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When was the last time a political party asked you what you want for your future?
For an Aotearoa Hou. Vote Māori.
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We acknowledge the outstanding contribution Jacinda Ardern has made to our country. She has led our country through its darkest times with absolute dignity while managing to keep our country’s economic status in line with the most successful OECD countries in the world.
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Te Pāti Māori Co-leaders
@Rawiri_Waititi
and
@whaeadeb
are demanding that the NZ Government expel the Israeli ambassador if Israel does not immediately implement a ceasefire and open safe humanitarian aid corridors into Gaza.
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We are celebrating the most successful election result in the Te Pāti Māori’s history, following the announcement of the final vote count today. Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and Takutai Moana Kemp have now won in Te Tai Tokerau and Tāmaki Makaurau, tripling the size of our caucus.
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Aotearoa can no longer maintain diplomatic relations with governments who are actively committing war crimes. We must recall the NZ consulate from Israel immediately.
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Te Pāti Māori are not strangers to hate speech and online threats. This week however, a line was crossed.
Our Hauraki-Waikato candidate, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi Clark’s home was invaded, vandalised, and left with a threatening letter.
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Te Pāti Māori will not allow National or ACT to dictate what oranga looks like for us. Our Co-leaders will not be travelling to Wellington in Level 4 conditions this week. We believe it is our role to lead by example, and proceed with caution in order to protect our whakapapa.
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Smoking is the leading cause of premature deaths in Aotearoa, particularly for Māori who have the highest rates of smoking in the country. By scrapping Aotearoa’s world-leading smokefree laws, this government is sacrificing Māori lives to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.
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We are excited to announce Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke as our candidate for Hauraki-Waikato. Hana is an activist, published author and expert on the maramataka and taiao, and at 20 years old represents a new generation of Māori political leadership.
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This escalation of danger is what happens when right wing politicians race bait and fearmonger for votes. They have emboldened this type of behaviour. Now it is time we embolden ourselves.
Such ugliness has no place in our Aotearoa Hou. It only shows the strength of our movement
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We do not support a one-off holiday to mark the passing of a British monarch. There is not one single precedent for this for any of our rangatira within Te Ao Māori, not one. Not even our own Te Arikinui, Dame Te Atairangikaahu was honoured in this way.
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“Lastly, we want to acknowledge Jacinda’s whānau; Clarke, Neve Te Aroha and her parents for the sacrifices they have made. We are grateful to them for sharing their wife, māmā and daughter with the country and wish them all well in their future endeavours.”
@Rawiri_Waititi
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“Our country needed the grace of a wahine to lead us through this period of our history and she did so with the utmost humility and integrity. It is a sad day when an outstanding leader has been driven from office for constant personalisation and vilification."
@whaeadeb
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Te Pāti Māori leaves no one behind. We do not stand for xenophobia & racism in any form. We wholeheartedly apologise to our migrant and refugee whānau for allowing harmful narratives on our website, and thank you for holding us to account. It should not have taken this long
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“We have been in opposition since 1840”
Rawiri Waititi
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Following violent online threats which targeted our MP’s, marae and te iwi Māori, Te Pāti Māori have called for the establishment of a joint taskforce to investigate anti-Māori hate speech from white supremacists. Māori deserve to feel safe and protected.
#WhiteSupremacy
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The Dawn Raids were one of the most horrific human rights offences in our modern history. This apology is long overdue.
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Our Co-leaders
@Rawiri_Waititi
and
@whaeadeb
will tonight vote in favour of the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill. This cruel practice is a direct attack on whakapapa and has no place in Aotearoa. Takatāpui are whānau. No ifs, no buts, no maybes. End of story.
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"Her whanau have withstood the ugliest attacks over the last two years with what we believe to be the most demeaning form of politics we have ever seen.”
@whaeadeb
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Te Pāti Māori are calling to move Auckland into Level 4 & the rest of the North Island into Level 3 until Māori are 95% vaccinated, following hui this morning with Māori King Tūheitia & Māori leaders across the motu to agree on a unified approach to ensure the survival of Māori.
