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Thursday, 04 September 2008 08:38 |
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Affordable Housing: Enabling Territorial Authorities Bill
Thank you Madam Speaker.
Ten years ago, the Hikoi of Hope called on Government and community to urgently improve housing for low-income New Zealanders. Government was advised that if we really wanted to be seen as a socially just nation, we must recognize the link between housing and poverty; and act appropriately on the issues in that sector.
A decade later, does this Affordable Housing Bill do it? Right on cue, the Social Report was released last week and provided the context with which to understand the importance of secure, stable and safe housing.
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 07:54 |
In the Maori Party we live by a belief that our people are our greatest wealth. And so it is, in thinking of the biofuels bill that our thoughts inevitably turn to the late Mountford Te Mana o Te Rangi Retemeyer.
Monte was one of those men whose footprints are everywhere. Deeply committed to the marae of Maketu, Parawera, Aruka and Te Koraha; he also had time to be chairman of the Waikato Maori District Council, vice-chair of Tainui-Kawhia Forestry Incorporation; Director of Protac Investments; trustee for Aramiro Ahu Whenua trust; chairman of the Kawhia Moana Habour Committee; chairman of the Parawera Maori Culture Group, schools, councils, prisons – in fact every aspect of community life.
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 07:45 |
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Public Transport Management Bill
The Maori Party comes to this Bill, fuelled by our commitment towards developing options to support cheap, free regular, reliable and frequent public transport.
We are acutely aware that the transport sector is responsible for 45% of our greenhouse gas emissions. Our capacity to achieve an integrated, safe, responsive, and sustainable public transport system is thus motivated by our commitment towards the impacts of peak oil alongside our responsibility to prepare for climate change. |
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 11:00 |
Reserve Bank of New Zealand Ammendment Bill
This is a Bill with a primary purpose of implementing regulations for “non-bank deposit takers”. It is an interesting concept - to even consider what is meant by this term non-bank deposit takers.
It reminds me of a long-standing discussion about the use of the term non-Maori – a term which places all the emphasis on what people are not, rather than what people are. I have always considered it more appropriate for people to define their own identity – their own cultural heritage, whether it be as Pakeha, Tauiwi, Scottish, African or Tongan.
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 04:08 |
Kei te raruraru tonu au i te whakapakehatanga o tënei mea o te haua – ki te reo Pakeha, he dis-ability, he kaha-kore. Kaore au e pai kia whakakorea tetahi ahuatanga o te tangata.
The concept of disabilities is one I have always had a problem with. ‘Dis’ is commonly applied to words to show an absence of something, a removal, a separation, a disadvantage. E ai ki te reo tauhou o te rangatahi, ko te ‘dis’ i te tangata, he whakaparahako i a ia, he whakaiti i a ia. In the lingo of the street, to ‘dis’ someone is to indulge in disrespectful talk. Otira i a au e korero ana ki te tangata haua, ahakoa na te aitua, no te whänautanga mai ränei tona ahuatanga haua, ka rongo au i te wairua motuhake o te korero. |
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