“Flip-flop Phil is back” said Mana leader and Tai Tokerau MP, Hone Harawira.
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"It is now confirmed that the Maori Party will compete with me in seeking a mandate from the voters in Tai Tokerau.
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Ethical Investment (Crown Financial Institutions) Bill.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Tariff (Malaysia Free Trade Agreement) Amendment Bill Hone Harawira, Maori Party Member of Parliament for Te Tai Tokerau Tuesday 20 April 2010.
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Mr Speaker - if an election was held today, some 3200 sentenced prisoners, those with a release date between now and 5 March 2011, would be able to take up their democratic right to a vote; and there are another 1800 prisoners on remand who are also eligible; about 5,000 people in prison who can legally vote in a General election; who, under the terms of the Electoral Act 1993, are serving a sentence of less than three years, and are therefore eligible to vote.
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Mr Speaker - it was with a sense of enduring shame that when the rest of the world was signing up to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, the Labour government of the time, without consultation with their own Maori caucus or with the wider Maori population, decided to oppose the Declaration, thus sending a clear statement to the world that as long as Labour was in power, New Zealand would oppose the fundamental rights and aspirations of Maori people.
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CANTERBURY — Kia ora tatou katoa e te Whare.
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The Prime Minister didn’t talk too much about the Foreshore and Seabed in his speech last week, so I’m glad my bro Te Ururoa raised it in his reply.
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“The announcement of a national Maori flag should be a cause for celebration not mean-spirited opposition,” said Hone Harawira, Maori Party MP for Tai Tokerau.
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Last month I was up in Europe as part of a parliamentary delegation to the European parliament, and while there decided to take the opportunity to skip away to Paris for a day.
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AUCKLAND — "New Zealanders should be aware now that assurances given by Local Government Minister Rodney Hide about the Auckland super-city are hollow and worthless", the Maori Party said today.
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Wenerei, te Rua Tekau ma Iwa o Hurae Hone Harawira, Mema Paremata mo te Tai Tokerau Customs and Excise (Prohibition of Imports Made by Slave Labour) Amendment Bill I ahau e rangahau ana i te Pire nei ka puta mai te pukuriri.
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Te Pire Tiaki i Nga Kararehe o Te Moana Hone Harawira, Mema Paremata mo Te Tai Tokerau Wenerei : Rua Tekau ma Iwa o Hurae : te tau Rua Mano ma Iwa I nga tau e rua ki muri – i te wa i haere a Taitokerau ki Orakei ki te korero mo te kaupapa o WAI 262 – ara te kaupapa mo nga uri a Täne, kei to mätou taha a whäea Saana Murray.
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Budget Debate 2009 : The Road to Recovery – is it? Hone Harawira: Maori Party Member of Parliament for Te Tai Tokerau Thursday 4 June 2009 This budget talks about the road to recovery, a road that Maori have travelled down on many occasions, often diverted, sometimes stonewalled, and many times turned back, but a road we travel constantly, in the search for justice and the promise of the Tiriti o Waitangi in our everyday lives.
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AUCKLAND — In opening the debate on this Bill, the Hon Rodney Hide spoke on a number of occasions, about the historical background to this bill, referring to the decades old debate about how Auckland should be restructured, which reminded me about a comment made by one of my own whanaunga, Paora Tuhaere, a chief of the Ngati Whatua o Orakei, who said & Let us be admitted into your councils.
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"The most basic of democratic rights is the right to vote – and it is being denied to Maori," said Te Tai Tokerau Maori Party MP, Hone Harawira.
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WHANGAREI — Local Maori Party MP for Te Tai Tokerau, Hone Harawira, says he is shocked at the fatal shooting of an armed woman by the Armed Offenders’ Squad in Whangarei.
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Tai Tokerau is now Maori Party territory, said Hone Harawira, Maori Party Member of Parliament for Te Tai Tokerau, and the polls confirm what weve been seeing for months - that Maori have finally shaken off the shackles that Labour has always held over us, and see the Maori Party as their independent voice in parliament."
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The Treaty has always been a cornerstone in my life, said Hone Harawira, Maori Party Member of Parliament for Te Tai Tokerau, and I aint surprised to see that its also the most important issue for people in the north.
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Maori Party MP Hone Harawira goes on a chop GST shop at Pak N Save in Henderson.
