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Resignation-watch: Tariana Turia

Eddie — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:17:23 +0000

Tariana Turia is making hollow threats to leave the government but she might be pushed first. Winston Peters has wasted no time showing how opposition politics is done, using his first question time back to skewer Turia, exposing the massive rorting her Whanau Ora programme. Turia made a slush fund for her mates with our money. She has to go.

Extraordinary attack on Maori Party

Anthony R0bins — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:27:10 +0000

Waihoroi Shortland, the Maori Party candidate in the Te Tai Tokerau electorate, has been warned to "Watch your back, lest it be bitten by the Maori Party dogs". An extraordinary warning from an extraordinary source...

Turia knows the Maori Party is toast

Anthony R0bins — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:42:30 +0000

The Maori Party leaders have racked up the highest ministerial expenses after the PM - despite not being in Cabinet. What is even more extraordinary is Tariana Turia's response to being questioned on this.

Turia on Te Tai Tokerau

Anthony R0bins — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:37:20 +0000

Were Tariana Turia's comments on her own candidate in the Te Tai Tokerau by-election some kind of cunning plan, or just a simple stuff-up?

More budget backhanders

Zetetic — Fri, 27 May 2011 01:00:51 +0000

PEDA last year. Parents Inc this year. Ministers giving backhanders to their mates is a growing trend. $1.5m is being cut from the Community Organisation Grants Scheme that funds things like Rape Crisis. Instead of this democratic, accountable process, the money will go to four groups hand-picked by Turia. Dodgy as hell.

How rude

r0b — Mon, 09 May 2011 20:15:55 +0000

What a lot of fuss about Titewhai Harawira and daughter heckling Tariana Turia. Perhaps those expressing outrage at yesterday's events would do well to reflect for a while on the source of the Harawiras' anger.

Pita’s poll: Maori Party death-rattle?

Eddie — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:35:41 +0000

A new Horizon poll suggests that Pita Sharples' majority in Tamaki Makaurau has been slashed by 80% and he could be overtaken by Labour's Shane Jones. There's a bit of scuttlebutt that Willie Jackson might run for Hone's new Left/Maori Party (if it gets off the ground). In that case, expect a real three-way race, which Sharples would almost certainly lose.

How not to handle a rebel

r0b — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:30:08 +0000

The Maori Party handling of rebel MP Hone Harawira has been a complete mess. The latest bizarre chapter in the story is the gagging of Harawira with "a complete media ban" to be "strictly observed by the Maori Party". I'm trying to recall any precedent for such an extreme gagging of free speech by a political party...

You can’t mix oil and water

Eddie — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:14:47 +0000

Every new party faces an inevitable conflict between the 'realos' and the 'fundis' over how much principle can be compromised to make some gains through coalitions. The Maori Party made it far worse by supporting a party that is anathema to everything it stands for. That big mistake is at the root of collapse we're now witnessing.

Pride cometh

Eddie — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:41:40 +0000

Senior Maori Party staffers have been deserting the party in droves in recent months, including chief of staff Harry Walker, repulsed by the leadership selling out to National. It's gotten so bad that they've had to out-source their spin doctoring to the Tories. You think I'm joking? I wish. This illuminates Hone Harawira's fight with the leadership.

Why are Turia & Sharples cuddling up to Key?

Eddie — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:53:16 +0000

At this stage in the electoral cycle, government support parties are usually looking to try to differentiate themselves from the main governing party. They need to do this to show they still hold true to their own values and have a separate identity that is worth voting for. The Maori Party is doing to opposite.

Hone’s motives grow murkier

Eddie — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:37:49 +0000

Why did Hone Harawira pick a fight if he wasn't prepared to see it out? One News last night had him saying he wants to stay with the Maori Party. Patrick Gower reckons Hone's assault on the leadership is all about building cred to take over next year but Hone's saying he would support Te Ururoa Flavell for male co-leader. Curiouser and curiouser.

Hone the victim or the playmaker?

Eddie — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:44:05 +0000

Hone Harawira is many things but stupid isn't one of them. He has cleverly created a situation where Tariana Turia and her lackeys have had to attack him for daring to speak truth to power. It's Hone who has been the protagonist. It's he who has fronted to the media while Turia has hidden. He's been planning this and he knows how it will play out.

Hone: Maori Party has lost its way

Eddie — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:30:29 +0000

Wow. The first edition of Hone Harawira's new opinion column in the Sunday Star Times is a jaw-dropping read. He frankly states the party has sold out it values for cabinet seats - put coalition before kaupapa. It's a brazen attack on Tariana Turia, and confirmation he intends to stay with the Maori Party and, some day, lead it back to its roots.

Time for Turia to go

r0b — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:30:43 +0000

Labour has opened the door on cross party negotiations to achieve a true consensus on the foreshore. But Tariana Turia is too locked in to ancient personal hatreds to do anything but reject the offer. In doing so she has become a huge obstacle to progress on the very goals that she claims to support. It's time for Turia to step down.