https://thedailyblog.co.nz/the-maori-party-walking-between-two-worlds/ Read the Other Side of the Story Thu, 10 Dec 2020 22:34:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://thedailyblog.co.nz/the-maori-party-walking-between-two-worlds/#comment-156370 Thu, 10 Dec 2020 22:34:16 +0000 https://thedailyblog.co.nz/?p=135185#comment-156370 The Maori Party seem to infer that they are the true representatives of Maori. are you also inferring this ?
I do not think that is a respectful stance as it ignores 19 maori members of the Government [ and that does not include the maori members of the Green party ]

]]> https://thedailyblog.co.nz/the-maori-party-walking-between-two-worlds/#comment-156369 Wed, 09 Dec 2020 21:48:01 +0000 https://thedailyblog.co.nz/?p=135185#comment-156369 Parliament is a western institution of power, designed to enshrine and maintain that power, not to share it.
Of course it is, it came directly from the UK and people here need to remember it wasn’t Maori that created the Maori seats it was the government of the time protecting there vested interest. We continue to hear many mistruths in our country and as stated by Vince O’ Malley, ‘too many Pakeha don’t know our history’. The sooner we start teaching our true colonial history in our schools the better.

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