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AUCKLAND CITY — "Makes you want to cry," said Hone Harawira, Maori Party MP for Tai Tokerau, when he heard that a family had just been told to pick up the rest of their baby’s heart a month after they thought they had buried all of him.
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Madam Speaker, in a world of discarded lifestyles, plastic wrap-arounds, high-impact packaging, and personal attacks in parliament, this Bill is a breath of fresh air.
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On behalf of the Maori Party I rise to make a very short statement on this Cultural Property (Protection in Armed Conflict) Bill which defines cultural property as the cultural heritage of all people.
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The Maori Party says it will support legislation giving the Independent Police Conduct Authority power to arrest police officers and lay criminal charges as a result of its inquiries.
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The Police Commissioner’s overnight decision to introduce tasers amounts to nothing more than taunting MPs with the possibility that consultation on the latest weapon in the police arsenal would actually mean something says Maori Party MP Hone Harawira.
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When Italian tenor, Andrea Bocelli, touched down at Auckland Airport last week, he described his welcoming ceremony as a wonderful surprise, complete with beautiful music, and the beautiful music he was referring to wasnt that of the Auckland Philharmonia, the New Zealand Opera, or the Auckland Theatre - the beautiful music he was referring to was a traditional Maori welcome from Te Pou o Mangatawhiri, an historic association that all of Auckland can be proud of.
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The appointment of Robert Kaiwai as New Zealand’s High Commissioner to Kiribati is great news for him, for his iwi, and for the nation, says the Maori Party.
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Mr Speaker, I was thinking about how best to open my speech on this bill, and I happened to raise it with a good friend of mine, Derek Fox, Maori Party Member of the House of Ikaroa Rawhiti, who suggested a line used by Te Kooti back in the 1860s, which went something like this...
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“Disappointed, but not surprised,” was the reaction from Hone Harawira, Maori Party Member of Parliament for Te Tai Tokerau, at Labour’s Maori MPs voting down the Treaty clause that the Maori Party had proposed be included in the Policing Bill.
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Nobody's bothering to speak on this bill I suspect Madam Speaker, because it’s a petty little nothingness on the global stage of free trade agreements, emission trading, drug-fuelled Olympics, smog-filled stadiums, and rising fuel costs, but there’s a couple of little points I’d like to raise if I could Madam Speaker.
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Exactly 100 years ago, miners at Blackball down on the West Coast, were sacked for daring to ask for a thirty minute meal break instead of the fifteen minutes the bosses said they could have, and over the last century, those mining heroes have been joined by other advocates, in the fight for workers rights.
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The current situation of making companies earning up to $200,000 have to file PAYE twice a month, sounds like a plan to keep bureaucrats in work, and bury business enthusiasm, beneath piles of pointless paperwork.
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First of all, Mr Speaker, let me just say that the police can fine me $2,000 and they can fine me right now, but if they’re pounding on my good neighbour, Mr Mangu Awarau, then they can call me, they can yell at me, they can charge me, but I ain’t going to go and give them a hand.
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Electricity bills are skyrocketing, food prices increasing, house prices are at the highest level they have ever been, and petrol prices are sitting at record levels – so telling us that Vote Social Development has gone up a miserly 4.6% will bring no comfort to those people in my electorate who are struggling to survive the recent thunder storms in places like Te Häpua, Panguru, Käeo, Moerewa, Waitangi, Whangarei, and Pouto, and the ongoing economic cyclones that continue to batter our region.
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When I first looked over this Bill with Angeline Greensill, Maori Party Member of the House of Hauraki-Waikato, she reminded me about one of the findings of the Waitangi Tribunal’s 1997 Muriwhenua Report WAI 45 – which mentioned the importance of “decision-makers giving equal weight to the Maori world-view, the Maori value system, and Maori law and policies”.
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Reading the Maori Affairs Select Committee on the 2008/09 Estimates is like watching a horror movie.
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I te hui a tau o te Roopu Haina ki Aotearoa i tera tau, i puta te korero a te ahorangi a Makere Mutu, kia mahi tahi te Maori me te Hainamana, kia haere whakamua, a raua wawata, haerenga tangata.
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Note: This is the formal speech Hone was to present.
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Mr Speaker, let me first extend a formal apology to Claudette Hauiti of Front of the Box Productions, and my sincere wish that we can work together on projects for the future.
