Māori Council boss asks Immigration Minister to cancel racist YouTuber s residency Newshub 13 hrs ago Zane Small © Image - Facebook / YouTube screenshot; Video - Newshub Watch Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson s speech on the next steps in developing a national plan to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Māori Council executive director Matthew Tukaki has written to Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi asking him to cancel controversial YouTuber Lee Williams residency.
Tukaki, who also chairs the National Māori Authority, wrote to Faafoi after receiving a message from Williams over social media, which Tukaki described as abhorrent .
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National s Bayly responds to claim he mocked Labour minister s name Newshub 8 hrs ago Jamie Ensor © Video - Newshub; Image - Getty. Watch Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson s speech on the next steps in developing a national plan to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
National s shadow Treasurer claims he didn t mock Nanaia Mahuta s name at a recent conference, but instead genuinely mispronounced it.
NZ Herald columnist Simon Wilson on Tuesday morning claimed Andrew Bayly made a hash of the Local Government minister s name at a recent party conference. Nanna, manna, nan, um, nanny, manny, man, oh dear, whatever, said the party s shadow treasurer, grinning sheepishly. There s no media here, is there? , Wilson wrote.
But after serving the maximum two terms, she was not replaced.
Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt has also implored the government to appoint an Indigenous Rights Commissioner, doing so since 2019. Nobody in government is saying this is a bad idea. What they re saying is they don t have the money, he said. It s extremely disappointing.
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Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt says he has been urging the government to appoint an Indigenous Rights Commissioner to an empty seat since 2019. Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand requires a full-time race relations commissioner and a full-time indigenous peoples rights commissioner, Hunt said. One race relations commissioner responsible for all ethnic minority communities and tangata whenua was out-of-date .