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Member for Waiariki, Maori Party Whip Member, Business Committee Member, Education and Science Committee Member, Standing Orders Committee
It hasn’t been a good week for children.
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May Day, International Workers Day, is a very appropriate time to acknowledge over two decades of dedicated advocacy from the group, Sawmill Workers Against Poison, who have struggled to protect the rights of former and current timber workers says Waiariki MP, Te Ururoa Flavell.
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Maori Party education spokesperson, Te Ururoa Flavell, today highlighted the ongoing inequities revealed around the ‘universal 20 hours free child-care policy’ by the Child Poverty Action Group in their report, ‘Left Behind’.
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Local MP Te Ururoa Flavell congratulated the Tuhoe Education Authority, and Ngai Tuhoe generally, for their tremendous achievement in gaining official recognition for the first iwi-designed education curriculum.
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TAURANGA — This time last week, a crowd of some 350 people ascended the sacred mountain at the entrance to Tauranga Harbour, Mauao.
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WELLINGTON — Three years ago, Beverley Wakem addressed a ceremony in Wellington with these words, You will need to be well-informed, develop a sense of perspective (what is the history of this or that, what is going on behind what is going on in front, what is the cause of this), be curious, be sceptical and don't be side-tracked by 'political spin', and be alert to the large responsibility you have in seeking the truth.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Over a century ago, a humble advertisement promoted a major event to be held at Lancaster Park in Christchurch.
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I te tuatahi, me whai atu au i nga korero i te ahiahi nei mo te hunga kua ngaro atu i te tirohanga kanohi, ara o nga tamariki tokoono, me to rätou kaiako.
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144 days. That is all that is left before the time is up. 144 days left to lodge all historical Treaty of Waitangi claims with the Waitangi Tribunal.
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This Bill seeks to make Family Court proceedings more open and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Family Courts.
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Although this bill isn’t just about breast-feeding, having five children myself, I consider myself somewhat of an authority on the issue, even if it was in an observer's capacity.
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On the 13 September 2007, 143 countries of the world, united in an inspirational act of solidarity, signed up to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a standard of achievement to be pursued in a spirit of kotahitanga, of partnership and mutual respect.
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CANTERBURY — Maori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell is pleased the issues he raised with the government two years ago, over the planned sale of Taurewa Station by Landcorp, are close to being resolved.
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Today’s unveiling by the iwi of a proposal to the Crown for settling forestry claims in the Central North Island is a positive step towards eventual resolution of long-standing issues, says Waiariki MP, Te Ururoa Flavell.
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Ko täku noa ake i te tuatahi ko te tuku i te poroporoakï ki tera kua ngaro atu i nga pakitara o te whare paremata.
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ROTORUA —
The Maori Party is pleased that Government is finally taking responsibility for decades of cumulative pollution, in the Rotorua lakes restoration programme announced today.
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I am pleased to be able to take a call on this Building Amendment Bill – and in doing so, I have been thinking about who will benefit from this legislation.
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One of the common catchphrases of this place is that a week is a very long time in politics.
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The prospect of nineteen defendants facing another six months under bail restrictions, before a decision is even made as whether they should face trial, foreshadows a serious miscarriage of justice, says Te Ururoa Flavell.
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Tena koe Madam Speaker, tena tatou katoa.
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HAWKE'S BAY — Mr Speaker, three days ago one of the most comical of press releases was issued under the name of the Director-General of Health.
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The Prime Minister has spelt out that, for her government, treaty settlements are all about numbers – and in election year, that means it’s all about votes,” according to Te Ururoa Flavell.
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BAY OF PLENTY — “The outrage continues in Ruatoki and, second time round, people are not likely to accept that police behaviour was any sort of mistake.” That is the view of Te Ururoa Flavell, MP for Waiariki, after talking to local community leaders about the arrest of three more people on firearms charges linked to Operation Eight.
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Ten days ago, some 8,000 expatriate New Zealanders celebrated Waitangi Day in London with a rendition of the haka “Ka mate ka mate”.
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ROTORUA — Te Tari Puni Graduation 2008, Rotorua Convention Centre.
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Today’s release by Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres proclaiming that 2007 was a year of ‘significant developments in relation to the Treaty of Waitangi’ demonstrates that the Commissioner’s role has become reduced to that of a Government proxy says Te Ururoa Flavell, Treaty spokesperson for the Maori Party.
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The Maori Party today is calling on the Government to front up with, and make public, the latest letter of concern from human rights agents of the United Nations.
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ROTORUA — MÄ te tuku o te roimata me te hupe kia rere, kia ea te ngau o mate, o aitua.
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KAWERAU — Local Member of Parliament for Waiariki, Te Ururoa Flavell, has today praised the local Mayor for Kawerau, Malcolm Campbell, and the greater Kawerau community, for the initiatives given a public airing on last night’s Campbell Live.
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The Maori Party has today congratulated Maori whanau throughout Aotearoa for ‘getting involved in the education system in ways the evidence suggests are worthwhile’.
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ROTORUA — TÄ“nÄ tÄÂtou katoa e te Whare.
