Tag: Maori Party
Māori Party calls for indigenous debate to address NZ racism, white...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The co-leader of New Zealand's minority Māori Party has launched a blistering attack on white privilege and the opposition National Party...
NZ Parliament ejects Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi over haka
RNZ News
Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi has been ejected from New Zealand's Parliament for doing a haka in protest against questions by the Opposition...
Waititi to wear his ‘Māori business attire’ back to NZ’s Parliament
By RNZ News
New Zealand's parliamentary Speaker has offered an olive branch to Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi over his refusal to wear a tie...
Waikeria Prison protesters surrender to NZ authorities after 6-day siege
By RNZ News
The 16 protesters at Waikeria Prison have surrendered to authorities after a six-day stand-off.
The news that the men had ended the stand-off...
Crosbie Walsh: Parihaka, a Stuff apology to Māori and seeking truth
COMMENT: By Crosbie Walsh
Media giant Stuff, after a protracted study of its own history, announced this week that much that it has published on...
Māori Party heading back to NZ’s Parliament after electorate win
By RNZ News
The Māori Party looks set to secure a place back in New Zealand's Parliament after three years out in the cold.
Rawiri Waititi...
One million New Zealanders celebrate te reo Māori at the same...
RNZ's Meriana Johnsen speaks to Te Taura Whiri i te reo Māori chair Rawinia Higgins as part of the Māori Language Moment.
By Meriana Johnsen,...
Martyn Bradbury: TVNZ block on Māori Party for election debates shameful
COMMENT: By Martyn Bradbury
TVNZ have made the decision to exclude the Māori Party from their election debates.
The argument being forwarded by TVNZ is that...
The Daily Blog: Jacinda’s Waitangi Day 2018 aroha creating a Māori...
OPINION: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog
Waitangi Day 2018 smells different doesn’t it?
It tastes different too.
No bitter "Māori privilege" nonsense from Don...
Goodbye Maggie baggage – RIP neo-liberalism in NZ: 1984–2017
OPINION: By Frank Macskasy
Winston Peters has called it: NZ First is going into coalition with Labour-Greens.
In reality, it was the only decision he...
West Papua ignored by most NZ major political parties’ election policies
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
On the eve of New Zealand’s 2017 general election, Pacific Media Watch reports on whether West Papua features in the human...
Labour MP blames Māori Party for NZ ‘inequality’ as National’s partners
By Philip Cass in Auckland
Mangere Labour MP Aupito William Sio has hit out at claims by Tongan Māori Party candidate Manase Lua that Labour...
Consulate denies Māori Party claim for royal backing for Tongan candidate
By Philip Cass in Auckland
Tonga's Consul has denied claims by Tongan Māori Party candidate Manase Lua that he was endorsed by King Tupou VI.
Lua...
Pasifika voters want ‘hand-ups, not hand-outs’ in NZ housing crisis
By Kendall Hutt in Māngere
Pasifika voters in South Auckland have stressed they would like to see “hand-ups, not hand-outs” following New Zealand’s 2017 general...
