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Member for Waiariki, Maori Party Whip Member, Business Committee Member, Education and Science Committee Member, Standing Orders Committee
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There are many reasons why is a perfect time to be speaking to the Ko Aotearoa Tenei: Report of the Waitangi Tribunal into claims concerning law and policy affecting Māori culture and identity (Wai 262).
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TAURANGA — Maori Party MP for Waiariki, Te Ururoa Flavell, is standing behind concerns raised by his constituents in Tauranga that the Bay of Plenty Regional Council is downplaying the grounding of a cargo ship on the Astrolabe Reef near Tauranga.
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GENERAL DEBATE Te Ururoa Flavell, MP for Waiariki Wednesday 5 October 2011; 3.10pm In Question-time yesterday, the Minister of Police; when asked about the levels of reported crime in New Zealand, made an interesting admission, and I quote: “Frankly, focusing on someone’s race is not going to make it any better”.
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Subordinate Legislation (Confirmation and Validation) Bill No.3 Te Ururoa Flavell; MP for Waiariki Wednesday 5 October 2011; 4.40pm I want to firstly mihi to Simon Power – the departing member – who has worked so hard with the Maori Party; not just in the Business Committee; but also on issues of mutual interest.
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Review of Standing Orders : Report of the Standing Orders Committee Te Ururoa Flavell, MP for Waiariki Wednesday 5 October 2011 I am pleased to stand here today, to acknowledge the important amendments that have been made to the Standing Orders.
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As other members of the House have said tonight, the Victims of Crime Reform Bill amends the Victims’ Rights Act 2002, the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989, the Parole Act 2002, and the Sentencing Act 2002.
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Sleepover (Wages Settlement) Bill Te Ururoa Flavell, MP for Waiariki Tuesday 27 September 2011 The Maori Party is proud to support this bill; as an important recognition of the vital work that is done in supporting some of our most vulnerable people.
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Te Ururoa Flavell Maori Party WHIP | MP for Waiariki Monday 19 September 2011 Waiariki MP Te Ururoa Flavell has condemned the panic reaction of the National Government in responding to the Supreme Court Urewera judgement by seeking to pass temporary legislation under urgency next week.
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ROTORUA — This morning in the powhiri that formally welcomed you, our manuhiri, our visitors from outside of Te Arawa to our tribal lands, mention would have been made of our marae, our tribal homes.
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WELLINGTON — Student Loan Scheme Amendment Bill.
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NORTHLAND — The revelation on Friday that police officers used illegal methods to gather evidence, while conducting their 2007 raids in Te Urewera, will impact on the public confidence in the police says Waiariki MP Te Ururoa Flavell.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Urgent Debate Thursday 15 September 2011; 3.48pm Application to extend Queens Wharf for ‘Fanzone’ Tënä koe.
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GENERAL DEBATE 14 September, 2011; 3.20pm Te Ururoa Flavell, MP for Waiariki There has been a lot said today about the Rugby World Cup – so let me take you all to another place; a day back in history.
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WELLINGTON — Mr Chair; I want to take a call on clause nine – the transitional provisions, and in particular the direction that this section applies to any student with an establishment date of 1 January 2012.
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ROTORUA — Maori Party MP for Waiariki, Te Ururoa Flavell says that the fact that Rotorua is amongst the top ten gambling cities in Aotearoa is devastating and something that the Rotorua District Council should be looking at very closely.
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Aquaculture Legislation Amendment Bill : Third Reading Thursday 18 August 2011; 8.15pm Te Ururoa Flavell, MP for Waiariki I am pleased to stand and talk to this Bill simply because today has been a rather negative day and I am pleased to say we are right behind this Bill 100 percent.
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Taxation (Tax Administration and Remedial Matters) Bill - third reading Te Ururoa Flavell, MP for Waiariki Wednesday 17 August; 8.15pm In talking to this bill, the Taxation (Tax Administration and Remedial Matters) Bill I want to make a few comments.
