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Member for Te tai Hauauru, Maori Party Current parliamentary roles Co-Leader Member, Health Committee
When we come to Te Roroa claim, we recognize the wider framework in which all Treaty settlements take place.
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First of all I want to acknowledge the members of the Disabled Persons Assembly and I want to acknowledge the Minister, Hon Ruth Dyson for bringing this bill forward at this time.
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Shocking new statistics indicating the number of state funded bypass operations in Auckland, including Northland, have fallen from 641 in 2002/03 to 462 the following year is the latest in an ongoing crisis around cardiac care, says Maori Party Health spokesperson, Tariana Turia.
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The loss of social activist and Catholic nun, Sister Paula Brettkelly, will be felt deeply across Aotearoa said Maori Party co-leader, Tariana Turia.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — I am thrilled to be here today to celebrate the latest in a long line of successes for Te Wakahuia Manawatu Hauora Trust Board.
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Tena koe Madam Speaker, tena tatou.
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The Maori Party looks forward to seeing the final version of the government’s Emissions Trading Scheme when the Bill is reintroduced to the House – but says it is unlikely to support it.
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It is a very rare thing to be able to come to this House, and to congratulate the sponsor of the Bill, for the diligent way in which consultation has taken place with affected parties, tena koe Tim.
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There were four elements to our issue.
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Tariana Turia says the Maori Party is absolutely thrilled at reports that a Labour Minister is going to introduce a Bill to Parliament to entrench the Treaty of Waitangi in the constitution of New Zealand.
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OTAGO — The Maori Party congratulates Professor Mason Durie on the recent award of an honorary LlD from his alma mater, Otago University.
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The tragic story of half-starved Oliver Twist begging for gruel is not too far removed from some homes in downtown New Zealand said Tariana Turia, Co-leader of the Mori Party.
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There’s something about the place of Rongomai and stars.
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I’m going to focus on areas where the Maori Party believes the Government hasn’t done so well.
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he Associate Minister of Health seems unable to understand the value of collective approaches to health, which is the fundamental underlying principle of his government’s Maori health policy, according to the Maori Party.
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Maori Party MP for Te Tai Hauauru, Tariana Turia, described the Environment Minister’s answers to her questions in Parliament today as ‘another load of the same old rubbish’.
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FOXTON — Maori Party MP Tariana Turia today paid tribute to the workforce at the Feltex factory in Foxton, which closed its doors today for the last time.
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A doubling of health spending over the past nine years has not addressed huge disparities between health outcomes for Maori and the general population, which result from racism in the health system, according to Maori Party health spokesperson Tariana Turia.
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I recall thinking as a young woman that education was the key to our future success.
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I want to commend the courage of the organisations in the tangata whenua, community and voluntary sector, for inviting Members of Parliament to an event which promotes models of positive youth development.
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I was delighted to accept Carwyn’s invitation to spend some time with the people who will write the law, interpret the law, implement the law and then defend the law for our up and coming generations.
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Maori Party Health spokesperson Tariana Turia says she can understand the outrage and confusion among Maori health workers over the failure of the meningitis vaccine to provide lasting protection to children – but she is not surprised.
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Kua karanga te Ropu Maori kia kaua Nga Kaiwhakatupao Whakararu Taiao (ERMA) e whakaae ki te Endosulfan hei paetini whakamate ngärara, toke hoki i Aotearoa.
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Ka mate te wai maori, ka mate te whenua, ka mate te iwi, a, me tautoko te käwanatanga i te tu a te tangata whenua kia tiakina nga rerenga wai, nga roto, nga moana huri noa i te motu, te whakahau a te Mangai o te Ropu Maori mo nga Take Taiao, a Tariana Turia.
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Labour’s desperation at their poor poll results is obvious from complaints by the Minister of Maori Affairs that, in his view, the Maori Party is a one-ticket party.
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Tangata whenua are ideally placed to lead local environmental projects because of the strength and integrity of traditional environmental values, says the Maori Party.
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It is an honour to be here, in the home of Kati Huirapa o Arowhenua takata.
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60 percent of the children of unemployed families still live in poverty, and incomes for the poorest families have not increased at all over the past ten years, according to the government‘s own MSD report on poverty which was released today.
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WHANGAMATA — The Minister of Conservation confirmed in Parliament yesterday that her department has had to remove a population of rare moko skinks from their natural habitat at Whangamata, in order to save them from the bulldozers.
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I am very proud to be invited to District 9440, to be able to meet with an organisation that is truly committed to your community.
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Tena koe Madam Speaker, tena tatou katoa.
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WHANGAMATA — The occupation of Whangamata by tangata whenua is an indictment on the failure of the Crown to protect the natural values of the foreshore and seabed for future generations, says the Maori Party.
