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  1. Mana and Māori Party ‘unification’?

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 10:17 am, November 25th, 2016 -  44 comments
    Categories: mana-party, maori party
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    Although the personality obstacles probably retired with Turia and Sharples, it is hard to see how Mana’s left wing policies can be reconciled with the Māori Party’s record propping up the Key government.

  2. Re-post: Tane Phillips for Māori Vice President

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 10:25 am, November 5th, 2016 -  2 comments
    Categories: democratic participation, labour
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    Earlier this year the Standard’s authors offered candidates for the upcoming Labour Party internal elections the chance to guest post about why they’re running. We’re reposting them now ahead of tomorrow’s vote.

  3. Guest post: Tane Phillips for Māori Vice President

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 8:00 am, August 23rd, 2016 -  11 comments
    Categories: democratic participation, labour, Maori Issues, Politics
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    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.

  4. Racism, middle NZ and Māori

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 9:36 am, August 22nd, 2016 -  141 comments
    Categories: Maori Issues, maori party, Maori seats, national, racism
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    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.

  5. A short history of The Standard – Maoriland Worker

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 3:22 pm, June 21st, 2015 -  43 comments
    Categories: history, The Standard
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    I saw earlier this month that typically the bombastic one from The Daily Blog Bombast was managing to not mention our site name in a post about hiring a hacker to crack into our site. Of more concern was his lack of local history. Is he too in love with his own voice to learn the lessons of the past?

  6. Harawira’s recount bid did not “backfire”

    Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 3:17 pm, October 9th, 2014 -  155 comments
    Categories: hone harawira, mana, mana-party, spin
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    The usual Tory cheerleaders have been quick to heap further bile on Hone Harawira.

  7. ACT’s voodoo economics

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 6:18 pm, August 3rd, 2014 -  53 comments
    Categories: act, business, capitalism
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    ACT has announced its corporate tax policy and a cut in the rate from 0.28c to 0.125c in the dollar is promised. There is a slight problem. The figures do not add up.

  8. Maori Party to seek leave to change Paid Parental Leave Bill vote

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:49 pm, May 29th, 2014 -  14 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    The Maori Party have supported Sue Moroney’s Paid Parental Leave Bill from its introduction.  Then something weird happened last night.  First National unbelievably blocked Flavell’s vote when he left to be at the birth of his first grandchild.  Then National used the Maori Party’s proxy votes to vote down Moroney’s bill.  Did National mislead Parliament?  Or did Sharples buckle under the pressure and change the Maori Party vote? Updated: Leave granted and Moroney’s bill survives …

  9. Second class citizens. Beggars belief

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 9:49 am, April 29th, 2014 -  58 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, class war, Metiria Turei, poverty, uncategorized, unemployment
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    Out of sight-out of mind seems to be the logic of Auckland City’s bylaw to come into effect next month, to outlaw begging on the streets. The clear message from Native Affairs report, ‘Walk on By‘, last night, is that the bylaw is the result of pressure from the comfortable middle classes. [Update: bylaw only says it’s an offence where begging causes a nuisance]

  10. Mana Maori?

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 11:01 am, July 1st, 2013 -  39 comments
    Categories: mana-party, maori party
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    There’s a lot of talk about a reunification of the Mana and Maori Parties after the Ikaroa-Rawhiti result. So – what are the chances?

  11. Maori Party finished?

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 9:57 am, July 1st, 2013 -  83 comments
    Categories: by-election, by-election 2013, labour, mana-party, Maori Issues, maori party, Maori seats
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    Gotta love the reporting of the Ikaroa-Rawhiti by election. This was a boring, predictable win for Labour, a big upset win for Mana, and probably the death knell of the Maori Party.

    Update: Native Affairs has unconfirmed reports that Sharples has stood down as leader of the Maori Party.

