Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 25, 2019 16:04:22 GMT 12
IWI HOPES NEW COUNCIL WILL SUPPORT MAORI CONCERNS (Also video)
Maori historian and Tauranga Moana iwi leader Buddy Mikaere feels the newly elected council will favour Maori concerns which he welcomes.
“As I read the makeup of the council now, I think there's probably a majority that would favour Maori issues and Maori concerns, so that's very encouraging.”
“I think that we'll probably have a council with a better consideration of issues like 11 Mission Street.”
Buddy also ran for council in this years’ Tauranga City local body elections but failed to gain a positon.
He says “it would have been nice to see some brown faces” on council.
Buddy thinks there is a need for Maori wards in local body elections and says this will be reconsidered next year......
www.sunlive.co.nz/news/224760-iwi-leader-say-new-council-will-support-maori-conc.html
IWI LEADER TO COUNCILLOR: 'I'M NOT GOING TO HAVE TREATY WORK SPAT ON'
Iwi leader Buddy Mikaere says he won't allow 30 years of Treaty of Waitangi work to be undermined by the "inflammatory" views of a new Tauranga city councillor.
"People who are into this space will always try and plead freedom of speech and that they're being infringed but most reasonable people can see that this is inflammatory stuff that's being spoken about.
"I've spent over 30 years working in the Treaty space and I'm not going to have that work spat on by some Johnny-come-lately who has not got the expertise or the knowledge to make a sensible comment."....
www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/401757/iwi-leader-to-councillor-i-m-not-going-to-have-treaty-work-spat-on
Maori historian and Tauranga Moana iwi leader Buddy Mikaere feels the newly elected council will favour Maori concerns which he welcomes.
“As I read the makeup of the council now, I think there's probably a majority that would favour Maori issues and Maori concerns, so that's very encouraging.”
“I think that we'll probably have a council with a better consideration of issues like 11 Mission Street.”
Buddy also ran for council in this years’ Tauranga City local body elections but failed to gain a positon.
He says “it would have been nice to see some brown faces” on council.
Buddy thinks there is a need for Maori wards in local body elections and says this will be reconsidered next year......
www.sunlive.co.nz/news/224760-iwi-leader-say-new-council-will-support-maori-conc.html
IWI LEADER TO COUNCILLOR: 'I'M NOT GOING TO HAVE TREATY WORK SPAT ON'
Iwi leader Buddy Mikaere says he won't allow 30 years of Treaty of Waitangi work to be undermined by the "inflammatory" views of a new Tauranga city councillor.
"People who are into this space will always try and plead freedom of speech and that they're being infringed but most reasonable people can see that this is inflammatory stuff that's being spoken about.
"I've spent over 30 years working in the Treaty space and I'm not going to have that work spat on by some Johnny-come-lately who has not got the expertise or the knowledge to make a sensible comment."....
www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/401757/iwi-leader-to-councillor-i-m-not-going-to-have-treaty-work-spat-on