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TE URUROA FLAVELL (Māori Party—Waiariki)245FLAVELL, TE URUROA20:25:10TE URUROA FLAVELL (Māori Party—Waiariki): Tēnā koe Mr Chairperson.
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TAURANGA — Tuesday, 9 August 2011 9:26 PM ESTIMATES DEBATE In Committee - Vote Internal Affairs TE URUROA FLAVELL (Māori Party—Waiariki)245FLAVELL, TE URUROA21:26:22TE URUROA FLAVELL (Māori Party—Waiariki): Kia ora anō tātou.
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Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill Third Reading TE URUROA FLAVELL, MP FOR WAIARIKI: Tēnā koe, Mr Assistant Speaker Robertson.
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Waiariki MP Te Ururoa Flavell has welcomed the commitment that Government and Opposition parties have given towards establishing a parliamentary select committee inquiry into the price of milk.
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NORTHLAND — Te Ururoa Flavell, the sponsor of a bill to ensure real consultation and ongoing engagement with iwi, hapu and whanau in relation to permits sought under the Crown Minerals Act 1991, has spoken out about the need for certainty in decisions around deep sea drilling in Northland and the Reinga Block.
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Third Reading; Tuesday 12 July 2011; Te Ururoa Flavell, MP for Waiariki Tēnā koe anō hoki, Mr Assistant Speaker Robertson, i tēnei pō.
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Third Reading; Tuesday 12 July 2011; Te Ururoa Flavell, MP for Waiariki Tēnā koe, Mr Assistant Speaker Robertson.
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Television New Zealand Amendment Bill Third Reading; 12 June 2011 Te Ururoa Flavell, Maori Party MP for Waiariki Tēnā koe, Mr Deputy Speaker.
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Regulatory Standards Bill : First Reading Te Ururoa Flavell, Waiariki Kia ora tātau e te Whare, tātau kua hoki mai i uta, i tai, ki roto i ngā pakitara o te Whare, me te mōhio anō hoki, koinei te Wiki o te Reo Māori.
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Te Ururoa Flavell, MP for Waiariki, is thrilled that Nga Pu Waea, the Maori working group set up to look after Maori interests in broadand, has had its mandate extended to include the urban Ultra Fast Broadband.
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Radio New Zealand’s decision, to stop broadcasting Watea News bulletins as a cost-cutting measure, needs proper scrutiny, says the Maori Party.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Maori Party MP for Waiariki, Te Ururoa Flavell congratulates the Bay of Plenty Regional Council on their decision to consider flying the Maori flag, not only on Waitangi Day, but on other days of significance.
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Education spokesperson for the Maori Party, Te Ururoa Flavell, has commended the Education Review Office for its clear message to schools, that no school can be considered to be high performing unless the school can demonstrate that most of its Maori learners are progressing well and succeeding as Maori.
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Second Reading, Wednesday, 22 September 2010.
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ROTORUA — Maori Mai, Maori Atu : Grass Roots Oranga Hui : Nga Ngaru Hauora Annual Hui Thursday 12 August 2010 Heritage Hotel, Whakarewarewa, Rotorua Te Huarahi Tika o te Tino Rangatiratanga mai i te Whakawhaungatanga kokiritia me te kotahitanga Te Ururoa Flavell, MP for Waiariki This is a most appropriate time to be coming together to discuss the pathway forwards self-determination.
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Maori Party sports spokesperson Te Ururoa Flavell says it is great that Maori know they have a place in the world’s most popular sport because of the stunning performances of Leo Bertos, Jeremy Christie, Rory Fallon and Winston Reid in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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Kua puta te mahere rautaki o Nahinara mo te tau e heke mai nei, engari ara ano tëtahi korero kaore i tino korerohia.
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Waiariki MP Te Ururoa Flavell was delighted to hear the news of Ngai Te Rangi 18 year old, Stan Walker, winning the Australian Idol competition on Sunday night.
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WHAKATANE — Maori Party MP for Waiariki Te Ururoa Flavell has called on Whakatane Mayor Colin Holmes and his District Council colleagues to take disciplinary action over the racist rantings of Councillor Russell Orr.
