{"id":10311,"date":"2017-09-27T11:55:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T22:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10311"},"modified":"2017-10-13T14:49:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T01:49:12","slug":"mana-post-2017-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10311","title":{"rendered":"MANA – Post 2017 Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Special thanks to all our kaimahi and volunteers in the recent 2014-2017 campaign. MANA Te Hiku, MANA Kaikohekohe, MANA Whangarei, MANA Rakipaewhenua, MANA Wait\u0101kere, MANA Rangatahi, MANA T\u016branga, MANA Wai\u0101riki, MANA P\u014dneke, MANA Newtown, MANA Pasifika, MANA M\u014drehu, MANA 241 campaign, MANA National Exec, MANA Nationbuilder & MANA News Teams and Dave Curren from Ahipara. \u00a0Kia ora Titewhai Harawira and Jevan Goulter who provided a bed for us for all the midnight runs we made to Tamaki for media interviews. To the nephews Hirikia & Anaru Murray who loaned us a car for part of the early campaign.<\/p>\n

Thanks also to our list candidates Lisa McNab, James Papali’i and Tracey-lee Repia.<\/p>\n

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Special thanks to Whaea Mei and Papa Eric Nelson who ran weekly barbecues to pay for the MANA Kaikohe office rent for 3 years. To the Pene Wh\u0101nau for their tautoko in providing bus and vans promotion but also their wrap around aroha in haerenga. To Te Rana Porter who put her life on hold for 6 months to coordinate the ground campaign- thanks Whaea Lil , Scarlett, Nukutawhiti , Taihoronuku and mokopuna as you put up with her absence.<\/p>\n

Our volunteers throughout all the branches are awesome and we all learnt valuable lessons from others and each other. Everyone operated on aroha & kore putea.<\/p>\n

Thanks to everyone who gave moral support and those who were threatened with loss of contract opportunities. Kia ora to the courageous ones who supported the 2 Tai Tokerau MPs for 1 electorate (241) campaign: Rawiri Paratene, Tame Iti, Te Hamua Nikora, Carl Perkins, Hone Ngata, Kahurangi Tariana T\u016bria, Dr Lance O’Sullivan, Casey Panapa & Raewyn Tipene.<\/p>\n

Especially enjoyed working with Hinurewa Te Hau from M\u0101ori Party Tai Tokerau & Tukuroirangi Morgan the national president of M\u0101ori Party- who are both earnest about forging a meaningful relationship between MANA and M\u0101ori. Also appreciate the indomitable Marama Fox and re- connecting with Te Ururoa Flavell on the recent haerenga through Tauranga and Wai\u0101riki.<\/p>\n

MANA Movement continues. We are holding a series of hui over the next 2 weeks in Tai Tokerau and also with active members from other regions, to consider where to from here. We are not ruling out anything.<\/p>\n

MANA House in Kaitaia stays open to continue with Kaupapa M\u0101ori projects in Tai Tokerau- coordinated by Hone Harawira. Already he has had 2 wh\u0101nau issues come to him this week and it’s only Wednesday. Will have to change the sign outside the office to- “not the MP” for Tai Tokerau.<\/p>\n

MANA Movement is about believing we can solve our own issues, just need the resourcing, and if we don’t have resourcing will do it anyway.<\/p>\n

Our policies are awesome and can be built on. There is much advocacy to do outside parliament. Also , already everyone has gone back to work doing the day to day MANA mahi we do anyhow.<\/p>\n

It’s really important we continue to write our own stories , rather than allow ourselves to be defined by Pakeha media and some times M\u0101ori media that want us to respond to trending stories. One thing I learnt from Ranginui Walker, he challenged M\u0101ori academics to write commentaries about why a particular protest was taking place and the issues that preceded it. To put it in the main stream space as they always struggled with understanding what was going on. The role of M\u0101ori journalists is not to bury the activism.<\/p>\n