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Mr Speaker, this New Zealand First bill, promoted by Pita Paraone, and denounced as being anti-Maori by Maori from throughout the country, plans to end the careers of some of our best Maori judges of the Maori Land Court, the High Court, and the Waitangi Tribunal, and to stop them from serving their own people.
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I do not often support the Employers and Manufacturers Association in this House, but when it comes up with the comment “Was that it?” about these tax cuts, I absolutely support that comment.
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Last Sunday the Herald ran a snoop story on Bailey Junior Kurariki; talking up his Home 'D like he was in paradise, but all they had were shots of a young man, standing around talking on a cellphone.
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Mr Speaker, yesterday the whole context of fraud, corruption and serious crime took an interesting, and I have to say, a bloody pleasing turn, with the announcement that victims of South Africa’s apartheid regime could finally sue the corporate world for all the help that they gave South African police and military intelligence squads during the murderous years of apartheid.
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Summary Offences (Tagging and Graffiti Vandalism) Amendment Bill.
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Maori Party Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesperson Hone Harawira says public scrutiny of Sealord's investments in north-west Africa is a good thing.
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Maori Party Tobacco Out of Aotearoa spokesperson Hone Harawira is calling for cigarettes to be kept off the counters of the country’s largest retail chain.
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I just wanted to first of all pay my respects and say my farewells on behalf of all of the Maori Members of Parliament to those two who have passed on today, Alec Philips from Manu Ariki and Mahinaarangi Tocker, one of the great singers from the Maori world.
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Mr Speaker, 22 cents is not a lot of money.
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Last night Parliament lost one of its more distinguished members - Tumu Putaura – one of our security officers.
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The Maori Party caucus has confirmed that they will oppose the Free Trade Agreement with China.
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Mr Speaker, any bill that needs an explanatory NOTE of 48 pages is cause for concern, particularly when it gets slipped into the House just when everyone is gearing up for a long weekend; so we had a good look at this one.
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Well, well, well, Mr Speaker, look what's gone and popped its ugly head up again in our august House of Hypocrisy, our Parliament of Pretence, our very own Den of Double Standards.
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Mr Speaker, the fact that we are considering this Broadcasting Amendment Bill at this time, is very, very auspicious for a number of reasons.
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Mr Speaker, you can tell its election year, because everybody’s jumping on the law and order bandwagon, condemning the rise in crime and attacking the criminal justice system, and we have been witness to a number of highly charged political reactions to the shocking rate of homicides in 2008, including a whole toolbox of answers – from boot camps, to lowering the age of criminal responsibility, to keeping kids in school till they’re 18, to locking up the parents.
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The Maori Party today warned other parties to tone down their rhetoric on abolishing the Maori seats, in case they compromised any potential post-election arrangements.
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The Broadcasting Assets Case was a watershed moment in Maori broadcasting, when the High Court ruled that the government was obligated to protect te reo maori me ona tikanga, a decision affirmed by the Court of Appeal in 1992, which led to the formation of Te Reo Whakapuaki Irirangi to: ‘reflect and develop New Zealand identity and culture by promoting Maori language and culture’.
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Mr Speaker, it seems to me that all the pump and preaching, moralising and ranting, pontificating and sermonising, around this Misuse of Drugs (Classification of BZP) Amendment Bill is nothing but a wall of noise to hide the lack of information, and the dearth of quality research about the use and effects of BZP.
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Last August I went out on night-patrol round the town camps outside of Alice Springs, with the Aboriginal equivalent of the Maori Wardens, people with no police powers, but dedicated to helping whanau try to help themselves.
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The Maori Party today lamented the loss of Icon Poet, Hone Tuwhare, of Ngapuhi-nui-tonu.
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Over these last few months of intense and passionate debate about this Electoral Finance Bill, one email stood out for me, because it said a lot about who we are as a Maori Party.
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Earlier this year, the Maori Party Caucus met with AWATEA – the Aotearoa Wave and Tidal Energy Association … a most instructive hui.
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It seems like just the other day, actually just last night, that I was standing up in this House, speaking to the companion Bill to this Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Bill – the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Amendment Bill.
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In July this year, the Waitakere Well-being Summit held a hui at the Kelston Community Centre, to consider a simple question – do all families in Waitakere have enough to live on?
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