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I am privileged to be with you today, and to celebrate your progress as an organisation.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Maori values and the Treaty of Waitangi are a sound foundation for an immigration policy which welcomes diverse cultures to Aotearoa, according to Tariana Turia, Co-leader of the Maori Party.
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Tariana Turia is dismayed that Labour List MP Louisa Wall would ‘play politics’ regarding the achievement of a Treaty clause in the Public Health Bill.
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The ETS is New Zealands game plan for the future of the planet but the heavy hitters on our team are refusing to take the field, says the Maori Party.
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The Maori Party welcomes news of massive fines imposed on the skipper and officers of a large deep-sea trawler found guilty of dumping fish and mis-reporting their catch, says Fisheries spokesperson Tariana Turia.
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The focus on individuals and their personal health status reveals only the tip of the iceberg of Maori health, says Maori Party health spokesperson Tariana Turia.
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TARANAKI — “It is good news that the environmental risk assessment of the Patea Freezing Works site shows there is no reason for panic, said Te Tai Hauauru MP Tariana Turia.
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WEST COAST — A complete ban on set netting and strict regulation of commercial trawling in a vast area of the West Coast of the North Island seems an complete over-reaction to the threats to Maui’s Dolphins, says Maori Party fisheries spokesperson and Te Tai Hauauru MP Tariana Turia.
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Tariana Turia, health spokesperson for the Maori Party, today congratulated Maori, iwi and non-profit primary health care providers on their success in working in partnership with the New Zealand Nurses Organisation for a multi-employment collective agreement (MECA).
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A government apology to Viet Nam veterans must accept full responsibility for sending our soldiers into a war that our people did not support, says the Maori Party.
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Michael Cullens review of assistance for beneficiaries is just tinkering with the design of the poverty trap, it is not a strategy to eliminate poverty, says Tariana Turia, Co-leader of the Maori Party.
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Mental health consumer groups will not accept the argument that the Mental Health Commission does not need consumer representatives on the Board because it consults with them, says Maori Party health spokesperson Tariana Turia.
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E te kuia, haere ki to iwi, haere ki to whanau, haere ki o tatou tupuna.
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The Maori Party is calling on the Minister of Health to make a fourth appointment to the Mental Health Commission to overcome a ‘glaring oversight’ in the composition of the new board.
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Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia has today scorned a report which describes Pasifika peoples as ‘an under-class’, which “is of concern given the higher fertility rates of this group”.
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TARANAKI — Presentations of tohu in business, small business management, social services, te ara reo Maori, toi paematua raranga.
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PORIRUA — It is a good week to be coming to Porirua, to a graduation of Business and Computing students.
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Health Spokesperson for the Mori Party, Hon Tariana Turia, is supporting Balloon Day 2008 (Saturday 10 May) as an excellent way of drawing the attention of the nation to the fact that one in four children in Aotearoa has asthma.
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Revelations that waiting times for heart surgery have more than doubled in Auckland have worried Maori Party health spokesperson, Tariana Turia.Â
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OTAGO — A formal Memorandum of Understanding between Ngati Toa, based in Porirua, and the University of Otago is a great way for academia to acknowledge tangata whenua in a relationship modelled on the Treaty of Waitangi, said local MP Tariana Turia.
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The Maori Party is outraged by news that the Manfeild Park Board has sold part of the Kawakawa block in Feilding for private development – even though tangata whenua claim the land was unlawfully taken from them a century ago.
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Seven days ago, the Maori Party received an email which could have constituted the curriculum for this course.
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The Maori Party agrees with Alcohol Healthwatch*, who warn that controls on alcohol simply have not worked and harm is increasing as a result.
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TARANAKI — Hon Tariana Turia, local MP for Te Tai Hauauru, is outraged that almost three months after the asbestos fire descended on Patea, ratepayers seem to be facing the prospect of over a quarter of million dollars damage for the cost of the fire.
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TARANAKI — Today’s release from Forest and Bird revealing the issuing of a new permit allowing prospecting for minerals off the Whanganui Taranaki coast and off the Taranaki Waikato Coast has raised concern from local MP for Te Tai Hauauru, Tariana Turia.
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WAIKATO — The Maori Party is delighted to congratulate Waikato District Health Board and Tainui mental health service provider, Hauora Waikato, on their vision in appointing Dr Rees Tapsell as executive clinical director for forensic psychiatric services across the Midland region.
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Maori Party Co-leader, Tariana Turia, has today highlighted the obvious association between poverty and educational under-achievement reported in CPAG’s latest report, ‘Left Behind’.
