Slams Govt Overreach In Scrapping Māori Wards
Monday, 16 September 2024, 2:27 am | Te Pati Maori
The government has been cunning in its purposeful misuse of the term 'democracy' to manipulate local councils and their communities into eradicating Māori rights, voice, and opportunity. More >>
Ngarewa-Packer Devastated For Ruapehu Following WPI Closure
Monday, 16 September 2024, 2:19 am | Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori Co-Leader Ngarewa-Packer expresses devastation over the closure of Winstone Pulp mills, leaving 230 families jobless amid ongoing community challenges. More >>
Potaka Brings Whakaata Māori To Its Knees
Saturday, 14 September 2024, 11:54 pm | Te Pati Maori
Today’s Whakaata Māori announcement is yet another colossal failure from Minister Potaka, who has turned his back on te reo Māori, forcing a channel offline, putting whānau out of jobs, and cutting Māori content, says Te Pāti Māori. More >>
Te Pāti Māori Pay Tribute To Kiingi Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII
Friday, 13 September 2024, 10:08 pm | Te Pati Maori
His legacy of unification, of mana motuhake and rangatiratanga, will live on through the movement and through te iwi Māori,” said co-leader Rawiri Waititi. More >>
Minister Of Injustice Seeks To Entrench Largest Land Confiscation In History
Friday, 13 September 2024, 12:27 pm | Te Pati Maori
The Waitangi Tribunal is recommending the Crown step down in its efforts to amend the Takutai Moana Act and make a genuine effort to engage with Māori before it causes irreparable damage. More >>
Youngest MP To Travel To Canada To Accept Politician Of The Year Award
Thursday, 12 September 2024, 10:41 am | Te Pati Maori
Aotearoa’s Youngest Member of Parliament, and Te Pāti Māori MP, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, will travel to Montreal to accept the One Young World Politician of the Year Award next week. The One Young World Politician of the Year Award was created ... More >>
Waititi Urges Rotorua Lakes Council To Immediately Stop Works At Lake Rotokākahi
Wednesday, 28 August 2024, 12:13 pm | Te Pati Maori
Lake Rotokākahi is a wāhi tapu (sacred site) for mana whenua and is the resting place of many of their tīpuna killed in the Mount Tarawera eruption of 1886. More >>
Govt Incarcerating Our Mokopuna Into A Failed System
Friday, 23 August 2024, 12:12 pm | Te Pati Maori
Information released by the Minister for Children has revealed that almost 800 mokopuna Māori have been taken by the state this year, putting it on track for the largest displacement of tamariki Māori since the introduction of Section 7AA in 2019. More >>
Tribunal Scathes Government’s Anti-Tiriti Agenda
Friday, 16 August 2024, 12:10 pm | Te Pati Maori
The report described the government’s policy to whitewash Te Tiriti o Waitangi as a distortion of the language of the Treaty based on a false historical narrative. More >>
