Labour returns to Waitangi's Te Tii Marae after three-year absence
2 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Labour MPs file through the gate of Te Tii Marae for the first time in three years. Photo / Peter de Graaf
Peter de Graaf is a reporter for the Northern Advocatepeter.degraaf@northernadvocate.co.nznorthernadvocat
The Labour Party has been welcomed back to Te Tii Marae for the first time in three years after a break which MPs say has allowed ''silliness and personality politics'' to be taken out of the annual Waitangi commemorations.
The MPs were led on to the marae by the party's Māori caucus and the whānau of the late Rudy Taylor, a Ngāpuhi leader and Labour loyalist whose wanted to see the party return to one of the country's most historically significant whare hui.