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Maoris in the mainstream
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The confusion about a proposal that a Whakatane-based regional
council should have designated Maori seats illustrates again how any
Maori issue has the capacity to become contentious. It also shows,
if further proof were needed, how polarised New Zealand First is.
Winston Peters opposes the measure. The Minister of Maori Affairs,
Tau Henare, is all for it. The Associate Treasurer, Tuariki
Delamere, is somewhere in between.
Mr Delamere, however, is prepared to promote enabling legislation
so the council, Environment Bay of Plenty, can give three of its 12
seats to Maoris. But, as he himself ...
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National calls for Maori seats to be dumped
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times
; ...adopt republicanism or a new New Zealand flag. There is a logic to it...feel the same way about the Maori seats." Former New Zealand First MP Rana Waitai, now a...for the party to abandon the Maori seats in 2001, welcomed English...
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Parlt's size could hit Maori seats
Newspaper article from: The Press
; ...had advocated scrapping the Maori seats as part of the move to MMP...Parliament and do not address the Maori seats you are either knowingly or...The five MPs representing Maori seats -- all from New Zealand First -- either could not...
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Remove Maori seats - report; PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION
Newspaper article from: The Press
; New Zealand is entering an era...discrimination by maintaining Maori seats in Parliament, a...wrote a paper, The Maori Seats in Parliament, for the New Zealand Business Roundtable...it argued that the Maori seats were introduced as...
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Maori seats; Maori seats on councils
Newspaper article from: The Press
; ...to discuss the proposed Maori seats in local government. The New Zealand problem is quite different...denial of difference that New Zealand's democratic institutions...cultural status of Maori in New Zealand. Another letter is more...
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Maori seats plan 'Kiwi apartheid'
Newspaper article from: The Press
; Separate Maori seats on local councils would be a New Zealand form of apartheid...establish separate Maori seats on the Environment...councils across New Zealand. Under the same...Council could have two Maori seats, Mr Barnett said...
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Mayors rule out Maori seats
Newspaper article from: The Nelson Mail
; ...introduction of dedicated Maori seats. But the region's two mayors...Bay of Plenty is the only New Zealand council with Maori seats, and it has three. Iwi representative...said the idea of dedicated Maori seats on the councils had been...
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Peters at odds with MPs over Maori seats
Newspaper article from: The Press
; ...brewing within New Zealand First as MPs and...Bay of Plenty's Maori seats proposal. The...issue. He said the New Zealand First party stance was against Maori seats at local government...Mr Peters said New Zealand First was in a...
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Maori seats decried
Newspaper article from: The Press
; Creating separate Maori seats for local bodies would hark...concerned that creating Maori seats on the Bay of Plenty council...implications throughout New Zealand. "In the 1860s, when the four Maori seats were established, they...
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Maori seats likened to 'concentration camps'
Newspaper article from: The Press
; Creating separate Maori seats for local bodies would hark...concerned that creating Maori seats on the Bay of Plenty council...implications throughout New Zealand. "In the 1860s, when the four Maori seats were established, they...
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Do the Maori seats still have a place?
Newspaper article from: The Nelson Mail
; ...should be occupying in New Zealand's future and the relevance of the Maori seats. He certainly needs...middle and conservative New Zealand that National once represented...suggesting the future of the Maori seats be debated. Mr Prebble...
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