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“I am not scared… I am here to be a light and a māramatanga to us that we belong in these places” said Maipi-Clark
Hana is our mokopuna, and no mokopuna should ever be treated this way.
It’s time to stand up for our whakapapa. To defend our mokopuna.
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The decision of the Biden administration to wipe the records of people charged with cannabis possession offences is a global breakthrough for justice and highlights the shameful inaction of our government.
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When our billboards are vandalised, and when our candidates are verbally assaulted, it is not an attack on them as individuals or us as a political party. It is an attack on what we represent: our whakapapa, our culture, and the dreams of our tupuna and mokopuna.
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The tax system is rigged. A new report shows the wealthiest are paying an effective tax rate of 9.4%, while the average person is paying 20.2%. This is a disgrace. The Government must immediately introduce a range of wealth taxes starting with a comprehensive capital gains tax.
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At approximately midday today, the 16 of Waikeria surrendered, escorted out by Rawiri Waititi, MP for Waiariki and Co-Leader of the Māori Party.
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“We will remember Jacinda Ardern for catapulting the voice of wahine and youth onto the world stage. Her fearlessness, courage and determination broke glass ceilings.”
@Rawiri_Waititi
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Today we are marking Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori by launching a petition to change the country’s official name to Aotearoa, and officially restore the Te Reo Māori names for all towns, cities and place names. Show your tautoko and sign the petition here:
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For the first time, Rawiri takes the lead in Waiariki!
We’ll say it again, it’s all on!
#BelieveInM
āori
#nzpol
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Speaking at The Hui’s Hauraki-Waikato electorate debate tonight, Hana Maipi-Clark had a clear message to the people who entered her home and threatened her: “Don’t be scared”
“The kohanga reo generation are here, and we have a huge movement and a huge wave of us coming through”
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“It is now time for Labour with the biggest Māori caucus ever to continue breaking glass ceilings by appointing a Tangata Whenua leader as PM to lead the Government into the next election. Anything less will be taking Aotearoa backwards.”
@Rawiri_Waititi
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Kia ora David, thanks for using the correct name, Tāmaki Makaurau. We plan to make that official too.
People are already free to use Māori place names.
What the Māori Party is saying is it would like to ban people calling our country New Zealand.
It should focus on real issues, like the 1.6 million people in Tāmaki Makaurau in lockdown.
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Today we celebrate the recount results that confirm Takutai Tarsh Kemp has been elected as the MP for Tāmaki Makaurau. We are so proud of Takutai and her campaign, she built a phenomenal grassroots movement which has shifted the political landscape in Tāmaki Makaurau.
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This premeditated and targeted attack is the latest of three incidents to take place at Hana’s home just this week.
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To our knowledge, this is the first time in our history that a politician’s home and personal property has been invaded to this extent.
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We condemn Hamas for murdering civilians and taking civilian hostages. We also condemn the retaliatory actions of the Israeli government. The indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, destroying hospitals and civilian apartment buildings, is unconscionable.
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Western countries are willfully in denial about the long-term aggression by Israel against Palestine. They have instituted an apartheid regime and have blockaded Gaza by land, air and sea.
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Poverty is worse than it’s ever been. 2% own more than 50% of the wealth in Aotearoa. We are dealing with extreme greed, with recession on recession, and the reserve bank deliberately engineering another one to come. We need to tax the rich & redistribute wealth.
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That means everyone will be welcomed, everyone will be fed, everyone will be housed, everyone will kept safe, and everyone will be loved. Manaakitanga & Te Tiriti o Waitangi is the foundation of all of our policies moving forward. Mauri ora
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The genocidal rhetoric of Israeli ministers and officials is well documented. Their attempts to dehumanise the indigenous peoples of Palestine must be resisted.
