Te Pāti Māori today announces a revolutionary plan to reform the justice system in Aotearoa, challenging the institutional racism that has traumatised and failed Māori communities at every level. 'We are asserting our tino rangatiratanga .
Te Pāti Māori will radically increase the social housing stock and ensure 50 percent of all new social housing is allocated to Māori, who make up 50 percent of the social housing waitlist. As part of this package, $600 million will go toward building 2,000 .
Friday, 30 July 2021, 11:31 am
Today the government has announced the proposed
legislation to prohibit conversion practices, which confirms
the intention to ban conversion therapy in
Aotearoa.
“Te Paati Māori whole heartedly support
and welcome this much needed and overdue announcement. We
will always support whanau to be who they are, and
conversion therapy, which tries to stop takatāpui for being
who they are, has no place in Aotearoa.
“Te Ao Maori
has always celebrated our diverse gender and sexual
identities. It was colonisation that started criminalising
and oppressing people for being who they are, turning us
against our own whānau” said Te Pāti Māori co-leader
Friday, 23 July 2021, 1:16 pm
MP for Waiariki and co-leader of Te Paati Māori, Rawiri
Waititi – says the process that has seen the Bay of Plenty
District Health Board communications botch, should be the
focus of investigation.
These comments come from a
line of digital and print communications from the DHB that
depict mataora on COVID-19 viruses.
“As a person
with a mataora, I think the use of it on a virus is
completely inappropriate. A mataora is symbolic of life –
tikanga, whakapapa, where you come from, and especially your
tīpuna. They are about peace, contribution, oranga and the
revitalisation of our culture. The fact that the sacredness
Iri te raukawakawa ki whare aituā, pōuri ana te awa nui
nei māi i te kāhui maunga ki Tangaroa. He aituā! He
aituā!
It is with great sadness that Te Pāti Māori
acknowledge the passing of Esther Tinirau (Ngāti Ruaka). A
dedicated leader of her people, Esther was a te reo Māori
educator and a senior manager within iwi and the Ministry of
Education. Before she fell ill in 2016, Esther was about to
begin a new role as national director of the Te Kōhanga Reo
Trust.
“I had a very personal relationship with