The recent attacks on Te Pāti Māori and its MP’s are part of a continuing narrative of attack on all matters Māori.
If we could respond to baseless inuendo we would. If there is any evidence then show us so we have a reason to engage in a conversation.
The fact of the matter is, as usual Māori are being used as a scapegoat to cover up and deflect from what is really going on in this country. This Coalition Government has been brought hook, line and sinker by cigarette and tobacco barons; by pharmaceutical barons; by landlords and by mining barons through fast tracked legislation and more importantly, it continues its constant attack on all matters Māori all of the time.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister has advised France that when dealing with New Caledonia issues they must be aware of the indigenous Kanak rights of self-determination. Yet he has the audacity to deny his own whakapapa and his own people the same discussion in Aotearoa.
The only activist party in our political landscape is Te Pāti Māori. We are the only Pāti that will unapologetically speak our truth. We make absolutely no apology for ensuring that we will overturn every piece of legislation when we form part of a new Government. So the message to rich landlords (me being one of them) is you will pay your fair dues when we take power.
The message to mining magnates that got through fast tracked procedures is, we will unwind you. We will unwind everything this Government has done to us because we are an everlasting, dependable movement for indigenous peoples. Of greatest importance is we have to express our manaakitanga which is to protect all peoples.
Te Pāti Māori are endlessly attacked and the matter is being made into a race debate through no fault of our own. We are the real opposition to this Government. We are a rights based Pāti not a race based. Racism was imported by colonisers. We consented to Colonisers by signing a Treaty.
We are the only activist party because when our legislation to remove GST off all kai came before The House, everyone including Labour and The Greens voted it down. We are the only activist party because when we say something, we mean it. When Labour and The Greens get into power, everything is about surrendering to the altar of incrementalism rather than actually changing things for the betterment of the majority of our citizens.
So let’s confront the real issue. During and after the pandemic huge websites fully funded by the rich appeared knowing there is only one activist group left in Aotearoa and it is us Māori, the Indigenous people. We are here to protect our environment; there to protect the benefit of the majority of citizens and to tax the 2 per cent that control 50 per cent of our wealth.
They are on notice as are their friends at the New Zealand Taxpayers Union; their friends at Curia Polling; their friends at Hobson’s Pledge; their friends at Federated Farmers and their friends at Employers and Manufacturers. They all have to accept the fact that we are never surrendering and we grow stronger every day.
It must amuse our people to watch a National Party MP in Taranaki hide $180,000 worth of expenditure, not report it and nothing happens. When Te Pāti Māori made a late filing the Police were immediately called to investigate and we are sent to the Serious Fraud Office. This shows one law for some and one law for others.
We are sick and tired of being beaten up for speaking our truth on our own whenua. That is why there can be no reliance on media and I attach my response to STUFF as evidence.
So join the movement, sign up your friends and whānau, like and share. Register as members of the only activist movement who are still able and willing to contest matters in our constitution. Is it any wonder we want to set up our own parliament? Is it any wonder that we want to get our fair share of resources to self-manage and self-determine for and with ourselves?
PS Message to Brian Tamaki
You and your cult were bounced out of Manurewa Marae. We will never allow your cult to take over any Marae. Now here’s a helpful idea, leave politics and concentrate on bothering God and the devil in equal parts and leave Māori alone.
PPS To your cult members who were terminated at Manurewa Marae, shame on you. To their fearless, money grinder Allan Halse, its best to keep your powder dry for the Employment Tribunal, fool.
Opinion by John Tamihere, the Te Pāti Māori President
Can’t help jumping in about Allan Halse. Self styled hero against bullying, but biggest bully of them all. Had a good cause but completely blew it with his narcissism and arrogance. Many judgements against him. Even a Culturesafe FB survivors page set up. I feel sorry for any workers who have engaged him.
I voted for Te Pāti Māori the last election for the reasons and policy you’ve stated.
NB: ” This Coalition Government has been brought hook, line and sinker by cigarette and tobacco barons ” brought should read bought 🙂
“ Oh what a tangled web we weave”, or in this case, messing with the census. Not good, John.
provide roof pip not speculation
“messing with the census”
proof?
To what end does targeting Maori gonna end well? JT has a point we are not going nowhere in fact this Maori-hating has calvinized Maori across the motu bring its on atlas network, TPU, FSU, Hobson’s Pledge, Curia Polling, Federated Farmers, this is our country and don’t fucken forget!!
‘Galvinised’ you meant?.
Calvinized presumably means turning Maori into followers of John Calvin, a 16th century Protestant reformer.
