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Media Release: The Executive Director of the New Zealand Māori Council, Matthew Tukaki, has said todays final reading of the Local Electoral (Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies) Amendment Bill will be historic for Māori as a targeted piece of legislation that does more to keep Maori out of Local Government is stripped away.
“I have said, we have said, many have said that this piece of legislation must go - it does more to divide than unite us and it is a pox on our house that we should be treated this way as the first nations people“ but more to the point it has given open license to some in our society to wage campaigns against Maori interests and rights with no regards to the Treaty of Waitangi. I note that organisations like Hobsons Pledge continue to rage against this.” Tukaki said.