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TARANAKI — Tariana Turia, MP for Te Tai Hauauru, has picked up on the disappointment expressed by the Chemically Exposed Paritutu Residents Association (CEPRA), that the offer of free GP visits was an 'insult', a hollow 'political gesture of little value'.
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The Maori Party has welcomed the call for a wider debate about removing GST on food, sparked off by the latest grim report from the Child Poverty Action Group, 'Left Behind'.
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The Maori Party has today expressed frustration at the refusal of the New Zealand Police to release the full story about the employee engagement survey.
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The Maori Party has praised the incredible generosity of Corporal Willie Apiata in gifting the prestigious Victoria Cross Medal to the nation.
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Tariana Turia is shocked by the advice from the Public Health Association that proposed Public Health Bill could result in a “clouded and confused approach to Maori involvement in health” and is being described as an “instance of institutional racism”.
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NAPIER — What is this output called Mauriora? I am very pleased to be here, to be part of this Kahungunu Health Innovation Conference.
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In a day in which it appears the full fury of the House has been galvanised into a toxic war against graffiti and gangs, it is extremely refreshing to come to the Bishop Suter Art Gallery Governance Restructuring Bill and to be revitalised by the unique perspectives that artists can bring to the concept of cultural identity.
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WHANGANUI — Kei te köriporipo nga wai o Whanganui i te hinganga o Alexander Phillips, kaumätua rongonui o Mana Ariki, poropiti ki töna kainga, ki töna iwi, tangata hümärie, tangata manaaki.
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NATIONAL PARK — I move that this House note its deep sorrow at the tragic deaths of six young people and their teacher from Auckland's Elim Christian College, while participating in an outdoor education programme in the Tongariro National Park.
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As a way of preparing myself for coming to this hui, I was reading up about your patron: Dame Augusta Wallace.
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PORIRUA — Last December, TV3’s Campbell Live featured a Maori family from the Creek.
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The Maori Party is absolutely appalled that Parekura Horomia thinks 20,000 children go to school without breakfast because they might be dieting to slim down.Â
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PARAPARAUMU — Local Maori MP Tariana Turia has said she is very disappointed that the Kapiti District Council has pressed ahead with a decision in favour of developing Paraparaumu Airport.
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In 1966, a young sixteen year old Liverpool lad composed a song which could have one day been the anthem for Grey Power.Â
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The Maori Party is very pleased that Justice Gendall has ordered Pharmac to review its decision on funding 12-month treatment of Herceptin, said co-leader Hon Tariana Turia.
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Tena koe Mr Speaker, tena tatou katoa.
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The Maori Party has welcomed the appointment of James Anaya as the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of fundamental freedoms and human rights of indigenous people.
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WHANGANUI — “Memo Musa has done the right thing in resigning, and accepting that it is the responsibility of management to be accountable for the whole operation of the District Health Board,” said Tariana Turia, Maori Party MP for Te Tai Hauauru.
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There is a popular television commercial starring a young boy asking his Dad where he comes from.
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HAWKE'S BAY — It is a matter of considerable concern to all of us in this House, that a report into the capacity of the Hawkes Bay District Health Board has revealed a culture of mistrust and dysfunction between the board and management.
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It is indeed significant to be attending your hui on The Treaty and Social Transformation in the lands of Taranaki, in this annual hui hosted this year by Hauora o Ngati Ruanui.
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CHRISTCHURCH — It has always disturbed me that in the horrific aftermath of our fatal crimes against children, our community invests considerable time in blaming, naming, shaming and inflaming the nation as we wag our fingers and say, ‘this must never happen again’.
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Dom Felice Vaggioli, one of the first Benedictine priests to be sent to New Zealand, arrived in 1879 and quickly became fascinated with the tangata whenua he encountered.
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The question who's going to do something about Maori respiratory health, must be a top priority for all political parties says Maori Party health spokesperson, Tariana Turia.
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Tena koe Mr Speaker, tena tatou katoa It is somewhat ironic, that the issue at the top of the order paper in the Beehive today, features what has become known as a New Zealand icon – the bee.
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The government’s crackdown on ‘the tagging sub-culture’ may offer temporary relief to frustrated property owners, but not solve the problem long-term, says the Maori Party.
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RAGLAN — Twenty years ago on 13 February 1988, a thousand people gathered at Raglan for a day of thanksgiving.
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The following Notice of Motion was presented in the House this afternoon, by Hon Tariana Turia, Co-leader of the Maori Party:
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TARANAKI — Te Tai Hauauru MP, Tariana Turia, has repeated her call for a co-ordinated agency-wide strategy to be immediately put in place in Patea to protect Patea residents from the health risks associated with asbestos exposure.
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