MANA Movement will be putting further submissions to the Electoral Commission. We have had a good relationship with the local Tai Tokerau office but there are still matters to address. We won some gains post the last 2014 elections, but seriously there is still a way to go.
\n5 main kaupapa for us will be:
\na) Honour Mehara’s vote, which will tautoko all those who may have died during the recent 2 weeks of the advance campaign; why should their votes be extinguished in death?
\nb) all M\u0101ori automatically go on to the M\u0101ori roll until they turn 18 and choose otherwise
\nc) all citizens get to vote, regardless of an address change;
\nd) entrench and increase the number of M\u0101ori seats;
\ne) ensure there are M\u0101ori friendly polling booth managers\u00a0and tikanga in high M\u0101ori population booths. Some behaviour in the recent elections to our people have been shocking. One booth had one person managing M\u0101ori voters with queues\u00a0out the door. People get h\u014dh\u0101 and walk off.<\/p>\n

If anyone has any comments they want us to put forward to the Electoral Commission, please post here or email hilda@manataitokerau.org.<\/p>\n

M\u0101ori Party and MANA have contributed to changing the political landscape in the past 12 years. Matiu Rata, I’m sure would be proud. Eva Rickard would be proud. I am. We should all be proud.<\/p>\n

In my heart of hearts, it would be nice if the special votes come in and take one M\u0101ori Party MP back in to Parliament- to hold us all afloat. As my mother Frances Halkyard said, it’s not nice for our kaum\u0101tua to be treated as he was. Te Ururoa’s emotions were there for all of us to see. His grief epitomised how we all felt, our loss of potential , our loss of capacity to make change in a parliamentary setting . Parliament is not the be all and end all of our Movement. And like all humans, that no matter what gains we make, M\u0101ori will be punished for a wrong turn.<\/p>\n

Sure there are lessons, our people will have disagreed with Te Ture Whenua and kaupapa M\u0101ori parties need to align with M\u0101ori needs. MANA lost support for the statement ” execute the meth drug importers.” The loss of our Toa Metiria T\u016brei had a huge impact on us. Marama Davidson will take over her role and ensure the M\u0101ori and pohara voice is still heard.<\/p>\n

Shane Taurima fought a valiant campaign in Tamaki. Loved his verve and commitment to Tamaki constituents for months. Unfortunately, the Greens candidate split the vote and left Labour a clear field. We need to get smart for the next election.<\/p>\n

Will leave it up to the current M\u0101ori MPs to shutdown the Brash’s of the world. Brash doesn’t know it , but William Hobson’s mokopuna are the ones leading the reo M\u0101ori and health campaigns in the Far North. So he should stop talking about Hobson’s legacy.<\/p>\n

Just because an MP has M\u0101ori blood does not mean they will fight for M\u0101ori interests. Winston is a worry, an apologist for kaupapa M\u0101ori. Winston has lots\u00a0of good ideas but abolishing M\u0101ori seats – sucks. Will leave it to Shane Jones to sort him out before Winston tries to ram it through.<\/p>\n

In the general seats, there are baldheads clamouring to relegate kaupapa M\u0101ori to the 2050 aspirational list. Our general seats MPs with M\u0101ori blood will go along with it , to hang in there.<\/p>\n

There’s a million other things to do for MANA- but all in good time. It’s not over yet. Believe in ourselves, believe in M\u0101ori. Our communities are small, we are always related through some connection. We do good things, we f up. We learn , we forgive ourselves and carry on.<\/p>\n

Ng\u0101 man\u0101kitanga o te runga rawa ki a t\u0101tou katoa .
\nH Halkyard-Harawira<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Special thanks to all our kaimahi and volunteers in the recent 2014-2017 campaign. MANA Te Hiku, MANA Kaikohekohe, MANA Whangarei, MANA Rakipaewhenua, MANA Wait\u0101kere, MANA Rangatahi, MANA T\u016branga, MANA Wai\u0101riki, MANA P\u014dneke, MANA Newtown, MANA Pasifika, MANA M\u014drehu, MANA 241 campaign, MANA National Exec, MANA Nationbuilder & MANA News Teams and Dave Curren from Ahipara. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":10360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10311","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\/10311"}],"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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10311"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10361,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10311\/revisions\/10361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}