{"id":4736,"date":"2015-04-29T08:30:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T19:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=4736"},"modified":"2015-04-29T10:14:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T21:14:27","slug":"te-ururoa-flavell-the-tony-abbott-of-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=4736","title":{"rendered":"Te Ururoa Flavell the Tony Abbott of New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\" alt=\"avatr\" width=\"70\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4738\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4738\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/abottflavell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4738 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/abottflavell.jpg\" alt=\"abottflavell\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/abottflavell.jpg 500w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/abottflavell-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/abottflavell-495x372.jpg 495w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/abottflavell-80x60.jpg 80w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/abottflavell-161x120.jpg 161w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Tony Abbott Right: Te Ururoa Flavell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">The Minister of Maori development Te Ururoa Flavell is cutting back on Maori community services that provide for thousands of whanau. One social worker who wishes to remain anonymous described the minister\u00a0&#8220;Te Ururoa is the Tony Abbott of New Zealand politics cutting back on essential services for Maori communities.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">Fifty Kaitoko social workers\u00a0have just been informed by their employers that their contracts are being terminated come June as the minister Te Ururoa Flavell is not renewing funding that was secured for whanau ora by the previous leader Dr Pita Sharples.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">Recently the minister reversed a decision by his predecessors of $20 million allocated\u00a0for Maori housing provider Te Pou Matakana to be re directed back to government coffers. The money was given back to Te Puni K\u014dkiri\u00a0(<i>Ministry of M\u0101ori Development<\/i>) for the minister to control himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">Many are confused by the minister one commentator claiming &#8220;He is a new broom trying to sweep&#8221; ignoring decisions already made by the Maori party. As the minister of Maori development his role is to fight for resources for his people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">Maori party MP Marama Fox has been an exemplary\u00a0MP, \u00a0I was grateful when she helped me with the paraplegic man Raniera Kahui Ariki who was being evicted from his housing New Zealand home. \u00a0Unfortunately\u00a0the performance of her co leader the minister of Maori development Te Ururoa Flavell leaves\u00a0room for improvement.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder The Minister of Maori development Te Ururoa Flavell is cutting back on Maori community services that provide for thousands of whanau. One social worker who wishes to remain anonymous described the minister\u00a0&#8220;Te Ururoa is the Tony Abbott of New Zealand politics cutting back on essential services for Maori communities.&#8221; Fifty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-housing","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4736"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4772,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions\/4772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}