{"id":9699,"date":"2016-08-22T22:12:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T09:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=9699"},"modified":"2016-08-22T22:12:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T09:12:06","slug":"the-kings-call-for-mana-maori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=9699","title":{"rendered":"The King\u2019s call for MANA MAORI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\"><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=\"HoneAvatar\" width=\"84\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Hone Harawira<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/10636293_10203687419178630_8014028974822259923_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5249\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/10636293_10203687419178630_8014028974822259923_n.jpg\" alt=\"10636293_10203687419178630_8014028974822259923_n\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/10636293_10203687419178630_8014028974822259923_n.jpg 960w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/10636293_10203687419178630_8014028974822259923_n-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/10636293_10203687419178630_8014028974822259923_n-80x60.jpg 80w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/10636293_10203687419178630_8014028974822259923_n-161x120.jpg 161w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/10636293_10203687419178630_8014028974822259923_n-119x89.jpg 119w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Comments by the Maori King, Kingi Tuheitia, that he favoured a strong relationship between the Maori Party and the MANA Movement as the representative voice for Maori in the political world, were welcomed by MANA leader Hone Harawira.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\">\u201cThe principle of <strong>kotahitanga<\/strong>, of unity, is a core element of MANA\u2019s very existence\u201d said Harawira. \u201cIt\u2019s a principle I addressed in my first interview as a MANA MP, it\u2019s a principle I have adhered to in all public comments about working with the Maori Party, and it\u2019s the reason why I was comfortable meeting with the Maori Party President last month to talk about possible arrangements running up to Election 2017\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\">\u201cHow that rolls out over the next few months is a matter to be addressed by the presidents of both MANA and Maori, but I look forward to seeing what they come up with\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\">\u201cI also commend the King for his call to Maori leaders to play &#8220;a large part&#8221; in resolving issues such as drug abuse, crime, the high prison population, reintegration, poor health, homelessness, poverty and unemployment, and in leading the charge for the preservation of our language and culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\">\u201cBut building a decent society based on the Treaty of Waitangi and ensuring a \u201cMaori share in New Zealand\u2019s sovereignty by 2025\u201d also means stopping the current government\u2019s agenda of allowing the rich to get richer at the expense of the poor and the dispossessed, and selling off the nation\u2019s assets before we even get a sniff of that sovereignty\u201d said Harawira<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\">\u201cInteresting times ahead\u201d said Harawira. \u201cOn a more personal note, it\u2019s good to see Tuheitia speaking at the Koroneihana. I know he\u2019s not been too well lately, and I wish him all the best with the challenges he faces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Hone Harawira Comments by the Maori King, Kingi Tuheitia, that he favoured a strong relationship between the Maori Party and the MANA Movement as the representative voice for Maori in the political world, were welcomed by MANA leader Hone Harawira. \u201cThe principle of kotahitanga, of unity, is a core element of MANA\u2019s very existence\u201d said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9699","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\/9699"}],"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=9699"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9703,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9699\/revisions\/9703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}