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The massive 9% spike in crude oil, along with the falling New Zealand dollar, has led to renewed calls from the Mori Party for a cross-party Parliamentary Commission to look sensibly and collaboratively at addressing the challenge of Peak Oil.
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The Maori Party leadership has welcomed the outcome of the Democratic Party nomination contest for the US Presidential candidate.
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Mori Party co-leader, Dr Pita Sharples, today sent out the call to whnau, hapk and iwi to search out their networks, sharing the message that ‘the future is in our hands’.
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“The Maori Party will campaign vigorously for the party vote in '08 as we did in '05, says Co-leader Tariana Turia.
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“The Maori Party will campaign vigorously for the party vote in '08 as we did in '05, says Co-leader Tariana Turia.
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The Maori Party says a $10.6 billion tax-cut package is a drop in the bucket, when there is much more to be done to address inequalities and need, according to the Maori Party.
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The Maori Party is pleased to endorse the enrolment update campaign launched today.
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Tax cuts should be directed to eliminating poverty, especially among our most vulnerable citizens, our children, says the Maori Party.
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The Maori Party says Jim Anderton’s branding of all Maori commercial fishers as plunderers shows an attitude which Maori find patronising and arrogant.
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The Maori Party is deeply upset to hear that Mahinaarangi Tocker has drawn her last breath at the young age of 52.
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The Maori Party congratulates the governments success in encouraging people to report family violence but says now it must stump up with resources to deal with the problem.
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Maori Party Co-leaders, Dr Pita Sharples and Hon Tariana Turia, commend the committed courage of church leaders who have called for action to restore benefit rates to a level necessary for a just and compassionate society.
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An elated chairperson for the Maori Party electorate of Ikaroa Rawhiti, last night announced the candidate to contest the General Elections in 2008 is Derek Fox.
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Dr Pita Sharples is excited that the Marae Digipoll announced today indicates all seven Maori electorate seats will go to the Maori Party in Election 2008.
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Glenys Papuni, Maori Party Electorate Chair for Te Tai Tonga,Saturday 16 February 2008.
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Maori Party Ikaroa Rawhiti Electorate Committee delighted with the strong pool of contenders to contest a 'hot seat' Saturday 9 February 2008; 3.00pm Electorate Chairman, Gordon Paku, has today confirmed what he has described as an 'impressive line-up' to campaign to be the Maori Party candidate for Ikaroa Rawhiti.
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Sensational headlines linking the artform of the wero with 'mongrels' and 'gangs' have been greeted with anger by Dr Pita Sharples, co-leader of the Maori Party.
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Iri te rau kawakawa iri ki whare aitua.
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GREYMOUTH — Maori Party Co-leader, Dr Pita Sharples, has urged all parties to respect the need for communication regarding the removal of war memorial pillars from Greymouth.
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WELLINGTON CITY — The Maori Party has today congratulated Michelle Hippolite, of Ngati Pou and Rongowhakaata, in being appointed to the role of Kaihautu at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
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Climate Change spokesperson for the Maori Party, Hone Harawira, today expressed dismay at learning of the latest scapegoat, Environment boss Hugh Logan, to fall casualty to Labour’s fixation with seeing the public service as another arm of the Labour Party.
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The Maori Party has today expressed its profound concern at any suggestions that the pension age should be lifted.
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The Maori Party has today reiterated the call it made on 4 September 2005 to establish a cross-party parliamentary commission on peak oil.
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The Maori Party is celebrating the enterprise of indigenous leadership in forming the United League of Indigenous Nations; an international initiative which Aotearoa will formally ratify in Whakatane on November 28, 2007 (tomorrow).
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“For indigenous Australians, a Howard defeat signifies that Australians have voted against policies which attacked and polarised various sectors across their nation, and in particular Aboriginal communities” said Tariana Turia, Co-leader of the Maori Party.
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Over the last couple of months we’ve seen all kinds of groups and individuals opposing and interpreting this bill as “almost impossible”, very difficult, messy and expensive, and overly complex.
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“The tragic trends around suicide are something that no politician can ignore” said Te Ururoa Flavell, Statistics Spokesperson for the Maori Party.
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The Maori Party has reacted with caution to the ‘bold, brave plan’ put forward by Fonterra to list on the stock exchange.
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“We welcome the Police Inquiry into their decision to investigate the publication of any information which could be considered to breach court suppression orders or potentially compromise criminal proceedings” said Dr Sharples.
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A major call from iwi for Government to listen, must be accorded respect says Fisheries Spokesperson for the Maori Party, Tariana Turia.
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The Maori Party today is very pleased to learn that the latest Marae Digipoll survey indicates they are well on the way to achieving their aim of taking all seven Maori seats in the 2008 Elections.
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The Maori Party has expressed relief that the horrific experience of the last 25 days has now abated following the decision of the Solicitor General, David Collins QC, not to proceed with laying any charges under the Terrorism Suppression legislation.
