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“We are unstoppable, another world is possible”
Written By: - Date published: 9:36 am, April 15th, 2017 - 45 comments
Activism and protest done well, here are the faces of the emerging climate justice movement in NZ.
Mana Māori truce didn’t last long
Written By: - Date published: 10:15 am, April 3rd, 2017 - 58 comments
“A poisonous and destructive cancer” – that’s not something you say to your allies.
Marama Fox on working with a Labour/Green government
Written By: - Date published: 7:24 am, March 27th, 2017 - 73 comments
Marama Fox opens the way for the Māori Party to work with Labour and the Greens.
Labour’s Māori electorate MPs will not be on the list
Written By: - Date published: 1:03 pm, March 21st, 2017 - 58 comments
In breaking news, Labour’s Māori electorate MPs to stand as electorate candidates only (not on the list).
National’s water problem
Written By: - Date published: 8:03 am, March 21st, 2017 - 48 comments
The Government’s timid backdown on water charging is placing it in a very uncomfortable position.
White Man Behind a Desk – Indigenous Rights
Written By: - Date published: 7:32 am, March 6th, 2017 - 6 comments
We no longer need the Waitangi Tribunal because everything’s fine now. Right?
English on the Māori seats
Written By: - Date published: 9:17 am, February 23rd, 2017 - 13 comments
Someone should ask English whether he still believes the opinions stated in the press release, and if not, why not?
Kaupapa Pākehā
Written By: - Date published: 10:50 am, February 22nd, 2017 - 329 comments
What if we based our politics on relationships not power?
He Kawenata ki Waenga i Te Roopu MANA me Te Paati Māori
Written By: - Date published: 5:51 pm, February 20th, 2017 - 54 comments
The agreement between the Mana Movement and the Māori Party.
The Greens in Te Tai Tokerau
Written By: - Date published: 2:13 pm, February 20th, 2017 - 13 comments
Te Tai Tokerau looks to be a hotly contested seat in the 2017 general election, and the Greens are entering the fray there for the first time, with new candidate Godfrey Rudolph.
Waitangi Day 2017
Written By: - Date published: 7:01 am, February 6th, 2017 - 19 comments
Well the lead-up to Waitangi Day this year has certainly had its fair share of drama!
You can read Andrew Little’s thoughts on the day here: Andrew Little: Waitangi a day for all of us to come together
Māori politics – “don’t believe the hype”
Written By: - Date published: 8:42 am, January 24th, 2017 - 81 comments
Totally unexpected in an election year, but Te Ururoa Flavell is making a play for the Māori seats. Morgan Godfery has some thoughts on the hype.
Know Your Place (this is a White Man’s Island)
Written By: - Date published: 8:41 am, January 12th, 2017 - 76 comments
Just remember that
Refining that dog whistle
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, January 10th, 2017 - 71 comments
Bill English has used a proposal for timing of his Waitangi speech to wrongly claim that he is being silenced. And most of the media bought it.
English won’t attend Waitangi Day
Written By: - Date published: 9:07 am, January 9th, 2017 - 191 comments
I don’t think it does a PM any harm to shut up and listen for a change instead of talking, but this does not seem to be possible for the Nats.
Vincent O’Malley: wars we choose to remember and forget
Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, October 19th, 2016 - 9 comments
Vincent O’Malley writes at The Guardian about how we should, or don’t, remember the New Zealand wars.
Protecting the seabed and foreshore
Written By: - Date published: 9:34 am, October 19th, 2016 - 7 comments
With the sudden departure of deep sea drilling company Statoil from Northland here’s a timely look the role of community action in that, the state of play in NZ and what is next.
Marama Fox to Richard Prosser: how much more do we have to be dicked around?
Written By: - Date published: 12:30 pm, September 21st, 2016 - 201 comments
The New Zealand First MP had no answers for the Māori Party co-leader after NZF pulled their support for five major Treaty settlements at the eleventh hour.
The Kermadecs and racist environmentalism
Written By: - Date published: 6:14 pm, September 18th, 2016 - 154 comments
This week has been a revelation in how willing Pākehā are to throw Māori under the bus for the sake of environmentalism.
Maori Party to make a stand?
Written By: - Date published: 2:45 pm, September 15th, 2016 - 113 comments
The Maori Party are threatening to pull out of their confidence & supply agreement with National. This would leave National with a Hair-thin majority in the House. The Kermadec Sanctuary, if handled with competence instead of arrogance, should have been a massive win for National.
Can a national park be a person?
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, September 6th, 2016 - 17 comments
While New Zealand trashes its water and argues over whether we are allow to say ‘dairy cow’ at the same time, this 1 min video on The Guardian Facebook page about the Rights of Nature in NZ gets 2.4 million views
Nanaia Mahuta: “I refuse to engage in the politics of desperation”
Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, August 30th, 2016 - 108 comments
The MP for Hauraki-Waikato has responded strongly to the latest jibes coming from the Māori Party.
Guest post: Tane Phillips for Māori Vice President
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, August 23rd, 2016 - 11 comments
The Standard’s authors have offered candidates for the upcoming Labour Party internal elections the chance to guest post about why they’re running. Tane Phillips has been nominated for the position of Māori Vice President. Here’s his vision for the role and the party.
Racism, middle NZ and Māori
Written By: - Date published: 9:36 am, August 22nd, 2016 - 141 comments
In seeking to understand and remedy racism in NZ we should start with the actions of governments and leaders, not with the words of blowhard media constructs.
What if there were only 34 more whitebait harvests left?
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, August 19th, 2016 - 78 comments
Water is life not merely wadeable.
Wahine toa
Written By: - Date published: 5:04 pm, August 8th, 2016 - 38 comments
Nanaia Mahuta will tomorrow become the first woman MP to wear the moko in Parliament.
Kiwi Treason
Written By: - Date published: 8:08 am, August 4th, 2016 - 181 comments
Vegemite and marmite taste the same, rugby is naff, John Clarke’s an Australian. What?
Maori health and children not a priority
Written By: - Date published: 3:20 pm, July 11th, 2016 - 77 comments
Essential reading, two pieces highlighting institutional racism today. Someone needs to ask the Maori Party how proud they are to be propping up this government.
Hone Harawira is getting the band back together
Written By: - Date published: 10:00 am, June 20th, 2016 - 54 comments
It’s useful with controversial politicians to hear what they actually say, and in context too. Here’s Harawira in his own words.
Return of the living dead
Written By: - Date published: 8:41 am, April 12th, 2016 - 37 comments
Don Brash has been resuscitated and is complaining about privilege and preferential treatment. Not of rich old white people like himself but because Maori rights to Taonga may be recognised.
RIP Dr Ranginui Walker
Written By: - Date published: 11:04 am, February 29th, 2016 - 11 comments
Dr Ranginui Walker, leader, academic and writer on Māori issues, has died aged 83.
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