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Written By: Marty G - Date published: 10:42 am, March 19th, 2010 - 24 comments
Seats on the supercity, 3 strikes, tertiary cuts, national standards, RWC TV, ETS, foreshore and seabed (soon enough). The list of issues that the Maori Party has been shafted by National on keeps growing. Yet Tariana Turia’s ill-defined ‘Whanua Ora’ policy, which looks like nothing so much as privisation by stealth, gets carte blanche. What’s going on here?
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 11:51 pm, February 28th, 2010 - 56 comments
Former ACT Deputy Leader Muriel Newman has launched into a racist tirade that amounts to ‘bloody bludging Maoris’. Incredibly, Rodney Hide agrees, saying that Maori have a culture of dependency. To ACT, poverty isn’t the result of an unequal and unfair economic system, it’s a lifestyle choice. They say Maori are morally deficient and to blame for their poverty.
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 7:49 pm, February 15th, 2010 - 41 comments
Asked to explain his billion dollar policy Key says: “Whanau Ora is a way of saying we’re going to measure outcomes, instead of just inputs into a family to give greater flexibility to a third party private provider”. I take that to be a long way of saying “I don’t know what Whanau Ora is”.
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 7:30 am, January 26th, 2010 - 46 comments
Tariana Turia got her stomach stapled to tackle her diabetes and it seems to have worked. She wants more people to get the operation. If stomach stapling is a cost-effective way to treat diabetes and will prevent the need for other medical care I think that’s great.
What I don’t want to see happen is Turia’s latest …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 1:49 pm, January 15th, 2010 - 13 comments
So, Tariana Turia has (eventually) come out against Paula Bennett’s pointless policy of making people on the unemployment benefit reapply after a year. Of course, Turia is for work-for-the-dole, which is just as stupid. Looks like there will be a show-down, a fight between the two dumbest welfare policies. I predict that Turia will meekly back down, …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 7:00 am, December 10th, 2009 - 15 comments
Family Commissioner Jan Pryor says she can’t give a definition of Whanau Ora, Tariana Turia’s pet programme that Pryor’s Commission will be helping to run. What a bunch of utter crap. Saying that she can’t give a definition because she is “a middle class white woman” is totally unacceptable. This isn’t some academic activity, we’re …
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 3:22 pm, November 13th, 2009 - 39 comments
The Maori Party was never going to be a sustainable political vehicle. No political movement that tries to exist in defiance of the material conditions of its constituents can be, and the economic interests of the wealthy Maori elite and the Maori working class are simply incompatible.
The Maori Party has to continually choose which side …
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 7:21 pm, August 25th, 2009 - 54 comments
It’s a strange day when you’re praising Tau Henare. But at least he’s standing up for Maori seats, unlike the pathetic display from Pita Sharples. Henare’s email brought to public attention Hide’s bullying threat to resign over the seats. Today, he kept up the fight having a go at Hide for his wag the dog tactics …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 12:46 pm, May 16th, 2009 - 60 comments
In an epic last-ditch defence of Aucklanders’ right to be consulted on the removal of their democracy, Labour and the Greens are currently filibustering the government’s enabling legislation in Parliament by forcing a vote on thousands of new amendments.
Their objective is simple, they want to get the bill off to a select committee and some …
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 7:42 am, May 7th, 2008 - 41 comments
We’re very pleased to have Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia respond to your questions as part of our Interview the Leaders series.
Question to all leaders:
Of which of your achievements in politics are you most proud?
I am most proud of having played a part in the creation of a movement which has given our people …
Written By: Tane - Date published: 4:47 pm, April 28th, 2008 - 19 comments
Thanks to ACT leader Rodney Hide for participating in our ‘Interview the leaders’ series this morning. Our next leader is the Maori Party’s Tariana Turia.
The general question remains:
Of which of your achievements in politics are you most proud?
For the two other questions we’ve gone with Higherstandard’s question:
Can you envisage a NZ when there is …
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 4:33 pm, April 23rd, 2008 - 25 comments
We had hoped to have the answers for our ‘interview the leaders’ series from Helen Clark today. I talked with the PM’s office and they explained the questions are with Clark, she’s been busy travelling, and we’ll have them as soon as they come back. So, they’ve asked for an extension and I said ‘fair …
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 2:10 pm, April 21st, 2008 - 41 comments
Even amateur, part-time bloggers sometimes make mistakes, and last week we didn’t send Clark her questions until Wednesday, rather than Monday, due to a miscommunication between ourselves. So, we extended her deadline to this Wednesday. We’ll post her replies when we get them. In the meantime, here are the questions to ACT’s Rodney Hide that …
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