{"id":10039,"date":"2017-04-06T19:18:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T06:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10039"},"modified":"2017-04-06T19:18:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T06:18:32","slug":"stop-blaming-ngapuhi-for-government-inspired-devastation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10039","title":{"rendered":"STOP BLAMING NGAPUHI FOR GOVERNMENT INSPIRED DEVASTATION"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0MANA Leader Hone Harawira<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m getting hoha listening to people blaming Ngapuhi for settling their claim and then using it to fix the economic and social deprivation in the north.
\nStop blaming Ngapuhi!
\nIt was Labour\u2019s decision to sell off state assets and privatise government services and National\u2019s determination to continue down that track that caused the economic devastation in the north.
\nAnd it is the ongoing damage caused by those economic decisions that has led directly to the high levels of poverty, unemployment, homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, crime and suicide that have become the norm in many communities in Tai Tokerau.
\nStop blaming Ngapuhi!
\nAnd as for that bloody settlement \u2013 what\u2019s the rush to sign up to a settlement which is less than 3% of the value of the claim? Is there a Ngapuhi anywhere who thinks we should be settling for 3 cents in the dollar? If government wants to seriously address the issues, then up the settlement figure. And let\u2019s be polite, let\u2019s start with 50%.
\nStop blaming Ngapuhi!
\nAnd remember, the Tribunal ruled that \u2018Ngapuhi never ceded sovereignty\u2019. That\u2019s a massive statement which actually lifts the Ngapuhi claim to a whole different level, but Treaty Minister Chris Finlayson never mentions it, and strangely enough neither does Kelvin Davis. All they do is blame Ngapuhi for not getting their act together.
\nStop blaming Ngapuhi!
\nAnd come up with a few positive suggestions \u2013 like these:
\n1 Create a Ngapuhi Settlement Trust and put Sonny Tau (Tuhoronuku) Pita Tipene (Kotahitanga) and Kevin Davis (Tai Tokerau MP) on it, along with some wahine from home to give the Trust credibility, focus and accountability, and then get government to put $20 million into the Trust \u2013 on account \u2013 so they can start building the capability of Ngapuhi hapu and iwi.
\n2 Get government to commit $50 million to regional development in Northland with reps from the Trust and the Far North, Whangarei and Kaipara District Councils (remember, the economic devastation is almost exclusively the fault of the Crown, not Ngapuhi).
\n3 Get government to commit another $50 million to social development in Northland with reps from the Trust and MSD and a threat to throw them in jail if they don\u2019t get quick results (government has this Place-based Initiatives agency which is supposed to do this stuff but is already building an empire of mediocrity and delay to rival MSD itself).
\nAnd remember – government bailed out a pakeha finance company to the tune of $1.2 billion – they can easily spend 10% of that to give the country\u2019s biggest iwi a kick start.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0MANA Leader Hone Harawira I\u2019m getting hoha listening to people blaming Ngapuhi for settling their claim and then using it to fix the economic and social deprivation in the north. Stop blaming Ngapuhi! It was Labour\u2019s decision to sell off state assets and privatise government services and National\u2019s determination to continue down that track that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":10040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tiriti","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10041,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039\/revisions\/10041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}