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The last month has provided more than enough reason for this Bill to be progressed through the House.
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Kia ora ttou. That was a very good choice of yours, Mr Assistant Speaker, if I say so myself, with no disrespect to Amy Adams.
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Kia ora, Mr Assistant Speaker Roy. Kia ora ttou katoa i tnei pM.
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Mr Speaker, the Minister for Land Information revealed today a staggering list of delays and deferrals associated with the many reviews of the Public Works Act, the most recent of which in 2001, attracted some 90 submissions from Maori more than 30% of all submissions received which clearly shows the level of interest that Maori have in this issue.
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When the Public Works (Offer Back of and Compensation for Acquired Land) Amendment Bill was drawn out of the ballot on 26 July 2007, who would have thought that two years later a major hui would gather at the Copthorne on Oriental Bay; to set the foundation for that Bill to be read a very first time in Parliament later that day?
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The phenomenon of boy racing is not one of the biggest problems confronting Ngongotah in Rotorua where I live, so I needed to look a little bit wider throughout my electorate to see the extent of boy racing across the Waiariki electorate.
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Inquiry into a matter of privilege about the exercise of freedom of speech in the context of court orders Te Ururoa Flavell, Privileges Committee member, Maori Party Tuesday 2 June 2009; 3.40pm I would have to say that when I was first appointed a Member of Parliament in 2005, I would never have considered that part of my role would be considering the principle of comity.
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Debate on the performance and current operations of Crown entities, public organizations and State enterprises.
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The repayment of student loans is one of those dark, looming clouds that our whanau faces when we look to the future.
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Exactly one month ago, my colleague, Rahui Katene, stood at the second reading of this Bill and spoke to the concepts of accountability, transparency, credibility as at the core of this legislation.
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Earlier today, the Minister of Health outlined the strong actions taken by teachers at Rangitoto College, to protect the health and safety of students recently returned from Mexico.
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For most Maori, the concept of a Private Investigator is about as real as the lifestyle of PI Magnum - the television show which featured a Private Investigator living in an island paradise, working when he wanted to, having access to a constant stream of beautiful women and an overflowing beer fridge; driving a Ferrari 308 GTS and bumbling from one adventure to the next.
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The MP for Waiariki - Te Ururoa Flavell - says people who don't believe Maori have reason to complain about the effects of colonisation and European settlement on them should read the Te Urewera claims report, part one of which has just been released by the Waitangi Tribunal.
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Sometimes the listeners who tune into the Parliament Channel, must wonder at the value of terminology such as the Official Assignee; the No Asset Procedure; Preferential Creditor, Crown Preference and the like.
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The Maori Party says from the very start that we have got to do things better in dealing with returning those in prison back to the community to stay and to live positive and productive lives.
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Members might know that I do not drink too much these days but I find myself thinking that I may be a bit of a hypocrite talking about this sort of bill about the rights and wrongs of drinking or purchasing liquor.
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CHRISTCHURCH — I am told that today’s Christchurch Press has all the reasons why we need to amend the Alcohol Advisory Council Act in relation to the levy imposed on all alcoholic beverages manufactured in, or imported into, Aotearoa A study of 12,000 young people found the onset of drinking "goes up very steeply from age 12, and that children as young as age four are trying alcohol”.
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TAURANGA — A Maori tourism company from Tauranga who won a global award for their sustainable tourism website had to beat the best of indigenous operators to win the popular choice award, according to Waiariki MP Te Ururoa Flavell.
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The MP for Waiariki Te Ururoa Flavell is asking the question What is going on in our society when a group of people go to a tangi in a place like Murupara and a young man like Jordon Herewini ends up being brutally murdered?
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The decision by the NZ Rugby Union to cast aside the NZ Maori team in their effort to cut costs, has been greeted with dismay by Maori Party sports and recreation spokesperson, Te Ururoa Flavell.
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The Maori Party is calling on all political parties to lift their game in respects of young New Zealanders.