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Israel’s colonial occupation of Palestinian lands, engineered by the British Empire, has led to decades of pain, suffering and bloodshed. The international community must exert pressure to end the occupation, the blockade, and the continued confiscation of Palestinian land.
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Targeting civilians is a breach of international law, as is collective punishment – there can be no justification for blocking civilian access to water, power and humanitarian aid.
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Today Rawiri and Whaea Debbie announced our transformative tax policy to redistribute wealth and end poverty in Aotearoa. By ensuring that the wealthy finally pay their fair share, we will provide tax cuts for 98% of whānau & fund our policy manifesto to achieve an Aotearoa Hou.
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Today the Births, Deaths, Marriages, & Relationships Registration Bill will have its second reading. Te Pāti Māori will be supporting this bill given the importance of the proposed changes, especially those that remove barriers to change registered gender on birth certificates.
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Hamas must immediately release hostages and work towards peace. Israel must end their violent onslaught in Gaza and allow international aid groups to help the Palestinian people.
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Our Co-Leaders won’t be attending Parliament this week; opting to take to the streets of their electorates. They are calling on all parties to agree to establish a Digital Parliament as the Delta variant spreads to the regions and risks the health of rural Māori communities.
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@PiersonOlivia
It’s absolutely fitting that Nanaia is leading foreign affairs as a Tangata whenua mana wahine with a Moko Kauae. After alll, non-Māori were welcomed to Aotearoa, by Māori 🤦🏾♀️
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Our tax plan is the most transformative of any party.
We will create a $30,000 tax free band and increase the take home pay for 98% of whānau, paid for by a net wealth tax.
Under our plan working people will no longer subsidise the lavish lifestyles of the richest in society.
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We support the campaign of anti-poverty groups to wipe all MSD debt. During a cost of living crisis, it’s debilitating for whānau and causing real harm. Now is the time for action.
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We have removed these words from our website and are in the process of rewriting our policy. We no longer buy into the colonial agenda that divides and rules.
We envision an Aotearoa Hou that treats everybody how we would treat you on our marae:
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When it comes to the law around donations to political parties, our position is simple: all donations to political parties should be made public, we support full transparency. The people of Aotearoa deserve to know who is funding their political parties.
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The tax system is doing exactly what it was designed to do: take money from the poor and give it to the rich.
Our vision is simple, yet profound: to shift the burden of tax from the poor to the wealthy, and to restore fairness and economic justice.
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“There is no reason why we cannot conduct parliamentary business via zoom; it’s the 21st century. We are no longer in the dinosaur age and so they could very well do with some support in coming into the digital era”
@Rawiri_Waititi
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He tuatangata kua riro ki te pō, he wahine toa, he wahine māia, he wahine tuku i tōnā katoa mō te tapu o te tangata, mo te ira o te tangata. Haere e hoa ki ngā matua i te pō. E okioki!
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Te Pāti Māori will be pressuring the incoming Government to introduce an Israel Sanctions Bill to Parliament and send a clear message that Aotearoa will not tolerate ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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E ua e te ua tāheke i runga i aku roimata mōhou, e te Pāpā. Hūtia rawa ngā kura o te pārekereke o Porou Ariki, o Tamatea Arikinui. E te rau kōtuku, whoatu rā koe ki te rōpū hou e taka ana i te rangi. Waiho mā mātau te waka o te mana motuhake e hoe i te ara kua parangia e koe…
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Labour and the Greens' Emissions Reduction Plan lacks the ambition needed to meet international climate targets. They have now gone beyond giving a free pass to agriculture, now they are subsidising their inaction on methane to the tune of $710m.
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#BREAKING
Whaea Deb is happy to announce Te Pāti Māori's support for
@EugenieSage
’s bill to ban new mines on DOC land. Our 2020 manifesto committed to end new mining permits on conservation land. It’s time for
@nzlabour
to follow through on their promise and protect our whenua!