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TAURANGA — There’s a short video clip on You-Tube called ‘Mauao Bombs’ which features some Maori kids in baggy black pants, doing bombs off Salisbury Wharf in Tauranga.
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I want to acknowledge Mr Brownlee and note that he had a bit of a “wuff” night.
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There is a whakatauaki which is apt to refer to, as we embark on this Bill to provide for the formation and registration of new statutory governance entities – ‘waka umanga’ – by tribal groups and Maori associations.
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The Maori Party has today revealed their huge concern that some 6334 students are “estimated” to be non-enrolled at schools.
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Tena koe, Madam Chair, tena tatou katoa e te Whare.
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The 2007 National Maori Sports Awards show that Maori sportspeople are demonstrating their incredible talents and abilities in every sporting area across the world says Te Ururoa Flavell.
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ROTORUA — I am honoured that the Rotorua Family Violence Prevention Network has invited me to share such a significant occasion for celebrating the potential of our whanau.
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The essence of this Bill is to ensure that workers can negotiate with their employers more flexible working arrangements to create a better work life balance and a win/win situation for both parties.
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AUCKLAND CITY — At first glance, this bill appears to be a mere technical adjustment, a proposal to amend the Auckland Domain Act 1987 in order to update the reference from the Auckland Lawn Tennis Association (Incorporated) to Auckland Tennis Incorporated.
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The Maori Party has a strong interest in the central concept underpinning this Bill – namely the protection of private property rights in Aotearoa.
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Mr Speaker, a week ago today the Maori Party view on this bill was clearly set out by Dr Sharples, and as with anything we in the Maori Party are involved with, particularly with regard to issues within this House, we take it very seriously - as indeed we do the serious business of humour.
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Madam Speaker, I am told that every Wednesday morning, deep in the precincts of Parliament, an industrious committee is faced with a sixty-minute marathon, in which a demanding schedule of regulations is put through the most rigorous parliamentary scrutiny.
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“What part of the Treaty commitment don’t they get?” asked Te Ururoa Flavell, reflecting on Labour’s latest actions in voting down the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi in the Education (Tertiary Reforms) Amendment Bill.
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A policy back flip; a reversal of position, a change of heart in this House is usually occasion to make great political capital.
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Waiariki Member of Parliament, Te Ururoa Flavell, today has queried the nature of the security risk that was identified in the Police surveillance exercise carried out over the last eighteen months, focused on Ruatoki.
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The Maori Party has today acknowledged the efforts of the New Zealand Maori Council (NZMC), the Federation of Maori Authorities (FOMA) and Tumu Te Heu Heu, Ariki of Ngati Tuwharetoa, in pursuing the case around the justiciability of the Te Arawa Settlement Deed.
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ROTORUA — Some twenty generations ago, an act of self-sacrifice and courage took place in Hawaiki.
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Tena tatou katoa Mr Speaker, the report back from the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee on this Terrorism Suppression Amendment Bill couldn’t have come at a more pertinent time.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Te Ururoa Flavell has today released a letter he has sent to the Minister of Education, asking him to clarify the truth to claims that New Zealand police boarded school buses during their ‘anti-terrorism’ raids on Ruatoki and Taneatua last Monday.
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I am told that down town in Papatoetoe, there’s a project called Street Talk which is literally getting out on the streets, helping people to be safe.
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This Bill couldn’t have come at a more opportune for the new Mayor of Auckland.
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We come here today, to see what the problem is with an Act that’s been around longer than I have.
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BAY OF PLENTY — The unprecedented police activity across the small rural Maori communities throughout the Urewera Valley has been described by Waiariki MP as placing a community in his electorate “under siege”.
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While it is quiet, I thought I would share with the House some views about te Ao Maori, as sort of an educational exercise.
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I ahau e tu nei, ka huri oku whakaaro ki Te Taua Moana o Aotearoa me ta ratou mokopuna, tamaiti.
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Kia ora tatou Mr Speaker, when I rose to talk on this Bill at its second reading, I shared with the House, the deeply personal experience and that of our whanau as we had been through the care and welfare of my late sister, Hine.
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A week ago we were debating this latest omnibus Bill to come before the House - bringing together issues as wide ranging as endangered species, real estate agents, lawyers and conveyancers, and volunteers all in one heap of amendments.
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There are few Bills which come before the House which reflect our desire to live according to kaupapa handed down by our ancestors as perfectly as this, the Protection of Personal and Property Rights Amendment Bill.
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Four years ago, Radio Waatea carried an interview with a passionate union activist, a veteran broadcaster, employer, Board director, Maori rights campaigner, Chief Executive – a man of Ngati Kahungunu and Ngati Porou, the freedom fighter Syd Jackson.
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Kia ora koutou katoa The history of the Family Court relationship with Maori has been extensively documented.
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Tena koe Madam Speaker I have some awesome questions for the mighty Maori Party but there may well be others who are likely to know the answers.
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Tena koe; tena tatou katoa Hei wawahi i a tatou korero i tenei po ka huri nga whakaaro ki Ngaruawahia, ki Turangawaewae ki nga mahi o te rangi whakahirahira ara, ki te potaetanga o te Kingi Hou a Kingi Tuheitia.
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