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HAWKE'S BAY MAKES CAUTIOUS STEP TOWARDS MAORI SEATS
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has decided to poll voters at the next local government elections on whether it should create Māori wards.
Chief executive James Palmer says while a majority of councillors appear to support having dedicated Māori seats, they expressed concern about the about the matter being decided by binding referendum.
The interim step allows a chance for community engagement and consultation......
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjYwOTI/Paakiwaha/WENWS-19.11:-Hawke
PETITIONS LAUNCHED TO SCUPPER NORTHLAND COUNCILS' MĀORI WARDS
Democracy Northland is seeking 11,000 signatures across three citizen-initiated petitions to oppose recent decisions in favour of Māori wards/constituencies by three of the North's four councils - Northland Regional Council (NRC), Whangarei District Council (WDC) and Kaipara District Council (KDC).
Bain said petitioners were clamouring to sign up.
He said hundreds of petitioners' signatures had already come just 24 hours after Democracy Northland's initial public provision of polling petition forms.......
www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/431018/petitions-launched-to-scupper-northland-councils-maori-wards
NORTH TARANAKI MIDWEEK ADVERTISEMENT FELL SHORT OF OUR VALUES
An advertisement published in the November 18 edition of the North Taranaki Midweek did not represent the views of Stuff and fell short of our values.
As editor of the Stuff Taranaki newsroom I apologise on behalf of the Taranaki team for the anger, hurt and confusion this has caused.
The advertisement in the free community newspaper, which asked readers to collect signatures calling for a referendum on the establishment of a Māori ward at the New Plymouth District Council, was not labelled as advertising.
The advertisement failed to include enough information for readers to come to an informed decision on the ward issue.
It does not include that a referendum could cost up to $100,000 to hold, or that the ward is just one seat among 15 at the council.
It is not necessarily fair to say this represents a “significant” change in voting arrangements, as the advertisement states.
As an advocacy advertisement it should have also included that it was booked and paid for by a member of the Napier-based Hobson's Pledge Trust, an organisation against legislation based upon “ethnicity or ancestry”......
www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/300162580/north-taranaki-midweek-advertisement-fell-short-of-our-values
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has decided to poll voters at the next local government elections on whether it should create Māori wards.
Chief executive James Palmer says while a majority of councillors appear to support having dedicated Māori seats, they expressed concern about the about the matter being decided by binding referendum.
The interim step allows a chance for community engagement and consultation......
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjYwOTI/Paakiwaha/WENWS-19.11:-Hawke
PETITIONS LAUNCHED TO SCUPPER NORTHLAND COUNCILS' MĀORI WARDS
Democracy Northland is seeking 11,000 signatures across three citizen-initiated petitions to oppose recent decisions in favour of Māori wards/constituencies by three of the North's four councils - Northland Regional Council (NRC), Whangarei District Council (WDC) and Kaipara District Council (KDC).
Bain said petitioners were clamouring to sign up.
He said hundreds of petitioners' signatures had already come just 24 hours after Democracy Northland's initial public provision of polling petition forms.......
www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/431018/petitions-launched-to-scupper-northland-councils-maori-wards
NORTH TARANAKI MIDWEEK ADVERTISEMENT FELL SHORT OF OUR VALUES
An advertisement published in the November 18 edition of the North Taranaki Midweek did not represent the views of Stuff and fell short of our values.
As editor of the Stuff Taranaki newsroom I apologise on behalf of the Taranaki team for the anger, hurt and confusion this has caused.
The advertisement in the free community newspaper, which asked readers to collect signatures calling for a referendum on the establishment of a Māori ward at the New Plymouth District Council, was not labelled as advertising.
The advertisement failed to include enough information for readers to come to an informed decision on the ward issue.
It does not include that a referendum could cost up to $100,000 to hold, or that the ward is just one seat among 15 at the council.
It is not necessarily fair to say this represents a “significant” change in voting arrangements, as the advertisement states.
As an advocacy advertisement it should have also included that it was booked and paid for by a member of the Napier-based Hobson's Pledge Trust, an organisation against legislation based upon “ethnicity or ancestry”......
www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/300162580/north-taranaki-midweek-advertisement-fell-short-of-our-values