BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): The Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) will this week organise the World Tea and Coffee Expo, the largest tea and coffee event in the North, to stimulate the integrated tea-coffee industry and aim to be a global tea-coffee trading hub.
Judith Collins defends speech suggesting Labour are planning a separatist Māori Government
Judith Collins defends speech suggesting Labour are planning a separatist Māori Government
National Party leader Judith Collins. (Photo / NZ Herald)
Judith Collins defends speech suggesting Labour are planning a separatist Māori Government
Her comments have been labelled desperate - but Judith Collins maintains we re going down a dangerous path on race relations.
The National leader is under fire for a speech at the party s Northern Convention, where she claimed Labour s trying to create a two system New Zealand.
She also went on the attack over the freshly-announced Māori Health Authority.
It was a far cry from the National of election night on Saturday. A re-invigorated party, and a leader doubling-down on one-rule-for-all . If two separate systems are needed in health, does that mean two systems are also required in education, justice and resource management? she said.Â
And she s claiming the Government has plans for exactly that, referring to a document called He Puapua. The Labour Government document, He Puapua, contemplates a separate MÄori Parliament or Upper House, able to veto any decision of the NZ Parliament, Collins said.
The report, which hasn t been signed off by Cabinet yet, is a plan to realise the United Nations s declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - which New Zealand signed up to in 2010 - under a National Government.