June 17, 2020
Maori broadcast one stop shop out of favour
New Zealand First is unimpressed with Nanaia Mahuta’s prescription for Māori broadcasting – and it wants her job as Māori Broadcasting Minister.
MP Shane Jones says the Māori media shift consultation document released last week will soon disappear in the dust of electioneering.
New Zealand First won’t support its plan to fund a single Māori news service for radio, television and digital media, to be housed at Māori Television.
"It is not a consultation document that fulfils what New Zealand First will do with Māori broadcasting when it gets back. In fact we're very keen to take over the portfolio of Māori broadcasting because we think the Māori radio network is a community network and a community network represents enormous opportunities for employing our young men and women in small town New Zealand who have very few options, " Mr Jones says.
He says New Zealand First has never been offered a briefing by Māori broadcast funding agency head Larry Parr, who has been pushing the one stop shop plan for Māori news and current affairs.
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