As homelessness climbs in Auckland – Is Oriini too easily triggered for Parliament???
Here are the challenges being faced in Auckland as the Government’s emergency housing throws them onto the street…
Most people in urban Auckland who applied for emergency housing in August were declined.
That’s according to new data from the Ministry of Social Development that shed light on how the system is working one year on from the Government’s contentious changes that tightened the gateway to emergency housing.
Urban Auckland is home to some of the country’s most socially deprived communities and where almost two-thirds of applications for urgent shelter made in August 2025 were declined.
Some 642 applications for emergency housing were made in the month in urban Auckland and 402 of these were declined.
Emergency housing applications nationally have been declining for several years but this fall became more rapid when the Government introduced new rules in August 2024, which allow officials to decline grants if they believe a person has caused or contributed to their own need.
This is Tāmaki Makaurau MP Oriini Kaipara posting on Instagram…
….Ummmmm.
What?
Oriini is having a break because the civil war inside te Pati Māori is stressful?
Tāmaki Makaurau has enormous homelessness and unemployment issues.
They don’t have the luxury of a $168,600 MPs salary and the ability to step back because it’s all a bit stressful.
That feels very flakey and a disservice to those who voted her in.
What is confusing is why it is confusing. The Māori Party Leadership worked their fingers to the bone for her victory, and yet when she is getting contacted to discuss things, claims are she is saying it’s all too ‘triggering’ for her.
In comparison, Doc was posting sectarian Māori only rhetoric days before her election day.
Not turning up for the very people who fought to get you elected feels like the quickest way for Peeni Henare to win the seat back.
Food inflation was 4.7% again.
Voters in Tāmaki Makaurau will be focused on that while noticing the absence.
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Looks like the sense of entitlement is not confined to Luxon and his team? Typical management attitude in my experience, they want the high salary but don’t like the idea of actually working for it.
Agree 100% Bonnie.
Obey The Giant
This is such bullshit. Kaipara just got elected as a TpM candidate to one of the most important jobs in the country, all those elected have to show up ffs!!! Who was there working the night before she died – by the fucking way????? Tarsh Kemp. After she gone all hell seems to have broken loose. Show some respect assholes. And I mean Ferris and Kapa-Kingi and this stupid recent one Kaipara. What the fucking fuck, DISGRACEFUL !!!!!What is wrong with ya’llll ????? If ya wanna do a coup….do it after the election you fucking dumb fucks.
Fuck em. Note to Orini. Never roll a leadership team in a winning position. That could have been Orini rallying for the Maori party but she went with the ones with way to much kingdom behind their eyes.
All of the centre Maori vote are on the general roll the Maori roll is full of radicals. They want to see and hear their voices represented Rawiri and Debbie have done that there for put up another candidate. Hone Harawira piping up a bit. No doubt. Airdrop him.
Voting is just a proxy for the power of the state. If the the general roll chooses to limit the choice of the Maori their ain’t nothing that 3 independent maori MPs can do about that.
These “rights” that the wonderful kingdom eyes keep harping on about do not exist. That’s to say universal human rights do not exist in the absence of force.
All rights are grounded in force.
One can prefer that peace and non violence is the superior way to live.
But if human rights are instead grounded in “preferences” then some other group can use thier own ‘preference” in order to limit choice and freedoms.
In the absence of Hone Harawira for the Maori Paati to have a fighting chance at retaining Tamaki that person has to bring that same zeal. Peeni ain’t got that he got the Paati machine and that can be beat.
Good luck.
An idiot with no work ethic.
Quite the candidate.
Check the jack Tame interview for evidence someone else must be tying her shoelaces.