The decision to reintroduce Three Strikes is a destructive and ineffective piece of law-making that will only exacerbate an inherently biased and racist.
Thirty-three of Parliament’s 123 MPs are of Māori descent. The deputy prime minister, four of the seven other party leaders and co-leaders, and 30 per cent.
“Aotearoa, Te Whare Paremata, are you ready?” asked Te Pāti Māori’s Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke in a rousing maiden speech in which she promised to hold the.
“Everything is a culture shock, for someone who’s come out of Kōhanga Reo,” says one of Aotearoa’s newest MPs, Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke, comparing her.