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"What we are discussing... is whether or not in working more closely with iwi organisations and whānau who know these families well and the children well, whether or not we can do a better job at prevention," Ardern said.  Davis highlighted comments made at the Iwi Chairs Forum in Porirua on Friday that when Kāwanatanga and Tino rangatiratanga work together in partnership "you'll see great things happening".  Collins suggested the Government was abdicating its responsibilities to protect all children by handing power to an independent Māori Transition Authority.  "Does she believe it is...

'Evidence over spin any day': Collins questions PM's ruling out of separate Māori Parliament Newshub 5 days ago Zane Small © Newshub Watch: A decade on and the signing of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People is causing a meltdown in politics. National leader Judith Collins is questioning Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's ruling out of a separate Māori Parliament, brushing it off as "spin".  Collins has been calling for a "national conversation" about recommendations made in He Puapua, a Government report commissioned in 2019 that sets out a ...

'We are not three-year-olds': Collins calls on Govt to have 'adult conversation' about He Puapua implementation plans Newshub 5 days ago © The Hui Watch: Judith Collins on The Hui. Judith Collins is calling on the Government to have an "adult conversation" and fully lay out its plans when it comes to implementing the He Puapua report. The Government commissioned the report after the then-National Government in 2010 signed up to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and in 2019 a working group was asked to consider how Aotearoa could give effect to that commitment. 'We ...

He Puapua is "quite a radical interpretation" of the Treaty of Waitangi. "It does contain elements in it and recommendations that have clearly been undertaken by some of the Government agencies and ministries - all without discussing it with the wider New Zealand population," she says. "We are not three-year-olds, we need to be able to have these discussions." Collins has been accused of playing the race card, using terms such as segregation and racist separatism to describe the new proposed Māori Health Authority - one of the Māori kaupapa put forward in He Puapua. She said she uses these...

But Collins isn't taking Ardern at her word.  "It is important that just because the Prime Minister said this, that we should question that - what she says - because she also said that there would be no new taxes, that they weren't going to have a capital gains tax, but they effectively did that," she told Magic Talk on Monday.  "We had Grant Robertson, the Finance Minister, saying no changes to the bright-line test, and lo and behold, a few months later guess what? There are changes.   "I simply look at the evidence, and the evidence is department after department, agency after a...