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Does John Banks have Twitter? We’ll leave this here 🤷🏽♀️
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Te Pāti Māori Co-leaders
@RawiriWaititi
and
@whaeadeb
wish to congratulate Chris Hipkins and Carmel Sepuloni on their appointments as Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, but are equally disappointed that Tangata Whenua were overlooked in both positions.
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Every tweet we put up is met with racist and bigoted rhetoric, as happens on all our other platforms. This is not ok. As Māori representatives we have a right to advocate for our people without being subjected to bigotry and harassment. We will not tolerate it.
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Just as we did in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we need to impose economic sanctions targeting specific people, and companies, assets and services involved with Israel’s illegal war of aggression.
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Te Pāti Māori support more public holidays for workers, but they must reflect Aoteroa as a Te Tiriti based nation in the South Pacific. This does not. Where were the holidays for Moana Jackson, or for Tā Toby Curtis? This is a double standard that we can not consent to.
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He pānui mō te pae tīhau. We do not accept any form of racism, bigotry, anti-indigenous rhetoric or hate speech. We do not accept any factually incorrect representations of history and culture. Anyone engaging this way while interacting with our platforms will be blocked.
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Winning six of the seven Māori electorates is a huge endorsement from Tangata Whenua for our unapologetic and liberated voice. A new generation of Māori political leadership has arrived, and it is ready to re-indigenise politics in Aotearoa. Our Aotearoa Hou is rising.
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We must ramp up our collective efforts and do all we can to prevent the killing of innocent children and end the occupation of Palestine. The protests, the boycotts must continue. We cannot let those who profit from war have peace until Palestine is free.
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We will be voting in support of Ricardo's amendment. We are disgusted that Labour are excluding whānau on benefits, there's no excuse for it.
@nzlabour
you have the chance to support the amendment and do the right thing - your move.
We’re tabling an amendment to the Cost of Living Payments Bill to ensure that the $350 reaches people receiving a main benefit and superannuants. If the Government acknowledges low income people are facing cost of living pressures they need to include people on benefits!
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“Our hearts also go out to out to the working people of Russia who will be sent to their deaths on a rich man’s whim. Their mothers grieve as ours do. When the rich and powerful play war games it is the poor and the vulnerable who pay the ultimate price.”
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"We can't police and jail our way out the problems caused by failing education, health, housing and welfare systems, can we? The burden of imprisonment is carried disproportionately by Māori."
@Rawiri_Waititi
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Ia manuia tele le vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa ia te outou uma ma outou āiga, alofaaga mai le Pātī a Māoli. It’s Samoan language week, and here at te whare paremata we are celebrating our whānau of Te Moana Nui A Kiwa, tagata o le moana, our O.G cuzzies 🌺
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41% of low level drug offences are Māori, despite using cannabis at similar rates to non-Māori. These laws are used as a racist tool of oppression.
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We support lowering the voting age to 16. Government needs to stop breaking their promises and immediately enter a bill to lower the voting age. Our young people deserve a say in the decisions that effect them.
The government made a promise to rangatahi and to Parliament to introduce a Bill to lower the voting age. Breaking that promise would be unacceptable. If you are as concerned as us about the govt’s mixed messaging, then submit to the select committee looking at the voting age
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We mihi to the thousands of rangatahi who are marching across the motu today for climate justice. Te Pāti Māori fully support your demands. It’s well past time that govt listened to these visionary young people.
#ClimateJusticeNow
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@whaeadeb
and
@Rawiri_Waititi
are calling on Govt to establish a $200m Māori Taiao Relief Fund, with an immediate focus on rebuilding and cleaning up marae, urupā and papakāinga, and establishing a Māori National Service Defence framework.
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186 years ago today, on 28th October 1835, thirty-four northern chiefs signed He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni, the Declaration of the Independence. Our tino rangatiratanga is inherent and will always be ours to affirm. We are tangata whenua.
#HeWhakaputunga
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#BREAKING
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of lowering the voting age to 16! This is a massive win for the rights of rangatahi to participate in politics and be free from discrimination. Te Pāti Māori call on the Govt to listen to rangatahi and the courts and
@makeit16nz
!
