A group of esteemed Māori leaders and academics, including Dr Papaarangi Reid, Moana Jackson, Rikirangi Gage, Angeline Greensill, Hone Harawira and Moana Maniapoto have filed a claim and application for urgent hearing today in the Waitangi Tribunal. The claim alleges that the government’s actions in negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPPA) are a breach of the […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder I wrote to Colin Craig the former leader of the conservative party The Treaty of Waitangi is our countries founding national document it is not going anywhere and it is up to the descendants of the signatories if it will become a simple nullity as has been treated for the […]
As most of you will know Yvonne Dainty’s husband Brett died last Wednesday morning after a long struggle with brain cancer. Yvonne Dainty is the Mana Movement candidate for Manurewa a dedicated Mana member that has been at the front line of the housing struggle in Glenn Innes. Mana News would like to offer our […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder The biggest threat to New Zealand economic security is not men living in caves in Afghanistan or ISIS in Iraq the threat is much closer to home, Neo-Liberal advisors in the New Zealand Treasury. Neo-Liberalism is a moral and intellectual justification for greed. A way for those few who accumulate wealth, […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder Yesterday Mana News ran a snap poll on a possible alliance between the Maori Party and the Mana Movement. The results were interesting but of 200 people that participated one “NO” vote came from Parliament. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions on this poll.
Mana vice president John Minto Environmental destruction and the blatant abuse of the law by National Party-linked businesses are at the heart of swamp kauri exports from the far north. Contractors are destroying Northlands remaining wetlands and polluting local waterways as they rip out kauri preserved for tens of thousands of years. The kauri logs […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder In an historical meeting between the Maori party and the Mana Movement for a potential alliance in which the big parties stand to lose out. This alliance has the potential to make 15% of the Maori population king maker. You don’t need to be a mathematician to do the numbers on […]
MARISE LANT Minister of Maori Development Te Ururoa Flavell says proposed reforms to the law governing Maori land will result in less red tape and give Maori rangatiratanga over their lands. But less than five days before a national round of consultation began, he dumped a draft bill in excess of 400 sections in excess […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder The average wage of a New Zealand CEO is now 100 times of the average worker, In Europe it’s only 26 times. We have the biggest inequality gap between the wealthy and poor in the OECD nations. The economy is suffering because money is circulating between a privileged few. New Zealand […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder Yesterday I was critical of the New Zealand Police in how they arrested Diego Chavez. Today the Police deserve praise for the initiative to avoid instantly charging Maori drivers that have fines for no licence in South Auckland and it’s working. Unfortunately this has become a prejudice debate of those with […]