  12. Will the Maori Party make a stand for kids?

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 9:40 am, December 12th, 2012 -  14 comments
    Categories: maori party, national, poverty
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    The Maori Party has publicly called on National to act on the child poverty report. Was this a token protest for form’s sake, or will the Maori Party actually make a stand for kids?

  13. Maori Party too little too late

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 11:21 am, October 25th, 2012 -  9 comments
    Categories: climate change, ETS, maori party
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    The Maori Party has pulled its support for the latest weakening of the ETS. As usual Peter Dunne will be personally responsible for propping up the worst of the Nats’ agenda.

  14. Asset Sales, Water & Maori claims – an ‘elegant solution’

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 10:48 am, September 18th, 2012 -  14 comments
    Categories: privatisation, treaty settlements, water
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    It seems that whenever a matter arises that involves some claim of collective ownership or control by Maori, John Key comes up with what he describes as an ‘elegant solution’. If Key can come up with a string of such solutions I thought maybe I could give it a try. Therefore, this is my attempt at developing an ‘elegant solution’ to the matter of Maori claims to the ownership of water.

  15. Maori unity and aspirations

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:24 am, September 14th, 2012 -  126 comments
    Categories: energy, Maori Issues, water
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    Yesterday’s national hui on water rights has resulted in the best possible outcome for Maori, a decision to present a unified front in the face of National’s divide and rule tactics.

  16. Asset sales & Brand Key becoming inextricably linked

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 7:08 am, July 10th, 2012 -  163 comments
    Categories: Maori Issues, privatisation
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    It’s getting almost sad, how desperate John Key is to sell our assets. He’s preparing to overturn convention and ignore the Waitangi Tribunal. Meanwhile, something on the order of 3,000 people a day are signing the referendum petition on asset sales. Key is now spending every day fighting fires on a highly unpopular policy. It’ll make for a sad legacy.

  17. New record set in ironic racism

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 8:35 pm, April 3rd, 2012 -  100 comments
    Categories: Maori Issues
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    The good people of Devonport are outraged, just outraged, about the Waitangi settlement that will see Maori moving in next door.

    Queen of Thorns has more…

  18. Ecocide

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:26 am, September 9th, 2011 -  64 comments
    Categories: climate change, law, sustainability
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    If a corporation can have the legal rights of a person, why can’t the environment can’t have the legal protections of a person too?

  19. English’s record under fire

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 6:58 am, August 11th, 2011 -  56 comments
    Categories: bill english, Economy
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    Stuart Nash put Bill English’s feet to the fire yesterday on his economic record. English has been claiming that the economy is in better shape to withstand another economic crisis than it was in 2008. Does anyone seriously believe that? We’re poorer, we’re more indebted, we’re less employed, and costs are higher.

  20. Mana vs. Maori

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:34 am, August 7th, 2011 -  49 comments
    Categories: election 2011, mana, mana-party, maori party
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    Like the American debt limit deal, I always thought that Mana and Maori would find some kind of bloody compromise at the eleventh hour.  But they’ve passed the point of no return now.

  21. Maori Party to stand against Hone

    Written By:  r0b -  Date published: 10:03 am, May 9th, 2011 -  83 comments
    Categories: election 2011, hone harawira, mana-party, Maori Issues, maori party
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    News this morning that (as predicted) the Maori Party will be standing a candidate against Hone Harawira if he forces a by election in Te Tai Tokerau.

  22. Maori Party Council decides by consensus

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 9:43 pm, February 7th, 2011 -  5 comments
    Categories: maori party
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    According to its Constitution ,the Maori Party Council makes decisions by consensus.  I remember consensus decision-making from my days as a community activist in the 1970’s. Nay-sayers have a veto. If Te Tai Tokerau’s representatives don’t agree, the Council can’t decide and Hone doesn’t go. Hence the co-leaders’ move to suspend him.