It’s intriguing who the pigs and the media choose to go after when a certain anti-human minor political party got name suppression for a prominent figure with close personal ties to the party figure after he was accused of serious ***ual crimes.
How thoroughly unsurprising to see the evil neoliberal Chris Hipkins joining the attacks on TPM for being left-wing.
The “only activist party” acting like a tatty song and dance troupe in Parliament, would do better to refocus and consider the common good rather than fostering divisiveness and disharmony.
One persons ” tatty” is another persons culture. Who would be so presumptuous as to judge.
Bruce You may be right, but some Parliamentary performances are inappropriate to the time and place and they detract from issues which should be addressed with gravitas, and respect.
It’s the New Zealand Parliament not the fragile bedwetters Parliament.
Sooner bedwetters than the party of a middle-aged male who asked a thirteen year old girl on the radio, when she lost her virginity.
Yes ACT & NZ First need to consider the greater good rather than shill for their voter base and the multinational lobby group that funded them into govt.
The Māori party has gone downhill since it was originally formed. It used to work in partnership and with decency. Now it’s just a protest group supporting rabble rousers.
I’m glad to see the younger generation have thrown off the Uncle Tom position that many of their elders slobbered under. no more “Yessir, massir” from TPM – get used to it.
This country was founded on divisiveness and disharmony isn’t that what colonisation is all about divide and conquer and it is still happening.
Why, John, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world… but for Waipareira?
This country was founded on divisiveness and disharmony isn’t that what colonisation is all about divide and conquer and it is still happening.
For generations the Tahltan Nation of northern British Columbia (with a territory comprising 11% of the province’s landmass) endured the poverty and exclusion known to many First Nations in Canada.
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In 1983 and 1984, 80% of the Tahltan Nation were on welfare and unemployment stood at 98%, following the dispossession of property and other human rights across spanning generations. Severe alcohol and drug problems characterized social life, along with high suicide rates and very low levels of educational attainment.
Worse stats than for Maori here in NZ. Luckily there was a guy. Chief Asp, who’d finally had a gutsful:
Inspired by the memory of a previously successful era of trading, pre-colonization, Chief Jerry Asp began a series of reforms to restore economic freedom, grounded in historic cultural values and norms.
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Chief Asp was clear that wealth was always to be created and could never be taken. Federal funding was firmly declined and returned to the government, along with all conditions it required. (Many activists detail cautionary tales of the restrictive constraints accompanying government grants).
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By 2013, it had all changed: 100% employment, zero suicides and an above-the-national-average graduation rate, from universities to trade schools.
Be Chief Asp. It’s within your power.
Is someone attempting to criticise the President of Te Paati Maaori because the tangata that run Manurewa Marae care about tangata? I am only minorly Maaori, but I support Te Paati Maaori because they are willing to Kia Kaha, stand up, and get in the face of our less educated politicians. My parents grow up in the anti apartheid, anti nuclear movements, and our current struggle continues this fight. The neoliberals will walk all over us with their numbers, but we are people, and we must protect our fellow people. John Tamihere is doing this is a very respectful way, to both Paakehaa and Tangata Whenua, and those of us who understand how important this is, would not ask him to defend his warrior stance, as we need strong leaders. Efeso Collins would have been the beautifully spoken leader we needed, but he did not survive, so it does fall to Te Pati Maori to represent, as the male dominated coalition continues to be disrectuful to hine, minorities, Pasifika, tangata Whenua, Mana Whenua Tamariki and mokupuna. Sixteen year olds can not year vote, yet eighty year olds are allowed. That is incorrect. Make it sixteen, increcease democratic representation, as our rangitahi are far more educated than the Pale Stale Males that still dominate the world.
They were going downhill anyway Markj (for being too soft) and so they got thrown out by OUR Māori voters. And I don’t think Turia would be happy with the smoking reversal, all her hard work on becoming smokefree has gone down the toilet. She was also supportive of Nationals new health plan utilising Māori health directorates. But now the evil SELFISH GREEDY ones have come out and shown their true colors she has gone all quiet.
I totally respect the activism stance of TPM by and for Maori. During the election many people I spoke to thought TPM policy best represented changes they wanted to see implemented but they couldn’t vote for TPM because of their Māori-centric views. These were not Māori NZers, but pakeha NZ’s from the bottom of the South Island.
The point I make is that while Maori lead the race of poor life outcome stats as a proportion of the Maori population, there are more in total number non-Maori than Maori who are experiencing the same privations represented in the usual stats (poverty, health, homelessness, education, etc). If TPM could sidle slightly off the activism, and represent a larger base, they would have many more people voting for them.
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