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Download AudioFormer Green MP Darleen Tana says she has closure despite failing to win a High Court challenge over whether the Green Party can have her thrown out of parliament.
The Green Party has called a special general meeting for October 17 to determine if the party should invoke the party-hopping legislation.
Ms Tana says through the court process the Green Party showed its hand as a pākehā coloniser party, and the issues could have been dealt with in-house.
She says when the report by lawyer Rachel Burt on the handing of allegations relating to her husband’s e-bike business was handed to the party, she talked with MP Teanau Tuiono.
“Teanau Tuiono phoned me at home the following day and said, ‘Look, cus, can I come round next time on Waiheke, come around and see you?’ And I said, Yes, and I put forward the whakaaro to ahakoa te aha, ka hohoutia te rongo, that we make that peace. But in a tikanga Māori space”.
“He suggested to me that, ‘Yeah, we can come to your marae on Waiheke.’ And I said, ‘E kao! This is about my whānau and my hapū. We go back to my marae ki Waitangi.’ And I was really, really disappointed that Teanau would go onto media and say that he’d made an offering of a kōrero to hohou te rongo, tikanga Māori and all of that and that I refused,” she says.
Ms Tana says asking her mother to sign a non-disclosure agreement was a step too far.
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