  23. Key’s solution for Maori problems: prison

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 6:22 am, January 25th, 2011 -  101 comments
    Categories: crime, john key, Maori Issues
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    John Key on Radiolive yesterday: “There are a lot of factors at play sometimes socio-economic, so there are a lot of negative statistics for the want of a better description that that Maori dominate and we need to make changes there whether it’s prison, incarceration or whatever”. Key thinks all Maori are crims. Welcome to your brighter future: it’s behind bars.

  24. Maori Party MPs turn on Hone

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 9:56 am, January 19th, 2011 -  101 comments
    Categories: maori party
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    On Sunday and Monday, Hone Harawira gave very cogent and candid assessments of where the Maori Party has gone wrong by losing connection with its ideals and base. By the standards of mainstream parties it was extraordinarly blunt and appeared to be a challenge to Tariana Turia. But the Maori Party can be and should be different, eh? Seems not. Hone’s four fellow MPs have laid a complaint against him.

  25. Hone: Maori Party has lost its way

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 8:30 am, January 18th, 2011 -  61 comments
    Categories: election 2011, maori party
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    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.

  26. Maori & Pacific Island incomes plummet

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 6:58 am, November 18th, 2010 -  93 comments
    Categories: by-election, wages
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    Here’s a little something that Kris Fa’afoi and his team might like to being to the attention of Mana voters as they prepare to go to the polls. On National’s watch, the median Maori income has fallen 11.5%. For Pacific Islanders the fall’s 19%. Pakeha are down 2.6%. No tax cut for the rich can cover the gaping holes in those family budgets.

  27. Maori seats for Auckland?

    Written By:  r0b -  Date published: 3:10 pm, November 16th, 2010 -  8 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, democracy under attack, leadership, len brown, Maori seats
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    National’s handling of the Auckland SuperCity process was profoundly undemocratic in a multitude of ways.  Thank goodness, and the common sense of Aucklanders, that a “Labour Mayor from South Auckland” was elected to sort out at least some of the resulting mess.  Len Brown has pledged to hold talks on dedicated Maori seats on the Council.  It’s great to see that Brown is open to correcting National’s injustice on this matter.

  28. Labour policy Maori policy

    Written By:  r0b -  Date published: 8:18 am, October 23rd, 2010 -  20 comments
    Categories: election 2011, labour, maori party
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    In a press release last week Tariana Turia claimed that Labour’s new policy directions are all Maori Party policies.  That puts the Maori Party in an interesting position after the next election.  Will the major party that they support be dictated by their policies, Labour’s policies, as Turia claims?  Or will their support be dictated by other, non-policy factors?

  29. Key’s economic bravado now reduced to whining

    Written By:  r0b -  Date published: 7:04 am, October 21st, 2010 -  25 comments
    Categories: bill english, economy, jobs, john key, labour, monetary policy, national
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    In three short years John Key and National have gone from economic bravado, to failure, to lies, excuses and whining.  As the economy languishes they will have nothing to offer except more lies and excuses.

    This is a time for fresh thinking, both globally and locally.  But we won’t get it from National.

  30. CTU’s Alternative Economic Strategy

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 10:00 am, October 12th, 2010 -  17 comments
    Categories: Economy
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    The CTU has just released its Alternative Economic Strategy. Well, they call it ‘alternative’ but it’s not like the Nats have one beyond Key smiling and waving. Anyway, the CTU’s Economic Strategy is an extremely impressive document. It goes through the current problems and suggests 100 reforms for a more successful, fair economy and country.

  31. Maori Party caves on foreshore & seabed

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 12:44 am, June 15th, 2010 -  39 comments
    Categories: foreshore and seabed, maori party, national
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    A foreshore and seabed DEAL that amounts to little more than a symbolic rearranging of the deck chairs is not what the Maori Party was elected to achieve. The deal the Maori Party makes now is the one Maori are stuck with. That’s why the Iwi Leadership Forum is so unexcited about it. The winner here is Key, he played the Maori Party into a corner. The hagiographies will be going to print as I write.

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