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After a huge campaign by Tairāwhiti residents, today Govt announced an inquiry into forestry slash. Councils have the power to fine and regulate but have allowed the forestry industry to get away with this for too long. We need action now.
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Te Pāti Māori will honour the unified support of Tangata Whenua by holding this incoming government to account, as it threatens to attack the Te Tiriti relationship and undo the progress our people have fought so hard to achieve.
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“It is reckless for National & ACT to intentionally disregard expert advice, for the sake of egos and politicking.
We are concerned that the PM is allowing for them to make this determination on their own and put us all at risk of taking COVID back to our vulnerable communities”.
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"Rangatahi are the future, and we need to be at the decision-making tables to make sure the trees are being planted from the ground up. This movement is intergenerational. The decisions we make affect our uri whakaheke. This is why I’m standing."
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LETS CHANGE OUR ELECTORAL LAW | Our electoral law is discriminatory, anti-democratic & racist. Today
@Rawiri_Waititi
introduced his Members’ Bill to allow Māori to change between the Māori & non-Māori electoral rolls at any time. Rawiri is calling on all MPs to support his Bill.
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Both co-leaders delivered their Maiden speeches today in front of whānau who travelled from all parts of the country to be there.
WATCH BELOW ♥️
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We believe in an Aotearoa where tangata whenua are flourishing, where we are free and proud to be Māori. We have the unwavering belief and confidence that the power to assert, implement and manage our own affairs sits entirely with us.
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Today
@Rawiri_Waititi
and
@whaeadeb
announced our policy to remove GST from kai as Aotearoa experiences the worst cost of living crisis in generations. Food is a right and a necessity. Getting rid of GST on food should be a no-brainer.
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Te Pāti Māori does not support the proposed emissions budgets. We met with Minister Shaw and made clear that Aotearoa needs more urgent action on reducing emissions. We are well past time for inaction. Well past time for delay. The time is now.
@whaeadeb
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Hamas must immediately release hostages and work towards peace. Israel must end their violent onslaught in Gaza and allow international aid groups to help the Palestinian people.
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@Rawiri_Waititi
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@whaeadeb
are calling on Prime Minister Chris Hipkins to announce an equity-focused financial relief fund for whānau who have lost homes and belongings in all flood impacted areas, and meet the full costs of uninsured whānau.
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We congratulate Dame Cindy Kiro on being sworn-in as the first wāhine Māori Governor General. There is a readiness now more than ever to recognise and acknowledge the contribution of indigenous peoples to the future of Aotearoa. E kore e mutu ngā mihi ki a koe, e te Kahurangi.
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@whaeadeb
heading to the House to deliver Te Pāti Māori’s reply to Prime Minister’s Statement with our focus on climate action and ending poverty in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle
#manamotuhake
✊🏽
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#BanConversionTherapy
Te Pāti Māori welcome the government announcement and the proposed legislation banning conversion therapy in Aotearoa 🏳️🌈
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We have consistently called for funding to support the transition to regenerative agriculture. But we don't need a new research centre, we know what works - price methane immediately, phase out nitrogen fertilisers, cut herd sizes. Let's get on with it.
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Aotearoa must decriminalise cannabis and wipe the slate on low level drug convictions, which would help people seek treatment for drug abuse without fear of the law and enable them to fully participate in society.
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@Rawiri_Waititi
has accused Govt of being ‘soft on crime’ for their failure to address the drivers of crime in their package to curb gang violence. "This package completely fails to address the deeper issues that lead to violence. Soft on Poverty means Soft on Crime."
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We are closer to restoring our mana motuhake than ever before. A new generation of Tangata Whenua and Tangata Tiriti are uniting to create an Aotearoa hou, to realise the Te Tiriti-based nation in the South Pacific that our tupuna signed up to. Ka whawhai tonu.
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