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The Maori Party is not going to be announcing any policies to get tough on teenagers; to send youth to boot camps; to focus on youth crime.
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WHAKATANE — I spent yesterday in Whanganui attending the tangi of Rangitihi Tahuparae; at Putiki Marae on the banks of the Whanganui River.
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Port Nicholson Block – Taranaki Whanui ki te Upoko o te Ika Claims Settlement Bill 2008.
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E nga iwi o te kainga kua tau mai ki te whare Paremata i tenei rangi, nau mai, haere mai.
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“Cigarette companies calling their products ‘light’ and ‘mild’, is like weapon factories calling their bullets ‘nice’ and ‘pleasant’,” said Hone Harawira, Maori Party MP for Tai Tokerau, and spokesman for the Tobacco Out of Aotearoa campaign.
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Maori Party MP for Te Waiariki, Te Ururoa Flavell, says long-standing Waitangi Tribunal claims have been wiped by the Crown without the knowledge or agreement of the claimant.
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Te Ururoa Flavell, MP for Waiariki, has today commemorated the first anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a bitter-sweet day of reckoning for tangata whenua.
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The Maori Party invoked the recommital procedure in a last-ditch effort to protect the integrity of treaty settlements, threatened by the Emissions Trading Scheme.
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It has always concerned me that politicians are rated the lowlife in a long list of respected professions.
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There is always the risk with the rush of urgency that some minor, technical amendment will slip in under the radar which has wide-ranging repercussions.
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Violet and disruptive behaviour at school is a symptom of deep and complex issues in communities and within families, which need urgent attention, according to the Maori Party.
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It is somewhat of an irony, we in the Maori Party reckon, to be considering yet another Bill which presents for debate a set of rules to help determine and assist the practice and procedures of in this case, the High Court.
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As I understand it, there was a key statement that appeared throughout some of the 136 submissions received from the public about this Bill.
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The Maori Party has discovered the Government is re-introducing an education system based on a 19th century classic from the Tales of the Brothers Grimm.
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Mr Speaker I don’t know if you’ve heard of a good Te Arawa gentleman, a gentleman by the name of Arthur Bloch, author of Murphy’s Law, summed up this Bill in one short sentence, “If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction”.
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The first sentence in the report of the Health Committee on 2008/09 Estimates for Vote Health should have made us feel pretty good.
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We in the Maori Party, rise to offer our sincere sympathies to the whanau of Debbie Marie Ashton, who tragically lost her life on 5 December 2006.
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Maori language promotion must be a joint effort between Treaty partners and the public institutions responsible must be accountable to both Maori and the Crown, says the Maori Party.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — Kia ora tätou, kia ora tätou te Whare.
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Our research team found me an interesting story in preparing to be with you all today.
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I rise to contribute to this debate, in referring to Vote Treaty Negotiations.
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Kei nga iwi o te kainga kua tau mai ki te whare paremata i te rangi nei, tena tätou katoa.
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Mr Speaker, at first impressions, the purpose of this Bill is pretty good.
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The following notice of motion was raised in the House today by Member of Parliament for Waiariki, Te Ururoa Flavell.
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Maori seats will remain until Maori want them abolished, and that is the aim of the Maori Party’s Private Members’ Bill to entrench the Maori seats, says Maori Party Treaty spokesperson Te Ururoa Flavell.
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In the hakari of offerings that is called Budget 2008, the Maori Party wants to move from the kongakonga-the crumbs, to focus on the miti in the menu for Maori.
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“It has become blatantly apparent that Budget 2008 has nothing to eliminate real poverty,” said Te Ururoa Flavell, MP for Waiariki.
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The tax cuts programme is apparently all about fairness and social justice, according to the Minister in his speech earlier.
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You go, girls said Te Ururoa Flavell, as the undisputed World No 1 womens rugby sevens team prepares to take the field in Amsterdam this evening for the Heineken International tournament.
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Leadership and commitment are essential if Maori students are to reach their full potential through education, says Te Ururoa Flavell.
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