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"If Winston Peters wants to support state forces terrorising Maori communities, then that’s his call, but the man must be a bloody fool if he thinks I’m going to shut up and accept it,” said Hone Harawira, Maori Party MP for Tai Tokerau.
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LEESTON — The actions of an individual fire-fighter in Canterbury in protesting about the use of two Maori words on his uniform (whakaratonga iwi), demonstrate the desperate need for Government to put more effort into promoting a unique piece of legislation passed some twenty years ago in 1987.
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Education Spokesperson for the Maori Party, Te Ururoa Flavell, today expressed amazement that the Government could issue a release confirming that te reo Maori has been added as an official language of New Zealand without at the same time issuing an apology for taking two decades to implement the law.
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Research released today by UMR which found that 41% of Maori surveyed considered that “the police have over-reacted and acted inappropriately†in what the media have described as ‘terror raids’ must make the nation take a long hard look at itself†said Te Ururoa Flavell, Waiariki MP.
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The Maori Party is pleased that the government has finally acknowledged the crisis state of the Treaty Negotiations portfolio by placing the Leader of the House into this challenging area.
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The Maori Party has today responded to the police announcement that evidence has been referred to the Solicitor-General for consideration as to whether consent will be given for them to lay charges under the Terrorism Suppression Act.
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The Maori Party has welcomed research released today by the Nielsen Company and Anthony Wilson, which has found a “sharp rise” in the significance of traditional cultural values amongst tangata whenua.
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The use of extravagant descriptions of a ‘bunch of malcontents’, of people “prancing around protesting” and “ramming their hymn of hate down our throats” is classic political entertainment, says the Maori Party, and signals the start of NZ First’s Election campaign of personal attack.
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HASTINGS — A statement, made in consensus, at the conclusion of the Hui-a-Tau / AGM of the Maori Party at Omahu Marae, Hastings.
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When my colleague, Hone Harawira last spoke on this Bill, on 8 May this year, he said that land issues are so important for MÄÂori that we were considering an amendment to this bill to refer all MÄÂori land disputes to the MÄÂori Land Court.
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The Maori Party is rapt today that the eighth Maori electorate seat has been found by Te Puni Kokiri in their report, Maori in Australia.
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The Maori Party is calling for calm, following the frenzy of calls for taser guns to be introduced as a 'less' lethal weapon in the police arsenal to rely on in a time of crisis.
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Treaty Deletion Bill Rejected.
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The Maori Party today has recognised the changes that have been determined for the 2008 electorate boundaries with a statement that acknowledges the unchanging nature of whakapapa, regardless of boundary movements.
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The demographics of MÄÂori population change have resulted in adjustments to the boundaries of five of the seven MÄÂori electorates.
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The Prime Minister’s admission that the Government has had to be “very sensitive to where there are historical, recreational, conservation Treaty settlement issues related around Landcorp properties" has been welcomed as a sign of the success of iwi actions in upholding the rangatiratanga of their land said the Maori Party today.
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“The time to debate climate change is over” said Tariana Turia, Environment Spokesperson for the Maori Party.
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Aue, aue! Kua tau te hau tonga, ara te hau makariri o te ringa kaha o Aitua.
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AUCKLAND — The Maori Party has today welcomed the decision made by the Director of Security to withdraw the security risk certificate against the Algerian refugee, Ahmed Zaoui.
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Mr Speaker, Clause 8 of this Bill explicitly states that: “The Bill does not apply to Maori customary land”.
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I understand that this Bill is intended to amend the International Finance Agreements Act of 1961, so that New Zealand can become a member of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, and to ratify the Convention Establishing the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency signed by this Labour government in Seoul on 6 September 2005, which links this Agency to others referred to in that Act, including the World Bank, IMF and the International Finance Corporation.
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Mr Speaker, this Broadcasting Amendment Bill, gives the House a good opportunity to look back on the first principles of broadcasting in Aotearoa, and when I talk principles, I’m talking about those Treaty principles that both NZ First, and Labour, with their large band of Tontos, have voted to dump from legislation, those Treaty principles that Maori up and down the country hold fast to as the only validation of the Treaty in legislation in this country.
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“A true agent of transformation has left us” said Tariana Turia, on hearing of the death of long-time friend and veteran activist, Syd Jackson.
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Speculation that Labour will engineer changes to the Electoral Finance Bill, currently before the Justice and Electoral Reform Committee, threaten to undermine the democratic process says the Maori Party.
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The Maori Party has today expressed relief at today's announcement that the lethal taser stun guns are being withdrawn at midnight tonight.
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The Maori Party has today confirmed it is seeking briefings from both TVNZ and Te Mangai Paho for the MPs to fire questions around TVNZ’s new Maori programming strategy.
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The Maori Party has today congratulated the Independent Panel conducting the Local Government Rates Inquiry for the work they have done in acknowledging the absolute importance of whenua for whanau, hapu and iwi.
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