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Graham Adams * Opinion - A covert 20-year plan to establish Māori sovereignty is political dynamite. It represents a real threat to the prime ministers reputation as open and transparent. The Māori sovereignty or tino rangatiratanga flag. Photo: PHOTO NZ Judith Collins made no effort to hide the cat-with-the-cream expression on her face when she answered journalists questions after a National Party meeting in Auckland on Saturday. She had just delivered a speech that rolled a grenade under J...

Graham Adams05:00, May 05 2021 Judith Collins delivers a speech on race relations to the National Partys Northern convention National is accusing Labour of backing a covert 20-year plan to establish Māori sovereignty. That would be political dynamite, says Graham Adams, who argues it represents a real threat to Jacinda Ardern’s reputation as open and transparent. OPINION: Judith Collins made no effort to hide the cat-with-the-cream expression on her face when she answered journalists’ que...

Concerns about the He Puapua report - on how to better uphold indigenous rights - are being dismissed by Minister for Māori Development Willie Jackson. Minister for Māori Development Willie Jackson. Photo: Dom Thomas He Puapua, which he says will go to Cabinet soon. He Puapua was handed to former minister for Māori development Nanaia Mahuta in 2019 and suggests the establishment of a separate Māori parliament or upper house and a separate court. The government has never released the full ...

One in five children in New Zealand live in homes that struggle to put good quality food on the table – and for Māori children, it’s one in four. While the Government is trying to combat the issue with its healthy lunch program Ka Ora Ka Ako, only a quarter of schools are targeted. My greatest political regret was that MANA wasn’t able to get the Feed the Kids Bill though (thanks to Peter Dunne who was prepared to sell his vote to John Key for mass surveillance but not grant Feed The K...

The National leader says it won't be good for Māori.

Pure politics: Ardern accuses Collins of using Māori co-governance concerns to pick up in polls Newshub 2 hrs ago © Newshub Watch the Prime Ministers press conference. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has accused National leader Judith Collins of playing politics by using Māori co-governance concerns to pick up support in the polls.  Collins immediately shot back, describing it as "sad" that Ardern has "chosen to lower the tone of the debate by brushing it off as playing politics" rather t...

Ardern’s repudiation of western pressure doesn’t mean she is cravenly kowtowing to Beijing. In fact, most media reportage of the speech concentrates on her more forthright criticisms of China. Most critically, Ardern said it’s “becoming harder to reconcile” the political systems of the two countries. And she spoke at length about her communications, publicly and privately, to China about New Zealand’s concerns. But nor was Ardern’s speech an attack on China, o...

Jacinda Ardern says NZ’s differences with China becoming harder to reconcile We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Praveen Menon Save Normal text size Advertisement Wellington: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that differences between New Zealand and China are becoming harder to reconcile as Beijing’s role in the world grows and changes. In a speech at the China Business Summit in Auckland on Monday, Ardern said there are things ...

In a speech to National Party supporters over the weekend, Collins called for a public conversation about the proposals in the report before any more of the recommendations are implemented. "If Labour believes that the Treaty intended two systems for everything, and that this is the model we want in 2021, then this is a fundamental change to our society. We cannot accept this via a health reform, via Māori wards, and via justice changes," she said. "It has to be a national conversation, one ...

It proposes a Māori Health Authority and Māori wards in councils, which the Government has acted on. It also suggests separate court and justice systems, Māori ownership over the foreshore and seabed a Māori Parliament or Upper House. In a speech to National Party supporters over the weekend, Collins called for a public conversation about the proposals in the report before any more of the recommendations are implemented. "If Labour believes that the Treaty intended two systems for e...