Rueben Taipari Porter It is with great respect that I, Porter, Rueben Taipari accept the Mana party candidacy to stand in the Northland by election caused by the mysterious resignation of Mike Sabin ex National party MP. The reason I accept is because the corruption within this Govt is a major issue and blatant disregard […]
The Prime minister John Key recently announced “New Zealand where we co-habitated and ran the country together.” The prime ministerial amnesia has entirely forgotten he is the 38th pakeha prime minister of New Zealand. Mr Key doesn’t understand why the Westminster democratic system is not working for Maori and is determined to prevent Iwi self determination […]
Mana news analysis of the National party’s components attacking Iwi self-determination seemed too well coordinated. After a comparison with Nicky Hagers book the hollow men it appears the Orewa hate speech strategy is being recycled. The Tax payers union in concert with whale oil attacked Iwi on alleged tax evasion despite claiming to be non-partisan. The public accepts the Tax payers […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder Now the Waitangi Tribunal has declared Nga Puhi did not cede sovereignty to the crown the Primeminister has responded “In 1840 when we signed the treaty, it strikes me we signed it for modern New Zealand, and that was a New Zealand where we co-habitated and ran the country together. It […]
Mana vice president John Minto If standing up for human rights is the new yardstick let’s have a lot more of it and closer to home… On Waitangi Day the Prime Minister criticised the “left” of politics as not wanting to do anything about ISIS and went on to say: “New Zealand is not going […]
Mana leader Hone Harawira 175 years after the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Ngapuhi stands poised to play a pivotal role in what the treaty might mean for the next 175 years. And that is hugely important because while government has already signed ‘full and final’ deals with most iwi, including the big ones […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder On 6th Feb Waitangi day Rueben Taipari Porter lead the Hikoi against the Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil. I first met Rueben last year at Waitangi and we discussed his campaign for the Mayoralty of Tai Tokerau during the local body elections, in which he came up with some […]
Margaret Mutu’s speech 6th Feb at Waitangi
We managed to dig up this from the archives an old political campaign from 1863 during the height of the land confiscations. We believe it was designed by Mr Cletus Ansell. On the left King Tāwhiao the Kiwi and on the right the British colonist George Grey who argued for the New Zealand settlements Act 1863. This Act […]
This year at Waitangi commemorating 175 year founding of our Nation the prime minister used the opportunity to promote the military intervention against ISIS.
