May 28, 2024
Māori outgunned in government rampage
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A Northland Māori leader hopes Friday’s Kotahitanga hui in Heretaunga will allow Māori to speak with one voice .
Hami Piripi from Te Rarawa says the Government has swept awa¥ decades of progress for Maori.
He says it’s using emergency fast track legislation to push its political agenda, rather than the normal constitutional processes of consultation and debate.
“Even the attack on the last 40 years of jurisprudence in their own courts, attacking the judiciary and saying ‘they are all deluded, they didn’t know what they were doing and saying and everyone believed the Maoris,’ it’s just farcical the rationale that is being used and that tells us we are up against it in terms of trying to survive in this democratic process because we are being out-manoeuvred, out-gunned and stamped all over,” Mr Piripi says.
At least 1500 people are expected at Omahu Marae n Hastings on Friday.