{"id":10160,"date":"2017-07-07T20:01:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T07:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10160"},"modified":"2017-07-07T20:01:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T07:01:29","slug":"ture-whenua-maori-bill-withdrawn-from-parliament-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10160","title":{"rendered":"Ture Whenua Maori Bill Withdrawn from Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HoneAvatar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5537\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HoneAvatar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a>\u00a0MANA Leader Hone Harawira<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tk__te_ture_whenua_maori_reform__maori_land_act_reform_Master.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10158\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tk__te_ture_whenua_maori_reform__maori_land_act_reform_Master.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tk__te_ture_whenua_maori_reform__maori_land_act_reform_Master.jpg 720w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tk__te_ture_whenua_maori_reform__maori_land_act_reform_Master-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tk__te_ture_whenua_maori_reform__maori_land_act_reform_Master-123x70.jpg 123w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tk__te_ture_whenua_maori_reform__maori_land_act_reform_Master-570x320.jpg 570w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tk__te_ture_whenua_maori_reform__maori_land_act_reform_Master-701x394.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANA Leader Hone Harawira has backed the Maori Party\u2019s decision to not rush the Ture Whenua Maori bill through the house under urgency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a big call\u201d said Harawira \u201cbut it\u2019s the right one\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaori Party President Tukuroirangi Morgan\u2019s description of the bill as the most important piece of legislation currently facing M\u0101ori is correct. It\u2019s the first time Maori land law has been reviewed in 25 years, and Maori deserve more time to consider what is being proposed\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Maori Party had the opportunity to push the bill through but they\u2019ve heard the call from MANA, from Maori landowners, Maori lawyers, Maori Land Court judges, the Maori Women\u2019s Welfare League, Bishop Kito Pikaahu and other clergy, Ratana Morehu and many, many others\u201d said Harawira \u201cand they have made the right decision to set the bill aside\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Labour were in the same situation they ignored the biggest Maori protest in history, they betrayed their Maori support base, and they rammed through the Foreshore and Seabed Bill in 2004 &#8211; the biggest land grab in the history of the country\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Maori Party\u2019s decision to not push the Ture Whenua Maori bill through parliament shows a commitment to kaupapa Maori that Labour leader Andrew Little can only dream about \u2013 the clown\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have accepted an invitation to work with the Maori Party to develop a more robust consultation strategy for after the election, and I look forward to working positively with the Maori Party in the campaign to bring all the Maori seats back to kaupapa Maori parties\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0MANA Leader Hone Harawira MANA Leader Hone Harawira has backed the Maori Party\u2019s decision to not rush the Ture Whenua Maori bill through the house under urgency. \u201cIt\u2019s a big call\u201d said Harawira \u201cbut it\u2019s the right one\u201d \u201cMaori Party President Tukuroirangi Morgan\u2019s description of the bill as the most important piece of legislation currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":10158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10160"}],"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=10160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10161,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10160\/revisions\/10161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}