Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 3, 2024 4:37:40 GMT 12
PALMERSTON NORTH DEFENDS ITS MĀORI WARD
There were tears and song in the Palmerston North City Council chamber as councillors defended their Māori ward from Government moves to make its survival subject to an expensive referendum.
The council voted 15-1 on Wednesday to support a notice of motion from Kaydee Zabelin and Pat Handcock to endorse its representation arrangements including the Te Pūao Māori ward which came into effect at the 2022 elections.
Handcock said the proposed undermining of Māori wards might have been seen by some as benign on its own, but it was part of a suite of changes that he said were cynical and deliberate, marginalising and disadvantaging Māori in New Zealand.....
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350263836/palmerston-north-defends-its-maori-ward
There were tears and song in the Palmerston North City Council chamber as councillors defended their Māori ward from Government moves to make its survival subject to an expensive referendum.
The council voted 15-1 on Wednesday to support a notice of motion from Kaydee Zabelin and Pat Handcock to endorse its representation arrangements including the Te Pūao Māori ward which came into effect at the 2022 elections.
Handcock said the proposed undermining of Māori wards might have been seen by some as benign on its own, but it was part of a suite of changes that he said were cynical and deliberate, marginalising and disadvantaging Māori in New Zealand.....
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350263836/palmerston-north-defends-its-maori-ward