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Collins pledges to put National candidates in 'as many of the Māori seats as possible' Newshub 31/01/2021 © Image - Getty; Video - Newshub Watch the announcement. National has not run candidates in Māori seats since 2002, but that's going to change as leader Judith Collins pledges to have contenders in "as many of the Māori seats as possible" at the next election.  "National has been absent from the Māori electorate contest for too long," Collins said on Monday at National's caucus retreat, which was shifted from Whangārei to Wellington as a precautionary measure due to the Northla...

Collins vows to 'never be made to feel bad' about her ethnicity as National looks to diversify Newshub 1/02/2021 © Newshub Watch the National Party's press conference. Judith Collins has vowed to "never be made to feel bad" about her Pākehā ethnicity as National embarks on a mission to diversify, pledging to run in the Māori seats in 2023.  Collins has courted controversy in the past for describing herself as a "woman of colour", and saying she was "sick of being demonised" for her Pākehā ethnicity.  Last year she said it was "so awful" when she was criticised for asking if there ...

Downstate progressive Democrats in the state Senate and Assembly will fight for decarceration of New York prisons and immigration reform next year, they said Tuesday, citing the party’s new Senate supermajority as the momentum lawmakers need to move their agenda forward. Nearly 20 progressive legislators threw support Tuesday behind a proposed legislation package they dubbed the Justice Roadmap 2021 agenda to protect communities of color and immigrants from unjust imprisonment and deportation, calling for less violence in community policing. The proposed state reforms include passing leg...

Downstate progressive Democrats in the state Senate and Assembly will fight for decarceration of New York prisons and immigration reform next year, they said Tuesday, citing the party’s new Senate supermajority as the momentum lawmakers need to move their agenda forward. Nearly 20 progressive legislators threw support Tuesday behind a proposed legislation package they dubbed the Justice Roadmap 2021 agenda to protect communities of color and immigrants from unjust imprisonment and deportation, calling for less violence in community policing. The proposed state reforms include passing leg...