{"id":10363,"date":"2017-10-27T00:43:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T11:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10363"},"modified":"2017-10-27T01:34:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T12:34:46","slug":"te-reo-o-tai-tokerau-simple-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10363","title":{"rendered":"Te Reo o Tai Tokerau- Simple Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday 19 October 2017 .\u00a0<\/strong>Hone Harawira<\/h4>\n

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Although Winston picked Labour, the real question in Tai Tokerau is what we might see from having a whole heap of M\u0101ori MPs in parliament from up north.<\/h1>\n

Over the past 30 years, M\u0101ori communities in Tai Tokerau have been devastated by government economic mismanagement, massive long-term unemployment and social neglect. Rents gone up, powers gone up and people have been forced from their homes by ruthless corporate arrogance.\u00a0We have tens of thousands of our children\u00a0living below the poverty line and more than 2,000 admitted to hospital every year with preventable illnesses, and on top of that we have record levels of family and sexual violence, abuse, neglect, gambling and drug and alcohol addiction, and deepening levels of poverty the likes of which we haven\u2019t seen in living memory.<\/p>\n

We need simple solutions and if all our M\u0101ori MPs supported them we could see real change.<\/p>\n

FEED THE KIDS:<\/strong>\u00a0Give every child a free breakfast and lunch at school every day. I introduced a bill in 2014 to do exactly that and it won the support of NZ First, the Greens and Labour. There\u2019s no reason why it can\u2019t be passed now; even National say they want to do something similar. Feeding the kids is not about financial priorities; it\u2019s about moral priorities. Whatever the problems of the parents, the kids shouldn\u2019t have to suffer.<\/p>\n

HOUSE THE HOMELESS:<\/strong>\u00a0Prioritise homes for those in need over \u2018affordable\u2019 houses for those who can afford to buy. Don\u2019t sell existing state houses – fix them up, rent them to low-income wh\u0101nau at 25% of their income and encourage them to buy their homes; and build 2,000 new state houses in the north, every year, until the housing crisis is over. That way you create hundreds of jobs, you tackle the shortage of state housing and you free up private rentals for others. And a robust housing programme also starts to address the long term costs of homelessness \u2013 broken households,\u00a0family and sexual violence, abuse, neglect, gambling, drug and alcohol addiction, and preventable disease.<\/p>\n

REBUILD OUR COMMUNITIES:<\/strong>\u00a0Too many of our people have been unemployed too long. People don\u2019t like seeing the unemployed sitting round doing nothing, and if all our MPs supported it we could change that real quick. Restart Community Work Programmes and get our whanau back to work fixing up our marae, our schools, community halls, neighbourhoods, community gardens etc. It worked in the 80\u2019s when unemployment was high. It\u2019s worse today. Community work gets people back working and ready to take up jobs when our economy gets a reboot.<\/p>\n

REBOOT THE ECONOMY:<\/strong>\u00a0Labour\u2019s \u201cRogernomics\u201d policy of 1987 led directly to the loss of\u00a0thousands of M\u0101ori jobs in the north when forestry, Housing Corp, NZ Rail, Freezing Works, NZ Post and the Power Board were gutted for profit. Rural M\u0101ori communities in particular were devastated and some have never recovered. Our M\u0101ori MPs should stand together and demand that government commit $50 million to regional development in Tai Tokerau led by representatives of iwi and the Far North, Whangarei and Kaipara District Councils.<\/p>\n

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