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MEDIA COP FLAK FOR AIRING DATA MISUSE ALLEGATIONS
But before the prime minister's inquiry announcement last Monday, the media were also accused of turning a blind eye to it - or even being reluctant to criticise Te Pāti Māori.
"The media have to drop the double standards and start holding Te Pāti Māori accountable… in the way they do parties from the opposite side of the political spectrum," Newstalk ZB's Heather du Plessis-Allan said in the New Zealand Herald before the current controversy.
One she had in mind was ACT, whose leader David Seymour echoed her words - almost word for word - this week.....
www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018942849/media-cop-flak-for-airing-data-misuse-allegations
LABOUR'S WILLIE JACKSON REVEALS WHY HE DIDN'T SPEAK AT BUDGET PROTESTS, GIVES VERDICT ON MĀORI PARLIAMENT
On Sunday, he told Q+A "it would have been good to speak" at the protests but that it was Te Pati Maori's decision "to just speak on their own because they had organised it".
Jackson also said he understood the party's position on a Māori parliament but called it "a distraction".
"It's a huge frustration for Māori at the moment - Māori kaupapa initiatives, policies under attack every time - it's a natural course where they're going. I think it's a distraction, it's not something that we would support in Labour because we've got immediate problems in front of us." ....
www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/06/labour-s-willie-jackson-reveals-why-he-didn-t-speak-at-budget-protests-gives-verdict-on-m-ori-parliament.html
But before the prime minister's inquiry announcement last Monday, the media were also accused of turning a blind eye to it - or even being reluctant to criticise Te Pāti Māori.
"The media have to drop the double standards and start holding Te Pāti Māori accountable… in the way they do parties from the opposite side of the political spectrum," Newstalk ZB's Heather du Plessis-Allan said in the New Zealand Herald before the current controversy.
One she had in mind was ACT, whose leader David Seymour echoed her words - almost word for word - this week.....
www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018942849/media-cop-flak-for-airing-data-misuse-allegations
LABOUR'S WILLIE JACKSON REVEALS WHY HE DIDN'T SPEAK AT BUDGET PROTESTS, GIVES VERDICT ON MĀORI PARLIAMENT
On Sunday, he told Q+A "it would have been good to speak" at the protests but that it was Te Pati Maori's decision "to just speak on their own because they had organised it".
Jackson also said he understood the party's position on a Māori parliament but called it "a distraction".
"It's a huge frustration for Māori at the moment - Māori kaupapa initiatives, policies under attack every time - it's a natural course where they're going. I think it's a distraction, it's not something that we would support in Labour because we've got immediate problems in front of us." ....
www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/06/labour-s-willie-jackson-reveals-why-he-didn-t-speak-at-budget-protests-gives-verdict-on-m-ori-parliament.html